A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

...We'll be in Manila for a terribly short vacation. Catch you on the Flip Side.

Found these interesting tidbits of search patterns from the Philippines on Google's Zeitgeist page. Interesting that most of items searched were about entertainers and about entertainment (why Phantom of the Opera? Are they putting up a show there?). I mean it shouldn't be a surprise really. I was wondering if people just go directly to their known sources and their bookmarks for their non-entertainment information. This snapshot was ...

I had a hankering for a non-fiction book when we went to the bookstore. I was looking out for that book by the ex-CIA guy or the one about Blackwater when I saw this on the shelf: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. I just had to pick it up. It's not just a few "Web 2.0" companies but also companies that has become recognizable ...

Happy May Day! Strange thing as I was checking my desktop (21:38 PST). I pulled up the Digg feed and this is all I saw (click for a bigger pic but you get the gist with the cropped one): This is apparently the community's response the perceived censorship of Digg's administrators/editors. The removal of posts containing a controversial string of code which would supposedly crack the encoding of high ...

The only reason why I'd want to go to Coachella. Rage Against The Machine is definitely one of my favorite bands. As far as I am concerned they can kick ass off any new rock bands out there. I got lucky and caught their show when they made an appearance in Manila. I can still remember how the cheap seats tore down the wire fence to get to ...