September, 2009 Archive

Yahoo! Pees on Flickr So That Everybody Knows

Internet and Squirt

Recently been to Flickr? Noticed the logo? Yahoo! pees on Flickr so that everybody would know it’s theirs. They’re assuming you didn’t know, it’s their “just so you know”. And it’s ugly.

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Picasa Adds Name Tags, Gets Freaky

Internet and Squirt

Picasa 3.5 adds hook to Google Maps for easy geotagging and name tags. Picasa can now detect who’s who on your pictures. Let the freaky auto face detection begin. What if there’s a face detected behind you? wooohhh

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Dear Facebook

Internet, Personal and Squirt

Dear Facebook, please let me login to my account. I’d really appreciate it. Thanks! ps. You’re buggy. I’m in.

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Globe Broadband Bandwidth Cap

Internet and Squirt

Globe’s 15GB Bandwidth Cap in Fine Print » Crap, there it is. On my 1MBPS plan, my P2P connection cap is 20% (200kbps) and bandwidth limit of 25GB per month. I’m not on torrents anymore but I do a lot of online video watching and I am definitely sure I will exceed that limit. As [...]

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5 Centimeters per Second

Movies

5 Centimeters per Second: A Chain of Short Stories About Their Distance. This is the best Japanese love story animation I’ve ever seen.
A masterpiece from Makoto Shinkai, this movie is divided into 3 connected segments of that thing called love. It had such amazing detail from the lush and vibrant scenic backgrounds to the varying [...]

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Why You Should Never Lose Your Gate Pass

Personal

It was a long and grueling day, but then all became insignificant due to a hamper of dirty clothes.

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Oh Nine, Ohh Nine, Oww Nine

Personal

It had been a while since I did this so to my loyal 9 readers (my readerbase is increasing LOL), here comes ransom stuff in bullets:

I think I haven’t tweeted this enough since the last few days; we got flooded. Highest was 4.25 ft inside our house, with waters reaching up to 6-7 ft. And I [...]

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On 2.8.4 in Lightspeed

Site Update

I just did the quickest blog core update on the site last night (while we’re flooded).
Apparently, there is a worm targeting hosted WordPress installs. I haven’t really checked everything out. I just downloaded the latest build, backup my databases, uploaded, clicked upgrade and boom, I’m on WordPress 2.8.4.
Everything was done in 5 minutes. I ♥ [...]

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Opera 10 is Red Hot!

Internet

Opera 10 just came out and with a brand new spanking crimson Opera Portal. I love the overall makeover, especially the icons.

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and now on the last breath before the big dive...