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WordCamp Philippines set on September 6

The first WordCamp Philippines will be held on September 6. Spearheaded by the Mindanao Bloggers, it will feature tracks in deploying WP as well as themes and plugins development. Registration is free — all you have to do is blog about your intent to join the event. The event, which is set to be held [...]

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Taking GMail Labs for a spin

Google recently unveiled GMail Labs, experimental features that Google engineers are working on out of their 20%. The idea behind Labs is that any engineer can go to lunch, come up with a cool idea, code it up, and ship it as a Labs feature. To tens of millions of users. No design reviews, no [...]

Minor blog changes

You’ll probably notice the cool Flash tag cloud on the sidebar. That’s courtesy of Roy Tanck’s WP-Cumulus plugin. Thanks, @sofimi for the heads up. I’m still on K2 (RC3), but I’ve ditched its Sidebar Manager for WP’s widgets. SBM has been causing lots of issues for me lately, but I haven’t had the time to muck [...]

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Experiments with the eee

It’s been a while since I last handled the eee. I haven’t gotten around to changing the default Xandros OS to either Ubunty or Fedora. Frankly, the OS works just fine for me. And as long as I can get a command-line and an internet connection, I’m a happy camper. But it’s been an unusually quiet [...]

Revisiting my tumblog

I’ve made several improvements to my tumblog. Previously, I merely plugged in the RSS output from Yahoo! Pipes to Feedburner, and served up the content using Buzzboost. Using techniques from Cristiano Betta’s lifestream and elsewhere, I simplified and modularized the Yahoo! Pipes mashup. I then used the pipe’s JSON output and styled it with some simple [...]

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Three new old books, two notebooks, a FreeAgent

(… And a partridge in a pear tree. Heh.) Not much updates from me, except: Got three more great finds from Booksale: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, The Confusion (Vol. 2 of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson, and Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury — all for under a hundred [...]

Surprise finds

Got these yesterday from a second-hand book shop here in Cabanatuan City: (from top) Neil Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon; Orson Scott Card’s Speaker for the Dead; William Gibson’s Virtual Light; and Programming Perl, second edition, from O’Reilly. All for Php99 each. Not bad at all.

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It’s tax season

And what do you know? I recently received a refund from the IRS. Wow! After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $480.23. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 days in order to process it. A refund can be [...]

First!

Originally uploaded by iandexter. Julian Emmanuel’s first birthday is coming up. I gave this flyer a grungy look because it fits Julian’s personality well. He’s got that gritty look in him, and just the right amount of mischief peeks through every time he smiles. We call him “sutil”, a Filipino term that’s similar to “naughty” but not [...]

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Dilbert, widgetized

Via The Dilbert Blog