racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

Here’s an interesting video supposedly of Bill Gates’ last day on Microsoft. This was shown during Bill’s keynote at the 2008 CES.

What’s the deal with the ZTE Broadband issue that the Philippine media is abuzz with, anyway? I have my very own ZTE Broadband thing:

And it’s sitting right on my desk – my ZTE DSL modem. It’s ZTE, and it’s for broadband, isn’t it?

Update

I’ve posted an update here, in case you’d like to read more about the ZTE NBN Project.

Get Internet Explorer:

We discovered the web …

LOL!

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Tabbed Browsing


Screw that. It will only confuse basic users, so instead of making it an option, we just didn’t implement it at all. Oh wait… there goes our browser market share. Our next release will have tabs.
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I got a good laugh from this spoof site! At first I thought, how lame–they even copied getfirefox.com’s site design, but then I realized it’s a spoof site.

(via DIGG)

Check out the Powerbook Prank over at ZUG, and learn how to make an eBay scamming attempt backfire, with hilarious results!

MyNameIsJeff thought something was fishy about the email inquiry for his Powerbook on auction–it was a scam!  So he sends a “homemade Powerbook” instead (right) and declares a value of US$ 2,000. The scammer had to pay US$ 550 in taxes.  Sweet!

If you liked the RIAA prank, which I wrote on previously, you’ll like the Credit Card Pranks (part 1 and part 2).

In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature.

Credit card signatures are a useless mechanism designed to make you feel safe, like airport security checks. So my question was, how crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?

This guy actually has the guts to sign his name in hieroglyphics, among other crazy signatures.

So no one actually verifies your signature against the one on your credit card or on the card companies’ database, eh?

Hilarious!