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Reading Taxi Meters

As a regular cab rider, I thought that I had mastered the art of estimating the taxi fare from point A to point B. I have managed to estimate a ceiling price for a certain destination. To be more accurate, I tried scouring the net for tutorials or how to or what nots, but I […]

If you have some free time, you might want to try out this game at www.freerice.com. It’s a multiple choice game vocabulary game. For each correct answer you get, they donate 10 grains of rice. If you check out the totals, it seems that the trend is upwards and they are getting to give away […]

Home Alone Doggies

Most of us leave home for the holidays, but how about our pets. Some are able to bring them along, because they are driving, but if you’re off to a destination reachable only by plane, you’d have to shell out a lot and submit a lot of paper work.
You have a few options aside from […]

While listening to the local radio on my way home, I heard that Nokia was officially recalling batteries. My dad own two Nokia phones, so I was listening to the reporter just to know how we can find out if our phones’ batteries have to be replaced. Good thing Nokia has a site that make […]

I haven’t used a lot of flash disks on my PC for the simple reason that a lot of viruses and worms spread through this medium. To avoid being infected, always have an updated AV software running. If you’ve been infected, you can tell because your PC’s going to be a lot slower than it […]

Here’s a slightly different form of art, body art—Tattoos. In the beaches of Boracay, you can get a henna tattoo that fades after a few days or weeks. The ones here are slightly more permanent and more elaborate.Up until a few years ago, tattoos were considered to be ‘for life’ and if you wanted one, […]

On certain days, part of my work involves reviewing documents. Sometimes that just means checking if the content is right and logical, but on challenging days that can go even into the minor detail of spell checking and term consistency over several documents. Yes, we have spell check on MS Word, but for technical documents, […]

I had been wondering why my stats have not been updating itself accurately for the past few days. I found out I had done something terrible-a terrible, terrible thing.

Okay, just found out after saving a draft that it didn’t really save! After a half hour of laboring away, my post is gone. Now I’ve lost the momentum for the post. I really have to install that blogging software here on my own PC, I’ve tried it on another PC and it posted my […]

I only have a feed for my posts on feedburner, is this enough? I’m looking for ways to increase readership, comments, and stickiness of the blog. I’ve seen others with subscribe to links, but have been busy recently to do experiments on the plugins that work well.
I’m soliciting suggestions and testimonials for those of you […]