Archive for December, 2006

December 23rd, 2006

Google Shirt

Got a nice little present from Dennis Agulo a few days ago. It's a Google shirt!! He won it at the Women in Web talk here in Davao courtesy of Google's Aileen Apolo. I wore it all day today although it was kind of big. Pics after the ...

Posted in Asides, Gaming, Me | 5 Comments »

December 20th, 2006

Photoshop Tutorial: The Hedcut Effect

I first encountered this type of illustration while reading the Wall Street Journal during my days studying at Pratt Institute in New York. Back then I had no idea what it was called or how it was done. From Wikipedia: Hedcut is a style of drawing, primarily of people, pioneered and ...

Posted in Tutorials | 35 Comments »

December 17th, 2006

TristanCafe Interview

This interview was more than two months in the making! But I'm glad that Christopher "Topher" De Leon (no, not that Christopher De Leon!) found time to answer my questions about his site, TristanCafe. TristanCafe is an extremely popular (Alexa Rank: 11,281) forum-based community that serves as second ...

Posted in Interviews | 18 Comments »

December 17th, 2006

Graphical `Ads by Google` Logo

You might find this interesting. I read about it here but didn't really see proof it until today. Screenshot sample after the jump.

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December 14th, 2006

The Joys of Dial-Up

It's probably karma. The Wifi pirate that I am, it's inevitable that this should happen. Once again, my ever-unreliable PLDT MyDSL decided not to cooperate anymore. My whole neighborhood's affected, and PLDT doesn't know when it'll be back up. This happened two days ago too.

Posted in Asides, Me | No Comments »

December 10th, 2006

Greenhills Are Alive

Today I ate lunch with my family at the Gateway Mall in Araneta Center. We were choosing between Italianis and Cafe Adriatico, but settled for the latter after a lengthy debate. After eating my meal of Adobo Spareribs, I wished we went for Italianis. The food there ...

Posted in Asides, Blogging | 6 Comments »

December 10th, 2006

Wii Kills Television

Like literally. For you lucky bastards who snagged a Nintendo Wii, beware: Keep those wireless controllers away from your overzealous selves! Or you might end up destroying your television, rendering your Wii's utterly useless!

Posted in Game Consoles | 5 Comments »

December 8th, 2006

Random Blab

I'm back in Manila. Wow. I am realizing that slowly, I've become some sort of a country mouse right in the city that I spent a good 7 years in. Sometimes I think that my moving back to Davao was a bad thing. But seeing what ...

Posted in Asides | 2 Comments »

December 5th, 2006

How to Monitor your Website Via SMS

I wrote about a free website monitoring service called Montastic last January and thanks to them I figured out how really sucky my webhost is. Not all my sites are what you would call extremely successful, but I'm proud to say that they bog down their respective servers ...

Posted in Tip of the Week, Web Apps | 10 Comments »