Two simple videos to show how Manila/Makati, the Philippines is cooperating in the Earth Hour 2008. I'll create a new video for tomorrow to compare!
Another one:
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Another one:
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Route 66 maps + Navigation by TomTom on Android App - "Follow me"
Route 66 maps + Navigation by TomTom on Android App - "Follow me" - Route 66 joined forces with TomTom at the end of last year in order to create a few new products.
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Did we just see that March 19 Exploding Star/Nova in Puerto Galera?
2008 March 14, Friday 7pm. White Beach at Puerto Galera. While walking along the beach, Clarisse mentioned that she's looking at an unusual thing in the sky. It wasn't a plane and it looked exactly like a star surrounded by a ringlike cloud. I said "It's a plane, coming at us". She said "No" and pointed to a smaller moving lighted dot near the "thing"--"That's a plane!" And sure enough--the plane/dot was moving fast but the star with a ring--didn't. I said, maybe we're seeing a nova-and explained about exploding stars and how the event actually happened billions/millions of years ago and it took the light this long --so that's why we see it.
This picture (not the actual physical nova, but maybe a gamma ray impression) -- looks like what we saw:
We stare at it some more. At the back of my mind i'll google it when we get back to the hotel--expecting to see many pictures of it from astronomers. The Puerto Galera, Mindoro beach doesn't have much light and the ringed-star was over the dark waters. The "ringed star" stayed visible for about 30mins and faded away. The next day-at the same hour-we didn't see it there any more - so it couldn't be a star with a non-moving cloud over it.
So what, NASA, could we have been the only 2 people who've seen the farthest thing in the universe w/o using any instruments other than our unaided eyes?
As Neo would say "Woah!"
See what the people who didn't see it are saying at BoingBoing.
This picture (not the actual physical nova, but maybe a gamma ray impression) -- looks like what we saw:
We stare at it some more. At the back of my mind i'll google it when we get back to the hotel--expecting to see many pictures of it from astronomers. The Puerto Galera, Mindoro beach doesn't have much light and the ringed-star was over the dark waters. The "ringed star" stayed visible for about 30mins and faded away. The next day-at the same hour-we didn't see it there any more - so it couldn't be a star with a non-moving cloud over it.
So what, NASA, could we have been the only 2 people who've seen the farthest thing in the universe w/o using any instruments other than our unaided eyes?
As Neo would say "Woah!"
See what the people who didn't see it are saying at BoingBoing.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Google Adsense Feb 2008 New Policies Explained
I logged into my Adsense account today and found that google wanted my approval again on their new policies. Since I didn't want to wade thru the legalese, I just looked for summaries on the net. Here they are:
Today, Google Adsense updated their terms of service (TOS). The announcement was posted here and you will also see a message when you login to your adsense account with the updated TOS. It has been almost 2 years since the last update. The last significant update was made in November 2005.
Today, Google Adsense updated their terms of service (TOS). The announcement was posted here and you will also see a message when you login to your adsense account with the updated TOS. It has been almost 2 years since the last update. The last significant update was made in November 2005.
So what are the most significant changes?
1) Publishers now need to add a new privacy policy to their website disclosing information about ad cookies to visitors.
2) You can show Google ads on error 404 pages and registration pages as the following line is now deleted from the TOS:
[Deleted - Prohibited Uses] (You shall not) display any Ad(s), Link(s), or Referral Button(s) on any error page, on any registration or “thank you” page (e.g., a page that thanks a user after he/she has registered with the applicable Web site), on any chat page, in any email*. this may be a hint that AdSense for Email program is in the pipeline!
3) You can place Adsense associated with multiple AdSense accounts on the same page.
4) You can place AdSense for Search box on pages that have no content.
5) AdSense Referral products (like Firefox, Google Pack, etc) can be placed on pages that contain no extra content.
Read the entire thing here in Chris's Online Marketing Blog
Labnol, of Digital Inspiration also has a more detailed but curiously similar post here.
Could it be a case of manual lifting? Is the kettle calling darth vader black?
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Hilario Conanan Nuptials Pictures
Photo by a very tired Abe Olandres for YugaTech Photos
Backup Pro Pictures by Karla Redor
Official Wedding Pictures by Rene Gaviola..coming soon!
Backup Pro Pictures by Yuga/Abraham Olandres ..coming soon!
Guest Pictures..coming soon!
What was that 80's song playing during the Reception's Grand Entrance?
Its was Roam by the B-52's. Relive it in this MTV. Now imagine it playing when Jomar and Clarisse was entering the reception hall. Nice.
Keep watching this space for wedding videos. There were a total of 6 videos created by Clarisse for the pre-reception and the reception.
Monday, February 25, 2008
How to promote in any country...
If you want to promote anything in any country, one of the ways to do it is to go to Social Networks and inform people there.
What's that? You've heard of it--in the Philippines --it's called friendster. And for those in the know --it's also called multiply.com, imeem.com and more recently, facebook.com
But when you're promoting to a more international audience, where do you go?
It depends on your audience of course!
The French newspaper Le Monde ("the world"/"everybody" in english) has a map of social networks they did recently ...
To read the whole text, please enter your name and email address in the blank boxes above.
What's that? You've heard of it--in the Philippines --it's called friendster. And for those in the know --it's also called multiply.com, imeem.com and more recently, facebook.com
But when you're promoting to a more international audience, where do you go?
It depends on your audience of course!
The French newspaper Le Monde ("the world"/"everybody" in english) has a map of social networks they did recently ...
To read the whole text, please enter your name and email address in the blank boxes above.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
A great story on How to change Bad To Good
This is story I read while browsing the forums of KerygmaFamily.com: It's creative and new and has a lot of impact.
A yaya (nursemaid) and her ward (a little boy) walk towards an ice cream stall (the street-towed type). The yaya bought two for both of them. The child was so excited that, when he licked on the ice cream, the cold stuff fell to the ground. The child was about to cry for the lost when the quick-thinking, quick-responding yaya came to the rescue. She removed one slipper off her foot and gingerly dipped one toe to the fallen cold item. 'Ngeeeh! Ang lamig!' (That's COOOLD!) exclaimed the yaya. She repeated this several times while making funny 'dances'. The child never got on with the crying as he was 'mesmerized' with what the yaya is doing. After some dips by the yaya, the child untied his shoe and pulled off his foot to try the 'dance'.
In the end, the cry never materialized. The yaya had changed the outlook of the child.
It's all about a new way of looking at things. The dropped ice cream is certainly a bad experience for both child and adult, but it is our response that will determine how we will live our lives after 'dropping' some things.
-From Dacs. of the Kerygmafamily Forum.
In the end, the cry never materialized. The yaya had changed the outlook of the child.
It's all about a new way of looking at things. The dropped ice cream is certainly a bad experience for both child and adult, but it is our response that will determine how we will live our lives after 'dropping' some things.
-From Dacs. of the Kerygmafamily Forum.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Learn to Live by Leo Buscaglia
Was listening to Tony Robbins interviewing Leo Buscaglia. Then in an
inspired moment, I googled Leo. It turns out the interview is old. Leo
died in 1998. But he did leave a remarkable work about love. Here's a
sample marvelous sample on Love and Death.
inspired moment, I googled Leo. It turns out the interview is old. Leo
died in 1998. But he did leave a remarkable work about love. Here's a
sample marvelous sample on Love and Death.
Learn the Joy of the Moment
by Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.
Freud said a lots of really nice things and one thing that he said was
so many of our problems and our inability to live stems from the
belief that we will never die.
We think we have forever. If you thing about it in the back of your
mind, you always think it's the other person who dies, not you. Well I
have news for you, We are all going to die! The is the most democratic
thing that has ever happened. No matter who you are, how wealthy you
are, how illustrious you are, how many degrees you have, how fouled up
you've made your life, how beautiful you've made your life, you're
going to die.
But why fear it? You only fear death when you're not living. If you're
involved in the process of life, you won't wail and scream. If you've
treated people in your life beautifully while they were alive, you
will not throw yourself over thief caskets screaming, "Don't go, Don't
Go!" For goodness sakes! We don't even let people die in dignity. We
let them die guilty by screaming, "Oh, please don't die."
What a weird concept we have of death. We don't want to take children
to funerals. Some of you had it explained that everything dies as
flowers die in winter and then grow again. Death is a continuous
beautiful process of life. Then when you've seen it, you don't fear
it, Death is a good friend, an awfully good friend, because it tells
us we don't have forever and that to live is now; therefore, you see
how precious every minute is. We read it and say, "oh yes, that's so
true." But do we live that way? How wonderful it is to be with the
moment when you see a flower. When somebody is talking to you, for
goodness sake, listen and don't look over a shoulder at wheat else is
going on. Cocktail time. There's no greater insult. If you don't want
to be with me, don't be with me! That's all right, I can adjust to
that. But if you are going to be with me, will you be with me? You
say, I am going to look at the ocean." Do you look at the ocean? "Oh,
isn't that a beautiful sunset." Do you mean it, do you see it, do you
recognize it will never come again?
Death teaches us--if we want to hear--that the time is now. The time
is now to pick up a telephone and call the person that you love. Death
teaches us the joy of the moment. It teaches us we don't have forever.
If teaches us that nothing is permanent, It teaches us to let go,
there's nothing you can hang on to. And it tells us to give up on
expectations and let tomorrow tell its own story, because nobody knows
if they'll get home tonight. To me that's a tremendous challenge.
Death says, "Live now."
Monday, January 21, 2008
Chapter 4: How To FulFill Your Dreams
How to Fulfull Your Dreams, Chapter 04, Changing your tune, programmer!
"It's late at night, and your feeling down, there's a couple standing on the street sharing summer secrets and silly sounds".
-The Corrs "Radio"
Like most people, you grew up on songs like this that didn't actually say anything--other than an existential observation of the world.
Existential, meaning: you, on a bus to from Manila to Laoag City (that's a 7 hour trip, right?), looking at rows of houses, rice fields, Meralco electric posts, people on the roadside and more of the same for while thinking exactly this:
Rows of HousesGreen Rice FieldsPost, Post, PostPeople, People. People
The Corrs song above, for example is like our simple country side observation. Nothing wrong with that, right?
Also, it's probably one with the most misquoted and misheard lyrics - specially before the popularity of karaoke. And you're almost sure that when it's sung in those dark, plush rooms with consumable drinks and food -that most people still stumble singing that last part with the 6 "s" words.
Try it.
And there was once a band named Duran Duran, in the 80s (let's deny for a moment that you do not know this band at all) - that didn't actually try to make any sense. Simon Le Bon, the lyricist and all around gogo-singer was said to have this fabled lyric book that they would use to match the music that the band would create.
Yes, and this is the music that you actually fill your days with. Car, Jeep, Bus and Tricycle....
To read the rest of the chapter of this new and upcoming book, please send a blank email to : jomar.hilario-303912@autocontactor.com or enter your First Name and Email in http://www.jomarhilario.com
"It's late at night, and your feeling down, there's a couple standing on the street sharing summer secrets and silly sounds".
-The Corrs "Radio"
Like most people, you grew up on songs like this that didn't actually say anything--other than an existential observation of the world.
Existential, meaning: you, on a bus to from Manila to Laoag City (that's a 7 hour trip, right?), looking at rows of houses, rice fields, Meralco electric posts, people on the roadside and more of the same for while thinking exactly this:
Rows of HousesGreen Rice FieldsPost, Post, PostPeople, People. People
The Corrs song above, for example is like our simple country side observation. Nothing wrong with that, right?
Also, it's probably one with the most misquoted and misheard lyrics - specially before the popularity of karaoke. And you're almost sure that when it's sung in those dark, plush rooms with consumable drinks and food -that most people still stumble singing that last part with the 6 "s" words.
Try it.
And there was once a band named Duran Duran, in the 80s (let's deny for a moment that you do not know this band at all) - that didn't actually try to make any sense. Simon Le Bon, the lyricist and all around gogo-singer was said to have this fabled lyric book that they would use to match the music that the band would create.
Yes, and this is the music that you actually fill your days with. Car, Jeep, Bus and Tricycle....
To read the rest of the chapter of this new and upcoming book, please send a blank email to : jomar.hilario-303912@autocontactor.com or enter your First Name and Email in http://www.jomarhilario.com
Chapter 3 of How To Fulfill your dreams.
Chapter 3: How To Manage Your Money Like The Super Rich
Okay, now we start with the basics: Your Money.
Why? You know that most dreams will involve a certain amount of money and there's no escaping this fact.
In the book "One Minute Millionaire" by Allen and Hansen, it was mentioned that poor people just buy things and do nothing else afterward. Rich people on the other hand, do that extra "one minute" of filing their receipts in a way that allows them to get back to them in the future.
Let's imagine you're the one who read this book years ago. 3 years ago, to be exact. You're excited about this "One Minute Way of Becoming A Millionaire" so you got a nice thick clear book and filed your receipts under categories that you thought about-like:
Laundry
Stock Investments
Real Estate Seminars
ATM Slips
Credit Card Bills
Bahay (you know, for mom
)Rent
Electricity and Water
Clothes
Food
Fares
GirlFriend/Boyfriend dates
SplurgeNight Outs
Emergencies
Church
Savings (Oh, you almost forgot this, did you?)
After one year, you found the total number of times you ever needed those receipts.
Zero.
But you keep at it and you keep the bulging file in one of your storage boxes. National bookstore (NBS) was very appreciative for the clear book purchase by the way.
The next year, you got a (more expensive) expanding folder for your receipts. NBS, sends its thanks (again).
Suddenly you decide to monitor your expense by Excelling everything so you know how much you are spending on each category.
After spending one hour on Excel (w/c I turned into a verb above, if you noticed) for just one month of receipts - finally, you look at your list and say, hmm, so that's where my money goes.....
To read the rest of the chapter, enter your email and name in http://www.jomarhilario.com
Okay, now we start with the basics: Your Money.
Why? You know that most dreams will involve a certain amount of money and there's no escaping this fact.
In the book "One Minute Millionaire" by Allen and Hansen, it was mentioned that poor people just buy things and do nothing else afterward. Rich people on the other hand, do that extra "one minute" of filing their receipts in a way that allows them to get back to them in the future.
Let's imagine you're the one who read this book years ago. 3 years ago, to be exact. You're excited about this "One Minute Way of Becoming A Millionaire" so you got a nice thick clear book and filed your receipts under categories that you thought about-like:
Laundry
Stock Investments
Real Estate Seminars
ATM Slips
Credit Card Bills
Bahay (you know, for mom
)Rent
Electricity and Water
Clothes
Food
Fares
GirlFriend/Boyfriend dates
SplurgeNight Outs
Emergencies
Church
Savings (Oh, you almost forgot this, did you?)
After one year, you found the total number of times you ever needed those receipts.
Zero.
But you keep at it and you keep the bulging file in one of your storage boxes. National bookstore (NBS) was very appreciative for the clear book purchase by the way.
The next year, you got a (more expensive) expanding folder for your receipts. NBS, sends its thanks (again).
Suddenly you decide to monitor your expense by Excelling everything so you know how much you are spending on each category.
After spending one hour on Excel (w/c I turned into a verb above, if you noticed) for just one month of receipts - finally, you look at your list and say, hmm, so that's where my money goes.....
To read the rest of the chapter, enter your email and name in http://www.jomarhilario.com
Chapter 2 of "How to Fulfill Your Dreams"..
How To Fulfill Your Dreams by Jomar Hilario
Pinoys deserve more, but why are we settling for this?
Chapter 2: How a prostitute feels like.
In the 2005 US TV Comedy "How I Met Your Mother", Barney (old TV's Doogie Howser, also controversially known as TV's first "blogger") sets up a date between the lead star Ted and a hooker named Mary.
It was a group date anyway-- so they were talking about why one of the guys (Marshall) took a corporate law job when instead he should be using law to protect whales from being harpooned off Japan (or something like that).
Marshall defends himself saying : "I need the money for my wedding so I'm trapped because the money is good -- though I really want to help the whales. "
"C'mon guys, can't you relate how it feels like?" He asks the group.
"It feels like a prostitute!" said Mary, the hooker.
Gulp.
Everybody gulped and looked at Mary. Incredulous.
Except Barney, smug in his suit and tie.
Why?
Because he knows Mary is NOT a hooker.
To read the rest of the chapter of this new and upcoming book, please send a blank email to : jomar.hilario-303912@autocontactor.com or enter your First Name and Email in http://www.jomarhilario.com
Pinoys deserve more, but why are we settling for this?
Chapter 2: How a prostitute feels like.
In the 2005 US TV Comedy "How I Met Your Mother", Barney (old TV's Doogie Howser, also controversially known as TV's first "blogger") sets up a date between the lead star Ted and a hooker named Mary.
It was a group date anyway-- so they were talking about why one of the guys (Marshall) took a corporate law job when instead he should be using law to protect whales from being harpooned off Japan (or something like that).
Marshall defends himself saying : "I need the money for my wedding so I'm trapped because the money is good -- though I really want to help the whales. "
"C'mon guys, can't you relate how it feels like?" He asks the group.
"It feels like a prostitute!" said Mary, the hooker.
Gulp.
Everybody gulped and looked at Mary. Incredulous.
Except Barney, smug in his suit and tie.
Why?
Because he knows Mary is NOT a hooker.
To read the rest of the chapter of this new and upcoming book, please send a blank email to : jomar.hilario-303912@autocontactor.com or enter your First Name and Email in http://www.jomarhilario.com
2008 is an exciting time. For Star Wars and Tomb Raider
From the Starwars WIKI, Sept 2008 will see us glued to TV for the first run of the 3D StarWars Series.
On December 2008 or perhaps earlier, Tomb Raider : Underworld will be available for all platforms and the Tomb Raider Wiki created a better list of expected features for this new Lara Adventure:
dynamic weather
dynamic dirt on Lara's clothes
Lara "has more than a dozen layers that determine her skin tone and texture, how light reflects or scatters, how shadows form, etc." [3]
Lara has additional non-gameplay-relevant animations like pushing away branches [4]
Destroyed objects and defeated enemies will no longer vanish
new combat tactics (hand-to-hand combat - kicking and punching - melee combat... e.g. hitting opponents with picked-up sticks)
shooting two targets at once
shooting while climbing
shooting while balancing on a pole
advanced environment interaction
multiple usage of objects (e.g. using picked up items - like a wooden stick - as weapons or for climbing)
sprinting
balancing on ropes
new, advanced wall-climbing
multiple usage of the grapple rope (e.g. pulling objects closer, for climbing, for balancing across...)
The game will be significantly longer than Tomb Raider Legend
the game will contain more difficult puzzles
The hint system can be turned off
fewer boss fights
Lara will encounter dangerous cryptids (creatures that are presumed extinct, or have yet to be discovered) that require many shots before being defeated
improved opponent AI (e.g. recognition of thrown grenades and evasive actions)
It has been rumoured that the medipacks will no longer exist and thus Lara must find another way of healing
Keeley Hawes voices Lara
The places where Lara visits:
South America, Mexico
Australia
Easter Island
the Golden Triangle
Mesopotamia
Rome and the Vatican (Nice, Just in time for Dan Browns "Angels and Demons" movie w/c will be releasing May 2009. Of course, I do not approve.
On December 2008 or perhaps earlier, Tomb Raider : Underworld will be available for all platforms and the Tomb Raider Wiki created a better list of expected features for this new Lara Adventure:
dynamic weather
dynamic dirt on Lara's clothes
Lara "has more than a dozen layers that determine her skin tone and texture, how light reflects or scatters, how shadows form, etc." [3]
Lara has additional non-gameplay-relevant animations like pushing away branches [4]
Destroyed objects and defeated enemies will no longer vanish
new combat tactics (hand-to-hand combat - kicking and punching - melee combat... e.g. hitting opponents with picked-up sticks)
shooting two targets at once
shooting while climbing
shooting while balancing on a pole
advanced environment interaction
multiple usage of objects (e.g. using picked up items - like a wooden stick - as weapons or for climbing)
sprinting
balancing on ropes
new, advanced wall-climbing
multiple usage of the grapple rope (e.g. pulling objects closer, for climbing, for balancing across...)
The game will be significantly longer than Tomb Raider Legend
the game will contain more difficult puzzles
The hint system can be turned off
fewer boss fights
Lara will encounter dangerous cryptids (creatures that are presumed extinct, or have yet to be discovered) that require many shots before being defeated
improved opponent AI (e.g. recognition of thrown grenades and evasive actions)
It has been rumoured that the medipacks will no longer exist and thus Lara must find another way of healing
Keeley Hawes voices Lara
The places where Lara visits:
South America, Mexico
Australia
Easter Island
the Golden Triangle
Mesopotamia
Rome and the Vatican (Nice, Just in time for Dan Browns "Angels and Demons" movie w/c will be releasing May 2009. Of course, I do not approve.
