Wake Up Call

I. For the n^th Time II. Anti-Chainletter Movement III. Yahoo! Enters VoIP I. For the n^th Time It's been a week since my last post. Time hasn't been managed effectively lately and all my first (and sometimes the second) class in school have been missed. I got the processor and motherboard last Thursday and had everything up and running by Saturday after overcoming some barriers. Didn't get to attend PLUG's technical seminar or go to the jazz festival. Here's one more interesting thing. I got caught on the highway last Thursday. It's nice to see that the cops are doing their job (only when the sun is out, they're supposed to be doing this 24/7). Anyway, I think that the highway should really be widened. Travelling all the way from the south to the metro takes so long. I should really ease up on the gas pedal as Sir Joel said. I didn't bribe the cop and now I'm starting to think I should have. It has always been, "either you contribute to the bribing or be the good guy". I was thinking that it could be an adventure or something to go the LTO and teach myself my lesson. So last Monday I went there to get it but my license isn't there yet. I was also planning NOT to get a fixer. But these assholes just don't give up. I also found out that the computerized system just made things take longer. What happened? This indeed taught me a lesson. I'm never going to overtake on the shoulder (but I will still avoid bribing cops, I only did it once by the way) again. On the way to the LTO office, some punk-ass jeepney driver squeezed to my lane and damaged the right fender and a part of the door. I just let him get away because I didn't want to waste my time arguing with this guy and I thought that it was just a small dent. I only got to check it out when I got to LTO's main office (redundant?). It turns out I had to get it fixed. On the way back (after spending a couple of minutes in QC and lots of gasoline), I passed by Ramel's shop to get it fixed. It took longer than I expected. I liked the job though. All the scratches were removed. Now, I have to go back to LTO. I'll probably go there next Monday, then bring the stuff for Sans and have lunch and scramble to school. Adventure anyone? II. Anti-Chainletter Movement GMail now has the delete button. Finally, a built-in tool to delete those pesky chainletters. I wrote about a Firefox extension that adds this. I guess it's not needed now. Also, I heard that GMail Mobile works here in the Philippines. When was the last time you heard something new from Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail? Google sure is kicking their ass. Healthy competition is really really good for the consumers. III. Yahoo! Enters VoIP Just a week or two ago, I noticed a beta for Yahoo! Messenger 7.5 which featured Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to several countries for a fee. They were also offering numbers but I didn't get to check out which countries. I'm curious if they're using Asterisk. By the way, 7.5 was released just a few days ago (3-5).

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