After much anticipation, Yahoo!Mail finally goes 1GB. This is their response to GMail’s 2GB + infinity.
Archive for April, 2005
Here’s one photography tip I just learned. If you are taking group pictures and you can’t fit the entire crowd with one single shot, try using a different object to represent them.
In this case, the coffee cups were more than apt for a group shot. 
Oh, look! There’s me on the far left! 
T’was just past midnight at Starbucks 6750. Taking pictures is such fun when you are with friends. But, alas, Sadako was with us that one fatefull night. My camera lens caught her eyes in one shot.
Chills rolled up my spine and I got butterflies in my stomach. Indeed, I like to believe I have an eye for creativity. *tehehe*
Rich-o-meter results for the world:
You are in the 13.45% richest people in the world. There are 807,001,838 people richer than you. There are 5,192,998,162 people poorer than you.
The world’s 225 richest people now have a combined wealth of $1 trillion. That’s equal to the combined annual income of the world’s 2.5 billion poorests people.
Three billion people live on less than $2 per day while 1.3 billion get by on less than $1 per day. Seventy percent of those living on less than $1 per day are women.
Three decades ago, the people in well-to-do countries were 30 times better off than those in countries where the poorest 20 percent of the world’s people live. By 1998, this gap had widened to 82 times.
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined.
Global poverty is concentrated in South Asia, where half of the world’s poor live. Another quarter live in sub-Saharan Africa, while one quarter live in East Asia, mainly China.
In 1973, the income of the top 20 percent of American families was 7.5 times that of the bottom 20 percent. By 1996, it was 13 times.
Business Week reports that in 1999 top executives earned 419 times the average wage of a blue-collar worker, up from 326:1 in 1998. In 1980, the ratio was 42:1.
Source: Channel4.com
Due to Presidential Proclamation 837, Monday May 2, 2005 is a Special Non Working Holiday, so this is gonna be one long week-end for everybody. 
That’s one thing some people liked GMA, she mad the sandwiched Holidays a trend — moving and re-arranging the calendar to make way for special occassions and the lot.
I also heard from a friends who works at DILG that they’re already enjoying the 4-day work-week. They just have to squeeze in 11 office hours from Mondays to Thursdays. Neat!
Ozaki Nuke28
EM928 - 5.1 Channel Speaker System
This is probably one of the most cost-effective 5.1 speakers I found from local stores. It sports a total of 55 watts (rms) power with a wooden sub-woofer for a more hollow and full bass. This is best for rooms at about 8 square meters or less but can still belch out good quality sound for areas up to 15 square meters.
And for only Php2,795.00 (SRP), you’re getting the better end of the bargain.
Several comments and posts were lost due to mySQL DB corruption for reasons still unknown to me. I have to track all the posts that were lost and the comments and shouts made in the past two days. Some of them I was able to re-port while others (esp. the comments) are in lost forever.
It was partly my fault. I forgot I had an auto-backup plugin which saved all the posts and comments in SQL format so what I should have done was just revert to it. Instead I used the cPanel daily backup from the server which is 24 hours stale. Such is life.
(Update: the /tmp partition of the server was full and caused mySQL cached queries to return an error.)
In August 1995, the calculation of pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was succeeded by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The program was written by D.Takahashi and he collaborated with Dr. Y.Kanada at the computer center, the University of Tokyo. This record should be the current world record.
This record-breaking program was ported to personal computer environment such as Windows NT and Windows 95 and called Super PI. In order to calculate 33.55 million digits, it takes within 3 days with Pentium 90MHz, 40MB main memory and 340MB available storage.
With Super PI, we can actually measure how fast our CPUs by measuring the amount of time it takes to compute PI. The lower the time-to-compute, the faster your PC. Here’s the result in my P4 3.02E GHz with 512 MB RAM.
00m 01s [ 64K digits]
00m 04s [ 128K digits]
00m 09s [ 256K digit]
00m 22s [ 512K digits]
00m 48s [ 1M digits]
01m 55s [ 2M digits]
Why didn’t Random House allow Dan Brown to file an affidavit legally attesting to his “extensive” research and to his authorship of Da Vinci Code? Go to davincicrock.com if blog posts are clobbered again…
Writer Lewis Perdue blogs about how publication giant Random House and best-selling author Dan Brown plagiarized his works and called it “The Da Vinci Code.”
I haven’t read any of his books so i can’t make a comparison/conclusion.
Nokia 3230
1.3 megapixel camera
E/GPRS, Bluetooth, IR, USB
Customize your muvees with Movie Director
XHTML browser for browsing
65,536-color screen
Push to Talk with dedicated key
Expandable memory (32 MB RS MMC card included)
New multiplayer games over Bluetooth wireless technology
Instant messaging with Presence contacts
Multimedia messaging
Customizable color themes
As this is one of those rare week-ends that I had some time for myself to bum around, I decided to invited some of my badminton buddies for dinner and maybe a bottle or two.
Raffy, Joeyboy and his friend Niel (who was apparently a fellow Ilonggo) had a great time digging into the Ziti Arabiata (my own simple, quick and easy version) and toasted focacia bread & cheese. A bottle of beer was in order but they liked my iced tea a lot so we skipped it.
To cap the evening, we watched Jan Dara with the forward remote on-hand.
I am sure that everyone has come across this topic at least once or twice but I suppose I’d like to add a few words of advise based from experience. Taking your personal desktop’s security in terms of malicious scripts or worms, viruses, keyloggers and other trojan apps should be taken seriously. With everyone connected to the net almost all the time and having to transact online is reason enough to be at least aware of the dangers it poses.
Continue reading ‘The Importance of Personal Desktop Security’
We have had talks and correspondences about this event for months now. iBlog is a project steered by U.P. Law Internet & Society Program and will be held at UP NISMED, UP Campus on May 7, 2005. This is a good way to meet and greet fellow Pinoy Bloggers and see the faces behind their blogs. There will also be demos on blogging basics, moblogging, podcasting, etc. Details are posted on the iBlog website but it was down when I visited it.
This is technically a first here in the Philippines and was patterened from BlogCons in the US. Blog on and spread the word.
I donated blood today. It was for a friend of an officemate who is up for another operation at PGH for tubercoloma. I initially hesitated because it required me to wake up very early in the morning (6:30AM) and not drink or stay up late the night before (a Friday night). Still, I already gave my word to donate the much-needed blood and good enough I was able to ake up much earlier on a Saturday morning (a rare incident to me).
So, I ended lining up in the Blood Bank for 3 hours to wait my turn and all was done in 30 minutes. Had 450ML of my blood drawn off without any fancy.
While going back home riding a jeepney, I suddenly winced, heart probaly palpitating, vision a little blurry and having butterflies in my stomach. It was a good 5 minutes that I felt dizzy while on the front seat of the jeep. I got a little nervous and thought of just sitting there until I felt ok or maybe go back to the hospital for a check-up.
I have had blood donations before (about 3 times I guess) and did not experience anything like this. Darn, I swear I could hear my heart screaming for more blood. Oh well, I guess I’m not going back there for another shot any time soon. :p
PLDT DSL, PLDT DSL, PLDT myDSL, PLDT DSL, PLDT myDSL
Looks like the stories are true. I just checked my PLDT DSL speed at home last night and I was averaging around 480Kbps. That means my previous 386Kbps connection now tops at 512Kbps. Here’s the supposed upgrade that was recently made by PLDT.
512Kbps / 256Kbps for plan 1995
768Kbps / 384Kbps for plan 2500
1mbps / 384Kbps for plan 3000
You can call them up at 171 to confirm this. Sweet deal, huh?
For the past four months, Zamos has been fighting four high-powered attorneys. They claimed he violated trademark and copyright laws by selling two unopened pieces of software on eBay for $203.50.
Cleveland lawyers Robert Chudakoff and Edward Simms, along with San Francisco lawyers Roy Bartlett and Cameron Alston, allege that the sale cost Microsoft hundreds of thousands of dollars in “irreparable damage.” They demanded that Zamos hand over his eBay profits ($143.50) and cover the company’s court costs and legal fees.
The honchos at Bill Gates’ empire probably thought it would be an easy, open-and-shut case, just like the 1,045 similar suits they have filed.
Just last week, a new online account service, GreenZap, launched its site for pre-registration to potential online users. Though it was new, I took the plunge and signed up for it. It aims to go head-to-head with bigwigs such as Paypal, eBay’s online payment processor.
GreenZap members can send money to anyone around the world as long as they have an email address. Members can spend money purchasing goods and services from other GreenZap members or from other popular sites, including eBay® and Yahoo® Auctions. Members can load money to their GreenZap account for spending or earn money by telling others about GreenZap.
During the pre-registration phase, GreenZap is rewarding consumers with $25 in their account for signing up. The account is free and there are no set-up charges. GreenZap will be launching early this summer.
Source: Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo Hotjobs! posts job opening for Paypal Philippines.
Do I smell an official launching of Paypal Philippines very soon? Or, they’re just prepping for an upcoming Call Center in the country to support their world-wide expansion? Merely speculations but the signs are very promising.
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