If you’ve recently tweaked the appearance of your Ubuntu installation, and selected anything other than the default Human theme, chances are that you may find some of your icons blurry. This is because the Human theme uses 24×24 icons and (probably) all others use 22×22. Therefore, choosing anything other than Human theme would compress all remaining icons on the main menu that has no corresponding icon from the newly selected theme, making them blurry.

Read about the workaround on my blog.

Me propesor yung ibang kaklase namin dun sa ibang subject. Di namin sya titser kasi, di naman namin kelangan yung subject nya para grumadweyt, di kasali sa kurikulum namin. Kaya lang masyado sya sumikat sa mga kwentuhan naming mga ekis, kaya, natural kasali rin sya sa wento.

Tawagin na lang natin syang si Mr. Bungol. Kaya yun ang naisip kong itawag sa kanya kasi sa sobrang baba ng boses nya, walang binatbat si Diomedes Maturan. Kung di mo nakikilala si Diomedes, itanong mo muna sa lolo mo kung sino yun. Kase natural, panahon pa ni kopongkopong kumakanta na yun.

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MY FORMER INTERNS borrowed my digital camera and had a photo session in the Speakers’ Guest House in Baguio City. It was in July 2006, and their last day in Baguio during their LGU exposure trip so they took turns on shooting each other’s photos for posterity. When they were done, I reviewed what they got, and was surprised to see an orb or two in some of the photos. These are indoor shots and apparently, these are the only indoor shots that have “orbs” in them.

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If there’s one week in 2007 that I should consider the bitchiest muthafucka week in the history of all bitchy muthafucka weeks, it has to be last week. Seriously. My annual depression attack arrived just when I was starting to be pwned at work, and the screwy weather ravaged my health, leading to a sick leave last Monday. It was Hell, I tells ya! But if there’s one bright spot in the past week, that’s last Wednesday when I dropped by the 6-9 Show with CJ and Sarah to get my copy of the Smallville Season 6 DVD set. That was indeed one happy moment for the geek in me. And I think the DVD set was also happy joining my DVD collection. I think.

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I was busy managing the queue today when a friend sent me an email. I LOLed my way until the end of the message and then remembered that Ade posted something like this. Even got death threats, I heard. LOL.

Anyway, I’m sure Jhozel Grace won’t mind me posting these screenshots of her Friendster blog. LOL. (click to view bigger size) Read more here…

You all know how my husband and I love coffee — we rave about it, we write about it. But today, we were confronted by a question while shopping for groceries…

Is instant coffee really extinct?

Last year, I was very sad to part with my favorite instant coffee – the old flavor of Nescafé Classic. My husband and I really did not like the taste of the modified coffee flavor. To us, it tasted like coffee made from burnt rice. It was so bad for us that we refused to drink it even if we still had a full bottle.

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When I was about three, my mom used to tease me about being a kissing bandit. Apparently I’d go around kissing everybody in sight (am afraid to think of what the singular indefinite pronoun “everybody” comprised in my case, really). Of course, I still love to kiss — the only difference is that since my toddler years I’ve become much more judicious. Oh, and of course, what’s also changed is precisely how I like to kiss these days.

Continue reading at GIGI GOES GAGA.

Political forces are contesting for hegemony in barangays throughout the country. Right now, traditional politicians have the upper hand since they control the economic pie. Didn’t Malacañang distribute cash gifts to allow governors and congressmen to finance the candidacies of their purok leaders?

Read more at Mongster’s Nest

Do you remember the advertisement of 3D electric fan? That was a long, long time ago. 3D fans were presented as pamilya ng mga mahangin. We surely want fans to be mahangin. But I bet you couldn’t stand someone who is mahangin! 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This day is a big disaster, thanks to the ridiculously disorganized enrollment day. I had to wait for an unbelievable seven hours and 30 minutes just so I can proclaim myself officially enrolled for the second semester. And the big thing was more than half of that time was spent standing on a line with multitude of students around me.

I arrived at school around 7:30 in the morning. I thought that I would be the first in line. But it turned out that I was the 35th second year student who arrived there. During the first step of my enrollment was not a big fuss. I finished the first step in no time.

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I am not an avid fan of plain butter cakes. I like my cakes chocolate or of the mousse-y type. My love for all things chocolate (including cakes), has been evident from day one.

I cannot remember where I first heard about the famous Vargas butter cake, but when I read about it in Anton’s post about the Rockwell Baker’s Fair, I felt like I had known about it for years.

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The past few days my website for Filipino writers hasn’t been doing well. From an average of 1000 visitors every day, it’s now down to just 500 visitors a day. At first I thought maybe it was the upgrading and changes that I did. But I couldn’t figure out which change triggered the massive drop. My other theory is that maybe the drop is a seasonal thing. Usually, I would find the number of my visitors falling during weekends (primarily because people are out on weekends). So I thought that the drop was influenced by the semestral break. Maybe students are on vacation. And then I learned about the Google dance. The Google dance is apparently something that happens when your PR is being updated. You get turbulent stats for your websites during the update. But after the update, all goes back to normal. Just a couple of minutes ago, I found my page rank updated. Although I am not sure if this is final already.

READ MORE –> http://allicanhandle.blogspot.com/2007/10/pr-mania.html

When Zamboanga City was named Asia’s latin city, a lot of people reacted to it. Some negatively and some positively. The primary aim of this new title is to drive in tourism. Some people said that it would be a rip off. But Zamboanga city looks latin as any city in Latin America does. In fact Most cities in the Philippines can be branded as a Latin City. The British historian Arnold J. Toynbee went even as far as saying that “the Philippines is a Latin American country that was transported to the Orient by a gigantic marine wave”. Zamboanga City having Chabacano (the only Spanish creole in Asia) as its language makes it even more deserving of the title.

READ MORE: http://allicanhandle.blogspot.com/2007/10/zamboanga-city-asias-latin-city.html

Blogspot humorist Anton Deleon takes a shot at the recent release of Former President Joseph Estrada and why he got wind of the news at the last minute.

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The only thing I don’t like about traveling is the traveling part itself. OK, I know that sounds strange so let me explain. See, I love visiting new places and observing how the locals live, but I just don’t like any portion of the trip that involves an airport or an airplane.

Continue reading at GIGI GOES GAGA.

I don’t know where I should begin this story but I think at 3:15 am this past Tuesday (Manila time) would be as good a point as any, when my phone rang and without warning threw my heart into the grip of a tight chokehold. Nothing good is ever afoot when one is awakened by a call at such an ungodly hour after all.

Continue reading at GIGI GOES GAGA.

This blog entry will always remain to be dedicated o the victims of Glorietta 2 Blast. It has been a harrowing experience for the entire country, especially for those who have lost their loved ones and those wounded but survived.

Many have offered their prayers and condolences in various ways–and this would be one of them. Pinoy photographers and bloggers, who in their virtual existence, have shown the world that virtuality does not become an obstacle for one not to offer one’s prayer, condolences, and good wishes for the afflicted. In this fast-paced existence, these same virtual people have become a virtual community, living up to the Filipino tradition of damayan, or the Filipino value of pakikiramay.

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The past few months I’ve been involved in food fights, made friends with aliens in my own solar system, been called names, written on walls, kicked ass and got beaten in games of Scrabble, grown more than a dozen potted plants and have been poked a lot. And it’s all good fun!

I’m talking about Facebook. I’m so addicted to it. In my opinion, Friendster has nothing on this one. I like that Facebook is highly interactive and has so many applications that make the whole social networking experience fun.

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Isang linggo na ang makalipas pagkatapos noong pagsabog sa Glorietta 2. Ang imbestigasyon ay tuluy-tuloy at hanggang ngayon ay wala pa ring resulta. Una, sinabi nilang LPG tank ang sumabog, tapos high explosive tapos naging methane gas na nahalo sa diesel fumes. Kung anu-ano na ang mga teorya nila. Kaya naman ang inyong lingkod ay nagsagawa na rin ng pag-aaral kung paano naganap ang pagsabog sa Glorye. Basahin ang mga nakakahibang na theories.