Chasing Daydreams

I heard from Roly that our boss at a previous company died last Saturday during the height of Typhoon Ondoy. A wall at their home, weakened by floodwater, collapsed on him. DTF or Sir Dave as he was fondly called, was a certified techie. He was one of my mentors. Mine and of many others. [...]

Typhoon Ondoy (aka Ketsana) struck and Metro Manila hit really hard.  I was supposed to have a business meeting with Tina at High Street but she texted me that the weather is not cooperating and that we should postpone. The driving rain was quite persuasive so I agreed. But I didn’t realize it was so [...]

Michelle and I finally decided to subscribe to Sun Wireless Broadband. We were quite reluctant at first because of all the horror stories about wireless Internet access. Not just about Sun but also Globe and Smart. In fact, I think Smart Bro started it all, the horror stories. But recently, there have been better feedback [...]

Was walking around NYC with Cez and Euge when we saw this poster advertising the new Stargate Universe TV series. It seems interesting since I liked Stargate the movie, followed Stargate: Atlantis, and plan to watch the original Stargate TV series. But what caught my eye is the URL in the poster: syfy.com instead of [...]

It’s September 11. A day that lives in infamy. And here I am in NYC (across the water at Jersey City actually). Outside my hotel room window, I can see twin beams of light shooting upward to the sky, part of the city’s memorial activities. May we always remember this day, may we always remember [...]

While playing around with Flex and Web Services, I encounter the following error while trying to access my web service: Security Error Accessing URL. One solution around this error is to add a crossdomain.xml file in your root directory: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from domain=”*”/> </cross-domain-policy> But in my case I simply changed my web service [...]