Sunday, December 31st, 2006

3 Reasons Why I’d be Stupid if I returned Microsoft’s free Laptop

A thought occured to me as I was waiting for the Ortiz - Liddel fight. I hope I can type this out quickly enough before the fight starts.
Let me tell you something. If Mae Rivera, PR head of Microsoft Philippines gives me a free laptop to review Windows Vista with, then I would do the [...]

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

On ReviewMe and Being a Reviewer

A lot of people ask me if I've ever written a bad review, or rather, wrote a review about a gadget in a deprecating manner. I've always said that while I've encountered many products that I felt were lemons (and not just as a matter of taste. They actually were really badly designed.), there are [...]

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

And now the fun begins

Just around an hour ago, the whole of Philippine Tech Press-dom has been lit up with news of Microsoft's Press Launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007, which is finally launching next year.
I got my invite and the requisite assignment to cover it, and - well - I'm excited.
You've just gotta hand it to MS [...]

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

PR5 means I should update this more often

For some odd reason I cannot completely comprehend (nor accept), this blog has gained a Pagerank 5 (PR5) rating from Google, inspite of the fact that I had not written on it in weeks.
What's more, the more famous by intention Basketball Exchange, which had also retained a PR5 rating for several months previous, and receives [...]

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Capping Off The Week

That guy is a great basketball player. Although I've heard the one on the right isn't that bad either. :)

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Bulletpoints du Jour

I've got two appointments today, a presscon in the afternoon, a meeting before that, the press launch of a new Nokia phone in the evening, two articles to write start and one to re-edit (yes 're-edit' since i've already edited it and now i've to do it again). Yet here I am blogging away using [...]

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Of DSL, PLDT bills, A Job, Overwhelmed with Writing Assignments & 2 Other Random Thoughts

Today our phone bill exploded in my face and the phone got cut (but not DSL. Hooray for PLDT's internal communications!). Apparently, the bill was a whopping 12k+ since last our last recorded payment April 4, a fact my sister wants to dispute since she pays the bill herself while I fork over my agreed [...]

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Whenever I go to Mercury Drug, I think of Native Command Queuing

Hey cool, my article about SATA came out on the PCMag.ph site.
I wrote this very technical article for the January 2006 issue, and I really enjoyed writing it as I learned a lot about Serial ATA (SATA) and consequently, Parallel ATA (PATA), the technology it's supposed to have replaced. It's basically a geek's dream.
The most [...]

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

O2 Atom XDA Pure

And now, the latest device up for review, the Xda Atom Pure. Just look at this thing:

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Thoughts about ‘Survey: Majority of Blogs are Personal’

Duh.

Obviously focused on American bloggers, but it's safe to assume many of the details, like the reason why people blog, are the same worldwide.

On a similar article titled "Report exposes real deal about bloggers", it says that "While 74 percent of Internet users are white, only 60 percent of bloggers are white.", and goes on [...]