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About six months ago a friend of mine tipped me about PLDT offering a 999-per-month DSL plan. At first I didn’t believe him, since PLDT was not actively advertising the plan. But when he swore that he already got one, it got me interested. 999 pesos a month definitely sounds good for a 384 kbps [...]

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Back in 2002, Microcontent News published an article online about Google bombs, a phenomenon wherein words that are not present in a particular website become associated with that site if enough people use that word to link to the said website.
For example, although my blog has nothing that says anything about “Diet Coke”, if enough [...]

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I’ve just put CJ down into her crib.
She normally takes a nap after her bath. Usually it’s her yaya who lulls her to sleep, but she saw me just after she got dressed and with her outstretched arms gestured that I carry her. I picked her up. Right after I did she put her head [...]

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A few months ago I watched a program on the National Geographic Channel about the origins of man. In a study conducted by geneticist/anthropologist Spencer Wells, he was able to trace the tribe of the descendants of our earliest ancestors: a group of people who have absolutely not migrated for the past 60,000 years. He [...]

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These days when bloggers talk about traffic and hits, they often think about the traffic that goes through their blogs as signified by “hits”, the number of unique IP addresses that access the site. Unfortunately, I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the traditional kind of hit — the one with a car — [...]

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