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Author: Gabriel

  • Yellow Colored Glasses – What I Feel About Cory

    For the most part, a big part of the reason why I think our country’s gone to hell has to do with families. In particular, very rich, very powerful and very old families who typically own enormous tracts of land – land being the currency by which being rich has been measured for many generations, and rightfully so considering how you can never go wrong as long as you own land.

    Do you see where I’m going with this?

    If not, let me spell it out. If you own land, you have power. If you have power, your clan will flourish. Your children will go to the best schools, your employees will be paid well, people become loyal to you, you and your family’s future is secured for many generations to come. You will achieve the realization of economic success: long term financial security to weather any storm and any crises that comes your way.

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  • What’s Going On With Me

    Yup, I’m breaking month long blog silence to write what’s up. Not that there’s anything earthshaking, just felt like it. So here goes.

    • I’m using Blogo, a Mac based (naks) blog writing tool that helps make updating blog(s) easier. It works vis xmlrpc.php which both wordpress and drupal has, so it’s a great fit for me. Got this via jen and it’s the first time I’m trying it, so am hoping it’ll work out the box.
    • I’m very good with the Mac now, which is a 3 year old iBook G4 running 10.4.11 (yes I know what those things mean now). I’ve learned all the important shortcut keys and figured out pretty much how to get around quickly without the mouse (I’ve always disliked mice, esp. trackpads). So two major observations: OneI love the fact running, using and installing things is almost exactly like a Linux distro (albeit a very very good and polished one), and Two the idea that this is ‘easy to use and understand’ or at least easier than Windows is lost on me. I’ve encountered and fixed some technical issues in the few weeks I’ve owned this thing that I’m sure would’ve made a typical user cry in frustration.

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  • New Exchange, Updates on Old Exchanges, Other Stuff

    It’s gonna be harder for me to update lefthandedlayup, considering the ff.

    • I have now started to write for the newest Exchange Tech.Exchange. I will write on that every weekday and optionally on weekends.
    • I also have enough PRs of gadgets to upload to Tech.Ex’s Gadget Gallery so that I’d not run out for a year if I uploaded one a day.
    • I have launched a new feature on MomEx called School Reviews. I imported 1,577 records of NCR DECS accredited schools into it, from which visitors to the site can leave comments and rate from 1 to 10 stars. Here’s a sample school, where you can see people comment below, consequently leaving info important for other parents.
    • I plan to import the rest of the DECS schools nationwide, probably totalling in the 10,000 onwards, including public schools. By June, I hope people will rely on it as a resource for where to enroll their kids.

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  • Me: Dude your week sucked. H: It’s ok (puts on glasses).. it’s Friday.

    I just love this shit.

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  • Ominousness

    No sooner had I decided to ditch Ubuntu and move back to Windows when I heard a loud snap from my PC. It was the Windows installation CD, shattered into tiny bits and pieces in the DVD writer.

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  • Zack and Miri Don’t Really Get It Done

    Ok at the end of my review, I’m supposed to basically say how the saving grace of this movie is the soundtrack. But I’m saying it out now because I want to post a vid of my fave song from it (the pixies’ ‘hey’) just before I put on the ‘keep reading’ tag. So here it is and an awesome live version at that:

    and now the ‘keep reading’..

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  • Contesting Ownership of ‘kikayexchange.com’

    Below is letter I sent to the domain registrar of kikayexchange.com. I do not own that domain. If you go there, you will see a static website that is built to earn from ads from visitors who are looking for http://kikay.exchange.ph but mistakenly go to that domain instead.

    Good day,
    My name is Gabriel H. Mercado.
    I am a Filipino businessman residing in the Philippines.

    I am writing you in connection with a domain that has apparently been registered with your service: http://kikayexchange.com.

    I am contesting ownership of this domain for the ff. reasons:

    • I own a website called http://kikay.exchange.ph, along with several other websites residing in subdomains of the main domain: exchange.ph (please check other sites at my signature below).
    • Kikay.exchange.ph has been in existence since August 2006. Our first post is linked here.
    • Kikay.exchange.ph, due to its unique url, is often mistakenly referred to as ‘kikayexchange dot com’.

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  • Cannot Sleep Post

    I unfortunately cannot sleep. In lieu of ZZZs, I am thinking about the ff. (yes, let’s bring on the famous bulletpoints). Start: 10:45PM.

    • Foremost, is the incredible Facebook API, and it’s recent decision to allow 3rd party developers to create apps that can change things like notes, links, videos and the all – important status updates. For what use is a social networking app, or anything on the ‘net if you think about it, if you cannot make broad hints at how available you are to your crush via Facebook? For what else is the internet for??

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  • Obsessed Much

    I’m pretty much in geek overdrive these days, in no small part to the fact I am determined to reach a level of beta usability on the newest Exchange, and I think I am well on my way. The only issue is the sheer quantity of work required and my need to organize it in such a way that would effect its most efficient execution.

    I am without a doubt focused on this 100%, to the point wherein I feel I have reached the point where I possibly hinge its success upon that of my own, as a person, that is. A risky, and foolhardy proposition, considering that it is merely, at the end of the day, a website.

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  • Forgive me but I feel mighty proud of KE right now

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    My but how our baby has grown.