Archive for September, 2008

McCain – Obama Video

Here’s what happens when you stand in front of a predominantly blue or green screen. You get video’d and all sorts of scenes can be inserted in the blue/green screen behind you.

MicroBlogBuzz: Tracking Microblogging

More people are getting into microblogging, because it’s fast, fun, and easy. Some of the different places where you can microblog are Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, and Identica.

PLDT myDSL and the Rains

It’s been raining since late this afternoon, and now that it’s almost 9pm, PLDT myDSL is once again exhibiting signs of selective browsing. For some reason, Google services are not accessible. Fortunately, other webhosts and blogging services are still available.

Bloggers’ Choice Award – Macuha.com

The 2008 Philippine Blog Awards now allows people to vote for their blog of choice, and I choose Macuha.com (by Marhgil Macuha). Actually, I like more than one blog, but the rules state that we may choose only one blog. Is each blogger allowed to vote only once? Or it is one vote per blog [...]

29th Manila International Book Fair

Went to the 29th Manila International Book Fair last Saturday, 13 September 2008, at the cavernous SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia. Saw Mr. Henry Sy.

Sunday Merienda, Cycling, and Mooncakes

Had merienda at Ima, and got to chat about diabetes as well as second leases on life.

Charice Pempengco (not Pempengko)

She’s famous. She’s Filipina. She’s known by her first name — Charice. Here’s Charice singing “The Prayer” with Andrea Bocelli in Tuscany. DUETTO CHARICE BOCELLI “THE PRAYER” TEATRO DEL SILENZIO 2008 And here is Charice with Oprah, where they talk about San Pedro, Laguna and the early childhood memories of a young woman who has [...]

WordPress Design and Child Themes

Sometimes, we tinker around with various WordPress themes, making adjustments here and there. And before we know, we have modified the original .PHP files so much, that we’re unable to get back to how they were before. An ideal approach is to create a copy of that theme, and modify the copy instead of the [...]

PLDT myDSL Selective Browsing

For some reason, PLDT myDSL is once again exhibiting signs of selective browsing. Unlike a previous entry (PLDT myDSL and Google Slowdown), Google is now accessible (while Twitter and Plurk are not). That’s why you need to host your websites with different providers, so that you can still blog even if your ISP exhibits signs [...]

4th Philippine KOMIKON

The 4th Philippine KOMIKON will be held at the Bahay ng Alumni (R. Magsaysay Avenue, UP Diliman) on November 22, 2008 (Saturday). Everyone is going green. Even Philippine comics. The first time I read Wasted, I wondered who the artist was. I wondered what he was thinking when he drew those panels. I never thought [...]