Bad news come in threes

It's good to be back. I traveled through hell, you know, and made it back. Here. It started exactly a month ago. I was doing some geeky things to the food blog, did … [Read more...]

Are you addicted to social networking?

A couple of days ago, I was reading aimlessly and I landed on the Philippine Star column of Socorro Ramos where a reader seeks advice regarding his wife who is a Facebook … [Read more...]

Why should one form of pornography be more objectionable than others?

A video game has become the subject of outrage from women's groups, according to CNN. It is called RapeLay and it originates from Japan. From a CNN report: The game begins … [Read more...]

Free legal and medical advice

sassy-lawyer

I've often been asked why I don't use the sassylawyer.com and sassylawyer.net domains for blogging. The answer is simple and it's related to why my main website is now called … [Read more...]

Perceptions and images of women

In a television commercial, an attractive young woman calls out “Darling” to the out-of-focus image of a man in the crowd. She runs to him, he picks her up, she tells him … [Read more...]

Marketing local tourism

At the 16th Travel/Tours Expo that opened at the Mall of Asia on Friday, the Tourism Department announced the signing of an agreement with the Philippine Councilors’ League … [Read more...]

Google may harm your computer?

Google may harm your computer?

When your server's been hacked before, you panic at the first sign of trouble. I just installed a customized Google search form and search results page for all my blogs. I … [Read more...]

I have a lot to thank manga for

C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia

Many people say it isn't good to provide children with their own computers and internet access. More say it's a mistake to let them go online unsupervised. I say that depends … [Read more...]

WordPress users, check your footer.php files

Some asshole hacked my server last weekend. Perhaps, earlier than that although I didn't discover it until Sunday morning. I was told I wasn't the only one and it's probably … [Read more...]

The Ateneo parking lot incident

Jojo Robles' column yesterday was about two e-mails that had been circulating around for the past couple of days. I received the first e-mail four days ago from Ben Razon to … [Read more...]

The continuing PLDT MyDSL saga

I had an 8.00 a.m. appointment in Quezon City yesterday morning. Because the server had been overloading for the past couple of days, I decided to check the CPU load at around … [Read more...]

The Olympic torch hoax

Just a couple of weeks ago, while reading up on digital virus in brand new iPods, I was reminded of stereotypes of creators of computer viruses. But all this virus talk … [Read more...]

You know that song from Miss Saigon…???

I forget the title but there's a line that goes, "You don't know, you can't know what I've done to be here." That's exactly how I feel after dealing with server overload for … [Read more...]

Writer’s tools

writer's tools

Used to be ink, pen and paper. Then, snail mail. Now, it's a computer, an optional mouse and the internet. E-mail is much faster. … [Read more...]