Author: Jayvee Fernandez
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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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Audible Recommendations: Predictably Irrational, Gaiman’s Graveyard Book, Batman
The alternate title of this post is “The British Pop Culture Invasion.” 🙂 Ah, to make up for the lack of recommendations for the past few weeks, here are three books I downloaded with my subscription from Audible. The first is a Diggnation recommendation from Kevin Rose titled Predictably Irrational. I got this version as…
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The Amorsolo Retrospective: Community Driven Amorsolo
I wasn’t really into paintings but my parents were. We had a couple of Amorsolo’s and Goya’s at home and they were, if I recall correctly, gifts. Behind one of the Goya’s, which was a portrait of my mom, she had a photo with him stuck on the canvas. So it’s pretty cool how art…
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Better Radio Ads with the Antennanator: Sleek, Italian Design
Stuck in a rut with the same old redundant radio copy? Having a hard time cramming everything in 30 seconds or less? Gabe Mercado introduces the Antennanator. It’s concept is pretty simple: if you need better ideas, get a better antenna. For more details, please call 813-1315 and get your free Antennanator today! You can…
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Google Map Maker Philippines Overview
I attended an intimate dinner with representatives from Google yesterday evening as they publicly unveiled Google Map Maker to the Philippine Internet community and other stakeholders. UPDATE: Google Map Maker has added tens of thousands of edits of the Philippines to Google Maps A friend half-jokingly said that if we joined the Amazing Race, it…
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