Microsoft system engineers work for the Borg!

microsoft system engineers work for the borgViruses can do some strange and wonderful things. Of these the windows metafile situation is by far the most amazing. Consider for instance, that you are viewing a webpage with your favorite internet browser on your favorite operating system. You reach a website with an embedded .wmf file, and voila!

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of what magic is this?

spam blockedOnstance January 7 installation, various anti-virus tweakeths taken upon myself to enhanced postfix main.cf file on client mailserver has accrueth positive consequences. Whereas previously bedeviled by spam, has heretofore since reports indicative of spam rejected! Viruses are thus flung onto fields of the dreaded dev/null and the internet beyond!

Wittnesseth thee maillog!

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Epixtar must be a fun place to work

migs pisses epixtar offThe chief pointed out a post he made recently wherein he seemed to have ruffled a few callcenter feathers.

Upon learning of Epixtar Corp.’s ongoing Chapter 11 registration both in Miami US and locally, the chief wondered aloud whether a callcenter career in Epixtar House Eastwood would still count as a viable career.

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Now Blogging – The U.P. Portia Sorority!

portia sorority launchThe University of the Philippine’s Portia Sorority has been around for 72 years, counting such luminaries as Justice Cecilia Munoz Palma and Haydee Yorac as sisters, and so it’s just righteous that they find a suitable place on the web.

Henceforth – the Portia Blog! Rising in all its blue and white (yes blue and white. gasp.) glory, from the efforts of Jill, and myself.

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The New Year, The Geek, and Coppermine 1.42

new in coppermine 1.42Look, I know its the New Year tonight, but I can’t help being a geek. Yup, after so many years, I’m finally owning up to being one. This means I can add this atop my other nicknames such as world-famous raconteur, high-flying adventurer, swashbuckling debonair man about town, and all sorts of adjectives of the dexterously dashing and prodigious variety.

At any rate, here I am Dec. 31, installing Coppermine 1.42 (released Nov. 24, 2005), and I’m thinking. Hey, this is cool. Hey, that new feature is tight. Hey, I’ve always wanted that. And Hey, I gotta get a life.

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Tayo’y magsikap upang makamtan natin ang kasaganaan

I’m not really sure why I chose the above to be my title (the 2nd stanza to Ang Pasko Ay Sumapit in case that sounds familiar). I guess LSS has something to do with, other than being catchy as well.

Maybe in trying to make sense of how things have been going for me, I’m fairly at a loss for inspiration, hence I search for it even in Christmas Carols. For whatever reason, I think I chose above since it has something to do with the future. As of now, the future is the only thing I’m holding on to that holds some promise.

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Lechon, Journalists, and the AGJA Christmas party

asian gaming journalists association christmas partyI finished my articles around 5:30pm yesterday, and as I was savoring the sweet, sweet feeling of having been able to submit two articles before the deadline, I suddently decided, heck why not go to the Asian Gaming Journalists Association(AGJA) Christmas party?

And so I did.

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