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August 22, 2006

Squabble over income downs TipidPC?

Those who have been PC enthusiasts at one time or another are likely to be a regular visitor at TipidPC.com. The site is undoubtedly the biggest online PC trading site in the Philippines. Only recently though, I have been informed that it has been having some rough times and went down for about a week due to alleged technical problems with the database.

There’s a rumor though of what really caused the extended downtime:

There’s allegedly been a squabble brewing lately between two giants on another site. This alleged fall out apparently precipitated during the last 48 hours.

The more technically gifted one, out of pressure from his partner, reportedly took the precious main database hostage ang fuxored the db schema of the backups. He has gone AWOL.

Under pressure from advertisers, the powers that be had a boardroom meeting last night. Last I heard, the assembly concensus was that if the hostage isn’t turned over soon enough, they might consider emptying what’s left of the damaged database and building it anew. Which means everything might just go back to scratch. {source}

It may have some truth in it. If it’s just some technical glitch, I don’t see why it would last that long.

This story reminds me about the history of Manila Tonight (MTC) and MyGimmick (MyG). There used to be MTC only, handled by partners one of which was the brains behind the forum while the other was the webmaster. After the site became popular and was getting some form of regular income, the two fought over money only to end with one creating a new and competing site (MyG).

A very common situation with lots of business partners, both offline and online.

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July 11, 2006

Trying out e-Census.com.ph

One of the long-standing projects of the govenment is to have every department and services be available online. We now have BIR payments which can be coursed thru online banking facilities. Business Name applications with DTI can also be done online. Then, there’s the Civil Registry online service at eCensus.com.ph.

Since I’ll be needing copies of my bith certificate for my Passort, I thought I’d try out getting one online. e-Census (www.e-Census.com.ph) is an online facility that allows you to submit requests for the following civil registry services — issuance of certified copies of civil registry documents, i.e., birth, marriage and death certificates; andcertificate of no marriage record (CENOMAR or Singleness).

The have two onine pyment optins as well — one is thru The Port by UCPB and another one is via major credit cards. The problem with The Port is that it’s only limited to MegaLink ATM Debit accounts of selected MegaLink member banks. And you thought the credit card option was any better — it’s also limited to a select foreign countries, and the Philippines is NOT one of them.

A single copy of any of the documents will cost you Php300. I requested for two copies so it’s Php600 but if you pay via credit card, they’ll charge you $20.

The next avaiable is to use my EPCI FastNet account over the phone or thru the ATM machine, which is fine since there’s one just around the corner to my place. You get a Batch Request Number as your tracking code and delivery is done between 2 to 6 working days. Let’s see if it comes in on time.

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