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Happy Birthday Lolo
Someday, probably, I’ll tell you a story. His story. The patriarch, the guerilla, the engineer, the public figure, the private man. Napoleon Altavas, but everybody always called him Poling. He was my grandfather. He was born on this day.
Someday I’ll tell the stories of his life, when I know them myself. He died when I [...]
The Da Vinci Crock
Author Lewis Perdue has been in the midst of a legal battle over alleged plagiarism and the best-selling DaVinci Code. Dvorak Uncensored.
According to John Olsson, Director of the Forensic Linguistics Institute, “this is the most blatant example of in-your-face plagiarism I’ve ever seen. There are literally hundreds of a parallels.” Amusingly, both novelists make the [...]
Perils of Outsourcing
Hi, my name’s insert name, from insert company name, calling on behalf of another company name, and I’m an outsourced employee from the Philippines. Yes sir/ma’am, that often means I get paid less than folks with the same job on the other side of the Pacific, because we sell our labor cheap so we can [...]
Sharing Poodle
Poodle, that wild and zany crepuscular hamster of mine, is spending some quality time with his adoring (and adorable) mumsy. From the way things are going, and by the amount of sunflower seeds Poodle seems to be consuming, I’m expecting a very fat and lazy Phodopus Sungoris Sungoris when it becomes my turn to take [...]
Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!
Pope Benedict XVI, officially in Latin Benedictus XVI, born Joseph Alois Ratzinger (Latin: Iosephus Ratzinger) (April 16, 1927), was elected Pope of the Roman Catholic Church on April 19, 2005. As such, he is Bishop of Rome, rules Vatican City and leads the Roman Catholic Church including the Eastern Rite Churches in communion with the [...]
Open Letter To Spammers
Spammers are a pain in the neck; they can kill your email, blog, forum, guestbook, tagboard and just about anything that allows for any modicum of interactivity. Even if your blog has spam protection, like WordPress or MovableType, they can still slow down your site. Web email services like Yahoo! are terrible at filtering spam, [...]
The Far From Neutral Side
I love Gary Larson’s The Far Side, and since my client’s too busy to approve anything I’ve done yet, I decided to spend some of that free time in this not so funny Anime/Far Side Tribute… :D
Coding Da Vinci
It’s nothing more than an odd coincidence that I picked up Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons a few days after the death of Pope John Paul II. After all, I didn’t even know what the book was about, or that it was by that guy who wrote the Da Vinci Code. Now over a week [...]
Client From Hell
The last week or so I’ve seen my client morph from being a simple know-it-all wannabe to a bonafide client from hell, and he is starting to piss me off. A hundred revisions on the design concept later, he finally decides on a design. So I code the whole thing. Took me hours because he [...]
