Posted: September 13th, 2007 | Author: Arnold | Filed under: Techie | View Comments
First thing I do in the morning at work is to feed my mind. In literal technological sense. I have almost 50 to 60 RSS Feeds sitting at my Google Reader. I don’t read all of them, it’ll burn my head if I do. But here’s the top 10 blogs that I follow everyday.
1. Perry Noble – on top of my list, Perry is a young pastor in Anderson, South Carolina. Very passionate leader. Loves Jesus. Loves the Church. He has grown his congregation New Spring Church to 9,000 in 7 years.
2. Craig Groeschel – in my opinion, one of the best communicators of our time. I am amazed how he can bring a huge amount of information to his listeners in 30 minutes or less and everyone just gets it. He also leads what I consider the most innovative local church around.
3. Tony Morgan – I get my leadership dose from this guy.
4. Steven Furtick – very young, very passionate, very fresh leader. He leads a 2 year old church with 2,500 weekend attendance. As someone said, is that even legal for a church plant?
5. Pinoy Tech Blog – moving in locally, this blog is my local dose of tech news. I also sometimes write for this blog.
6. Technobiography – local blogger Ka Edong’s take on local technology scene excites me.
7. Ganns Deen – One of the few local bloggers that I actually met and become a friend.
8. Riz Sanchez – the guitarchic, Riz amazes me of her sincerity and writing prowess.
9. Jonna Jill Piad – she’s my dose of the real life. I mean, if you want to know what a typical life is all about, read her blog. She sometimes gets frustrated with her life. She gets excited with her new boyfriend and gets broken hearted after a breakup.
10. Pastor Steve Murrel here and here. I recently discovered his blog, Pastor Steve is the founder of Victory Christian Fellowship, a mega church in Metro Manila. I really admire pastors of successful churches and try to learn from them. Because, seriously, if their church is successful, they must be doing something correctly. If Peter Tanchi (of Christ Commission Fellowship, the church that fed me during my transition from the Adventist church) is blogging, he’ll probably be on top of my list, too. But the great leader is in his 50s, so you know what I’m thinking ;-)
After finishing the 10th, I realized that I have more than 10 blogs that I follow real close. Anyway, some other time.
I’m tagging Ganns and Riz. Who feeds you?
Posted: August 24th, 2007 | Author: Arnold | Filed under: Techie | View Comments
I needed a break, I got it at the Bloggerfest 2 last night at SM Hypermart, MOA. A refreshing experience, I saw new faces (though I never talked with any new people at all), chatted with Ganns — the guy is on fire, and I mean, on any topic of conversation he is. Thanks Ganns for making us feel comfortable. Joy was with me, we had fun. And yes, with Jigs too. (Ah… Grace Placers, I’m talking about Ghelo).
Through the Clique Booth — me, Joy and Jigs a.k.a Ghelo.
So bloggers are real people indeed, with bones and flesh. I gotta have more of these dosage in the future.
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 | Author: Arnold | Filed under: Techie | View Comments
People rushed to Apple stores last week to become one of the firsts to lay their hands on what others call as the JesusPhone. Talk about the “Apple cult”.
Anyway, Apple officially announced that iPhone will be released in the Asian market by next year. Being an Apple fan myself, I’m looking forward to this — I mean, really!. On the other hand, there are conditions, and these might be yours too, for shelling out $500. I’m hoping that the 2nd generation iPhones will be the ones that will be released here in the Philippines, and will contain these features:
* 3G – definitely needed. I can’t live without this right now given the kind of work I have. This first generation iPhone has 2.5G installed, I believe.
* Open line – in the US, iPhone is locked with AT&T. Here in the Philippines, it would be hard to implement that since the PH mobile users switch carriers overnight.
* Chat client – I read from reviews that a chat client is not installed. This, in my opinion, will really rock our online world if this will be available. Imagine, you can check your emails THEN chat with your client to discuss the email over Yahoo IM while being connected on a WiFi hotspot — all without a laptop. Wouldn’t that be cool? Oh well, I’m hoping that Aduim already have an iPhone version by then.
Posted: April 11th, 2007 | Author: Arnold | Filed under: Day today, Techie | View Comments
I hate it when I receive SPAM emails from bots. I hate it more when the spam does not come from bots, but from human beings. I hate it most when spams come from candidates!
Vic Magsaysay, or one of his staff is spamming! I, together with about a hundred emails (yes, our emails are exposed through the “to” field. the guy who sent this doesn’t even know how to use bcc) received this email today.
Mr. Magsaysay, or his staff, believe me, SPAMMING is illegal. How can we vote for you if you don’t even know how to follow the law? And you want to be a law maker?
Posted: March 16th, 2007 | Author: Arnold | Filed under: Politics, Techie | View Comments
I don’t want to sound angry as this guy, but he has the right to feel that way. I think COMELEC made a terrible — make that stupid — mistake by publishing the personal information of thousands of NCR’s registered voters. Comelecncr.com — NOT .gov, take note (is this even sanctioned by the government?) is a partnership between a COMELEC official named Dir. Ferdinand Rafanan and San Miguel Corporation (yes, what does a multi-million peso company has to do with Philippine elections?).
Dir. Rafanan said the goal is transparency. Ok, sounds like a noble intention. But the big question is, does publishing someone’s name, registration number and home address over the internet where billions of people can access a violation of the right to privacy?
Believe me, it’s in there. I saw my name and other personal details. Try it yourself.