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70 days ago
Visit my new blog eBookster. There, I will discuss eBooks in general but I will also write about other subjects that is related to eBooks.
286 days ago
While driving this afternoon, I was tuned to an AM radio station (DZMM to be exact) when the radio commentator (Vic Lima?) talked about an Egyptian woman who was buried alive together with her children by her own husband simply because the wife was reading the bible. According to the radio commentator, the woman died but days after the “burial”, the kids were dug up alive – and that a “man in white with wounds on his hands” had fed them all throughout their ordeal. Right then and there I was thinking “bullcrap!”. But given that the the radio station I was listening to is part of one of the largest TV/Radio/Print company in the Philippines, I still gave it the benefit of the doubt. Now, their TV station is almost done with their primetime newscast, there is no mention of anyone being buried alive in Egypt nor in any country for that matter. A quick Google (my best friend online) with the keyword “egyptian woman buried alive” yielded me this result. In short, the long story I ...
302 days ago
In a span of a little more than a week, I received a lot of SMS SPAM from one particularly annoying company and to top it off, I just received an SMS-based scam! Here’s the latest SMS SPAM I received: From: +639152037070 Need cash fast? For employees, self-employed and professionals. Borrow 30K to 1M! NO Collateral, NO co-maker, NO pretermination charges! For the requirements, pls text bak or email chinatrust.loan@gmail.com . Apply via fax or email. 2-5 days processing. http://chinatrust.sulit.com.ph - CLAIRE Here’s another SPAM: From: +639152780189 Good day! This is to inform you that you need to claim and activate ur REWARDS AND PRIVILEGES at Prudential Market Resource Corporation – Rada branch, makati city ASAP. This is in line with our Thanksgiving program, of which, you are chosen to receive a: 1. FREE scholarship voucher fr0m Datamex Institure of Computer Technology 2. FREE protection policy 3. A minimun of 5 RAFFLE COUPONS for a P50,000 CASH ...
310 days ago
It’s the buzzword that’s been going around since… well… a long time now. “Cloud Computing” has had some sort of a revival with the Apple iPhone. I for one has been unknowingly doing this thing for a long time now. I’ve been doing some articles and submitting them using Google Docs, I’ve been storing pictures and videos through Flickr, Multiply, Picasa and other social networking sites. My bookmarks are stored at Google Bookmarks and now I’m dabbling with Microsoft’s Office Live service. These things had been a virtual impossibility a few years ago because the bandwidth required to do cloud computing is a bit hard to come by. But now, I realized that at least half of what I do on the computer, I do in the “cloud”. Cloud computing is a godsend for netbook users (like me). By providing software as a service (SAAS), cloud computing has somehow made a netbook with limited storage to still become useful. My netbook, an Asus Eee PC 701 with a 4GB of storage is quite usable ...
