Entries Tagged as 'Personal'

Upgrading to Sony Ericsson K800i

June 26th, 2007 · 35 Comments

When my wife needed to upgrade her phone several weeks back, there was no question on which brand she’ll be getting. The question was which Sony Ericsson model best fits her needs and our budget.
I am a Sony Ericsson fan boy and my fanaticism must have rubbed off on my wife because she decided to [...]

Tags: Mobile · Personal · Photography

Blogging break

May 25th, 2007 · 11 Comments

It’s been an exceedingly hectic week in the newsroom since the May 14 elections. This is my 4th election coverage and it was as it has always been: frenzied, tiring, and stressful but ultimately exciting and fulfilling.
News events such as elections make you want to leave the newsroom for the field. Out there, the adrenaline [...]

Tags: Journalism · Personal

Ghost in the machine

May 12th, 2007 · 35 Comments

I found the Sun.Star Cebu newsroom abuzz yesterday over a website that seemed to know a lot of details, even intimate ones, about people and things. When I entered the newsroom, I found reporters, editors, librarians, and newsroom assistants gathered around TV host Jude Bacalso, the paper’s lifestyle editor, who was entering questions and getting [...]

Tags: Free services · Internet · Personal · Wiki

Is Sony Ericsson trying to buy off Cebu journalists?

May 8th, 2007 · 7 Comments

What if politicians announce, during their press conferences, that they will be holding a “writing” contest and the journalist who publishes the “best article” about the press conference gets to win P5,000 in cash.
What do you call that? If you were a journalist or a blogger, what would you feel?
That, in effect, is what Sony [...]

Tags: Journalism · Mobile · Personal · cebu news

Giving people Ubuntu envy

April 19th, 2007 · 13 Comments

While preparing for my presentation to the staff of the Sun.Star website last week, I was a bit worried whether Ubuntu Feisty Fawn would detect and work with the office’s LCD projector.
I’m a stickler for backups. I finished my OpenOffice Impress presentation in the laptop and then converted it into a PowerPoint file. I then [...]

Tags: Highlights · Open source · Personal · WebTech · free software

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