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Entries from June 2007

What makes a dirty word dirty?

June 29th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Dine Racoma aka SexyMom freaked out when a commenter condemned her for “being a disgrace to Filipino mothers” because she used the word “sexy” to describe herself.
The outpouring of support in the subsequent comments not only showed people approving of the contextual use of the word “sexy” on her blog; her son BA argued that [...]

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Tags: Kultura · Wika

A tale of two consumer abuses

June 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Scobelizer posted a video from Consumerist.com featuring the hellish experience of Delta Airline passengers who had to withstand the following:

7 hour flight delay
A quartet of crying babies
A staff that gives all kinds of excuses and lies
No food
No option to go back to the terminal and pick another flight

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Tags: Industriya · Musika · Negosyo · Transportasyon

Dreams of a career shift

June 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Ever considered dumping your current career for something you’ve always dreamed of?
I think a lot of people who would either jump at an opportunity to join showbiz, or start a business, if only they had the means and the guts (not to mention the talent) to do so. But we all know that these kinds [...]

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Tags: Karir at Propesyon · Transportasyon

Backup your blog automatically, online!

June 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

One of a bloggers’ most dreaded fears the loss of data, or more specifically, the loss of all or even some of their posts, especially if they spend a lot of time painstakingly editing and proofreading their own work. Manually firing up and downloading your Wordpress database backup is tedious; and it’s even more difficult [...]

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Tags: Blog

Globe cellsites: bomb magnet or something else?

June 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

There’s a report today of yet another Globe cellsite being bombed in Iloilo, with the act almost always being attributed to the NPA and Globe’s refusal to pay them “revolutionary tax.”
That begs the question: does that mean Smart (of PLDT) pays its revolutionary taxes religiously? Does that mean that PLDT is actually a financier of [...]

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Tags: Pulitika · Teknolohiya

Lakbayan: How much of the Philippines have you visited?

June 14th, 2007 · 5 Comments

I found this site courtesy of Melynn. Considering that we have a travel agency business, my grade is an embarassing C-:

My Lakbayan grade is C-!
How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan!
Created by Eugene Villar.
We’re going to try to improve that score over the next few years, hopefully.

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Tags: Turismo

The Philippines as an Open Pussy Country

June 4th, 2007 · 29 Comments

My wife and I had a chat with an acquaintance who works as a human resources officer in a call center. Over a few drinks last night she was telling us about the expriences she had over working in call centers, as well as some issues and open secrets of the call center world.
One topic [...]

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Tags: Buhay · Karir at Propesyon · Kasarian · Kultura