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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What’s your phone? Mine’s a Sony Ericsson and, according to a survey by Nielsen Media Research, I’m likely to be an ambitious, success-driven, professional, and individualistic young man. Nielsen Media Research, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, found in a survey in Australia that certain customer types were attracted to certain phone brands. I’d like [...]

This blog is one of the finalists in the technology category of the first staging of the Philippine Blog Awards. I’d like to thank the people behind it for the honor. It may sound passé but it is indeed honor enough to be one of the finalists. Never mind winning, I’m up against great tech [...]

(Blogger’s note: This break-up post was written a couple of weeks back.) We go way back, Globelines and I. More than 5 years, if I can recall correctly. I signed up with the company before Globelines became what it is today, one of two giant telecommunications companies that dominate the country. I signed up to [...]