Popular Filipina gamer babe Alodia Gosiengfiao, whose primary website was hacked recently, just got it back.
Good going, girl. Be more careful with your accounts from now on. ;)
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Filipina Gamer Babe Gets Site Back
Popular Filipina gamer babe Alodia Gosiengfiao, whose primary website was hacked recently, just got it back.
Good going, girl. Be more careful with your accounts from now on. ;)
Gamer-Cosplayer Idol at Asian Sirens
Now featuring gamer-cosplayer idol Shoko Nakagawa at Asian Sirens. Gamer girls show great potential in a world where games overtake movies and people trust peers.
Gamer Girl Takes Sexy Self-Portraits with Gear
The potential of gamer babes can express itself in many forms. Check out this gamer girl's sexy self-portraits with her gear.
(Via Kotaku.)
Ted Kennedy Supports Net Neutrality
If the Ninja, Moby, and the PC guy are too young to convince you oldies out there of the importance of net neutrality, maybe Ted Kennedy can sway you.
At least he knows it isn't a series of tubes!
Friday, September 15, 2006
Help This Cancer-Fighting Kid Meet Batista
This kid's fighting cancer. He wants to meet fellow Filipino warrior Batista.
I think because I was crying all the time for the past few days, my husband thought to start an e-mail movement to get in touch with whoever CAN make Pyro's wish happen: to be visited, or to meet Batista.
Personally, I don't really think Pyro would mind if it was Undertaker or John Cena who he meets (and actually, he might be too tongue-tied or scared if he does meet one of his wrestler idols) so long as he meets one of them. It's a cute wish really, made by a 3-year old... and it's not like he spends all his waking moments asking for his wish to be granted (because right now, all he does is eat boiled eggs and rest).
It's a long shot. So far, we've gotten e-mails telling us that they have forwarded the e-mail to someone who CAN help (sports writer for Inquirer, and someone who works for GMA's Wish Ko Lang).
Ask and you shall receive... :) And we really hope Py will be rewarded somehow by something... to inspire him to fight some more.
Let's help him get his wish.
(Via Abe Olandres.)
Google Personalized Homepage Supports Tabs
Now that the Google Personalized Homepage supports tabs, I've switched back from Netvibes, which lately has been hogging memory on the latest version of Firefox. Maybe someone can help them with that. Thanks to OPML, I did the whole switch over lunch.
As per Luis Buenaventura's suggestion, I'm getting the best of both worlds with this switch: aggregators and critical feeds in panels sorted by tabs (via the Google Personalized Homepage) and noncritical feeds in a stream (via a Google Reader module inside the Google Personalized Homepage).
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Email-to-SMS for Almost Any Philippine Mobile
Riding the email-SMS interfaces of the three biggest cellular networks in the Philippines, mail2.ph lets you send SMS via email to almost any mobile phone in the Philippines. Filipinos send more SMS than all of Europe combined, so SMS is often the best way to reach them. Check it out.
Philippine Business Tech Show Premieres
Philippine business tech show Venture premieres on ANC Sunday, 8:30pm GMT+8.
Too bad Aliya Parcs won't be wearing lingerie. Thank God Lauro Vives won't, either.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
9/11: Five Years Later
Ever wonder why, five years after 9/11, New York still has a frickin' hole in the ground?
Keith Olbermann's wondering too.
Keith Olbermann's wondering too.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Misa Campo Makes Maxim
Nineteen-year-old Filipina-German bartender Misa Campo makes Maxim this month. Congratulate her on MySpace.
(Via dadadards.)
Majandi's Video Blog
Top There content developer Majandi explores another avenue for content creation: video blogging. I happened to be listening to Radio Blog Club while watching. Try playing this silent video:
...with this Jrock song:
It works surprisingly well.
...with this Jrock song:
It works surprisingly well.
Filipina Gamer Babe Hacked
Filipina cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao is one of the Philippines' most well-known gamer babes. That's why I'm sorry to hear several of her online accounts were hacked recently.
Section 33 of the Philippine Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 criminalizes hacking. Hope she finds the culprit.
May I recommend she seek the legal counsel of JJ Disini. He helped write that law.
Monday, September 11, 2006
The Many Deaths of Broli
Open source game content development can yield results that are, how shall we say, insane.
The latest popular build of Broli for the 2D fighting game engine M.U.G.E.N is overpowered, so some guy got back at him with a video of The Many Deaths of Broli. Leo Laporte is right: adding Benny Hill music to anything makes it extra funny.
For a M.U.G.E.N demo vid that's less in the realm of insane and more in the realm of cool, click here.
The latest popular build of Broli for the 2D fighting game engine M.U.G.E.N is overpowered, so some guy got back at him with a video of The Many Deaths of Broli. Leo Laporte is right: adding Benny Hill music to anything makes it extra funny.
For a M.U.G.E.N demo vid that's less in the realm of insane and more in the realm of cool, click here.
Fake YouTube Celeb Outed
lonelygirl15 is one of YouTube's most popular personalities. Cute, ain't she?
She's a fake. Hope the Ninja kills her.
She's a fake. Hope the Ninja kills her.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Off the Desktop, Onto the Web
Inspired by Steve Rubel's example, I have gotten over my nine-year Outlook addiction and now moved all my PIM off the desktop and onto the Web. Any IM functions I can do on Meebo (and soon, Wablet), I'll do there.
It's been less than an hour, and I'm already feeling the benefits:
*Lower database corruption risk, important for my huge address book.
*Lower CPU overhead. That leaves more processing power for other apps, like intense DFX for my MP3s. Aya Hirano's God Knows never rocked harder.
*Lower bandwidth consumption on huge emails. That means more broadband content surfing without having to worry about huge new mail coming down every few minutes (affectionately called "the toast" by Outlook users).
*Integration with and syndication to other Web applications -- in my case, custom homepages and project sites.
If you think about it, many of Outlook's design principles are leftovers from the days of dialup (and later, offline mobile sync). If Outlook 2007 is to ever win me back, it had better move far away from those principles, integrate well with many Web-based services using open standards (iCal, RSS, OPML, etc. CSV ain't everything.), quit hogging my system, and offer useful benefits browser-based systems can't (yet). Unfortunately, Scoble quitting dimmed hopes for all that.
The Philippines in particular would do well to use Web-based PIM and IM. Most online Filipinos are cybercafé users.
It's been less than an hour, and I'm already feeling the benefits:
*Lower database corruption risk, important for my huge address book.
*Lower CPU overhead. That leaves more processing power for other apps, like intense DFX for my MP3s. Aya Hirano's God Knows never rocked harder.
*Lower bandwidth consumption on huge emails. That means more broadband content surfing without having to worry about huge new mail coming down every few minutes (affectionately called "the toast" by Outlook users).
*Integration with and syndication to other Web applications -- in my case, custom homepages and project sites.
If you think about it, many of Outlook's design principles are leftovers from the days of dialup (and later, offline mobile sync). If Outlook 2007 is to ever win me back, it had better move far away from those principles, integrate well with many Web-based services using open standards (iCal, RSS, OPML, etc. CSV ain't everything.), quit hogging my system, and offer useful benefits browser-based systems can't (yet). Unfortunately, Scoble quitting dimmed hopes for all that.
The Philippines in particular would do well to use Web-based PIM and IM. Most online Filipinos are cybercafé users.
