Category: Mostly Everything
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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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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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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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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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“Cringe Benefits”
I was standing at the back of the room, left arm folded over my right. I’d twitch, and switch position (left hand over my mouth perpendicular to my right arm) every time one of the promo people on stage would forget the script. And then I’m joined by RJ Ledesma who positions himself beside me,…
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And so winging it yielded the most interesting results
My former professor taught one of the most important acts in teaching craft and that was the art of “winging it.” It really meant not having a plan for the next hour and a half in class but since there was a lot of familiarity with the subject, “winging it” often yielded the best results…
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Nokia to launch “Comes with Music” soon?
Phones come cheap because the price of the unit is subsidized by the telco (they make up with the monthly plans). In the same light, digital music will now come free (hopefully!) because the cost will be subsidized by the price of the phone. Reuters has an interestingly new article on the Nokia’s new Comes…
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