Mavi’s of Life on the Spot tells her story of how Lulu Hypermarket staff and security tried to “illegally” detain her. I think this whole incident can be attributed to irrational thinking by some people out there. This atmosphere, I believe, would still stay for a while. I just hope more people there should start thinking out of the box. So, boycott Lulu Hypermarket!
The Letter Says: “Passed”
Foreword: The registrar transfer for the domain name, “deuts.net”, is really giving me headaches. I can’t wait for the 7 days buffer before the losing registrar actually releases the domain name to the new one. So, we may encounter problems related to this transfer, such as we may sometimes find this site offline.
Anyway, let’s get to the real purpose of this post. Just received my letter today. It was dated January 23, 2008 and this is what it has to say:
Thank you for you participation in the November 2007 Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) exam. Your results are listed below:
PART I PART II PART III PART IV PASSED PASSED PASSED PREVIOUSLY PASSED
At your service,
Jorelle O. Tuvillo, CPA, CIA
WebHost Shift for Deuts.Net
Indeed, the only thing that’s permanent in this world is change.
Because of increasing projects and a need for more webspace, more bandwidth, and more domain names to accomodate into one hosting account, I’ve decided to shift from a previous hosting account with PlogHost to a new one in Bluehost.
I have been with PlogHost for almost two years now, and my experience with them has proved to be satisfactory. I experienced a number of downtimes during those times, but yeah, not really to the extent of reaching an alarm level. Overall, considering the cost at which I was paying them, it’s all worth it. I would really recommend Ploghost to bloggers and website owners who are especially just starting out and residing in the Philippines. Add that to the fact that the owner, Abe of Yugatech.com, has been very accomodating to my request for a leeway as my account was overshooting my monthly bandwidth limit for the month of January 2008.
Anyway, the year is yet very young, and a good way to start it off with a new webhost and a new design. Looking forward to more blogging years with Bluehost.
P.S. If you are seeing this post, it means that the shift has been successfully accomplished and you’re already reading this post from the new host.
Bobby Fischer, 1943–2008
One of the world’s greatest chess geniuses, Bobby Fischer, has died at the age of 64. A spokesman for Fischer said the former world chess champion passed away in a Reykjavik hospital yesterday. The US-born former world chess champion, who became famous around the world for beating the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky in 1972, had been seriously ill for some time. Rest in Peace, Bobby.
Bobby Fischer has always been one of my favorite players. Why he has been so different, let’s leave it up to him. After all, he’s just being Bobby. Continue reading Bobby Fischer, 1943–2008
The Big Four
It’s interesting to note how the Big 8 was cut down into the Big 4. Read how.
The firms were called the Big 8 in the 1970s and 1980s, reflecting the international dominance of the eight largest accountancy firms:
- Arthur Andersen
- Arthur Young & Company
- Coopers & Lybrand
- Ernst & Whinney (formerly Ernst & Ernst)
- Haskins & Sells (merged with the European firm Deloitte Plender Griffiths to become Deloitte, Haskins and Sells)
- KPMG (formed by merger of Peat Marwick International and KMG Group)
- Price Waterhouse
- Touche Ross
FeedDemon for Free
Feeddemon is a desktop applicaton that lets you subscribe to feeds of websites that offer them, just like news, blogs, etc. It let’s you keep abreast of the latest articles and posts from your favorite blogs, sometimes even without visiting them in the web browser.
Why Use a Desktop RSS Reader?
There’s a question lingering in the blogsite of Nick Bradbury, the creator of Feeddemon. Why use a desktop rss/feed reader when you have online feed readers like google reader, bloglines, netvibes, etc? For me the answer would be the speed at which I can browse through each and every feed as I go along reading them (or discarding them).
I Want that Eee
This thing is sure selling like hotcakes, and I sure want a piece of that.
It’s a 7″ PC, P17,000.00 flat for the mini laptop. It runs on a 533MHz processor with 4GB of hard disk space and 512MB of RAM. Continue reading I Want that Eee
2007: A Year in Review (Part 4 of 4)
Please proceed to Part 1 for the explanation as to what this post is all about. Also drop by Part 2 and Part 3.
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Back from a place where pork was a scarcity, what better way to welcome the homecoming than a serving of crispy pata from Max’s Restaurant:
CCP, across Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas:
3rd World Pyro Olympics 2008
Another photographic opportunity to watch out for: 3rd World Pyro Olympics 2008.
Joke Time: Microsoft in Europe
Bill Gates organizes an enormous session to recruit a new Chairman for Microsoft Europe. Exactly 5,000 candidates are assembled in a large room. One candidate is a Filipino named Mario Dimaculangan. “Thank you for coming,” Gates says. “Those who do not know Java may leave.” About 2,000 people leave the room.