Drought

Posted on 12/7/2007 by Dominique @ village idiot savant
Egad! Only a dozen posts for November? I must be losing my touch. The fact is: most of my writing is focused on schoolwork now, and I've been distracted by other things. What things? Well...you know. Things. School. Business. Projects. I must confess, I haven't [view the post]

Privacy Issue: Facebook’s Beacon- any different from Google?

Posted on 12/7/2007 by migs @ Buddy Blogs
I don’t quite get it.. that’s why i’m asking this question. I have a facebook account.. but i don’t regularly use it. Well, there’s orkut, multiply, myspace, lots of forums, and other social networking sites. Its hard to maintain them everyday! Hmmm.. some of you my dear readers might not know what [view the post]

Second Courser

Posted on 12/7/2007 by Dominique @ village idiot savant
One semester consisting of Creative Writing and Short Story ought to have been enough, but no, I just had to go back this semester for additional units. Now I have the dubious distinction of being Ateneo de Davao University's oldest AB English undergraduate. If things had gone as Originally [view the post]

animated gif to bmp strip…

Posted on 12/7/2007 by errorflag @ Practice makes Pervert
Bitstrip. This is a nifty tool to convert animated gif to a bmp film strip. I used this tool to convert gif images to bmp to use it as a sprite image for Java ME Sprite class. The animated gif image The bmp filmstrip (I’ve converted it to a PNG format, wordpress wont [view the post]

Remove Ads in yahoo messenger 9

Posted on 12/6/2007 by migs @ Buddy Blogs
I’m ok with having ads in Yahoo Messenger. But its annoying when the current window you are on looses focus and shifts to the yahoo messenger even if its minimized on the system tray! Even if I’m using the yahoo messenger itself, the ads would always get the focus from time to time. [view the post]

Mobile Phones and PDAs to replace boarding pass

Posted on 12/6/2007 by migs @ Buddy Blogs
  A unique new check-in procedure using cell phones or personal digital assistants as boarding passes is being unveiled by Continental Airlines and the Transportation Security Administration at George Bush Intercontinental Airport today.

How XpressMusic phones can beat the sound of 6233

Posted on 12/6/2007 by migs @ Buddy Blogs
For those who don’t know yet, the dual stereo speakers of the nokia 6233 is one of a kind. Its loud and clear! Nokia launched the xpressmusic phones - for your mobile music  pleasure. But it doesn’t have the great stereo speakers as the nokia 6233. So how do you beat the 6233? [view the post]

NOEL: Josh Groban’s Christmas Album

Posted on 12/4/2007 by migs @ Buddy Blogs
My all time favorite singer Josh Groban has a Christmas album entitled NOEL. Check out the songs in this album here…

WOW: Pamatay na Computer!

Posted on 12/4/2007 by migs @ Buddy Blogs
Now who would want to use this computer????????? Other cool pics here

Power outages in Davao

Posted on 12/4/2007 by Blogie @ IT talks!
Up until this year, brownouts were rare in Davao City. Well, when I was in high school it was rather common, even expected, especially during summer. But for years, Davao has enjoyed practically zero brownouts since then. The Davao Light & Power Co. is even an awardee for being one of the [view the post]