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  • RV – Runaway Vacation

    There’s not much to say about RV – Runaway Vacation, so maybe doing it bullet point style I’ll make it more readable:

    • First Robin Williams film I’ve seen after quite a while.
    • Starring pop singer ‘JoJo’ Levesque who’s fast becoming a star and who did fairly well with her role, so fans would definitely want to see her in this one.
    • Basically a story about the chief character’s (Williams) attempt to try and get his dysfunctional family to spend time together via a cross country trip in an RV (recreation vehicle), while at the same time trying not to miss an important presentation to merge an upstart soda company with his bigger company, run by tyrant boss Will Arnett, all the while not telling his family about it.
    • I’ve not seen Adam Sandler’s Click yet, but I presume the story is more or less the same.
    • It isn’t particularly clear why he doesn’t want to tell his family that he is trying to do both things at the same time, albeit this is the main detail in the plot that puts him in all the funny situations. Williams is constantly battling time, gadget misfirings, traffic, and his family’s wailings to try and do both.

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  • Youtube’s down

    Says they’re fixing it. But I can’t make heads or tails about the diagram they put up: (more…)

  • Pure Shmure

    I know these are harsh words, but trust me when I say I’ve tried not to say them. Here it is: I do not recommend the 02 XDA Atom Pure.

    I’ve had it for longer than two weeks, and as of yet I’ve not had it provide any level of reliability or usability.

    I’ve had the black one too, and I wrote about it back in May. Results were almost similar, except that was even worse as it was slow. This white one, nicknamed ‘Pure‘, a limited edition version with a firmware update (as I understood it) and a replacement to the black one when I told them about my problems with it, is a lot faster but nonetheless – and I really hate to say this – useless.

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  • Belkin Appoints Microwarehouse

    Attended the fashion show / launch event today at Shangrila Makati. Belkin is the world-famous iPod accessory manufacturer, but they’d be the first to point out they also manufacture other stuff like input devices, wifi routers (which will incidentally compete with Microwarehouse’s Linksys products), and the one that caught my eye, pretty KVM switches. That’s right. No longer will sysads have to contend with dreary, gray monotone KVM boxes. Merely buy these and they can release their inner interior decorator.

    At any rate, here’re a few pics of their more famous products, plus you can download the press kit and prices after the jump.

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  • Ability wha?

    From Pinoytechblog: ICAP chooses Ability Office. I first read about it or Bernie Janda’s blog here.

    The reaction from PTB has been expectedly fierce, saying in effect that ICAP was out of its mind to choose that in lieu of Openoffice, and hinting at under the table arrangements.

    However, I’d like to ask a few things first:

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  • Next Up For Review: Macbook Pro 17″

    Sitting on my bed is the 17″ Macbook Pro:

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  • Best Browser In The Market

    Download now!

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  • Suing Microsoft – A good investment?

    In this article Californians to soon get $1.1 bln from Microsoft, it says:

    Beginning in August, Californians who have filed claims will receive vouchers that can be redeemed for cash during the next four years, said Richard Grossman, whose law firm represented plaintiffs in the class-action case..

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  • Yet Another Photoshop Contest

    Ladies and gents, here’s the winner of the Bestweekever.tv Matthew Mcconaughey Photoshop contest, where an image of him working out at the beach was mangled enhanced, for our viewing pleasure (certainly not his viewing pleasure I’m sure).

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  • Nacho Libre

    I watched Napoleon Dynamite, director Jared Hess’ second movie and the movie used to promote Nacho Libre, and I loved it.

    The thing is, it’s one of those movies which you’d probably feel you shouldn’t have liked. I’ve always been big on movies with good stories, and Napoleon Dynamite is the opposite. It’s a hodgepodge of almost unrelated skits and situations, like those Tito, Vic and Joey movies of yore, where the chief character(s) just bounce around from scene to scene and something funny happens.

    The saving grace is Napoleon himself, played by Jon Heder, who exudes dorkability to the extreme. He’s not a geek. He’s not a misunderstood nice guy. He’s a complete dweeb at the ultimate level, the kind of guy you couldn’t get far away enough from in school. So who cared about the disjointed skits? Napoleon Dynamite is such an insufferable dork you’re replaying his scenes, buying his t-shirts and voting for Pedro months after the movie (incidentally you’d have to have watched it to understand what that meant).

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