i just read this from tech.blorge, it seems that the redmont software company – Microsoft too is just as volatile as the others.

there is a “substantial” rumor that the company may be laying off as many as 15,000 employees worldwide (this is around 17% of their workforce)…

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Engine trouble hits SuperFerry 12
By Jerome Aning
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 17:54:00 12/31/2008

MANILA, Philippines—A passenger ferry from Cebu carrying 783 passengers and crew arrived safely at the Manila port at around noon Wednesday after experiencing engine trouble off Batangas, said the Philippine Coast Guard.

More after the jump at Superferry Philippines

The Year 2009 according to the Chinese Zodiac is the Year of the Earth OX or Bull or Buffalo in North America. Earmark your calendars on January 26, 2009 as it is the start date of the Year of the OX. It might be slow but a steadily prosperous year that are coupled with traditional values or conservative nature of thinking of ideas in facing life.

Lucky Color:

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Philippine Travel Guides:

PhilAirlines
Superferry Philippines

To those who know me well, I am a passionate eater. There are many times that I am also an emotional eater. I think that is what got me started eating in several restaurants. Every time I had a bad hair day, I immediately call my friends and ask them out to a nice lunch or dinner. If at worst, no one is available and I am desperate enough, I go out and get myself a table for one.

Down and miserable is exactly what I felt, when 3 other friends and myself walked towards Greenbelt 5 to catch lunch at Zuni. I first heard of Zuni from a senior colleague and she reassured me that the place had reasonable prices. The thought of good food in a posh place excited my friends and I so we gamely walked in to get a table during lunch.

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Mothers around the world are protesting against the recent move by the #1 Social-Network Facebook for deleting breastfeeding photos. They aren’t even violating Facebook’s Terms.

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Richard “Lord British” Garriott is planning on going back to creating worlds and this time back to where his strength lies – Medieval Fantasy genre games.

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After months of not using Windows XP, instead using GNU/Linux Ubuntu, I checked updates for the applications I use and one of those was Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger, its old name.

What’s new with WLM 2009?

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Viet Nam’s Ministry of Information and Communication was reported to have started regulating Blogging and plans on getting in touch with Google and Yahoo! to create “the best and healthiest environment for bloggers”.

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• sql injection – if your web page has input fields like those login forms, this is an open window for such sql injection hacking. check out 9lessons.blogspot.com to know more.

• 3rd-party advertising & scareware – these are pop-ups that “scares” & informs you that you have been infected and you need to download this software to fix your pc blah blah..

• social networking sites – most of the IT PINOYs are in friendster, have you recently received a message such as this?

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