Did you know Filipino has quite a number of Aztec Nahuatl loanwords? Astig!

Hey, businesses in Makati… you only have 15 days left to convert to free/opensource software! ;-) Go, Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team!

I just stumbled upon Chin’s article, The great Facebook login fiasco. Basically, people were typing “facebook login” into the address bar, getting the Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login article on ReadWriteWeb instead of the login page they expected, and becoming confused and angry as hell at the “new” Facebook. The comments thread is epic, but I rather feel more sad than amused. Sigh.

My Magic Mouse on Old Manila’s fancy placemats — still tracking perfectly! Love it!

We had diwal (literally “to stick out the tongue”) clams at my Tatay’s birthday, both in regular and run-for-your-life varieties:

Pholas orientalis? Cyrtopleura costata?, Oriental Angel wings, “Diwal”

Giant diwal, probably some type of geoduck (“gooey duck”). Personally, I call them dila sang buang nga aswang (tongues of crazy witches).

I’ve been experiencing a really irritating problem with Spaces. I set up 9x9 workspaces, and occasionally, the selector overlay (translucent gray squares) seems to capture keyboard input even after it auto-hides. I haven’t found a reliable method to reset it — even turning Spaces off and on again doesn’t release the keyboard. Does anyone have a fix?

Something to look forward to :-)

My Tatay turns 66 today. Happy Birthday! :-)

Hmmm. So basically, MS turns hero for cleaning up a mess that wouldn’t have existed without Windows’ security issues..?

1. Spring Design Alex
   e-reader with LCD panel
2. BCC Alex
   Linux broadband notebook (Thanks Ariel!)
3. ???