I’m Going to See Twilight [Five Words I Never Imagined Myself Saying]

If you’re a teenage girl who knows how to read, you will probably already have read at least one of the books in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, known every little random tidbit about Robert Pattinson, and cried in front of your parents to seek permission to catch the film interpretation of the first book in [...]

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RP2010: The Election Watchblog

Oliver Robillo, Mindanao Blogger-in-Chief and organizer of the first ever WordCamp Philippines, recently came up with yet another timely project in light of the general elections, which are coming up in two years’ time. Presenting RP2010, the election watchblog.
The blog’s “About” page pretty much says it all:
The RP2010.com blog endeavors to be the poll watchdog [...]

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Intrepid Ibex

When Gizmodo alerted me to the fact that Intrepid Ibex, the latest version of popular Linux distro Ubuntu, was out for download, the early adopter in me screamed, “upgrade!” So today, I spent the entirety of the day away from the computer and on my iPhone as Ubuntu upgraded to 8.10. Finally, after ten hours [...]

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Podcasting and Live Streaming

Today I want to joyously announce my foray into the world of podcasting.
Here’s how it’s going to work. Every week at a time still to be determined, I’ll start broadcasting live on my podcast/show, “It’s a DeanTastic Week” [Ustream Channel]. On the show, I’ll talk about what went on in my life during the [...]

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I Support the Reproductive Health Bill

It’s a noisy Interwho out there for the Reproductive Health Bill. Emails making false assertions about the bill have been making the rounds, and bloggers have been exchanging words—some polite, others harsh—discussing the bill’s viability and constitutionality. It’s time add one more voice to that noise: mine.
I support the Reproductive Health Bill, a proposed law [...]

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Thoughts on McCain’s veep pick and other assorted randomness

I haven’t been able to post to the blog this week, and for that I apologize. I’ve been swamped with schoolwork this week despite the fact that there were no classes from Monday to Wednesday. The Science Investigatory Projects are due really, really soon, and while we’re nearly done with our manuscripts, there’s a lot [...]

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I Want an iPhone

Globe Telecom is releasing the iPhone 3G in the Philippines this Friday, which means only one thing: me wants. Yes, I know gas prices are skyrocketing. Yes, I know that the “standard” cup of rice at the local eatery has shrunk.
But mewants the iPhone 3G.
Why, you say? Why lust after the iPhone 3G when my [...]

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Review: Aviary Creativity Suite

When Paul Stamatiou first blogged about Aviary a few days ago, my curiosity was piqued. We’re hearing about all these Internet-based applications popping up all the time and how they are on the road to becoming viable alternatives to the software sitting in our hard drives, and Aviary may very well be one of them.
Aviary [...]

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