Archive for July, 2008
I’ve been working at this Starbucks branch in an upscale mall near my home for the past few days, taking advantage of the wifi and the constant smell of coffee. They say that the world economies are slowing down, but I can notice here that the consumeristic attitude has not slowed one bit. I haven’t [...]
You’d think the wired world would pull you away from real life. On the contrary, as a mobile worker, we meet many more people in coffee shops, interact with fellow mobile workers and coffee aficionados — unless you put on your do-not-disturb face. Just now, in the span of 20 minutes, two others have asked [...]
A friend is selling her Nintendo Game Cube (US). It’s silver and in excellent condition. Selling price is Php 8000.
Including:
1 controller
7 Games
1 memory card
Games:
Animal Crossing (Simulation) **BEST SELLING GAME**
Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life (Simulation) **BEST SELLING GAME**
Baten Kaitos (2 disk RPG)
True Crime: New York City (Action)
Mortal Combat: Annihilation (Action)
Legend of Zelda: 4 Swords
Console and games [...]
Wordpress is now 2.6! I was tinkering with my local copy of Wordpress for the office site and saw a nice little update. More info on the official blog here.
I like the ability to preview the templates on your site without really applying them. I used to dump a database backup to preview new themes [...]
Valued Customers, Any Takers?
3 July 10th, 2008Business, Call Centers, Experiments, Just Up, Learning, Life, Media, Techie, Technology.
Question/Problem: Take two similar phones, call the same customer service number, get instant answers (or rather live cusomter support representatives) on one phone and then be put on hold for 30 minutes on the other (yeah, I timed it). What’s the difference?
A simple fact. I was using a postpaid line on the phone which got [...]
I’ve been trying to put off writing until I’ve finished school stuff. With comprehenesive exams coming up soon, I have to manage and juggle a lot of things, but I feel that this has to be posted.
I haven’t felt the pinch of the gas prices up until recently when I noticed more and more cabbies [...]
I was having lunch with a couple of friends yesterday and one of them mentioned that there were prophecies for the China quake. She said that there’s also one for the Philippines soon, no definite location yet. Did a quick google for ‘earthquake philippines prophecy’ and found this:
JULY 18, 2008 - PHILIPPINES WILL GET 8.1 [...]

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