These are my entries to Yugatech’s Gimme your best shot contest. It was taken on the north bound MRT train during rush hour:
yugatech contest
My original plan was to prop up my 33 month old daughter holding the sign inside the train. Getting her to come along with me during her afternoon shows was hard enough, I had to bribe her with ice cream so that’ she’d tag along… But getting on the train was entirely a different story. Unfortunately the hoards of people riding the train during rush hour was simply overwhelming, and I wasn’t able to execute my plan.
yugatech contest attempt
I didn’t get the shot I wanted but it was a good effort! I hope we win^^
Like everything else you computer needs routine maintenance, for both its hardware and software components. This is especially true with the software side of your computer. We unconsciously add a lot of things to it that are not necessarily good for your system (e.g. cookies, ActiveX objects), which may cause slower performance or even system failure. We do this by just surfing the web, installing and uninstalling application or by malicious software that gets into the computer.
Maintaining a clean registry is one of the most important things you should do if you own a Windows based computer. It ensures that all the sensitive information your computer needs is intact and safe from malicious tampering. You can achieve this by using a registry cleaner to automatically scan and clean your registry. In most cases it can also be used as a registry editor to modify or recover broken or corrupted registry information.
By cleaning your registry, along with doing other routine maintenance tasks such as de-fragmenting you hard drive, updating your operating system and doing an occasional mal-ware scan can do wonders for your computer. It will maintain the performance of your system and may extend the lifespan of your computers hardware as well.
Samsung Corby Pro (B5310)
I recently purchased a Samsung Corby Pro (B5310) for 12,500PHP (278USD) at Samsung Mobile in Megamall. All I can say is: it’s one of the best phones I’ve ever owned! It isn’t a hi-end phone like the iPhone, or the Omnia 2 but it does deliver on the commonly used features people look for in a mobile device at an affordable price point… Something other mobile manufacturers have miserably failed at.
Here are some of the features which persuaded me to forgo with the purchase:
- 320×240 TFT resistive touch screen with 16M colors
- qwerty keyboard
- connectivity:
- Wifi b/g
- 3G
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- built in email and IM client
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- clear fonts (for people with poor eyesight)
- …and did I mention the price tag?
Those were mainly the things I really appreciated with the phone. Once I configured it to send/receive emails from my gmail account I was just hooked! It does lack variety in terms of applications and games, but the bare essentials are there. You can do your facebook, watch youtube videos, check your email, do some instant messaging and what not. What it lacks in variety it makes up for with it’s price and the well polished user interface bundled with the phone. Personally I don’t think you can ask anything better for 12,000PHP.
Credit cards has been all the rage since the call centers have sunk their jaws into the country. A lot of people, young and old apply for these credit card companies with their own rationale as to why they need it. Only to find out the price they have to pay down the road… both figuratively and literally. Now a lot of these people are in debt mainly because they were ill-equipped to handle the responsibility of getting into debt. It’s been so bad that managing debt is turning into big business in other countries. Which leads me to ponder on starting my own locally, maybe name it something like: abacus debt management to have that Chinese vibe going… If only I were an accountant, I’m sure I’d make a killing.
But who are we kidding, we can squirm all we want, or we may run from our financial obligations, but at the end of the day we still pay a price one way or the other. We either suck it up, and work our asses off until we pay our debt. Or we run away form it and exchange some privileges in society for it. The choice is subjective ofcourse, but the bottom line is you can’t escape it.
I’ll be leaving Omnis within the coming months and I’ll be transferring to a VPS host 2 friends and 1 got from Enotch. It costs 40USD (I pay 13.3USD) per month which we can pay monthly as oppose to paying it anually. The VPS has the following specs:
- CPU speed: equal share
- 3 IP addresses
- 1gb RAM
- 30gb HDD
- 3tb bandwidth per month
I don’t expect much as far as tech support goes, but for that specs at their asking price, I think it’s a good deal. As luck would have it, the specs are also divisible by 3, and there are 3 of us sharing.
We originally wanted dedicated web hosting but it was just to rich for our blood. Maybe if our pet projects on this VPS server pick up we may reconsider upgrading to a top tier dedicated web host. Personally I’m happy with a VPS, I’ll have my own ip for my sites and won’t have to share it with strangers, I also get to install stuff and customize the server to my liking. The only downside is I’ll be forced to learn VNC since we don’t have web based panels to administrate the server, we can have it installed but it’s just out of our budget at the moment.
karma and hk with the vodka bottle
odat with the vodka bottle
Had a couple of drinks last Saturday with 2 of my friends from the forgotten IRC days. We had a couple of beers and a bottle of vodka. We went to the roof top of the condo, brought our cameras and my guitar and just chilled. It was a relaxing night especially with a bright moon and a cool breeze to top it off.
I got a chance to play around with my dSLR and managed to get a better understanding of it. I’ll be buying a tripod soon so I can play around with the camera and practice taking panoramic shots of the city skyline. Perhaps if I get good at it I may even buy a better lens, assuming my budget permits it.
