I’ve long wanted to try out eyeOS, an open source web-based desktop system, but have never found the time to install it in one of my free PHP/MySQL accounts. Installing it in my current web host is out of the question: I’ve long learned, rather painfully, never to try scripts in my web server.
eyeOS recently [...]

Updated: I just got an invitation to the service through this blog post (check the comments).
When Crazy Egg starts accepting signups for its free service there will be a stampede. Pete Cashmore of Mashable is gushing: “Wow! Just wow. Crazy Egg will absolutely blow you away.”
Crazy Egg is a website tracking script that will tell [...]

I was in the middle of editing the new theme I’m using when I read the announcement of a security release for WordPress. Version 2.0.2 contains bugfixes and security fixes.
Matt Mullenweg said in the version announcement: “The problems addressed are unannounced XSS issues privately discovered and reported to the WordPress team.”
The announcement doesn’t say, though, [...]

Keep changing themes. I was in the middle of a blog post an hour or two back when I spotted a link to the excellent Alexified WordPress theme by Alex Ling. The theme made me stop writing and I promptly downloaded it, edited stuff and used it for this blog.
I still have to put my [...]

Something else. I’ve been trying to find its English equivalent but failed. It’s close to flirting but without the sexual connotation. It shares shades of meaning with courting but is less formal and doesn’t mean that the person wants to go steady with the object of the iring-iring.
My kumpare and colleague Myke Obenieta says there [...]

The Cebu Provincial Government is working on a really tight deadline to finish the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) in time for the city’s hosting of an Asean summit this December.
Capitol had long planned for an international convention center and even held an architectural design competition for a megadome but the project was stalled during [...]