Category: Internet

  • SOPA: Why should we vote no?


    Lex parsimoniae. Because if we vote yes, we’re doomed! On January 24 this year, the Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. I don’t think I should be worried about this, but I guess I should be because a lot of people are damned worried about this bill.
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  • SM Advantage sneaky points earning system

    SM Advantage sneaky points earning system

    I just noticed this now, that the mechanics of SM Advantage in their FAQs page is a lie. I noticed this after buying something at SM Appliance Center that is worth 200k. Suppose to be, you’ll be awarded 1 point for each 200 pesos spent. You may refer to the screenshot below:

    smadvantage-faqs

    So I should receive around 1000 points, for a 200k php spent, right? To my surprise, I was only awarded half of it. I received 500 points for a 200,000-peso purchase. I then checked my other purchases and found out that SM actually awards 1 point for every 200 pesos spent, except for SM Appliance Center, SM Supermarket, Hypermarket, Our Home, and Watsons which is 1 point every P400 pesos spent.

    Lesson Learned: Don’t believe what you see in SM’s advertisements and what they wrote in their FAQs page. They are sneaky big bastards.

    UPDATE: SM seems to have updated their FAQs page. We can now see that we only earn 1 point for 400 pesos spent in selected stores:
    http://smadvantage.com/membership/points-awarding-partners

  • Modify the WordPress Tag Cloud Widget Easily

    Modify the WordPress Tag Cloud Widget Easily


    There are numerous ways of how to modify the WordPress tag cloud widget, but there’s an easy way to modify it. I searched about how to modify such, and landed on different blogs sharing different methods to modify the widget. I also landed on this page which tells everyone to modify the WordPress core. But I don’t think it’s the best solution to customize your WordPress Tag cloud.
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  • Google Profiles redirects to Google Plus and why it’s annoying

    Google Profiles redirects to Google Plus and why it’s annoying

    If you’ve noticed this, then you’ve noticed it! Google Profiles now redirects to Google Plus. This is not really a big deal for everyone, but a big deal for vain people who already fell in love with their custom Google Profiles friendly URL. If your name is Paul and you have a Google profile with the URL profiles.google.com/paul, it will now be redirected to plus.google.com/(the 20 annoying random integers here)

    Good thing the Google user with the username Paul didn’t create a Google+ profile yet (as of writing this post). But when the time comes that he creates a Google+ profile, his lovely /paul friendly URL in Google Profiles will be gone to oblivion and will be converted to a Google Plus user ID.
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  • 907 invalid JAR error for BPI Mobile App Version 4.0.49

    907 invalid JAR error for BPI Mobile App Version 4.0.49

    Hello BPI Mobile App users! The newest and latest BPI Mobile Banking app for all smartphone devices is now available for download. This replaces the BPI Mobile version 4.0.42. I tried to download this app today, but I’m experiencing some sort of error. The error is 907 invalid JAR unable to read short. So, I tried to Google the error, but as expected, nobody blogs or posted about the error because nobody seems to be using the BPI Mobile application for Blackberry. (more…)

  • The Planet is now gone and I’m too late to know it…


    Yes, the number one web hosting company in the world is now gone and I’m toooooo damn late to know it. They merged with Softlayer last year! Yes guys! Last year and I just found out about it now! I just noticed it today because I typed theplanet.com in my address bar and I was being redirected to softlayer.com. It was announced last November 8, 2010 and I haven’t heard of the news about it! Silly me. At first, I thought stupidly that they were hacked by Softlayer, because these two large web hosting companies are the top 2 hosting companies in the world and they are on a tight competition.
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  • August 4, 2011: Yet another PR update

    August 4, 2011: Yet another PR update


    Yes boys and girls! Another major PR update occurred yesterday and my PageRank is still the same. I know some domain owners who gained PR from PR6 to 7 and some domains declined its PR. Some PR0 sites increase to PR4, some remained, just like my domain, and some or not lucky enough to have a PR increase.
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  • Customizing your Fluency plugin satisfies your WordPress Admin Vanity

    Customizing your Fluency plugin satisfies your WordPress Admin Vanity

    Because I’m so vain with my WordPress admin, I decided to customize my Fluency plugin. Thanks again to Dean for making this customization easy as ABC and for updating Fluency to be compatible to WordPress 3.2. This post will not teach you how to customize your own Fluency admin, because it’s so easy to do so. Even a 3rd grader can customize it in minutes. What I want to do now is showcase my awesome WP-admin, powered by Fluency. Check out the image below:

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