I finally had the guts to get rid of my Treo with Sprint. I kind of tolerated Treo’s malfunction for the past year. What I really hate with CDMA service is that I can’t change my phone. So here I finally switched to my former carrier, T-Mobile. My colleague was selling me AT&T, but there’s [...]
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Before leaving the house, I saw on the news that the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (COMELEC) will pilot an electronic voting process in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in the coming gubernatorial (regional) election in the region. The machines are provided by Avante.
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Tagged anomaly, armm, autonomous region of muslim mindanao, avante, cipher, comelec, cryptography, current world affairs, decade, decades, elections, electronic device, electronic voting, firstly, hackers, imagination, internet banking, leaves, local government, old technology, pessimism, philippines, quantum encryption, regional election, rsa, sahi, security, smartmatic, vote
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My fellow CCNY alumnus, Andy Grove, wrote in The American about the future of energy in the United States. There he suggested that America ought to head towards the direction of electric fuel because America’s “exposure to the vagaries of oil supply is growing by the month.” I agree that we must make haste the transition [...]
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A (pretty much) summary of my technical encounter with Directv technical support specialists. I am a technical support specialist myself and I know the feeling. Sometimes I just give up on problems because it’s difficult talking to someone on the other end when they are doing something different you’re asking them to do. It’s difficult being blind because that’s how you feel when you are supporting someone over the phone.
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Tagged 30 minutes, avail, canada, customs, dead space, directv, directv receivers, dvr, longing, love, network, receivers, remote control, space time, support conversation, technical support representative, time, troubleshooting procedures, yankee game, yes network
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I was watching the Mind Of Mencia season 3 last night and in one of the episodes he mentioned about how hard it is for the white people to say what they want. It’s true. Caucasians doesn’t really have the freedom of speech that they should be having. They can’t say certain words because it [...]
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Tagged caucasians, directv, dvr, error 721, female president, freedom of speech, gloria macapagal arroyo, half an hour, hard drive, hillary clinton, insults, kind women, mind of mencia, minorities, network, presidential candidate, r15, receivers, season 3, superpower, time, vote, yes network
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Asustek will be releasing the second generation of its Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play PC ultra-mobile notebook on May 12 in the US at a starting price of $549 (12GB SSD on WinXP). The 900 will sport an 8.9″ viewable screen – just an inch and three quarters more than its [...]
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Tagged asustek, Eee PC, enhancements, galaxy, gap, generation, happiness, millimeters, notebook, pearl white, predecessor, second generation, ssd, temptation, three quarters, ugly black, umpc, umpcs, upgrade, wish
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Many portable gadgets in the past few years have been coming out that are multi-purpose. Everyone seems to want everything in their cellphones now. While I was with my girlfriend, she remarked that she won’t buy a digital camera because her cellphone already has enough mega pixels to capture the moments. I have no comment [...]
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Tagged addiction, battery, cellphone, cellphones, compromises, fixation, functionalities, gadget, high speed internet, internet radio, iphones, lg kg320, life, love, many things, matter of fact, mega pixels, memories, memory expansion, multi purpose, music, musical, n series, nikon digital camera, obsession, smart buddy, snapshot, treo
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