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I hate money so much I decided to withdraw all my bank savings in 500 peso bills and shred them to pieces. Before burning them, I decided to take a souvenir photo.

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It’s been a little more than a week since I’ve bought my Asus EEE PC 1000H. Before the new-laptop smell totally fades away, I’m going to give my first 7-day impressions of this notebook. Allow me to focus on the problems because there are lots of pros out there already. Here they are in descending

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I was on my way to Cebu for a school field trip last week. As usual, I was taking photos of the little details of  the beautiful Iloilo Airport. I was taking pictures of the LCD screens while waiting in line at the check-in counters when, again, I noticed something eerily familiar.
To my utter disbelief [...]

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To end weeks of turmoil between my alter egos, I finally decided to give in to one of them and buy the Asus EEE PC 1000H. I got it last Saturday after an intense last-minute debate between two groups of my personalities.
ASUS EEE PC 1000H or MSI Wind or Lenovo Ideapad S10?
I was choosing between [...]

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Here are the results of the UPV (Iloilo) Cheering Competition held yesterday.
1st - Skimmers
2nd - SoTech
3rd - Clovers
4th - Elektrons
5th - Magnates
6th - Tycoons
7th - Fisheries
8th - Redbolts
9th - Scions

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The Miagao Campus of the University of the Phillipines Visayas is finally covered by high reolution imagery in Google Earth! I’ve been hoping for this moment for years! Luckily, there are no clouds at all and the colors are excellent. The satellite image was taken July 16, 2002 so if you were out there on [...]

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Among the useful features of Picasa 3 is the ability to add watermarks to your photos. There are two ways of doing this. Automatically and manually.
Watermark photos automatically
This method is easier but has some limitations. You can set Picasa to automatically watermark photos with a line of text every time you export them to your [...]

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Got this a few minutes ago.
Dear anak,
Naipadala ko na ang P50,000 na pang tuition mo, pinagbili na namin yung kalabaw. Ang mahal pala yung Counter Strike na kurso! Wala na rin tayong mga baboy, naipagbili na rin namin para dun sa cnasabi mong project, nokia N75 ba yun? Ang mahal naman ng project mo! Kasama [...]

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Google officially launched the beta version of Picasa 3 today and it’s packed with super cool new features!
Most interesting among the new features is the face recognition technology that automatically groups similar faces together. I hope this will save me hours of looking for specific faces in my hundreds of folders! There’s also a new [...]

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