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It wasn’t just a rumor after all. A quick visit to PayPal confirmed that we Philippine residents could stop using the accounts of our U.S.-based relatives, and finally open a PayPal account of our own. After creating a personal &…
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So what did you get on your W.O.M.B.A.T.?
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has finally released the results of the latest Wizard’s Ordinary Magic & Basic Aptitude Test (W.O.M.B.A.T.). To check how you did on the test, logon to www.jkrowling.com and click on the W.O.M.B.A.T.…
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Smart Bro and the not-so-technical activity
I have been a Smart Bro subscriber for about 10 months now. However, I’m not one of the "noisy" subscribers. I’m actually quite contented with it, thank you very much — enough to even recruit a couple of other subscribers.…
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Reserving & registering your company name online thru SEC iRegister
SEC’s iRegister, among other things, allows you to reserve & register a company name online. Not that SEC actually needs it — the old-fashioned way is not a bad experience. SEC has one of the most efficient queuing systems, second…
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Backing up your website using bash
Note: Thank you to Bombim Cadiz, Linux guru extraordinaire, who could always explain in a few words what pages and pages of websites could not. If you do frequent backups of your website, especially a Linux-based one at that, I’m…
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Blame it on the Fairy Tales
Some of us have published things we wish we hadn’t. Or wish we had enough sense to at least change the byline. My mushy love poems fall in this category. But in my defense, that was in High School ……
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Version 4
Without further ado, allow me to introduce chette.com v4.00 <insert forced applause here>. It’s been 8 months since the backend of this site was updated. The easiest excuse to throw is that my time is divided between school and a…
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Disabling error reporting in Windows XP
Everything seems to be going well. You have a couple of programs open, and happily going thru your normal computing tasks. After a few minutes, you sit back, aghast — a window suddenly appeared, screaming: “Application has encountered a problem…
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The quest to find hidden meanings in Jose Rizal
Note: Dedicated to the enlightening professor, Mr. Fojas. Jose Rizal has the great misfortune of being so venerated that people years after his time seem to overanalyze his writings, his thoughts, and his life. People have always been keen on…
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Brb from the Photo Gallery
Yes, I removed the link to the Photo Gallery section a few weeks ago. An upgrade didn’t go well, and work + school left very little time for any troubleshooting. I did this not realizing that someone would notice (and…