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Oktoberfest 120 Kick-off Party Presents Third Eye Blind and more
San Miguel Beer Pale Pilsen Limited Edition: to premiere on September 5
Third Eye Blind (or 3EB) will be performing this coming Oktoberfest 120 Kick-off Party to be held on September 5, 2008 at Ortigas. They’ll be performing at around 10:30pm. Thus, be there early! 
I was able to get the taste of the Limited Edition of Pale Pilsen and it tastes so good.
Bands that will be performing in the upcoming kick-off party are:
- Rivermaya
- The Dawn
- Reggae Mistress
- Out of Body Special
- Sugarfree
- Guarana
- Rico Blanco
- Bloomfields
- Silent Sanctuary
- Cynthia Alexander
- Taken by Cars
- Sponge Cola
- Soap Dish
- Pinikpikan
- Cosmic Love
- Panacea
- Overtone
- Sabado Boys
- Firefly
- Spy
- Coffee Break Island
- Mocha
- Dream Kitchen
- Dice & K9 Mobstarr
- 525 Project
- Street Beat
- Milagros Dancehall Collective
- Synergy
- Kitty Kat Girls
Tickets are sold for only 120 pesos. Guess what? The entire Oktoberfest celebration will take place in 120 days!
Tags: Personal blogs, Journal, Philippines, Pilipinas, Oktoberfest, Events, San Miguel Beer, bands, gigs
Grasping at (foreign) straws
Grasping at (foreign) straws
Gloria Arroyo is leaving abroad this weekend, a source in Malacañang said.
She declined to tell me the destination but it couldn’t be to the United States because her next trip there will be next month. Arroyo is scheduled to leave for New York Sept. 22 to attend the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative conference.
I’m told she will also be going to Seattle to attend a Fil-Am activity.
It is expected that Arroyo will again be accompanied by her usual coterie of junketing congressmen paid for by Filipino taxpayers. At this time economic difficulties and with the uneasy situation in Mindanao, another transatlantic trip for Arroyo reflects callousness.
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SOLID ROCK (SRBC) Conducts First Women’s Encounter
The days were Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 22-23, 2008. There were originally more than 30 registered delegates but only 27 showed up to experience one of the most unforgetable experiences in life.
Those 27 ladies went through a three-day incubation with the Lord. They started their “encounter” with the Lord Friday afternoon and they were never the same again when Sunday came. They were handled by women like them and were treated with many experiences which only women would undergo. It was really an Encounter God Retreat for women.
In the graduation which was held as a special worship service at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, the 27 women testified in front of more than 100 that the Encounter God Retreat (EGR) for women was nothing short of wonderful.
The next offering will be a “Men’s Encounter” tentatively set on September 26-28, 2008. Interested parties may get in touch with Rev. Charlie Loranza through mobile number 09098540878.
Suspected MILF rebels gun down three loggers in Basilan
The police and military had to wait 24 hours to recover the remains of three loggers in Maluso, Basilan, who were killed in an ambush by alleged members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Tuesday afternoon. (more…)
Vice mayor in Batangas shot dead
A former three-term mayor who was the incumbent vice mayor of Mabini town in Batangas province was shot dead by an unidentified assailant Tuesday night. (more…)
Ex-Surigao City mayor absolved of malversation raps
A former congressman of Surigao del Norte has been absolved of the malversation charge alleging that he pocketed P1.81 million in cash when he was still mayor of Surigao City. (more…)
Vacation ends in tragedy for 10 Koreans
Ten Korean nationals, including three women and a six-year-old child, died when their van lost control and crashed into a concrete wall at noon Wednesday in Barangay Sampaloc in Bolinao, Pangasinan. (more…)
HILLARY CLINTON
“She reached for the stars!” Last night’s edition of SIDETRACKED (TEN The Evening News over at TV5, 10:30 M-F) tackled Senator Hillary Clinton’s appearance at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Here are the links from TECHNORATI. There’s also Hillary Clinton’s Official Website, where the phrase “Let Us Unite” boldly welcomes those who visit the site. Here’s the link to [...]Sharepoint Search Service can not be Started
I had to recreate my sharepoint search service as it was not doing the full crawl again! This time, the process hanged and it was not able to completely remove the search database. It would just say “Stopping”.
No amount of restarts could fix the problem.
Some posts on the internet mentions using this:
stsadm -o osearch -action start -role IndexQuery
But I Get:
“operation name is invalid”
The search server drop down box is greyed out (Applications, content databases). So there is no easy way to restore the search server back into the sharpoint configuration. Until i found this on http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30321277/search-function-not-worki.aspx
Search Function not working “site is not assigned to an indexe - Krus
25-Jul-07 04:44:01Brian,
That worked. I just changed the Search database name and ran the Sharepoint
config wizard.Thanks,
Matt
Thankfully Matt found a simpler way ( I was about to restore from backups) to restore the settings without having to reinstall or restore from backups!
In The Eye Of The Storm, HIS Eye Is On You
Wala ng delikadesa
Nakakalungkot itong pinaka-latest na pangyayari sa gulo sa Court of Appeals sa away ng Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) at Manila Electric Company (Meralco).
Hindi ako nagtataka sa report ng mga suholan sa mataas na korte. Ngunit nalulungkot ako sa garapalan at kawalang delikadesa. At ang mga taong sangkot ay edukado at galing sa matitinong pamilya. Hindi naman nagugutom ngunit mukhang iba ang kanilang ideya ng mali at tama.
Nong Martes, nagbigay ng kanyang testimony si Camilo Sabio, chairman ng Presidential Commission on Good Government sa panel na binuo ng Supreme Court pa mag-imbestiga sa expose ng kanyang kapatid na si CA Justice Jose Sabio, Jr na inalok siya ng isang abogadong malapit sa pamilyang Lopez ng P10 million para paboran ang Meralco.
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Y4IT 2008
First off….
I attended the first ever Ubuntu Love Day Manila a couple of days ago. It was an interesting event, to say the least. I “live-blogged” in my Multiply account, only because I had nothing better to do. I also mooched some books (and got mooched in the process), answered a couple of emails, and Plurked nonsensical stuff in between. Multi-tasking, anyone?
Anyway, here are the photos I took, some other photos, slides of the presenters, and video clips of the presenters.
Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology
I’ve never been to a Y4IT event before, mainly because of reasons that are financial in nature. Registration fees have always been a big pain in the arse, and this years’ isn’t any different. But this time around, I’m planning to take advantage of the chance to attend one of the biggest (if not the biggest) IT events of 2008, the 6th Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology. Some of the topics include Blogging, e-Learning, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Online Tutorials, and e-Mentoring. These topics will be covered within the 4 days of the event, by different notable people who are learned in their respective fields of interest. Senators Kiko Pangilinan and Ed Angara, and Atty. Koko Pimentel III will be keynote speakers on three different days (I’m sure it’s not going to be political…or is it?), and I think they’re worth checking out.
In relation to the Ubuntu Love Day, child genius Mikaela Fudolig explains, “Why I Use Windows: The Main Problem with Linux from the Consumer’s Point of View.” It should be an interesting talk. I’m beginning to imagine what points she’d stress. And hey, why not Mac?
Bloggers J. Angelo Racoma, Ria Jose, Juned Sonido, Jayvee Fernandez, Regnard Raquedan, Janette Toral, Noel Feria, and a few more others are also going to participate and discuss different topics like IT Entrepreneurship, WordPress, Blogging, and hordes of other compelling topics.
What I’m really looking forward to are English and Philippine Social Media, Ruby on Rails, IT Forensics, and Legal Aspects of e-Publishing. My eyes glint every time there’s “social” in a topic. I’ve been studying Ruby on Rails for the past year (well, I’m trying). IT Forensics just sounds too cool to pass up on. And I’ve always been interested in the legal aspects of anything. Go figure.
The Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology or Y4IT is an annual IT event hosted by UP Information Technology Training Center and UP System Information Technology Foundation, Inc. in cooperation with PSITE, CSP, and the UP ITTC Student Volunteer Corps. Y4IT 2008 will be held on September 2-5 at the UP University Theater, UP Film Institute, and UP Bahay ng Alumni. For more information, visit the website at y4it.up.edu.ph or ittc.up.edu.ph.
Another Update regarding the Eraserheads Reunion Concert
Here’s an official statement from PMPMI:
27 August 2008
Philip Morris statement on Eraserheads concert
Philip Morris Philippines Manufacturing Inc. confirms that Radiohead Media Solutions Inc. has agreed to take over as promoter of the
Eraserheads reunion concert planned for 30 August 2008. We made the decision to withdraw as promoter and will have no involvement at all in this reunion concert. We wish the Eraserheads and Radiohead Media Solutions Inc. all the best.Dave M. Gomez
Public Affairs and Communications Manager
Philip Morris Philippines Manufacturing Inc.
There’s also a press release from the new promoter who’s co-producing the event with Sony-BMG.
RADIOHEAD MEDIA SOLUTIONS, INC. THE NEW PROMOTER OF ERASERHEADS: THE REUNION
Radiohead Media Solutions, Inc. announces the acquisition of the concert rights to the much awaited one-night-only Eraserheads reunion this coming Saturday, 30 August 2008. The Reunion is to be slated at the Bonifacio Global City Open Field.
Tickets are priced at PHP 800 and 1300. For ticket reservation call TicketWorld at 891-9999 or log on to www.ticketworld.com.ph and www.radiohead.ph.
With that, ticket prices are now lowered to 800 pesos (back part) and 1,300 pesos (VIP area) contrary to what was posted earlier at my “Sony-BMG and the Eraserheads Reunion Concert” blog post.
By the way, as of this writing, I just checked the Ticket World website and they’re having a traffic surge again because there’s already a banner ad regarding the Eraserheads Reunion Concert with a buy tickets button. I tried clicking it and the page is down. I guess a lot are already trying to buy the tickets online so that all they have to do is to pick up their tickets at the Ticket World outlets.
Tags: Personal blogs, Journal, Philippines, Pilipinas, Eraserheads Reunion Concert, Eraserheads, concerts
Discrimination
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Free seats at Air Asia & other budget airline tales
Cheap air travel is one of the blessings of this generation. Am not talking of tens of thousands of miles earned after riding the Boeing A380 to London. Am talking of the modern-day phenomenon called the budget airline. It’s best described as no-frills - you’d be lucky to arrive at the “low cost carrier terminal” with your sanity intact, after eating a hot bowl o’ noodles which you had to buy yourself.
When talking of budget airlines, am quite partial to Air Asia since it’s the first ever LCC I tried. Second, because they really give away FREE international seats and it doesn’t take an eternity to book one. Truth to tell, my son and I are slated to travel to KL (Kuala Lumpur) early next year, using the free seats promo Air Asia had a couple of months ago. Only paid something like six thousand pesos (roughly $130 or so) for the TWO of us, and the amount is just equivalent to taxes and other surcharges.
Now, Air Asia is giving away again one million seats until August 31 and you - as an avid traveller - would be crazy to miss it. Too bad, AA at present only flies to two destinations from Clark - KL ( hands down, a food paradise!) and Kota Kinabalu (pretty and serene!) You can go to other Asian destinations once you arrive at these places.
Air Asia stewardesses are a sight in themselves, with their garish red uniform and equally garish make-up. 
But what I really dig about Air Asia is their delectable Asian food. Think heavenly nasi lemak, nasi biryani and roti canai. Wouldn’t mind shelling out more than a hundred pesos for one of these (photo from AA site):
As a result of the aggressive marketing of budget airlines, the “majors” have to straighten up and adjust as well. Now, even Malaysian Airlines is offering drop-dead prices, and even our very own Philippine Airlines (PAL).
We took PAL during our most recent family trip to Hong Kong and was quite satisfied (except for that turbulent air pocket going back, phewwww!) It is true - there’s not much difference now between the fares of PAL and Cebu Pacific.
I’d take PAL anytime if only for the “hot meals.”
Photo shows my daughter excited to open her kiddie treats.
Browser War II has started… Safari fired the first shot!!
Do you know that Browser War II already started? Safari fired first by leading the implementation of new properties to make designing a website much more easier than before. Guess who’s being left behind? IE of course, but rumours are abound on how IE8 is shaping up to overtake Firefox and Opera.
In this article, we will take a look at what CSS Level 3 can provide us in designing websites and which browsers are leading and being left behind.
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