Entries from June 2006

Running Bon Echo Alpha; uninstalling Google Browser Sync

June 30th, 2006 · No Comments

I have been using Bon Echo Alpha, the test version of the upcoming Firefox 2 release, these past few days and Google Browser Sync for a couple of weeks. Yesterday, I decided to stick with Bon Echo Alpha, removing my Google Browser Sync extension, which doesn’t work with the program yet.
I’ve decided to stop using [...]

Tags: Internet · Open source

The world is watching. How do you say goal in Chinese?

June 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment

From PinoyPress comes this link to a New York Times article: “The World’s Watching – and, Perhaps, Cheering.” Journalist Carlos Conde was quoted in the article as saying: “If there’s anything that can be said of my country, it’s never crazy about football. Basketball, yes, as you know, but not football. There’s absolutely no buzz here.”

Tags: Internet · Personal

Opera 9 released

June 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Opera has released version 9 of its browser. I’ve been using the latest version for a few hours and I’m starting to really like it. Browsing web pages with Opera 9 feels faster but this may be because I use a lot of extensions for my Firefox installation.
What’s great about Opera 9 is that it [...]

Tags: Internet

Close encounter of a different kind

June 16th, 2006 · 4 Comments

If you looked up the Cebu sky last night, you’d have the crap scared out of you. At least seven balls of light were clearly visible in a linear formation (if you squint hard enough and connect the dots, it could be the Grim Reaper’s scythe.) The lights were stationary and stayed visible for minutes.
Text [...]

Tags: Odd · Personal · cebu news

Portrait of the Filipino as blogger

June 13th, 2006 · 3 Comments

The latest episode of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Pinoy Pod features several top Pinoy bloggers: Manolo Quezon, Abe Olandres, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, represented by executive director Sheila Coronel, Rickey Yaneza, and Bryan Boy. The “Portrait of the Filipino as Blogger” segment is too short because Pinoy Pod squeezed in two topics for [...]

Tags: Blogs · Journalism

Watching World Cup matches online

June 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I finally got to try watching a World Cup game online last night and boy was I blown away. Four years ago, the only option for people who can’t leave the office to view the games in a bar or hotel broadcasting the matches was to monitor the latest scores in text-based websites.
Yesterday, I watched [...]

Tags: Free services · Internet