Thursday, December 14, 2006

I had been pretty busy preparing the house for Randy's fourth visit . Both of us are too excited to see each other again after his last August visit.

This morning, Randy logged in late. His daughter told me on Skype Voice that he called and will be late an hour more since he will pass by to the store on his way home. When Randy arrived home, he told me that it took him couple of hours to do the equipment maintenance in front of a camera. His video footage will be used for teaching purposes.

This afternoon, while Randy and I were watching Medium via Skype webcam, I called Jun Mondejar of Equitable PCIBank after I received SMS from him. He informed me the feedback from ATM center that it might take us between 7 and 16 days tracking period to find out where my missing PhP10,000 went. Last Saturday, the said amount had been accidentally withdrawn from my Visa Electron Card after a failed transaction in Metrobank ATM in SM Supersale outlet. Inconveniences brought by this wired transaction error had been affected many depositors and clients this is why I prefer to pay cash than use my card to avoid double charges.

Meanwhile, Randy and I were both upset with the reactions posted by some players in the Blogshares Forum Gallery so I had thought to share this joke from Bilal Basit for a change:

"In the hospital the relatives gathered in the waiting room, where their family member lay gravely ill.

Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and somber.

"I'm afraid I'm the bearer of bad news," he said as he surveyed the worried faces.

The only hope left for your loved one at this time is a brain transplant. It's an experimental procedure, very risky but it is the only hope. Insurance will cover the procedure, but you will have to pay for the brain yourselves..."

The family members sat silent as they absorbed the news. After a great length of time, someone asked, "Well, how much does a brain cost?"

The doctor quickly responded, "$5,000 for a male brain, and $200 for a female brain."

The moment turned awkward. Men in the room tried not to smile, avoiding eye contact with the women, but some actually smirked. A man unable to control his curiosity, blurted out the question everyone wanted to ask,

"Why is the male brain so much more?"

The doctor smiled at the childish innocence and explained to the entire group, "It's just standard pricing procedure. We have to mark down the price of the female brains, because they've actually been used." (End of Joke)

Well, many thanks to Bilal for this laugh.

Friday, December 01, 2006

Couple of weeks ago, I remembered I added CherryBlossoms.com to my e-mail client's spam folder and I was wondering why those mails indicated that I kept sending some Blossoms members a smile while I didn't create any profile on that site.

This young woman illegally used my e-mail address without my consent!

Tired of deleting those spam mails, I tracked the source of those mails. It's from the above blossoms.com profile, lailadin (password: carol), who nastily used my Yahoo! e-mail address! To warn my friends who are on my Yahoo! contact list, please take note that I won't send you something nasty. Afterall, you can send your IM directly to my Y! Messenger ID!

Saturday, September 25, 2004

I notified my mail server on Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:10:54 +0800 that their pop mail is not working and my outgoing mails kept undelivered:

"Please improve your e-mail service features. It's causing me so much inconvenience and my mails were delayed like Philippine Airlines flights*... what's going on?"

*Disclaimer: Philippine Airlines has no right to file libel case against me for posting the above comments about their service. It's the impression of many of PAL's pax, not only mine...

And here's the reply I received:

Dear Ms. Laila*:

Thank you for your email.

We regret to inform you that we had an inadvertent technical problem with our Incoming (POP) Mail Server the other day which caused queuing and delayed in your incoming and outgoing mails and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that it caused you. We would also like to apologize if we have not immediately informed you about this issue as the problem was intermittent and was not part of our scheduled down times. Please be assured, however, that the cause of the problem has already been identified and necessary steps to rectify the problem has already been implemented. Our Network Administrators are continuously monitoring our Mail Servers to avoid recurrence of the problem.

We recommend also that you use our Webmail Service, located at https://webmail.epldt.biz/pldtdsl Please be reminded to enter your whole email address and its working password to avoid authentication error.

Should you wish to get in touch with our 24-hour Customer Service Hotline, you may dial 859-8000 (for Metro Manila subscribers) or 1-800-10-INFOCOM (for outside Metro Manila subscribers).

Thank you and we apologize for the inconvenience that this has caused you.

Respectfully yours,

Joel A. Bernardo
Technical Support Group
Customer Management Division
INFOCOM Technologies, Inc.
T: 859.8000 F: 867.3997
www.info.com.ph

Friday, September 24, 2004

Angelito Songco sent me e-mail on 9/24/2004 8:09 PM and informed me of his interest to solicit support on his Sampung Mga Daliri Project next month, October. He said they are planning to film a documentary video featuring the rights of Filipino children.

I still have to verify the authenticity of this project and in case this plan will push through, I'm going to make a new blog about this...

im angelito l. songco since i decided to comeback in the philippines from my long journey to United States,i felt something unusual feeling in my heart when it comes to the rigths of a child here in the philippines.so on that point i saw myself advocating the rigths of the child.mayron kaming project dito sa pilipinas tungkol sa karapatan ng bata sa darating na oktubre at mangangailangan kami ng suporta sa katulad mong nakakaintindi ng ipinaglalaban ko.magkakaroon kami ng info-docu-drive production para maisadula sa pamamagitan ng video ang nasabibg proyekto na pinamagatang "Sampung mga Daliri" alam kong hulog ka ng langit sa akin upang mabawasan ang pag iisip ko kung papaanong magkakaroon ng katuparan ang proyektong ito.umaasa ako bibigyan mo ng pansin ang aking kahilingan.alam kong hindi mo ako kakilala,pero naniniwala ako na hindi ito mangyayaring sulatan ka kung hindi ka pinadala ng maykapal para matulungan mo ang batang narririto sa pilipinas.pls.help us !

GOD bless and more Power

Direk Angel Songco.

Sunday, September 19, 2004

Bilal al Basit had been forwarding useful informations through e-mails but, the latest one he sent me looks spam to me and suspicious. After googling about Tommy Hilfiger, I found out the e-mail circulating was a chain letter against this fashion designer. What I did, I copied some articles, hit reply to Bilal's e-mail and pasted something about the chain letter correction then sent it to him. I hope he got my message clear not to forward damaging contents against anyone without verifying the credibility of the message.

Here are related articles about Tommy Hilfiger:

• About.Com: Hilfiger 'Racist' Rumor Is Fashionable Again
• BreakTheChain.Org's "Say It Ain't So, Tommy"
• Tommy Hilfiger's website

If you are reading this and you made it a habit to forward mails you received from friends without thinking or verifying its content, it's about time you stop spreading chain letters... may this post serves as a reminder.

Below is the copy of his message:

*** Start of chain letter ***

YEAH FOR OPRAH

Good for Oprah !!!! I'm sure many of you watched the recent taping of The Oprah Winfrey show where her guest was "Tommy Hilfiger".

On the show, she asked him if the statements about race he was accused of saying were true.

Statements like : "... if I'd known African Americans, Hispanics, Jews and Asians would buy my clothes, I would not have made them so nice.. I wish these people would *NOT* buy my clothes, as they are made for upper class white people."

His answer to Oprah was a simple "YES". Where after she immediately asked him to leave her show.

My suggestion ? Don't buy your next shirt or Perfume from Tommy Hilfiger. Let's give him what he asked for. Let's not buy his clothes. Let's put him in a financial state where he himself will not be able to afford the ridiculous prices he puts on his clothes.

BOYCOTT PLEASE, & SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW !!!!!

*** End of chain letter ***

Friday, August 27, 2004

Confused which e-mail account to use as my default e-mail addy, I had thought to give GMail a chance. I have downloaded and installed GMail Notifier so that it will check my Gmail messages without opening my browser. Remember that I have neglected to open it few days ago when I was busy updating my newsletter subscriptions?

Now, I don't have to check my mails, GMail Notifier will do it for me. I added my daughter's voice wav file to the Notifier by following instructions at GMail Notifier FAQ page.

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Due to the inconvenience of migrating my newsletter subscriptions to my new e-mail addy, I neglected opening my gmail account (Icqmail previously forwarded all my mails to GMail and pop mail). To my surprise, when I logged in today, I have 7 GMail invitations available to friends! Besides, there's an option now where I can view external image if e-mail is in html format.

However, I'm pondering lately whether a decision has to be made soon. I need one permanent e-mail address and I am thinking whether to extend Yahoo! Mail subscription and use it as my default e-mail addy. Believe me, I just do not understand why I have this gmail account? Trendy?

Most internet users have more than 5 e-mail addresses. Guess it's about time we should consider using one permanent address.

Monday, August 23, 2004

Late this afternoon, I received an e-mail with subject line: SAVE ME, from Malaysia. The 'boy' said that I must help him with the amount of US$ 7,000,000.00 because his parents were fighting all the time and he needs help. If nothing is done with his problems at home, he's going to commit suicide. The e-mail did not eleborate what is the money for but, he said he's visiting my site regularly and that I have some money recently. He said, what am I going to do with my wealth if someone will commit suicide should I turn him down.

Prank e-mail or not, I was trying to look for that mail today but, I couldn't find it. My mail option was set to empty trash folder upon exit of Mozilla mail client. I want to advise this 'boy' to join BlogShares and enjoy fantasy money than thinking of commiting suicide.

I'd thought that he might have seen my BlogShares portfolio located at the right side navigation on this page for which I have over B$ 13 Trillion networth. Well, earlier, BlogShares offers fantasy money only but with the introduction of chips recently, some players auctioned those chips at e-Bay for real money.

Chips as BlogShares defines, "Chips are the 'social currency' of BlogShares. Unlike B$ dollars and their wildly varying value, chips are based on time spent by our members."

BlogShares chips can be used for Text Ads on BlogShares main page, buy rare or artefact ideas on special arrangements with fellow players; can be used to join in BlogShares raffles and other contests. Current value of 1 chip is more or less B$ 25 Million while 10k chips is worth US$13.50 at eBay.

At present, I ranked 2nd on BlogShares Top Chip Holders and Rank 2nd, too, on BlogShares' Best Karma. 25 chips are given for every 1 karma adjustment by a player as incentive either by voting a blog into correct industries or by moderating a vote made by a player for voting a blog. I suggest you visit BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market to know more about it.

To know how auction is done with BlogShares chips, visit Randy's auctions at eBay:

• Item number: 5916949322
• Item number: 5916949773

Friday, August 20, 2004

It's a busy day updating all my newsletter subscriptions with my new e-mail addy. I was not expecting ICQ webmail will charge their ICQ members for premium membership to avail a mail forwarding service. Since GMail was launched 'as part of Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful' this year, Yahoo! webmail increased their member's webspace up to 100 mb. Well, I believe, ICQMAIL made a mistake by offering a paid subscription, they're not competitive enough to do so.

Speaking of e-mail, I received an e-mail today from Adonis Aldave Conanan, a Judge Juan Luna High School alma mater. He found my details at alumni.net. Although he told me that he knew me, of all those years that passed by, I had a little memory about my school mates. I even had thought he might be my high school crush but since he told me he belonged to evening class, I was sure then that he's not the one...

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Now that icqmail.com changes their free mail forwarding service and will reactivate only if I will pay US$19.95 for annual premium subscription, I will shift for the time being with the new ones.

Please take note of my new e-mail addresses: lmgpmjr at pldtdsl.net and lmgpmjr at gmail.com.