April 30th, 2008 There’s this issue that had us stumped for quite some time. Our chairman had been complaining that he could never access his online bank account. He always gets an “under maintenance” notice. But whenever we go to his computer and access it, it was perfectly okay. Anyway, on the umpteenth time that he asked for [...]
April 27th, 2008 Finally got to try out surfing. And I think I like it!
A few weeks ago, when Crissy’s 29th (friends!) birthday was still coming up, I suggested that she celebrate it over the weekend closest to her birthday. And since I have been wanting to surf since last year, I also suggested surfing as part of [...]
April 25th, 2008 This afternoon, I dropped by three Shell gas stations looking for E10. They all had none. On the third one, I gave up and decided to just top up with regular unleaded. As I was filling up, I chatted with the pump operator and he mentioned that a lot of people are loading up with [...]
April 24th, 2008 I don’t know but lately I’ve been finding things to be pretty expensive here. Take for example a Nalgene bottle. It is priced online at $5.95 or P250 at the current supposed exchange rate of P42:$1. But it is priced at up to P900 or an effective rate of P151:$1!!! Another example, an Oakley Square [...]
April 23rd, 2008 I’ve been meaning to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 since it came out way back end of March but I was always either busy or lazy. But I finally did tonight while waiting for the time. But of course, I still just took the 5-minute upgrade procedure. As you can see, it worked :P
So what’s new? [...]
April 21st, 2008 Since I’m in a “hateful” mood today. I might as well put one in on why I hate users. I hate it when they see a job that can easily be done, they immediately think that it’s easy for a computer program to do exactly the same. Even worse, they expect your programming to be [...]
April 21st, 2008 I get to the office expecting to see the output of a program we left running on my laptop through the weekend only to find out that that Windows Automatic (but stupid) Update has initiated a reboot. Argh!
April 19th, 2008 Snow Peak claims their Trek Starter Kit is “the pinnacle of backpacking cookware”. It’s most definitely a lofty claim but I tend to agree with it.
Before, I relied on a Trangia mess kit to hold my Campingaz Twister CV270 stove (this has got to be the stove with the best bang for the buck), stainless [...]
April 16th, 2008 Last week, I saw pictures of armed soldiers guarding rice distribution trucks. It reminded me of the intro scene of Blackhawk Down (now that is one hell of a movie) where Somalians who were fighting over food were shot down by the guards. Less the rioting and shooting part, of course. Who would have thought [...]
April 15th, 2008 I’ve heard about the durability of Nalgene bottles for the longest time but for cost reasons (they’re around P900 for a 1L bottle) I have put off getting one. That changed when I spotted Nalgene bottles selling at bargain prices (around P300 for a 1L bottle) on a recent trip to HK. I got one [...]