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Abante apologizes to Jill

gringo plagiarized jillFollowers of my girlfriend Jill’s blog would be familiar with her recent Abante episode, where she was plagiarized, plain and simple, via a unauthorized reposting of her post about an ongoing scam at NAIA.

Apparently certain enterprising officials would plant damning evidence in traveler’s baggage for the purpose of extortion. In the case mentioned above, a bullet was placed inside a 75 year old lady’s bag for which she had to spend a night in one of Pasay City’s no doubt pleasant and well-appointed jail cells.

pam’s appeal for the children of payatas

I’m posting here a letter from my shimmering editor, Pam Pastor, Chief of Correspondents for 2bu!, Inquirer’s Lifestyle Section.

The first thing I really thought of was to ask her to make doubly sure it was really from who it came from, however she’s apparently already done her homework and they’re visiting the Payatas Soup Kitchens on December 21. Here it is in full:

America’s Army Download. In Progress.

After a very very stressfull whole of last week, I had pretty much decided to just stay in and zzz the day away, but my gaming finger got itchy, and I was getting bored with NBALive 2k6.

I turned to Google for whatever downloadable game out there, and after scratching Need For Speed (3.5gb., too big), and others, I came across America’s Army, available quite conveniently as one big FREE 903mb exe file. After some searching for torrents and several failed attempts to download I managed to miraculously find a working one, here:

m|ph blog update

Just a real quick heads up post to show off the new oct-nov issue m|ph header:

It took me three days to make (mostly think up). Unfortunately it’s very late as I think the new issue should be coming out soon so this’ll say byebye before you know it.

Motorola ROKR Phonetools Setup

motorola phonetools setupI need to submit the Motorola ROKR review by today, but Saturday afternoon’s the only time I get to see Jill so I need to get this out this morning. It’ll also require an interview with Gary Ramirez, Managing Director of Digital Exchange at Glorietta 3, to get some quotes re the Motorola Store there, which is the only one in the country. At this very moment, he’s waiting for me to call.

SO WHAT BETTER TIME THAN NOW FOR ME TO UPDATE MY BLOG RIGHT?

Google Analytics Service Announcement

google analytics service announcementGot this from Google Analytics today:

Hello Google Analytics User,

This is a quick update to address some issues you may be seeing in your Google Analytics account and what we’re doing to respond.

First, due to extremely high demand, we’ve temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. This allows us to focus on our primary objective–to provide a great user experience for our existing users.

This one’s for you Manu

Was it four or five years ago now? I was watching the Argentinian team in the World Basketball Championships, and this particular spitfire caught my eye in an otherwise boring game. He was wiry, around 6″4 or so, had long curly hair like the European soccer stars, and was an absolute whirlwind on the court.

No one could touch him. He was jumpshooting, shooting threes, stealing the ball, running all over the place, and on one occasion on an all alone drive, he slammed the ball Jordan style, legs apart with one hand just like the Nike poster. It was astounding, and I decided to remember his name, Manu Ginobili, pronounced by the announcer as “Jeeno-beeli”.

Posted a weird permalinks error on WP forums..

Just posted on wordpress support forums.

When I create a htaccess file using options/permalinks, a message says the htaccess file is not writable, so I have to cut and paste the code, save it as a file and upload. I do that by saving it as a.htaccess as a text file, upload, rename to .htaccess, then chmod to 666. It then worked ok.

I used it for a couple of days no problem. Then a few hours ago I was clicking around the options area (looking for the spam options actually). I clicked on the Permalink page, DID NOT DO ANYTHING, tried to go out of it then it returned a “INTERNAL SERVER ERROR 500”, etc.

Everything I wanted to know about podcasts (but didn’t care to find out until now)

My client m|ph’s editors went and made their first podcasts, so I went and fixed up the blog to get it ready, and finally did what I had been dreading for awhile to do – update from Wordpress 1.2 to 1.5 while using a highly customized template.

I would normally not worry about it, except that m|ph is a popular blog, and a screw up would be noticed. Also, the template is highly customized, and so I wanted to wait until we could choose a new template first before upgrading the core files to avoid having to deal with that. Week after week of zero response followed however, and I honestly worried about the day that they’d make a podcast, knowing that 1.2 doesn’t really do well with it, and 1.5 integrates it by design.