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

• Cleaning up the Desktop and Dock. #


• dammit. adium crashed. #


• anyway, just finished cleaning up my dock and desktop. #


• Currently watching Kim Possible’s latest ep “Big Bother” on YouTube (or rather, waiting for the video to cache). #


• Currently trimming down my Bloglines subscriptions. #


• Managed to cut down my Bloglines subscriptions from 600+ to now 270+. #


• @jsuplido, from how many? I guess cutting down into 1/3 or the original number is a feat (for someone as cluttered as I am). #

I had the scare of my life last Saturday morning. I woke up with a very acute pain in my right abdomen. I immediately thought it might be appendicitis. I just rested it out and the pain went away after about three hours. (Yes, that’s why I wasn’t able to go to the Blog Awards night).

Yesterday during dinnertime, the pain came back so I decided to go to the emergency room already. I was able to drive myself to St. Luke’s (though not without the usual impatience associated with being in extreme pain) along with my mom (financier, ehem, ehem) and brother BA (backup driver, in case I wanted to die of a heart attack instead).

Doctors initially thought I had gallstones, and thank God they ruled out appendicitis. But they then concluded from tests that I had kidney stones—either they’ve already passed through, they’re still passing through, or they can’t pass through. The next few days I’ll get some more tests done so we can pinpoint exactly where the little critters are, and how to go about with treatment. As far as I’m concerned getting cut open is a last resort.

So I’m stoned, so to speak. Actually, this is the same condition my wife, Caren, had a couple of years ago. Now I know how bad it feels.

If you’ve been missing me the past few days, you now know why I’ve been away from the action. I’m stoned.

Check out what happened to this guy. He posted a plea for help on DIGG for people to check out his site, because he and his girlfriend made a bet that if he can build a site that can get 2 million unique visitors in two months, she’d have a menage-a-trois (a threesome) with him and another lady!

So, here’s the story… I said to my girlfriend that any stupid website could get tons of hits, simply because people are bored all the time. She said that I was an idiot and couldn’t make a website that could get tons of hits if I wanted to. After a long argument (mostly centered around the fact that she called me an idiot) we made a bet:

If I could not make a website to get 2,000,000 hits, I would agree that I was an idiot; however, if I could make a website to get 2,000,000 hits, she would have a menage a trois (that’s a threesome to you non french-speakers) with me and another girl. I thought she was kidding at the time, but then she said she was so sure of herself, that she would even put it in writing. This of course is an ultra-binding contract.

Well, well. He got the 2 million plus hits. Now his only problem is screening potential candidates for when they do the deed.

Ah, the wonders of technology.

[via Darren Barefoot]

My latest post on Pinoy.urban.blog:

You know when your city or metropolis’ transportation system is crappy when restrictive measures are being undertaken to alleviate the traffic or congestion. Rather than solve the problem in rational ways, Metro Manila’s transport managers seem to put the burden upon the public. Why are we the ones who have to adjust? Don’t we pay our taxes? Don’t we pay for fare?

Car bans. Train segregation schemes. Silly road rules. Don’t they get tired of putting upon consumers the burden of solving urban problems?

The world–or rather the Earth–is not enough!

The creators of Google Maps and Google Earth give you Google Mars!

Come see the Red Planet in all its–umm–Red glory! Check out the planet’s details via satellite imagery, an elevation map, or infrared photography.

Be sure to look out for Martian habitats (or black helicopters?).

(via Googletutor)