I was just gonna write more gushy stuff about the new cam but hey, things happen in this world that deserve FAR MORE ATTENTION!
Seriously, just like Simon, he kinda spoke the truth at the latter part of the thing. I dunno if all credit is due to Simon, but still.
Haven’t laughed so hard in a while. God that woke me up. Thanks Char! :P
I’m supposed to be writing something for one of the blogs where i pretend to be a girl (so as not to ‘shock’ its readership too much), but instead I find myself writing here instead – inspite of the fact that I don’t really have much to say.
Oh wait but I do!
Meet Laszlo:
Named after a character in the book Jill happened to be reading, (and one of my favorite movies) The English Patient. The procurement of which (the camera, not the book) a result of the combination of the falling dollar plus the benevolence and industriousness of U.S. based friends.
to get my license renewed.
So off I go.
1.5 hours later:
ahhhm back!
and once again, plagued by the inefficiencies of the LTO / my bad luck with official documents of any nature per se.
As per the LTO, it all started last year when I was trying to update the address on my card – type driver’s license, which helps as an ID when you’re trying to cash checks or whatever.
Continue reading I reckon Tuesday is as good a day as any *(updated)
Terrific stuff :P
Over here.
Now for Momex.
Last night Jan. 11, we managed to completely transfer Kikay Exchange, Basketball Exchange and Mom Exchange onto the new server hosted at Tri-Isys. I changed nameserver entries by 930pm and as I write this at 741am the domain has completely resolved to its new IP address at least in my part of the world.
Tri-Isys via its hosting arm b2b.com.ph is (as far as we know) the first to offer commercial VPS hosting in the Philippines, offering terrific peerage to all domestic telcos Globe, Bayantel, Smart, etc., and especially PLDT. Their VPS is physically located at PLDT exchanges (either in Binondo or C5 – not sure) which guarantee almost LAN like data transfer for local viewers.
We are expecting faster access times for the greater part of Exchange.ph subscribers, which are approximately 88% local as shown in this graph from Google Analytics:
Can’t wait till the weekdays, when traffic is strongest, to check performance!
Just wanted to share my thoughts on an email I got re yet another local web service that promises to help ‘spread the word’ re our sites. Names and details have been changed to spare the innocent. Here it is:
Greetings Sir, I got your profile in the Internet and would like to help you broadcast your products and services by marketing them online using our site, xxxx.com. We are currently re-creating our list of Freelancers/ Service providers in the country wherein members will have the chance to see what you/ your company has to offer. I would like to register you for you to be able to advertise for free in our website. All i need is your e-mail add and contact number so that I can send you a verification link.
If you really wanna help ‘broadcast’ our site, just put it in your database yourself. You don’t need my email since you managed to contact me well enough, and anyone else who finds us will probably be able to as well, just as you did. Oh and broadcast to whom? And which of my sites? The fact you don’t mention it reeks of spam.
And the fact you want to put us in the ‘Freelance / Service’ category makes even less sense, since we’re neither freelancers nor do we offer a service.
I know I know moving hosts is a gigantic source of gray hair for me, but the logic behind my deciding to is essentially explained by this:
as compared what I have now, which is this:
I think for the most part, the tech issues that interest, or rather more to the point – get a rise out of me – most are open source, privacy, and ‘understanding the ‘net issues. More specifically occasions when open source isn’t achieved, is attacked, misread or misunderstood. This extends to privacy and the use of the Internet either in dramatically brilliant or excessively stupid ways. Some people ‘get’ the ‘net, some people don’t. I like to believe I’m getting there albeit it took me awhile and it’s a long road ahead and there’s still much to learn.
The latest case that has caught my attention is the Nokia Ogg issue, or to be exact, Nokia’s claim that the Ogg Format is proprietary and hence must be removed from w3c’s web publishing standards for html5. The best article I’ve read explaining this so far is from Ars Technica, and by ‘best article explaining this’ I mean ‘I’ve only needed to read this 15x to understand it.
It’s a very complicated issue that reads more like a legal document rather than a technical white paper. In essence what Nokia appears to want to say is the ff.: (lifted from same article)
So as a follow up to my Vertical Horizon post I bring forthwith images to serve as proof that gaddammet we were there!!! (and just barely)
Friday 12/7 will be etched in my mind as one of the most eventful days ever. After a harrowing experience with the most assholest person I’ve ever known, I unperturbedly rushed from one end of this traffic infested city to the other, excited at the prospect of the wonderful concert that night only to find out we had no ride (Jill’s car was inexplicably borrowed). An hour then passed in surrender to our fate (which we spent by walking Killer, the Exchange.ph Dog *his new monicker* around the block), until when the car magically arrived.