The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
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 something wonderfully right and things turned out awfully wrong. “Wonderfully right” means traffic tripled. No, more than tripled. “Awfully wrong” means the ... (more)
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 addict. Ms. Ramos advised the reader to talk to his wife and tell her how he feels, and: “… to also open a ... (more)
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 with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, “Can I help you with something?” That ... (more)
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 House On A Hill instead of A Sassy Lawyer in Philippine Suburbia which was its title for many years. See, any website with the word ... (more)
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 she missed him and he says the same to her. The camera focuses on his face which, in wry Filipino humor, would be ... (more)
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 aimed at training local officials on how to market their localities to domestic and foreign tourists. And, in line with this aim, “Undersecretary Eduardo Jarque said the ... (more)
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 was trying it out when all the results returned had a “This site may harm your computer” warning just below the titles. I wanted ... (more)
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 on how you teach your kids to use the computer and the internet. And it depends even more on what example you show. If ... (more)
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 not a WordPress vulnerability because even web sites with static pages got hit. If you’re a web site owner, here’s what to look for: 1. ... (more)
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 whom it had been forwarded by someone else. Let me quote the text in full. This happened to my sister-in-law just this morning at ... (more)
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 5.45 a.m. before hitting the shower. I couldn’t connect. That has happened before. Momentary failure of PLDT MyDSL connection. I decided to check ... (more)
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 reminded me of the popular belief that computer viruses are created by geeks and nerds who have nothing better to do. You know, as ... (more)
Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com … »»
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