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Cross posted from .NET @ Kape ni LaTtEX
One of the main points of criticism against my rather controversial, death-threat worthy posts regarding Cebu Pacific’s dismal service and the involvement of software development company Navitaire was that they found my posts too negativist and tried to bully me into suggested that I criticize more constructively.
In that [...]

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I’ve just received a death threat from a guy allegedly named Stevenson Salvador:

Highlighted text roughly translates to “stop this if you want to stay alive where you’re going”
From above, his email address is stevenson.salvador@linksys.com. His IP address is 66.114.104.164
UPDATE 1: I find it rather sad that the IP address above resolves to a Navitaire DNS [...]

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In the ensuing comments in my previous post, Cebu Pacific’s monumental failure: A new online reservation system, several people questioned why I appeared to be singling out Navitaire and its online reservation system SkySales in the current Cebu Pacific brouhaha.
I gave thought to this after reading Aileen’s post on how she lost money because of [...]

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UPDATE: Due to the shortcomings of this initial post, I wrote a follow-up post entitled Cebu Pacific’s failure isn’t in the software, it’s on the phone.
Melynn, who operates I-NAV Travel & Tours, got pissed yesterday. She arrived at the Cebu Pacific ticketing office at 10 in the morning. By the time she was done, it [...]

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I’ve never had my own car.
Whenever I need a ride I’ve always borrowed my father’s 15 year old diesel pick-up truck, and as one can imagine, using it is an atrocity to the environment. Even with constant tuning and overhauls, it still spews out too much smoke in its low gears, and registers a poor [...]

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I am amused at how the popularity of photography using digital SLR (Single Lens Reflex, or in simpler terms, “professional”) cameras simply exploded in the past three years. Most every colleague I know owns one, and obscure photography terms like, depth of field, aperture, shutter speed, and “bokeh” have become vernacular.
Even Quiapo’s Hidalgo St. is [...]

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I’d just like to invite everyone to join Twitter and add me to their list of followed twitterers.
Twitter has evolved into a quasi-IM/quasi-blog platform where people not only say what they are doing at the moment, but posit and discuss ideas, catch up, keep in touch, joke around, and literally just have fun, while really [...]

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