While installing a plugin for WordPress early today, I read the notice in the dashboard for a security update. Since the update was a minor one and involved only replacing files, I proceeded to update the WordPress installations for my and my wife’s blogs. The actual update took less than a minute but the uploading [...]

By Max T. Limpag Sun.Star Cebu, November 27, 2004 Top Stories Section, Page 4 (Here’s a story I wrote for Sun.Star Cebu on the IT initiative of Bry. Calamba in Cebu City) BARANGAY Calamba’s IT dreams are built on refurbished computer parts and donated units. The barangay hall now serves both as an Internet cafe [...]

President Arroyo is currently speaking over national TV. She admits she called an election officer. She admits it was a lapse in judgement. She apologizes to the people and promises to work harder to earn the public’s trust. The Sun.Star Network Exchange (Sunnex) team has put up an Arroyo Watch blog. To access the blog, [...]

I regularly experiment with open source scripts and programs for possible features in Sun.Star Cebu‘s Cybercafe page. At times, I’d find programs that can be used to improve a newsroom’s system or the way a journalist works with the PC. During a recent chat in an online course I’m taking, we discussed the open source [...]

The Domain Blog is raffling off free .info domains as a way to generate traffic to their site. Steve Brown, owner of the site, says in a press release that: “as long as people keep signing up for the contest every week, I’ll keep it running.” “You know how it is in business,” Brown said, [...]

Fourth district Rep. Clavel Asas-Martinez has been declared persona non grata by Cebu’s leaders over her claim that there was cheating in last year’s elections in Cebu. The manifesto was signed by Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Robert Go, Provincial Board members, mayors, vice mayors [...]