Entries from April 2007

Mobile e-mail on the high seas

April 6th, 2007 · 5 Comments

There’s probably room enough for only 10 people on this islet of six trees (or shrubs) and a single hut.
Yet on this islet near Olango Island and for several kilometers near it, you can still connect to telecoms networks and send and receive text messages, make calls, and browse the mobile Internet. It boggles my [...]

Tags: Highlights · Internet · Mobile · Personal

From Pigeon Rank to GMail Paper, you gotta love Google

April 1st, 2007 · 9 Comments

Open GMail today and you’ll see a different front page. Google regularly posts updates to the GMail service, including the current storage space offered, on the front page. Today, the front page introduces what is purported to be a new product: GMail Paper.
GMail Paper, according to their April Fool’s joke page, is a free service [...]

Tags: Internet · Odd

Winning in the Philippine Blog Awards

April 1st, 2007 · 16 Comments

In 1997, someone told me I’ll never understand FTP. Last night, I won in the best technology blog category in the first-ever Philippine Blog Awards.
What difference a decade makes, huh?
The colleague who told me I won’t be able to grasp FTP probably never meant it as an insult. He was grumbling on being given the [...]

Tags: Blogs · Highlights · Internet · Open source · Personal