Geek’d up Scrabble and Pain-based Game

November 21, 2012

Never was fond of the game scrabble but those who are fans of it and geeky-ing up almost anything would be fascinated by the most hi-tech scrabble game ever. How hi-tech? It’s scrabble chips embedded with radio transmitters enabling organizers to broadcast the game online, in real-time. Engadget has the story: In preparation for the [...]

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Sony VAIO Tap 20 – Would you carry around a 20-inch tablet?

October 15, 2012

With Windows 8 set to be released this October 26th, a whole new generation of touch-capable PCs are slowly making their way on store shelves touting to be running on the new OS from Microsoft. The trend is not only to be touch-capable, but to come in a tablet form factor. From this, you’d expect [...]

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Support Senate Bill 3300: Crowdsourcing Act of 2012

October 14, 2012

As an anti-thesis to the draconian Cybercrime Act of 2012 which is currently suspended thanks to the temporary restraining order put in place by the Supreme Court last week, netizens are being asked to support or at least contribute to the polishing of Senate Bill 3300 or Crowdsourcing Act of 2012 as filed by Senator [...]

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Statement of the new group Bloggers and Netizens for Democracy (BAND) on the TRO vs. Cybercrime Law

October 9, 2012

TRO vs. #cybercrimelaw, an initial victory for freedoms, democracy Bloggers and netizens who sued the government over the Cybercrime Law today rejoiced over the Supreme Court’s reported issuance of a temporary restraining order against its implementation. “If confirmed, this is a victory for citizens vigilant about their freedoms and about democracy online and offline,” said [...]

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Bloggers Petition against RA No 10175 or Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012

October 4, 2012

Some of you may have thought that I’ve stopped blogging about what’s going on in society, that I’ve become a silent observer now in the background, a former shell of a once activist-blogger from years ago. Entirely not true. Today I break the silence by publishing here, a copy of our petition for Certiorari & [...]

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What is a blog, blogging and how do you make money from it?

September 24, 2012

This topic has been written about by almost every blogger, especially the pros and gurus, but it never hurts to revisit this topic as an effort to return to blogging. So I thank a colleague from work for asking me about this topic. Let’s begin with the first one, what is a blog? To put [...]

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Pushing for WordPress even at Work

September 17, 2012

This blog may have been suffering from a prolonged lack of updates but it doesn’t mean that I’ve stopped working with and using WordPress. The regular job has eaten most of my time but not my passion for WordPress. In fact, during the times I’ve been unable to post updates here, I’ve been posting updates, [...]

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My thoughts on The Bourne Legacy

August 21, 2012

Last Saturday, the girlfriend and I saw the latest installment in the ‘Jason Bourne’ franchise – The Bourne Legacy. From my previous posts, you’ve heard me say that I might not see this movie because Matt Damon no longer plays Jason Bourne. Worse, Jason Bourne himself is no longer in the film! But alas, we [...]

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Skyfall – Official trailer

July 15, 2012

I know that the previous post, back in June, was also a movie trailer however, I’d just make it clear that no, this blog is not being transitioned to be a blog for movie trailers. It’s just that it’s the easiest thing for me to blog about these days given that my regular job has [...]

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Taken 2 – Official Trailer

June 22, 2012

Here’s another movie I’m definitely going to see this year. Fans of Liam Neeson rejoice as we get to see the follow-up to his 2008 thriller-action Taken, Taken 2. Check out the trailer: This time in Istanbul, Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, a retired CIA operative who took down a ring of Albanian human-traffickers [...]

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Infographic – Who is Elon Musk

June 13, 2012

When I first read of the news about the first privately launched rocket to dock with the International Space Station last month, I never knew it would be connected to the comic book-Hollywood blockbuster Iron Man. What’s the connection? The man behind the private company that developed the Dragon rocket which delivered cargo to the [...]

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Good riddance for the Globe iToolbar

May 19, 2012

Yesterday was a complete PR disaster for Globe when they surprised their mobile internet subscribers with their annoying, obtrusive and uncalled for Globe iToolbar. Check out the screencaps courtesy of Yuga: I noticed it yesterday morning but was able to blog about it just now. Over the years, these annoying pop-ups and toolbars have taught [...]

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Global Voices in Filipino Launches

May 15, 2012

A wonderful news came from one of Editors of Global Voices Online – it is the launch of the Global Voices in Filipino portal. That’s right! Global Voices is now available in the Filipino languages so that more Pinoys everywhere would have more access to the citizen-generated content from around the world. This is under [...]

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Watchword: Braggadocio

May 10, 2012

A break from a blogging hiatus and blogging about tech related topics, one word has caught my fancy while catching up on the latest local news which centers on two hot issues: the stand-off between China and the Philippines over the Scarborough shoal and the recent brawl between Raymart Santiago and mediaman Ramon Tulfo. One [...]

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Signing up for Google Drive

April 20, 2012

Alright, bear with me. It’s been more than a month since my last update on this blog it feels like I’ve forgotten how to go about this whole exercise. Moving on to the topic, the internet is abuzz with the news that Google will launch its much-awaited and might-be-too-late cloud storage service, Google Drive next [...]

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