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Video Games Through the Years

deuts — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:43:53 +0000

Video Games Through the Years. From 1990 to 2008, this is a comprehensive list (with screenshots) of the video games since the early 90’s. I still can remember the Family Com days.

It’s not really going through memory lane for me. We didn’t have the luxury to own one.

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I learned about my passion in photography when I had my first digital camera in Sony DSC-S60. Then I took it the next level when I had a Canon EOS 30D. You can check out my latest photos at my flickr photostream or my self-hosted gallery (which I intend to update soon).

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Tip’d – A Community for Financial News, Ideas, and Tips

deuts — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:02:10 +0000

Tip’d is a digg-like news portal for financial news, etc..

Tip’d is a community for financial news, ideas, and tips. It operates as a social media platform, meaning the community (you) decides which news stories and investing tips should be published on our homepage. Tip’d users vote on stories they like by clicking the ‘Tip it’ button that appears next to each story, and then can comment by pressing the ‘Discuss’ link below the story.

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NBA 2K9 for PC; NBA Live 09 is Not

deuts — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:41:22 +0000

UPDATE: I DON’T MAKE COPIES OF THIS GAME. I’M NOT AUTHORIZED AND I DON’T HAVE THE DVD WITH ME ANYMORE. GET YOURSELF A COPY FROM YOUR FAVORITE BOOTLEG STORES LIKE IN MAKATI SQUARE OR IN QUIAPO. IF YOU ARE TOO LAZY TO GET YOUR ASS TO YOUR FAVORITE BOOTLEG STORE, THEN BETTER GET LOST!

NBA 2K9 is now available for PC. EA’s NBA Live 09 isn’t anymore.

I’m not sure about the marketing strategies of these two competing NBA video game products.

But I’m quite surprised with the move of the NBA Live Series, the game that I’ve learned to love, and I’ve learned to hate as well.

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Gmail Chat Now Have Voice and Video Chat

deuts — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:11:46 +0000

Say hello to Gmail voice and video chat.

Gtalk, which is a desktop application for chatting and voice chat (as differentiated to Gmail chat, which is a built in chat function within Gmail), already used to offer voice chat.

This time, Gmail chat offers voice chat plus the VIDEO CHAT.

Now, Gmail chat surely is a great (and maybe even better) alternative to YM.

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Bowler Dies After a Perfect Game

deuts — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:36:19 +0000

Bowler Dies After Rolling Perfect Game.

A 62-year old Michigan bowler achieved his lifelong dream of rolling a perfect 300 game, then collapsed and died. Apparently, he suffered a heart attack, and his teammates believed the pressure of bowling 12 straight strikes was just too much for his heart.

Poor guy. Talk about he’d just reached his peak.

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Citic Pacific on $2 Billion Currency Loss

deuts — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:40:01 +0000

Citic Pacific Ltd., the unit of China’s biggest state-owned investment company, tumbled the most in 18 years in Hong Kong trading after predicting HK$15.5 billion ($2 billion) in losses from unauthorized currency bets.

Note the use of the term “bets” instead of “hedging”. I hope they’re not deemed interchangeable.

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WCC R06: Anand Wins Anew

deuts — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:03:16 +0000

World chess chammpionship 2008 Round 6: Anand wins again, score now 4.5:1.5. He’s now two points behind to retaining the title – i.e., 4 draws. I would have expected Kramnik to at least win a game from this match, but from how it’s going–nevermind.

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Grandmasters Eugene Torre and Wesley So Battle Over One Million

deuts — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:33:26 +0000

Inquirer.net dubs this the richest chess event in the country so far. Philippines’ chess legend GM Eugenio Torre against the current world’s youngest grandmaster GM Wesley So for a pot prize of Php 1 million. The match will be a 10-round one-on-one duel, two games each will be played in Quezon City, Cebu, Iloilo and Davao, the remaining if unresolved will be continued back in Quezon City. The winner gets P600,000, the loser P400,000.

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Turn PlayStation 3 Into Ubuntu PC

deuts — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:29:29 +0000

Turn a PlayStation 3 Into a PC – Dual Boot with Ubuntu

Now what do you think of this? Dual booting the Sony PS3 game console and Ubuntu Linux in your Playstation 3. Bad thing, I don’t have a PS3, can’t try this on my own.

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The Blogging Road

deuts — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:31:19 +0000

A very good friend, Wilson, is keeping himself busy over at 21 Wilson Street. Yeah, he’s into blogging as well. I reserved this post to welcome him to the blogging world. Keep those great posts coming, Wilson! I highly recommend visiting his site.