Jayvee Fernandez is a tech enthusiast, Digital Manager, and Technology Editor for The Philippine STAR.
He is also an EAN certified SCUBA Diver and underwater photographer based in Metro Manila, Philippines. His photos and videos have appeared in various international and local publications including Random House Germany, Discovery Channel Canada, and CNN.
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RockEd Silent Treatment this Sunday
Manila Bay silent rally this Sunday, in response to issues we’ve heard all over. In other news, Rocked Radio will be changing stations and relaunching soon.
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Sims 3 Retails in Datablitz Today!
This is me reading, wearing my signature pink shirt, shorts and Sanuks. Overall a good break from pwnage in Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2. The original version of Sims 3 was released today and Datablitz had them on stock. Although I haven’t started it yet, every account comes linked to a personal social…
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Street Fighter IV on Steam *faints*
Exclusive to the PC version of the game, three visual shaders based on the “artistic” trailers give a new look to the gameplay: Watercolor, Poster, and Sumi-E ink styles Coming in July 2009.
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An Exercise in Plagiarism
Please, a little journalism can go a long way. Not like this. Here’s the original blog article by Byahilo on Calea cakes dated some time in 2006 (which by the way I have to agree is really yummy — click to enlarge): And here’s the article in the Philippine Star, dated May 16 2009 (click…
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Finally, my Alma Mater (UA&P) has an Alumni Card!!
I swear I could hear Ode to Joy playing in the background when Joel Parcon sent this announcement to our alumni group. Oh, and it’s a discount card as well. Sorry if this is such a trifling matter to the more “established” colleges. I graduated from a fairly young university so this means a lot…
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Globe Duo spams my phone with … yay, marketing!
I got this SMS the other day. Been so wanting to blog about it: From: +63921.252.6124 “Bai, I’m on my way to Globe to get Duo. hassle to bring landline plus and cellphone. One sim lang ang landline n mobile number, on pareho all the time. Unlimited calling daw for P399 lang on top of…
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Young Cannes Lions in online conversation
Joey once told me that the roots of nation building is all about conversation. The world’s like one big nation now so conversation usually takes place in smaller pockets, like this one, the 48 hour contest on how to change the world. Two popular local entries are up there (aside from the “Spock Rocks” vid).
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Yahoo! Project Purple and the concluding head fakes
Came from the Project Purple launch yesterday, an event by Yahoo! and handled by Ogilvy (cat’s out of the bag — Ogilvy now handles Yahoo! Philippines — Gratz!). In a nutshell, the event, hosted by Patty Laurel was a below the line approach to showcase Yahoo! properties, announce tie ups, and showcase local community members…
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UNESCO replies to the Philippine Book Blockade; Book Tax Lifted!
UPDATE: The tax on book imports has been liften! Hurrah! Congratulations book warriors! MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo ordered yesterday the Department of Finance to scrap the taxes imposed on imported books and reading material. Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said the directive was prompted by a torrent of criticism on the move of the Bureau…
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Hedgehogs as Pets
Our two albino hedgehogs are happy parents to what remains of two babies. There were originally four in the litter but the mother bit down on the two weakest. Alas, the laws of nature and natural selection; survival of the fittest. Here are the two remaining babies which we play with: And this one is…