Today’s one of those ‘unofficial’ holidays in the Philippine calendar, courtesy of the Manny Pacquiao-David Diaz fight.  The streets will be mostly devoid of pedestrians and vehicles, people will be dropping whatever they’re doing, and businesses will grind to a virtual standstill (for as much as it can on a Sunday).  As millions of Filipinos [...]

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As an NBA fan, I usually like to keep sides with teams and individuals that have good character, those who tend to play the game “the right way” and who knows when to take or give credit when it’s due. Granted, the preceding statement could be vaguely used to describe just about anyone in [...]

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Whoever said golf is not a sport should probably take a good, hard look at what just happened in the recently concluded U.S. Open. Because Tiger Woods just destroyed all misguided notions about how the game can be played at its highest level by barely-in-shape men who can afford to have a drink and [...]

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In the past few months, I’ve had to endure some pretty annoying hiccups on my home’s wifi network. To better illustrate the problem, my setup consists of a wireless (g) router placed in the middle of our living room where the primary phone line drops in. This should theoretically ensure the cleanest signal [...]

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You have to feel for Roger Federer.
Here he is, just two Grand Slam singles titles away from equaling Pete Sampras’ record of 14 and already widely considered by peers and pundits alike as one of the greatest to have ever played the game.  Only, like Sampras, he’s been unable to complete that most elusive of [...]

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I’m a pretty big fan of Rubik’s Cubes.  In the past year, I’ve managed to grow my collection of this resurgent puzzle toy to around 20-something pieces, mostly by purchasing knock-offs from China
Ironically, some of these cheap imitation cubes have trumped the quality (in terms of smoothness and ease of movement) of the original ones.  [...]

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