Author: Jayvee Fernandez
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Pocketful of Kids in Ortigas opens October 25
I took time off to come to a sneak preview of a new toy store that’s away from the crowd. For one, it’s located at the 15th floor of Strata 2000 Building in Emerald Ave (that’s almost across MMPI). When you walk into the store, you’re greeted with toys you’ve never seen in any Rustan’s…
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IMOVIO iKIT challenges netbooks, makes a “smartphone”
So what do you think? Wrote about this earlier today: This is what happens when you challenge the netbook line and come up with something much smaller – you end up with well, a smartphone that can’t make calls. I actually don’t know what to call it. I also don’t know if this will really…
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Plurkfiesta at Bona Coffee
Met up with good friends Peter and Jen (Peter took this photo, which I’m grabbing), old friend JM (@Shrubber) from the PhilMUG days and his lovely wife Beverly. Not in the photo is Eugene who was all ninja’ed up outside, we didn’t even know he was there till he told me on Plurk. Highlight topic…
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Proven: Not everyone is entitled to their own opinion
There are some shocking studies that you’ve always held to be true at the back of your mind, but were afraid to express because you’d be accused of generalizing things. Well, as it is, a new study shows that not everyone is entitled to an opinion. “On topics from evolution to the environment to gay…
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New industry magazine buzzing next month
The most interesting ones are the industry magazines, because that’s where all the behind the scenes stuff’s at. So Geoff and Tiff invited a few of us (Internet community + college marketing orgs) to a contributor’s night meet and greet for a new industry magazine (photos here and here). You’ve probably seen it on Plurk…
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This Week in Philippine Spam
Have you been receiving a lot of spam lately in your comments? A certain “Keren Pascual” (not confirmed to be the real one, obviously) has been spamming comments in ALL of my blogs using the URLs of the Philippine Star and reposting articles from the lifestyle sections of our top broadsheets. Not only is that…
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Remembering Grim Fandango
Grim Fandango. Manny Calavera. The Companeros theme song. I’ve been on a retro stint lately, and recently downloaded Grim Fandango (1.1GB) and can finally run it on a decent computer (the last time I ran this, I had a Pentium MMX)! For those of you who’ve played it, you’ll definitely agree with me that this…
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Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty as the First MDG
As a development studies guy, the campaign to end poverty is a tangible one. Not too many people know about the eight Millennium Development Goals for 2015. First on the list is Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger. There are three targets: Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is…
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Remembering Day of the Tentacle
That video above is a 20 minute speed run of one of the most boggling adventure games I’ve played. The main reason Day of the Tentacle sets itself apart so greatly despite sharing a handful of elements with its predecessor is the fact that it draws from completely different inspirations. With Maniac Mansion, Ron Gilbert…
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Thoughts at 2300 HRS
I rarely ramble, but here are a few things that have been on my mind lately. 1. We need more valuable and diverse local web property. All I see are blogs, forums and micro sites. It would be nice to venture into original and useful properties to build value. But then again, it might be…
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