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Are you willing to play Warcraft for hours each day for P10,000 a month?
There’s an active discussion over Istorya.net on the advertisement by a Cebu company seeking players of World of Warcraft. Here’s a link to my earlier post containing a copy of the ad. Migs Paraz earlier asked in PinoyTechBlog: “Is it all that good, or is it a “Third world MMOG sweatshop?” Read for yourself but…
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Installing Akismet to deal with comment spam
I’ve been hammered with comment spam in the last few days and had to deal with more than 30 of such comments daily. I never thought of installing an anti-spam plugin before, thinking that an occasional Viagra or poker spam would be easy to moderate. But having to delete comment and trackback spam every once…
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Windows Live takes on RSS readers, social bookmarks, to-do lists
Microsoft’s online personal portal Windows Live offers users a centralized webspace to monitor RSS feeds from news websites and blogs, e-mail messages from Hotmail and Live.com, an online to-do list and various other information like weather updates, stock prices and horoscopes. Windows Live also offers online bookmarking capabilities similar to that of del.icio.us and Yahoo!…
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Get a personal online portal with Microsoft’s Windows Live
I have just started playing with Microsoft’s Windows Live, which appears to be a personal online portal. It’s similar to Protopage only it has fewer design options and since it’s from Microsoft, authentication is via Microsoft Passport. This also allows your Hotmail e-mail messages to be viewed in the page. There’s also an instant messenger…
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Multi-tasking worse than marijuana intoxication
Found via LifeHacker: The Institute of Psychiatry at King’s college London, according to Discover Magazine, found that people constantly interrupted by e-mails and instant messages did worse in a controlled test than those intoxicated by marijuana. The author said: “The IQ loss also turns out to be temporary. Remove the multitasking requirement, and test scores…