January 2009
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Street Fighter HD Art Gallery →
Cool images!
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Wish list - WaT Edition
Wat Live Tour 2008: Kyo X Shokichi Tour At Hibiya Yaon Wat Music Video Collection WaT Entertainment Show 2006 Act “do” Live Vol.4
Please?
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Chinese New Year food
Celebrated the Chinese New Year by having a dinner with friends at a Chinese restaurant whose name is not Chinese, in Banawe. The restaurant’s name is Mr. Poon. We had Peking duck (half), tofu, hot prawn salad, crab meat corn soup, kangkong with lechon kawali, and siomai. Yum.
Mr. Poon wasn’t our first choice. We were about to go to Barrio Fiesta when I suggested Ma Mon Luk. It was a...
Concepts alien to us Filipinos
* command responsibility
* honesty
* giving way
* first-come, first-served
* queues
* pedestrian overpasses, pedestrian lanes, traffic lights
* democracy
* efficiency
(Work in progress)
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Photo sharing sites smack down
Flickr
- Pros: better uploader, intuitive UI
- Cons: free account limited to 100MB upload limit/month, only 200 photos can be seen in a photostream, 3 photosets only (coz I’m a cheapskate)
Multiply
- Pros: AutoUploader works
- Cons: stupid Media Locker, Java Uploader is wonky
Share on Ovi
- Pros: Closer to Flickr with regards to user experience, tight integration with Nokia devices...
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Photo experiment fail
Over at California Pizza Kitchen moons ago, Markku showed me a neat trick. Basically you shoot your subject by pressing the shutter while zooming in on the subject. The effect would be as if the environment around the subject was moving, while retaining focus on the subject.
Been trying that earlier using an Olympus E-420. FAIL.
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Systems improvement as hubris
I don’t get it. Improve the system at the expense of the people involved? I dunno. System will ultimately fail if the people within the system are demoralized. So what’s the use?
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Self-defeating
News has spread about the suspension of 10 Quezon City Science High School because of several blog posts that supposed to have maligned the school principal. The Quezon City Division of City Schools has upheld the suspension. Meanwhile, the Department of Education says that without an appeal, the suspension starts on Monday. At the same time, DepEd told teachers not to be balat-sibuyas (onion...
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Nokia Barcode Scanner works for Nokia 5800...
Just tried the Nokia Barcode Scanner app. It works as advertised. The app is not included in the package, so you’ll have to download it here.
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Trying to oust a Chief Justice →
Filipino Voices post by newest writer Kelvin Lee. He thinks that using the Limkaichong case as reason for impeaching CJ Reynato Puno will not fly. He believes that an impeachment case will not prosper, as the people and the Civil Society will not allow it.
Impeachment is a political process. And as the administration congressmen are wont to say (since 2005), impeachment is a numbers game. If...
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Nokia Download! apps not really free
When you try the Nokia Download! service using your Nokia 5800, you will be shown folders where you can find apps and ring tones and graphics. So I was curious enough to check the Apps folder, and whoah! Several applications, all marked as free!
So I tried downloading IM+ (which led me to that expired certificate error last night) earlier via Smart 3G (Smart’s HSDPA at Makati is good). Too...
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Workaround for Nokia 5800 expired certificate...
WORKAROUND
CAUTION: This fix will erase everything in your phone memory - messages, contacts, settings. Back up your data before proceeding.
Do a software reset. From the Dialer, enter *#7370#. You can now install apps again. Crude, but it works.
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Nokia 5800 Certificate expired error
Ok, so I got this phone last Saturday. Sunday, downloaded some odd number of themes, put them on the phone’s memory card, and installed 3 of them. Installation went fine, and the phone is currently sporting a non-Nokia theme.
So, Monday night (last night, dummy), I tried installing the other themes, but I got the “Expired certificate” error message. Thinking that it was a...