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 [...]

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 to believe [...]

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 [...]

(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 what was then [...]

Boy, I didn’t know I had it in me. I’m in Manila for the Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program finals, which formally opens today at the SM Mall of Asia. Last Wednesday, organizers decided to host a paintball competition for participants at Global Gutz (a name that takes the wimp out of anyone) and, for [...]

For more than a year, I have been moving my data online as part of an experiment to make the network my computer. With the telecoms disruption caused by a recent earthquake in Taiwan, my world crashed.
As I write this, the Globelines Broadband connection I have at home is still horrendously slow. It is a [...]