Posted on September 25th, 2008 by Calvin
As previously mentioned, I will be doing a ‘lil contest to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of my blog. One lucky participant will win a year’s worth of domain name from GoDaddy.com. I know it’s not that much but c’mon, it’s my first contest. RULES: So here’s how you could participate: Write a short post [...]
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Posted on September 24th, 2008 by Calvin
Yup! Exactly a year ago, I wrote my first post on this personal blog of mine. This is my way to connect to my friends online since I’m not fond of social networking sites. I also post helpful stuff here to share to other people and for my own reference as well in case I [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Calvin
There’s this company basketball tournament where I was chosen to lead a team. I was lucky to draft what I think is a winning team. We went undefeated all throughout the eliminations and semi-finals up to the first game of the best of three finals. We lost a valuable big man at the end of [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Calvin
This is the first time my site went down under my new host, A Small Orange, and it was down for about 3 hours. Ouch! Unfortunately, they don’t have 24-hour support so it took around 45 minutes before they were able to work on my complaint. Apparently, one of the site in the same server [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Calvin
Most of you have heard by now about the news where babies all over China are getting sick with urinary stones (4 already died) due to melamine poisoning from contaminated infant formula. Melamine is an industrial chemical used in glues, adhesives, molding components, etc. They were added into dairy products to cheat its protein measurement. [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by Calvin
Yup, Kentucky Fried Chicken is now serving shrimp here in the Philippines. Dubbed as Shrimp Surfers, these are deep-fried shrimps which are covered in tasty, golden brown batter. It comes with a sweet, spicy dip and served with rice. The shrimps are not that big and the 3-piece meal won’t give you the value for [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2008 by Calvin
When I transferred all my posts from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress 2.5 platform, I quickly noticed that the image captions were not working. Oh no. I thought that I had to remove all the captions from my images and make them ordinary images. Image captions are something like you see on your right by [...]
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