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  • Songs that make you weep

    I just uploaded my Strawberry Switchblade Video On Youtube, singing one of their most famous hits “Since Yesterday”. Strawberry Switchblade is a UK two-girl band that started in the early 80’s, and whose songs reverberated all the way throughout high school and college in the 90’s.

    I have two of their albums in vinyl (hopefully still ok in a box under the stairs), and hundreds of memories listening to them along with many other artists of that era with my friends.

    I happened onto Joey’s blogpost this morning about Nostalgictrip.wordpress.com, and immediately decided to upload it so I can share the video with them, along with my own Youtube find, the Beatle’s 1966 Rain video (which believe it or not I give a listen to at least once a day).

    Anyway, here’s the video I just uploaded:

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  • Chingy / Tyrese: Youtube pick of the week

    My to-do list is full, I got up late, and I’m all confused on what to start. What then to do?

    Why, Surf Youtube of course! Second favored activity to “aimless – blog – hopping”, and followed by “playing – NBALive – 2k – until – my – eyes – turn – red”, Surfing Youtube aims to serve my need for superflous information and voyeuristic impulses whilst being only slightly more entertaining than channel surfing on the couch for a few hours.

    At any rate, today we’ve got Chingy & Tyrese, with “Pullin me back”, definitely on my A-list of “songs to surreptitously download off the Internet”, incidentally, another favored activity.

    Other than the killer beat, it features the fantastic Aston Martin Vanquish, and for a techie bent, the interesting Helio mobile phone, which I really wanna get a hold off one of these days, if only because of it’s very hip website and Myspace connectivity.

    Then of course, there’s Yaya DaCosta, supplying the shorty role for the video, who was in America’s Next Top Model (2003), and in the movie “Take The Lead”, which I reviewed for Movie Exchange, btw (notice the not – so – subtle plugging. Smooth no?).

    And now, for your viewing pleasure:

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  • Disparate crossed out howto lists, misc. tech ramblings, and the cool weather.

    Been really busy this past weekend doing any of the ff.:

    1. update all blogs (movie, basketball, Portia, aklatangpambata, upwinlaw, and this site to WordPress 2.0.3).
    2. updated Pinoywritersonline to Drupal 4.7.2 (from whatever ancient version it was)
    3. updated my photo gallery to Coppermine 1.4.8, again from whatever ancient version previous.
    4. uploaded the excellent Aklatangpambata pics to my photo gallery and to Flickr (ill explain later), thanks very much to Mr. Chris Lagman, btw.
    5. uploaded a whole boatload of gadget pics as well, and I’ll be adding a few more as soon as I dig them up off my PC.
    6. Found a way to display these pics from my Coppermine photo gallery onto the site, as shown below

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    7. still trying to find a way to display the Aklatangpambata pics onto the Aklatangpambata.org website. Problem is, the coppermineSC plugin requires it connect to the localhost db, and I haven’t managed to make it connect across different hosts (it’s hosted elsewhere). I’ve tried mysql.myhost.ph, myhost.ph:mysql, mysql:myhost.ph, and even my IP address, but no go. I’ve sent an email to mobilehive.com, my host, asking how that’s done. In the meantime, will have to do with Flickr, which is great of course, but I like hosting my own stuff.

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  • Alyssa reacts!

    Check out Alyssa Alano’s interview on Chikka Minute. Right click this link, and Windows Media Player, if you have it, should play it.

    If not, try again here.

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  • Akismet API Key FAQ needs rewrite

    I’d been getting spam lately on my blogs, so I decided to give Akismet, the built-in WordPress anti-spam plugin, a try (usually i use the excellent Bot-check, a 100% effective solution for this blog, but I wanted to try something new).

    Akismet activation however will be confusing for non-wordpress.com users (read: people who run wordpress by themselves, like myself and others who have their own domain). When a non-wordpress.com user activates it on his plugin area, it’ll say “Akismet is not active. You must enter your WordPress.com API key for it to work.”, after which it’ll give you instructions to look for it on your WordPress Dashboard, either on the Dashboard itself or when you click “My Account” (Users > Your Profile).

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  • I want one

    Imagine this. You’re McGyver, and ninjas have you cornered in an office. So you pull out your Swiss knife, and fashion a giant slingshot out of the carpet and the leather from the office chairs. You then use the office cleaning detergents to make an explosive chemical to blast them away, and finally, you boot a computer out of an image you burned into your 1gb. USB drive to set it up with your OS and fave applications so you can blog about it as well!!

    Hooray!!!

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  • Tip to CoffeeShop Wifi freeloaders: Buy Something

    .. and conversely, Tip to coffee shops with wifi: Tell them to.

    This was bound to happen. A 20 year old man in Washington, US was charged with “theft of services” after mooching off of a coffee shop’s free internet access for three months without buying anything.

    “He doesn’t buy anything,” Emily Pranger, the shop’s manager, told KATU, a Portland, Ore. television station. “It’s not right for him to come and use it.”

    Smith allegedly parked his truck in the parking lot to use Brewed Awakenings’ wireless access.

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  • Local blogger cited. Doesn’t like it.

    In the I-like-my-blog-readership-just-the-way-it-is-thank-you-very-much department, here’s some interesting local blogger news. PDI showbiz columnist Dolly Ann Carvajal recently mentioned a row between local showbiz hottie Alicia Mayer and the bouncer of a bar in Makati, article here.

    A local blogger happened to have observed the incident, and blogged about it at length. Someone then informed Ms. Carvajal re said blogpost, which she duly posted on her column, complete with the blogger’s URL.

    Local blogger upon realizing this, took down her post and had this to say:

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  • Vistatorrent.com to MS : But we just wanted to help!

    The UK based Inquirer website (not our local Inq7.net!) reports “Vista Torrent site ordered to cease and desist”, with the subheading “What happens when you try to help Microsoft out“.]

    I blogged about Vistatorrent.com last week. You can read their official statement here, where they post the letter from a MS representative “Internet Investigator”.

    from the Inquirer article:

    Chris and Jack thought that they were doing a good thing, especially after a spokesVole (referring to a post on the MS website) said, “Demand for Beta 2 has been huge – which was expected. But we are hitting ceilings on bandwidth. Right now we are serving out product keys 10x faster than we can serve the downloads. Already this is the biggest software download event in history. We are pumping out bits as fast as we can. If we pushed out bits any faster there would be a measureable impact for the Internet”.

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  • MS Origami Vid

    Truly radical new thing in computing? Or just another ‘cool thing to have’? I’ve seen this 4 month old vid twice and over, and my conclusion: this commercial isn’t very good at telling us what it actually does.

    Which means I wanna find out, and therefore wanna give it a spin. So I guess the commercial worked! Anyway, check it out yourself:

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