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Update on local airport security

I was watching a local news feature yesterday. Apparently local airport security are now banning several personal effects from being boarded into airplanes. Some of which include:

Golf balls
Billiard balls
Baseball Bats
Perfume

Apparently these items may potentially cause danger to passengers. The balls can be used to hurl as projectiles, the baseball bats can crack heads and the perfume bottles can hide deadly chemicals like Anthrax and Pink by Nanadabary.


These are very good efforts. However, I think it is not enough! The airport security must ban people from wearing shoes, especially the stilleto ones that can potentially pierce a person’s jugular. Security must also ban luggages and all forms of baggage, because you never know what’s inside. They should also ban laptops and mobile phones – I hear you can control a missle bay with the press of a button from a laptop. Mobile phones can be used to call in terrorists too. Security should eventually ban people from entering the airport, because people are the main cause of airway hazards like plane crashes, hijacks, and acts of terrorism.

I believe strongly in this and I hope you do too.

What’s with the iProducts?

I wrote something earlier about how the tech scene is being saturated with these products with the “i” prefix. iPod, iWork, iRiver, iYayayayay!

Agree? Disagree? What do you think the next letter will be? I’m guessing it’s going to be “O.” (We skipped A. We’re ending the days of “E” and now we’re into the “I.” So logically …)

Product naming can be a b*tch really. The “i” character, when used for marketing purposes can represent several things. For one, the character looks like a stick man complete with body and head to symbolize individuality. Again, the whole individuality bit gets brought back with the way “i” can relate to “me” or “my own” or “I own this damn thing.”

[check it out here]

What’s this? A case of loose vowel movement?

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State of the blogging address 2006

It is currently June 2006 and I celebrate my one year of discovering that there is such a thing as professional blogging. Here are the highlights of one year of blogging in the making:

June 2005: I was offered a seat in b5media’s rocket ride as the network launched with several blogging personalities famous all over the Internet. I had no idea what b5media was then. I had no idea what site I would be providing content for. I had no idea that I’d be meeting such great people from around the world in the comforts of my home.

From June to August I was waiting for feedback as to what site I would be writing for. Duncan Riley tells me that he had “something much better suited for me” and told me to be patient. I was cool with the idea and didn’t really do anything (what else was I to do?) but wait.

August 2005: Cellphone9 was handed to me and it’s been running since. 323 posts. 320 comments. More than 13,000 unique visitors per month and growing. Wow. It made me realize how high passion actvities such as sports (the ones that have opposing camps and schools of thought), politics, games and technology can really shoot up traffic.

December 2005: The AfterMac was created. The name was coined by me, after searching far and wide for a witty domain name together with Adel Gabot. It’s been several months now and Adel has taken the backseat and handed the stickshift to a good friend, Dickoy Magdaraog. Dicks does most of the site’s direction now but I still regularly contribute.

2005 wasn’t without some obstacles. I had to give up two sites because I was spreading myself too thin. These two sites, Play Gadgets and Kapped! are in very good hands now with Patrick and Leora.

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Ghost Rider 2007

Though it’s only a trailer, it seems like Ghost Rider will be an overload of really good special effects, masking a lot of the noir that encapsulates most Ghost Rider comics.

Stars Nicholas Cage as Johnny Blaze. Huwhaat?

TY Adel for the movie.

mistaken identity?

A lot of people seem to mistake graduates from Woodrose and Southridge to automatically be members of Opus Dei. Even more so when you also chose UA&P as your college.

So I get asked that a lot, and I always reply that, no I’m not a member but I do know a lot about it since I’ve grown up in that environment – at home and in school.

So naturally when Da Vinci Code came out in its book-cum-movie iteration, people would ask me if it “offended my order”or what I thought of it. And I would always reply with no I haven’t read Da Vinci Code because I think Dan Brown is the perfect example of english gone wrong. And I would also say yes I’ve seen the movie because, why not? In fact I had planned – and suceeded to watch with what is now known as the “opus dei night out” composed of Rico, Nana and Aina – all from Woodrose and Southridge.

Here’s a link to a FAQ about the Opus Dei “order” as what people call it. First off, it isn’t an order. It’s what’s known as a “personal prelature.” And no, to reiterate, I’m not a member.

Other FAQS

What is Opus Dei’s stand on Da Vinci Code?
It’s here.

Are there such things as albino assassins?
Why do you think I learned Latin for four years? So I could talk on the cellphone and not be understood by the common man! Quo usque tandem Catilina patientia nostra? Quod erat demonstrandum; agricola poeta est!

See, I actually tried applying to albino assasin school but I was turned down because I was too pigmented. Thus, to meet the growing demand for albino assassins who aren’t albino, there’s a new group that opened called “the mulatto assassins” which is very prolific in the Philippines, Mexico and Spain.

Comedian Dave Barry makes a startling breakdown of Da Vinci Code into its basic plot elements.

Chapter four: “It’s a fiendishly clever code,” explained Desiree. “As you can see, the words say ‘White House White House Bo Bite House, Banana Fana Fo Fite House, Fe Fi Mo Mite House, White House.'”

“Yes,” said Hugh, frowning in bafflement, “But what can it possibly mean?”

“If I am correct,” said Desiree, “it is referring to . . . the White House!”

“My God!” said Hugh. “That’s where the president lives! Do you think . . .”

“Do I think what?” said Desiree.

“I don’t know,” said Hugh. “But we’re about to find out.”

So what did I think of the movie? Well, I have a thing for great actors so it was really distracting that Forrest Gump met up with Doctor Octopus and Magneto for this thriller.

And yes, by George, what a thriller! It was so thrilling that Tom Hanks had to break the movie’s rising action by exclaiming, “I need to get to a library.” Priceless.