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Bitter Lessons

This week has been most peculiar. How could I describe it? Weird, strange, unusual, depressing, shocking. I’m still reeling from the unexpected turn of events. I lost a friend. This song has been playing in my head for the past few days, and deep in my heart I wished that I knew how to save a [...]

Those Nasty Spam* Callers

Almost nobody we know calls us on our landline phone nowadays. It’s the cellphones, sweetheart. And with the free unlimited calls available to Softbank’s White Plan subscribers, it’s much economical to call cellphones than landlines nowadays. Unless of course you’re calling to another NTT line. However, if the phone rings, 90% of the time it would [...]

Taking Time Out

I could barely enjoy the outdoors nowadays because of my allergies, and believe it or not, we’re seeing more of rain than sunshine these days. What a bummer! But last weekend we actually got lucky - we were blessed with sunshine and clear skies, and it was warm enough to just wear a shirt outside. [...]

Who, Me?

Scene One: The year: 1995. I was hunched over my book, reading. Then one of the guys from our lab approached me from behind and exclaimed: “Kathy, nakakalbo ka na.” (Kathy, you’re starting to go bald.) I carelessly shrugged off the comment the way you would dust off dandruff from your shoulders. I have had super-thin fine hair [...]

The Analogy Between Papers and Souls

“You’ve got to get rid of all those papers,” Baggy told me one evening while we were sitting down for dinner. “What papers?” I asked him. “Those papers which you have accumulated for the last twelve years,” he replied. He was referring to the piles of papers I’ve kept all these years, and are still awaiting Judgement [...]

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My blog as my OpenID identity

To understand openID, you only need to consider the number of Internet accounts you currently maintain. Maybe you have one email account in Yahoo or Google, another account in Flickr for your photos, an account in YouTube for videos, another one in Friendster, Facebook, or MySpace for your social network, and many many more. For [...]

My First Silverlight Video Player Application

I always wanted to create my own web-based video player to share vacation videos with relatives and friends back home. But I didn’t have an idea where to start. I initially considered Adobe Flash but it’s not free and I didn’t have a license for it. Of course it is easier to just store the [...]

Migrating from Serendipity to Wordpress Using Windows Live Writer

After months of inactivity, myGUIDE is now back with a new look and running on a different weblog platform. Yes, you read it right, I changed my blog platform from Serendipity to WordPress. This means that although I have migrated all my previous posts to WordPress, previous links will no longer work since Serendipity and [...]

Creating Articles Using the Article Manager Module in Phpwebsite (Simplified Version)

I have a couple of websites running phpwebsite. In these websites, I used the Article Manager module to handle article submission. I came up with a guide to help users of these sites. I am reposting the article here, which initially appeared at the Philippines Today website. The article is as follows: To submit an article [...]

Yahoo! Messenger 9 Beta and Yahoo! Messenger for the Web

Yahoo! Messenger (YM) 9 is now available in public beta.  For those who would try this newest version of YM, you can download it from here. The new version has a completely new look for your contact list. You can choose a detailed view with larger Avatar images for your friends or a compact view [...]