Google Checkout is out - finally. This “may” be a competitor that will finally challenge the dominance of PayPal but as Google said, Google Checkout do not works similarly to PayPal.

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Tall and lanky, with brutal power in both hands, former WBC super bantamweight champion Oscar Larios now faces the daunting task of taking on Manny Pacquiao, the one boxer even the Mexican big three of Morales, Marquez and Barrera have to respect. Or respetc. Booyakasha.

Oscar Larios, Tale of the Tape: A Boxing Preview at Far From Neutral - the Blog.

Olympos is another ruined city by a river. It was a Lycian city and dates back to 178 B.C. We went there by foot. It was not as grandiose as Termessos but it had its own charm. The river directly flows out of the Mediterranean sea. The water from the river is ice cold- quite refreshing!

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Oh well a server move should have only taken me like 15 mins to finish but it was almost fucked up. The thing is I got home from work so sleepy but could not resist fixing everything and moving to the new server. I arrived like 11am and after eating sat down infront of the pc and started clicking away…

I was only about to remove file from the old host when I suddenly clicked on removing the whole backup for http://psp.oldpio.com . It was sh*t hahahaha… Only good backup I have was the database which I made last June 28, 2006 so which mean we lost posts like around close to 2 days and I apologize for that.

Right now I am in the process of rebuilding the content specially the gallery and the downloads. For the gallery I can consider that as positive as I am looking to check on the minor bugs and will try to check if I can enchance it. As for the download I still need to upload the files that were for download.

Classifieds is not yet fixed so maybe over the course of the weekend but what the hell I need to go somewhere tomorrow and maybe comeback Saturday. Still thinking about that member only ftp from the old host. I check on that also.

Just glad I was able to salvage this much since I really fucked up. Anyway weeeeeeeeee we got the domain name. Enjoy

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Managing your IDentity online is a tough task. People can pretend to be you and competely destroy your reputation. If offline it is very hard and a big hassle to be a victim of IDentity Thefts, it is similar in the online and virtual world where there are thousands of inter-linked communities sharing information with each other.

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Beta testers of Windows Live Messenger (formerly known as MSN Messenger) gets a reward from the WLMessenger team - an exclusive WLMessenger theme.

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A very short wrap-up of what Windows Live services that are out of beta.

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Engadget’s “mole” must be working overtime to come up with such juicy tidbits on upcoming phones.

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Location: Dead Sea, Jordan - Movénpick Hotel
Date Taken: 2006-03-21
Camera: Canon EOS 350D, 18-55mm EF-S Lens
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/60 seconds

for more photos: http://www.tetbautista.com/blog

The New Worlds Alliance and Fully Booked present:

The First Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards

July 15, 2006 * Rockwell Tent, Power Plant Mall

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The Bible says there is only one way to Heaven

Jesus said:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” (John 14:6)

Good works cannot save you.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
 

(as contrast to Catholicism’s Salvation through Good Works and Catholicism’s Salvation through the Church
 

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Some Taiwan funnies at http://ravencrows.blogspot.com/

[color=#ff0000]To be used at your own risk. It is an UNTESTED software![/color]

This is an *experimental* downgrader for 2.50/2.60. Experimental means here that it has not been tested on a real device, althought it has a theoretical base that it could work.

This software is free and untested, and i’m not responsable if it causes damages to your PSP. If you use this software, you agree that you are using this program at your own risk and that you won’t blame the author for that.

“Someone told me that a downgrader for 2.50/2.60 was impossible. How does this work?”

This one uses another more risked technique (and i repeat: untested) than the MPH downgrader. It uses some sony libraries found in the 1.50 updater to perform the most critical steps, the logical format of the flash, and the ipl writing. See technical details for more info about how it works.

This software requires that someone with a 1.50 runs a little program and send you the output so you can init the downdate process. The 1.50 program is TOTALLY safe, it only dumps the flash of a 1.50 user and it also extracts some special prx’s found in the 1.50 updater.

If you do not wish to have someone with a 1.50 do it for you, you can use the included MS_ROOT folder with the files in it instead. Inside is the “DOWNDATER” folder you can use with a 2.50/2.60 PSP to test the downgrade.

Instruction for the 1.50 user
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1) Copy the folders downhelper and downhelper% from the folder 1.50 HELPER folder to
/PSP/GAME/ in your memstick.

2) Obtain the 1.50 update EBOOT and put it in /PSP/GAME/UPDATE in your memstick.

3) Init the downhelper program.
It will dump your flash and some files from the updater eboot to the memstick.

4) After that, the program will exit. You can now delete the updater from /PSP/GAME/UPDATE

5) You’ll notice that you have a new folder in the root of your memstick called “DOWNDATER”.
That’s the folder you’ll have to send to a 2.50/2.60 to let him test the downgrade.

Instructions for the 2.50/2.60 user
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1) Copy the folder the DOWNGRADER/2.50/DOWNDATERTEST if you have 2.50
or DOWNGRADER/2.60/DOWNDATERTEST if you have 2.60 to /PSP/GAME/ in your memstick

2) Wait someone with 1.50 to pass you a folder called DOWNDATER and copy it to the root of your memstick.

3) Init GTA and the GTA Loader

4) In the GTA Loader menu, choose the downdater test. WARNING: the program won’t output any display and any warnings, it will init the downgrader process inmediatelly.

5) You’ll see the your memstick flashing. That means that your PSP is being flashed from the memstick.
You won’t see any type of output in the screen (this is for safety). When the memstick finishes of
flashing, WAIT at least a minute, and then reinit your PSP by holding the power button.

6) That’s all. If all went right, you’ll have 1.50. If it went less good, you’ll still have
2.50/2.60. If all went wrong, you’ll have a broken PSP (except in the case you have
the mod-chip) Remember that you have accepted that risk.

Technical details
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This program performs the following operations.

- It loads the ipl_update.prx and lflash_fatfmt.prx from the 1.50 updater.

- It performs a logical format of the flash0 partition using the function
sceLflashFatfmtStartFatfmt found in the lflash_fatfmt.prx

- It writes a dump of the 1.50 flash0 to the flash0.

- It writes the Initial Program Loader (Ipl) using the functions sceIplUpdateClearIpl
and sceIplUpdateSetIpl from the ipl_update.prx module. The ipl is embedded in that module.

Other considerations:
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- Users with TA-082 psp’s shouldn try this. Also, it may be better that at the beginning, only users with a 2.50/2.60 NOT from factory (they updated from a below firmware) try this.

-Dark_AleX

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[b][color=#ff0000]Download the program from the downaloads section[/color][/b]

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An old woman who’s upset because she can’t talk to her granddaughter everyday.

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A woman who lost her brother and father in two separate occasions within a 6-month period.

Imagine yourself having conversations with these people within a span of 11 hours. Hearing their joys and pains in life. Imagine all the stories they have about their family, their job, and their love life. Take into consideration that they’re Americans, and you’re not. Now, imagine that you’re having these conversations 4 days a week. And each day, there’s a different set of people as interesting as the ones mentioned above.

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Photos & experience.

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I like the idea of having Sandman’s name poised close to Desire’s, them clashing like the opposite poles of a magnet whenever their paths crossed, or so it was told. It’s like a promise of some chaotic aftermath for all of us to observe expectantly with greasy butter-and-salt coated popcorn in one hand and a large cup of ice-cold soda in the other.

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“Excuse me, Your Holiness,” says the driver, “Would you please take your seat so we can leave?”
“Well, to tell you the truth,” says the Pope, “they never let me drive at the Vatican when I was a cardinal, and I’d really like to drive today.”
“I’m sorry, Your Holiness, but I cannot let you do that. I’d lose my job! And what if something should happen?” protests the driver, wishing he’d never gone to work that morning.
“Who’s going to tell?” says the Pope with a smile.
Reluctantly, the driver gets in the back as the Pope climbs in behind the wheel. The driver quickly regrets his decision when, after exiting the airport, the Pontiff floors it, accelerating the limo to 105 mph. (Remember, he’s a German Pope.)
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Amidst the rising cost of fuel in the world market and the implementation of EVAT that resulted to a tremendous increase of oil products such as gasoline, (http://philippineenergynews.blogspot.com/2006/05/oil-prices-up-by-p050.html), Energy Companies still have the opportunity to gain profit that is even more higher than the previous quarter of the year and getting higher and higher every year, while in contrast, the oil prices is also getting higher almost every less than a month. Shell Philippines, for example, declared last April that their net income for the first quarter of 2006 is greater that their record in 2005. They declared this during the time when the oil prices rose almost every week and while the price of oil in the world market was trending upward. read more..

‘Kamusta ka?’ is ‘how are you?’ in Tagalog. If you are one of the Filipinos who’s new in this land [United Arab Emirates] then get used to the versions of ‘kamusta ka?’ available in different accents.

First, it was the Asians [in Dubai] that surprised me with the Filipino words they know. That amazed me… how many gazillions of Filipinos are here again? How come almost everybody knows a bit of our language? As I remember it was the Arabs and South Asians that made me laugh with their Tagalog accents. But later on I come to know that the Westerners are into it too! What the?!

It’s friendly that they know at least one sentence. That one sentence breaks cultural boundaries easily. Believe me, having greeted by your own language by somebody from the other side of the world feels great and odd as it makes you wonder how that person knew your language. What more if you meet some of the linguists here and outsmarted you with your vocabulary in your mother tongue!…

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I am angry at this person. If I was working on my recovery program, I wouldn’t get angry. If I was a good Christian, I wouldn’t feel angry…. If I am really using the daily affirmations about how happy I am, I wouldn’t be angry. Those are the old messages that seduces us into not feeling again. Anger is a part of life. We need not dwell in it but we can’t afford to ignore it. So why am I angry, you ask? continue reading