Some time ago, I could enumerate to you U.S. states, capitals, staples, plants, animals, colors, mottos, whatever! My coming-of-age summers were spent - aside from washing my father’s oft-muddy car daily for ten pesos - with my hands on the keyboard, eyes glued to my very first computer and a U.S. factbook on my lap just in case I needed information on the run.

Time was of the essence.

I was, after all, a super-intelligent detective for the U.S. government and I was chasing a high-profile criminal all over the States!

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The day after.

i was commissioned to do an IT conference ads for our company. instead of buying stock photos, i have decided to think of something tech but with a little taste of humor…

other ideas can be found at the dubai chronicles.

I think the talk of wisdom teeth extractions earlier last week induced a psycho-somatic response in me. The gums near my lower right molars just started throbbing with pain last week. Must be stress. This has been a pretty stressful month for me.

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See how much is added to the world population in REAL TIME.

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Calling them in their hotline is an exercise in futility, why can’t they at least put up a special page on their “News” area to update the people on the status of their repairs?

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Yesterday, typhoon Milenyo with an international name of Xangsane, hit the Capital of the Philippines - Metro Manila, 11 years since the metro was directly hit….  read more…

There’s a new Google Reader User Interface (UI), and I can really say that it’s a big improvement over the previous one. The new UI will still require a little getting-used to for many Google Reader users. The old universal update list is now gone and replaced by a ‘label’ based listing.  Read more….

It came trickling in Wednesday evening, and by Thursday morning had become a howler. I woke up to find that Typhoon Milenyo’s (international name: Xangsane) 150-kph winds and apocalyptic rains had turned my neighborhood into a cesspool.

Not entirely unexpected. Where I live in a proletarian part of Makati, ordinary monsoon rains often inundate low-lying streets. (Common joke: “Dumura ka lang, baha na.” Literally, “Spit and you’ve got a flood.”) This part of town has been subjected to all sorts of civic “improvements”–canals cleaned, swamps drained, roads torn apart, raised and repaved–but like a bad joke that refuses to die, the murky floodwaters reappear every June and thereafter.

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When it was still raining hard last Wednesday night, I knew there must be a typhoon. So by the time I was able to watch the evening news at our orgmate’s apartment, I was able to officially confirm my hunch. I even found it amusing that its name was Milenyo. And indeed, yesterday felt like a thousand years! Geesh the day was so boring!

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Does Rate of Global Warming Slowing?

In the last decades (1984-2005), scientists observed a slowing build-up of atmospheric methane (CH4) due to the decline of its emission. Read more…

Halloween is celebrated by Christians every year, on the night of October 31. But the question is: Is it in accordance with the will of God to celebrate Halloween?

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Sad. But in these cases, who is at fault, the owners who doesn’t secure their systems enough? Or is it the so-called hackers who does the defacement?

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Choosing the right web typeface or font has been an issue since the first generation of web sites and bloggers who take a hand in their sites’ designs are not exempted from this process.

Moleskine entry in a long time… just trying to get back at it again.

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I never knew the extent of Milenyo’s fury until i watched the news last night. Fortunately for us, the electricity went back at around 5:30PM so i was able to enjoy the fringe benefits of Mr. Benjamin Franklin’s discovery once again. Although it was still quite scary watching the lights flicker occassionaly… like it was teasing me and telling me that it will once again be gone.

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How my gadgets kept my sanity during the onslaught of Typhoon “Milenyo”

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Typhoon Milenyo (Xangsane) raged on for hours and thank God, it just passed us by. It was fast but destructive yet there is still a reason to be thankful for. I’m still here enjoying the free internet in the office cafe. Electricity is running in the city that never sleeps and am I glad to be working in Makati. There are still a lot of places without electricity and where I live is one of them.

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That more and more people here in Japan use the o-saihu ketai or mobile wallets? My daughter “A” paid for our lunch last time we went out using her cell phone. I took a pic so my readers can see some of the latest technology developments here. She simply put her handset on the scanner that is placed at the cash register. 2 years ago,i blogged about doing your banking chores by mobile through debit card system but these days you pay your taxes, get yourself a diet coke from a vending machine, speed up your check-ins at the airports and yes, pay your goods at the convenience stores via phone. What if a pickpocket got your phone? Don’t worry,most of the o-saihu ketai here use the fingerprint scan system. Only YOU can operate your phone. Some of my older students are using it and i asked why. Aside from using it as a wallet,it’s a sure-fire way to keep their e-mail messages safe from the eyes of their parents. Hmm..

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Until now we still don’t have electricity. I drove over to Ayala Malls so I could get online. Here are a few photos I took of the typhoon Milenyo in our place in Makati. read more?