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Last Monday’s Google TechTalk at the AIM in Makati was widely received with developers from various local companies in attendance. Though most were certainly clamoring for deeper technical discussions on the various technologies tackled, it would be best to see this as a sampler of things to come, especially now that it’s known that our [...]
Archive for November 2007
- Zeldman Speaks: Understanding Web Design → “Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.” #
- Career Day → Why Dilbert shouldn’t be an inspiration to the school kids. #
You probably missed this milestone just like me, but come December 16, we will be there. You and me, in silence. As one.
Come in blue, let’s watch the beautiful Manila Bay sunset, 4PM until the sun sleeps, Baywalk/Roxas Boulevard. Sunday Silence II. Sabi nga ni Gang:
Silent majority, have your silence felt.
Kita tayo dun ha.
- The best unedited fight sequence ever → One camera, almost three minutes of unedited martials arts action. #
You know Christmas is almost here when you can hardly rise in the morning with the sleep–inducing cold weather, like yesterday. Combined the with rain, it feels like everyone is excused to take a short nap every few hours. Or minutes. Not that I’m exactly required to stay awake all day, unlike most corporate zombies, [...]
- How We Met (video) → A love story, with stick figures and creative visual storytelling, using stop–motion video, on a Samsung mobile phone. Awesome! #
While raising the lightstand for Mimi & Karl as they take engagement photos, I often try to snap a few clicks hoping for a beside–the–scene glimpse at a heartfelt moment slowly (or more often, quickly) unfolding. Sometimes, I get lucky.
Just minutes before the session that produced the photo above, I was trailing Karl as we [...]
- Don’t Throw Out Your Broken iPod; Fix It via the Web → The paper shim hack works, I just saved a dead iPod! #
- Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally → Local moviehouses should have this, since most mobile phone users choose to be impolite anyway. #
- How Microblogging Can Help You → Indulge your attention–deficient side and be a better writer at the same time. Seriously. #
… my photograph will be there.
A photo I took, of course, not a portrait of me.
It’s not too much to ask for the stars once in a while, in your dreams.
- You really wanna know what love is? (video) → Got this from mic. So is this what love really is? ;) #
- Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at Writing → I like this tip: “Read people who write well.” #
When I ran into AJ’s entry entitled “View My Desktop,” I found out there was a meme spreading amongst local bloggers that provided a glimpse into their workstation desktops — wallpaper, icons, widgets, and all. There were some who had neat, clutter–free desktops, while others had their wallpaper barely viewable with all the icons strewn [...]
- UP Naming Mahal → Almost everything you’d want to know about UP’s hymn, “UP Naming Mahal.” #
- Google Now in Vaporware Business? → “First Google announced Open Social, which is going to solve all the problems you didn’t know you had with social networking sites, and now they’ve announced the Open Handset Alliance, which is going to solve all the problems you didn’t know you had with your cellphone.” #
- Here’s a LifeHack: Stop Reading LifeHacks → Not reading lifehacks saves you dozens of minutes a day, more than a thousand a year. Think of this: the time you save using a lifehack probably is a lot less than what you used to learn that hack. Get back to work. #
- How to tell if a web page sucks → Do you have the real deal? #
- Passive Voice Is Redeemed For Web Headings → “Active voice is best for most Web content, but using passive voice can let you front-load important keywords in headings, blurbs, and lead sentences. This enhances scannability and thus SEO effectiveness.” #
Google AdSense has offered payments through Western Union Quick Cash for some time now, but not for publishers in the Philippines. The day they finally announced the Western Union option for Filipino site–owners, I was more than excited to try it myself.
Around two years ago, I lost my second AdSense check in the mail. It [...]
- How to Build Decent Productivity Software → Without context, everything else is just as good as a text file on Notepad. #
- The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions Of All Time → With most of these pronouncements, who would’ve thought they’d still be kicking in 2007? #
- What’s with the 3Gb memory barrier? → There’s no sense running with more than 3GB of RAM on your 32–bit operating system. #