Okay, I don’t understand why people have to create something out of nothing, i.e., pit Pinoy Tech Blog against PWiT.
(Backtrack: Pinoy Tech Blog is the Philippines’ Premier Technology Blog while PWiT stands for Philippine Week in Tech: Current News, Views and Reviews. A mere parroting of their taglines? I’m avoiding any subjective descriptions here. An added note though—PWiT is obviously a play on TWiT, which stands for This Week in Tech, a netcast turned network of netcasts headed by Leo Laporte. It is also a play on the Filipino word for “ass”.)
The trouble with PWiT is that is reads like a mainstream media blog, like say Engadget. Or CNET. The writers are from mainstream media - just check the blogroll which links to a mix of personal blogs and MSM websites. So, why is the PWiT crew writing for this blog and not for their own publications? Some have blogs of their own, such as Hinge Inquirer and Summit Media?
If you’re all too familiar with the foxy browser (turned DCS mascot), you should also be aware that it’s all too prone to memory leaks. It’s the primary suspect when people complain about its hang-ups and slowdowns after extended periods of usage. I’m an unhappy victimcustomer, too.
Like tiptoeing down an old flight of stairs. This is how I treat Stellify’s WordPress backend. Sometimes the creaks are soft; sometimes they are loud. Sometimes I find my leg caught through a hole in the wooden steps, but for situations such as upgrades, I’d rather be cautious.
I’ve upgraded most of the WordPress installations on this domain to the latest version, codename “Ella”, before which the latest 2.0.x releases had whizzed by too quickly, but I stopped short of upgrading this site (and Qwerky). Why?
Plugin Problems
For starters, here are the plugins on these two sites that could possibly be incompatible with WordPress 2.1:
“Iffy”
- Category Visibility
- Custom Posts Per Page
- Ultimate Tag Warrior
Jefferson Han’s multi-touch screen system requires not too many words to describe it, only a few videos (represented here in thumbnails, though):
The main idea behind the technology: the prototype is able to handle multiple touch inputs at the same time, even varying degrees of pressure, based on the FTIR concept used in fingerprint scanners. [mirror] (paper at ACM UIST 2005: Low-Cost Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection)
The DCS Blog Network has officially launched! Here’s a snippet of the hear ye! hear ye! we distributed last night:
Calling all members of the UP Diliman Department of Computer Science community: students, alumni, and faculty alike! You are cordially invited to join the DCS Blog Network, a site that brings together all blogs from its DCS members. The purpose of the DCS Blog Network is to bring together everyone who is, has, and will be part of the Department, and what better way to do that than through the Internet?
You can read the full details at Sir Feria’s blog. He suggested we (Phillip, Sir Rom, and I) set this up in preparation for the Alumni Homecoming.
Rather than passing around surveys and quizzes, electronic chain letters and wishmakers that are all self-centered and petty, I found a great meme that will benefit those who deserve it. And it’s up to you to decide who gets the hat tip(s). The Viral Garden calls it the Revenge of the Z-Lister.
It’s some sort of a whine against how the A-listers (are you one?) are getting all the link love. Time to turn the tables on them. This is The Long Tail at work here, people! Rather than have a select few pick what they think is good, how about we do the picking? It was our year, after all; now, more than ever, do we have the greatest freedom to decide.
This is my attempt at a personal entry for reasons you shall soon find out. Alas, I failed.
Aimee, one of four high school friends I finally met after four long years at the SM Mall of Asia last Friday, asked me why I didn’t like to use LiveJournal and why I didn’t write about personal things there, or anywhere else.
The first question is easy. Here’s a partial answer. The second, on the other hand, led me to this writing this. It practically implied that whether or not she had visited Stellify (I plastered announcements all over the place that I was not there but here), this whole website wasn’t enough! It also made it clear to me that many people don’t understand non-diary style blogging, and that an LJ account was not just another blogging service but obviously a journal service.
Fireworks in Germany
Apple fans the world over are probably having parties to celebrate the announcement of the Apple iPhone (not the Cisco one). The status messages of my buddies on Yahoo! Messenger are babbling about doing anything they can to get their paws on one (even if it takes a lap dance, one of them said!).
But I’ve already read several shortcomings of the iPhone as well as counterarguments to those. And I’ve noticed another reason why, specifically for Filipinos.
It’s very simple, really.
