I was driving my aunt’s car this morning to do some errands. I stopped at a gasoline station, filled the car’s tank and then the gasoline attendant brought my attention to one of my tires.
It was flat. No wonder the steering wheel was veering to the right while I was driving.
There was a nice shaded spot within the gasoline station’s premises where I decided to park while I change the tire. But lo and behold! When I opened the compartment and brought out the tool box, there was no tire wrench.
Now how can anybody change a tire without a wrench? I asked around the station if they have one I could borrow, but there wasn’t. Instead they pointed me to a vulcanizing shop that was just a short drive from there. So with a flat tire I drove away.
Good thing there was a vulcanizing shop nearby or else I would try to ask a fellow driver if I could borrow his wrench.
Lesson learned. Always check if you have the necessary equipment for your car whenever you go out for a drive.
As if the Queen doesn’t already have enough blings, Nintendo has given her a gold-plated Wii.
While I am not a Wii fanatic, I do however envy Queen Elizabeth II for two reasons.
1. She already has all the good things in life.
2. And yet she gets free stuff!
Life is just not fair.
Back in the ’80s up to the early ’90s, my favorite video game console was the Sega Mega Drive or what we call here on this side of the globe as the Sega Genesis. I remember the debate that was going on at that time that the Mega Drive was superior, in terms of computing power, compared to the Nintendo SNES. I used to believe that until Donkey Kong Country came out. The graphics on that game was superb and Sega had nothing on its shelf to match it.
Anyway, I preferred the Mega Drive and I’m not really sure why. Perhaps because it was cheaper than the SNES.
I’m a strong believer that Firefox is the best web browser right now. Sure, each of the browsers has its own merits but overall, Firefox is the winner. It can be the relative speed, the plugins or addons, the frequency of updates or its top-notch security.
So I am asking everybody who happens to drop by this post to please use Firefox. Spread the word.
I’m considering getting Diner Dash again, either here on my laptop or on my PlayStation Portable. I first played it about 3 years ago and I really had so much fun with it. I was playing it at the office during break time, together with another addicting game: Worms Armageddon.
Those were really fun days! I remember we used to hold competitions as to who can advance Flo the farthest and the quickest, considering that we only had an hour’s lunch break. I never won at Diner Dash (although I was a pretty good player with Worms) maybe because I had no strategy. I mean, I didn’t even bother to match the color of my diners to the color of the seats to get extra points.
Anyway, I miss the point and click action that this game brings so maybe I’ll go ahead and get it.
My Asus Eee PC has just celebrated its first birthday. We’ve been together through thick and thin, and I’ve learned a lot of things while I was using it, both personal and professional.
Anyway, I blogged about it at my other blog, PinoyCopywriter.com.
http://pinoycopywriter.com/?p=269
I play only one online game and it’s Dofus. Before I was skeptical about these games thinking that they are just a major waste of time. But a friend who has been playing Dofus for quite some time asked me to try it. So I thought there’s no harm to it, it’s just one try. But what did you know? That one try got me hooked!
Now I’m a paid subscriber and I get to visit all the places in Dofus although my character’s still very weak at just 43 level. It’s an Osamodas by the way. I can’t wait till I get the Punch of the Crackler then I can defeat more enemies and can easily level up.
My other blog, PinoyCopywriter.com, now has a new home. By home I meant a new hosting company. The previous one I have been with for almost a year already but their service was turning into worse the past couple of months.
I kept on sending a support ticket to them usually about my blog being down or that instead of the new template showing up, it was still the old template with my still then un-updated posts.
It was really a pain in the neck dealing with them so when I got tired of submitting support tickets, that’s when I started looking for another hosting.
Oh, and one of the things that my blog suffered from was the lost of readers. A couple of blogging friends emailed me that whenever they tried to visit my blog, it was always down. Tsk. That was it for me. It was time to move.
And so I did and so far everything’s a charm.
My other blog, a self-hosted blog, has been down for the past days. I have already submitted a support ticket to my hosting company but they still have yet to reply to it. Needless to say, I am very much disappointed.
Then early today I received an email from them. It’s an automatically generated email informing me that my domain registration for that blog will expire 2 months from now.
Did you get that? Two months from now. I still have two months to register and they have the ‘kindness’ to tell me this early. But my blog is still down and they haven’t fixed it yet (or even replied to my support ticket).
I am still very much disappointed.
Well, not completely but it’s getting there.
I just realized that almost every day that I go online, I use one or two of Google’s services. Like when I make a search, of course, I go to Google…
…when I write a document and I’m in an internet cafe, I use Google Docs
…my email is Gmail
…I talk to some of my friends through GTalk
…heck, I blog on Blogger
I think there are a lot more things that I do online that uses something that Google owns. Even my favorite pastime which is watching videos on YouTube, now that’s Google’s too.
Should I cut back on using Google’s services? But how can I when usually these services are the best and the easiest to use.
