Data, Voice and Video: Happy Telecom’s Triple Play Service is Every Web Worker’s Wet Dream
“Anytime, Anywhere” is Happy Communications‘ Chief Marketing Officer Marvin Cruz’s proposed tag line for his company’s soon to be launched consumer WiMAX service.
Anytime, anywhere what? Well, anytime, anywhere 2MBPS Data, VOIP and Video that’s what.
I met with Marvin over dinner and I must say that from what he describes the service to be, I’m already creaming my pants in anticipation and I foresee other web workers like myself blowing their loads too once the service rolls out sometime in 2008.
If you’re anything of a web worker as I am, you’ve probably experienced using other mobile data platforms to use VOIP to communicate with clients or send important documents to them while you’re on the road. Everything’s going great until Globe Visibility arbitrarily decides to shift down from giving you HSDPA connectivity to GPRS causing your VOIP connection to get choppy and your file transfers to dramatically slow down. In a moment of utter frustration, you mumble something about wanting to throw newborn babies up in the air and catch them with bayonets–something which your Japanese client overhears. Next thing you know, you’re haunting gasoline stations along South Luzon Expressway, and giving weary travelers hand jobs in exchange for food.
BeerCast: Ang Show na Walang Katulad
What happens when you put 5 cases of San Miguel Beer, a group of alcoholic bloggers and a microphone together?
Well:
- A lot of cussing.
- A lot of racist jokes.
- A lot of dicking around.
- Bim, having an emotional breakdown as he regales others with stories of his childhood replete with sexual abuse and incest.
- Some asshole double-fisting drinks all night and eventually throwing up and passing out on the cold bathroom floor.
Seriously though, I had a blast recording this podcast and I hope we can do more of this in the future. Special thanks to San Miguel Beer for sponsoring the event; Jayvee Fernandez for making all of this possible, Lauren and Noemi Dado for letting us destroy their house, eat all their food and steal one of their figurines (Okay I did it. I’ll return it, I swear. Jeez.); and to everyone else who were part of the podcast, the show wouldn’t be half as fun without you guys.
An Open Letter of Apology to the Cast and Crew of Desperate Housewives
Dear cast and crew of Desperate Housewives,
TV shows come and go. Every so often, there comes a point when the life of a television series starts to flicker and grow dim. Worse, there is always a putrid uncertainty that comes with wondering if our favorite TV shows will even return as networks, with an insensitive and cruel disregard, toy with our emotions with executives waiting until the last minute to decide which shows live on and which shows drop from the lineup to their certain deaths.
Your show, Desperate Housewives, was one of the shows I wished death upon after its first season. And can you blame me? The inexplicably retarded storytelling, random betrayals and suicidally poignant interpersonal drama, as well as all the twists, turns, flips, flops and flops that happened midway through the 2nd season made the show really painful to watch. A pain which is, perhaps, worse than losing a loved one. Maybe even two loved ones in a bizarre hotel fire.
But still, I continued to watch. And I did so only because of Teri Hatcher and Eva Fucking Longoria.
There was actually a time when I was so obsessed with Teri and Eva that had either one of them asked me to quit my job, I would’ve said “done”; That had either one of them asked me to renounce my fleshly ways and dedicate my life to reading the bible, I would’ve said “done”; that had either of them asked me to embrace people from all walks of life and cultures and maybe give up sweets, I would’ve said “not until you give me a blowjob.” You get the point.
I was pretty smitten; so when I first heard about what many claimed to be a sweeping, insulting remark about medical schools in the Philippines made by Teri Hatcher’s character in one episode, I remained relatively indifferent to the issue.
Uninstalling Adobe AIR-based Applications from Mac OSX
I’ve been playing around with Adobe AIR based apps onOSX for almost 3 months now and I must say that I see nothing but tons of potential for the new runtime environment.
The cross-OS platform uses HTML, Flash and AJAX among others to make highly-functional Rich Internet Applications and deploy them as desktop clients.
Currently, my favorite AIR apps include Snitter, an AIR-based Twitter client for Mac OSX; Airpress, a Wordpress compatible blogging client; and of course, Pownce’s desktop client.
However, AIR being a relatively new runtime environment, applications tend to be buggy and I find myself installing and trying to uninstall apps a lot.
Usually, to make sure that I delete all files associated with the app I am trying to uninstall, I use either App Zapper or App Delete.
The process is pretty straightforward. I go to my applications folder and drag the program I wish to uninstall to App Delete or App Zapper and that’s that.
I’ve been trying out a lot of Adobe AIR-based apps in the last couple of months and until lately, I haven’t found a way to uninstall them as they do not appear in the applications folder.
What I found out was the AIR installer and apps are, by default, installed in your Home/Applications folder rather than your root Applications folder. So for a user named TedGrubb, AIR-based apps are installed in /TedGrubb/Applications rather than in /Applications.
Un-gay your Wordpress Blog’s dashboard
If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time on Wordpress’ Admin pages. Again, if you’re anything like me, you’ve always thought of Wordpress’ dashboard as a User Interface/Information Architecture disaster.
(Also, if you’re anything like me, you have a penis the size of a wine cork and you cry about it at night. Let’s not go there. Thanks.)
Well, Clear Skys came up with a wonderful plug-in for Wordpress that helps make the dashboard a little more bearable and actually useful at the same time.
The myDashboard plug-in takes the “Start Page” look from services Netvibes, Page Flakes and iGoogle and takes it to your Wordpress Dashboard.
It organizes information displayed on your dashboard into Widgets (which they call “Gadgets”). These gadgets can display the usual stuff on your Dashboard like latest comments, latest posts, statistics and Technorati incoming links.
The neat thing about myDashboard is that it’s open source to some extent and developers can create their own Gadgets to be used with the plugin. Check out this Subscriber widget for myDashboard which displays the numbers of subscribers you have on your posts.
And because myDashboard is filled with sweet AJAX goodness, you can easily rearrange gadgets by dragging and dropping them like you would on your favorite start page-type service.
You can download myDashboard from Wordpress Extend and Google Code.
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