Tech With A Little Touch of Emotional Conscience

I. Two Months and Two Weeks II. Aging Hardware III. Espionageware IV. Online Laundry I. Two Months and Two Weeks I went to work last Friday. We started the deployment phase of one system for a call center in Ortigas. The requirement, an IP-PBX system with predictive dialing capabilities. We finished around 21.00 because we had to do it all over again since we screwed up right in the middle. I took the MRT and boy did it remind me of my days in HK, except that things were worse than what I was seeing (more like Filipino standards). Then just this morning, I had my braces taken off. And I thought I was going to have it on me forever! Good thing it didn't take a decade. My one week break is almost over. Monday's coming and I can't wait what our NETCENT professor will say. I'd like to see her release her anger in front of us. Next day morning update, she finally got her phone back. She went to Manila to get it. She also admitted and apologized to what happened. Now I'm the asshole. But at least I now have a clearer idea of our relationship. Yes, this post is backdated again, got carried away with doing other things. The original content are the first three paragraphs. II. Aging Hardware Civilization IV is slow on my laptop and on our desktop. This time I really have to get an upgrade. My first target on spendings will be a new hard disk, extra memory, and a new graphics card. I don't know what brands yet but the hard disk will most definitely be a Seagate. For graphics, it's either an ATI or an nVidia. Another hard fought war in computers. Since we're talking about computer games, here's something. Cool, ASUS will be manufacturing one of the PPUs. One more reason to patronize their products. III. Espionageware My sources tell me that there are popups with spyware in my blog. I'm in the process of fixing this. It's just that I'm having problems with my domain. I'm going to replace the chat thing on the right. Thank god for popup blockers. The only problem I have now are inline or inpage popups which don't get blocked by my popup blockers. Here's some more extensions for Firefox that I found to be useful, Flashblock and MediaPlayerConnectivity. The former stops Flash animations from loading automatically and the latter stops video from loading automatically (allows me to download the file too). This is what I like about Firefox extensions, most of them are both compatible with Windows and Linux. IV. Online Laundry Ever heard of AJAX? How about SOAP? No this is not about household cleaning and laundry. Have you tried Google Maps? If yes, they use AJAX, a combination of technologies to produce a higher level of technology. It's the same stuff used in GMail. Both of the services I mentioned are by Google, one of Microsoft's competitors. Microsoft is taking the move too. They're going to come up with a web version of Office or their products called Windows Live. The thing is, it doesn't look compatible with Firefox or standard compliant at all. I won't use it if they will use ActiveX. What if Google moves to the OS business? Or what if they are starting already? I've read of things about Google pirating Microsoft's pioneers. They also have a filesystem in research (I think it's primarily for their servers for now, but who knows what might come up?).

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