Saw this funny ad at UP CASAA yesterday:

Yep! It says... Get "Zero" Refreshment

Yep! It says... Get "Zero" Refreshment

FAIL! I thought the guys who do the Coke ads were supposed to be really good. I think I’ll just drink water, which at least gives “some” refreshment.

There’s a video about WordCamp Philippines in YouTube (made by Buddy Garcenia), and my friend and I make a brief appearance (very brief) at about 2:05. Right behind the girl who was shouting: “Wordcaaaaaaaamp”. :)

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I had a little slack time (i.e. I was feeling lazy) and decided to hack me up one of those photo galleries that seem to be standard issue nowadays on most blogs. I’m not much of a photography expert. In fact, all I have is a point-and-shoot camera which isn’t even mine.

Still, I thought it would be great to have a photo gallery that’s integrated into my blog. That way, I could refer to pictures from my posts and also use a particular post to let people know if I’ve uploaded a new album. Kinda like how multiply.com does it, but with so much more control and right here on my blog.

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Just got home from WordCamp Philippines 2008, held at the College of St. Benilde earlier today. This whole day event was so much fun! Aside from that, it’s sort of a little historical too, being the very first WordCamp in South East Asia. For those not familliar with it, WordCamps are basically venues where WordPress users and developers hailing from a somewhat relatively small geographical region (say a country like the Philippines) can gather and talk about this outstanding piece of software.

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I don’t usually buy stuff online (coz I’m poor. hehe). However, I recently made an exception after a friend told me about this really really cool multiply.com site.

They’re based in Metro Manila (I think), and as of now only ships within the Philippines. If you’re delivery address is within Metro Manila, they even ship it for free.

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I’ve always thought Jorge Cham’s PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) Comics are simply brilliant, ever since someone recommended it to me at the start of my career as a grad student. Here’s one that’s very close to my heart right now:

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With any luck, (i.e. if I managed to follow this howto properly), all the guys at Multiply should see this post as if it were from Multiply. If by any chance, you are in multiply, and you are reading this. Woohoo!!! Success. Otherwise… Just move along.

Thanks to Scion for suggesting that I cross post to multiply. This way, I get a “wider” audience (at least in the Philippines).

After reading about it in this cool blog, I’ve enabled OpenID on The AFC.

This means that anyone with an OpenID can now comment using their OpenID url. Amazingly, that means anyone from:

  • Blogspot - blogname.blogspot.com
  • Flickr - www.flickr.com/photos/username
  • LiveJournal - username.livejournal.com
  • Technorati - technorati.com/people/technorati/username
  • and a host of other sites (or even your own site)

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Woohoo! I’m going to the 1st ever WordCamp in Southeast Asia. WordCamp Philippines 2008.

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For this week’s Pick-of-the-Week, I’d like to veer away from consumer gadgets like my previous POWs. I mean, there’s only so much gadgets I can personally review (Oooh! Unless manufacturers start giving me samples! That would be neat.) and besides, that’s why there’s Engadget. This week I’ll be reviewing, what is in my opinion, one of the best free and open source, personal accounting software out there. The one I personally use and of course the one that I recommend that everybody should use.

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