While my wife was here on her Philippines vacation, she had cable TV installed in our house. She didn't just get an installation done; she had the installation done in three rooms: The living room, the master bedroom, and my son's bedroom.

What would you define as government and public services in the Philippines? The obvious answer would be things like water and electricity. The not-so-obvious answer would include residential telephone services and other services that are necessary for the majority of the public (and sometimes a minority of the public). Services do not have to [...]

When you hear of websites that get thousands of unique visitors per day, wouldn't you like to get a piece of the action? Even a small piece of the action? If you concentrate on link clustering while writing, on a continuous basis, you'll begin to receive website traffic like that. It won't happen [...]

The high speed Internet choices are somewhat limited in Olongapo City, Philippines. This is especially annoying to foreigners who've been "spoiled" by fast speeds and solid connectivity before moving here. I'm one of those foreigners, an American living in the Philippines.
I think the best way for me to describe the high speed Internet choices [...]

I was going to title this post as "The Return of Dumb and Dumber", but thought it was better to leave that alone. Back in November, Dumb and Dumber spent some time at my house checking my internal wiring and such. They didn't fix my DSL connectivity problem.
A few days ago, I mentioned that I [...]

My apologies to Robert Burns (1759-1796) and John Steinbeck (1902-1968). The phrase is in print in various forms, but always includes "Of Mice and Men". It's based on the famous poem by Robert Burns and summarizes this thought: No matter how carefully a project is planned, something may still go wrong with it.
I have [...]

My DSL connection was intermittent and so bad for the last 24+ hours that I was lucky to have a connection for more than 60 seconds. When I said excuses are like anal sphincters, I didn't know that excuses from SubicTel were the only thing they knew how to do well.
I called them on Tuesday. [...]

The title is a mild way of starting off this sentence: Excuses are like assholes. Everyone has them and they all stink. I don't like making excuses, especially when I'm making them on behalf of someone else.
Some of you may wonder why I don't respond to email or blog comments in a timely manner. You [...]

After taking my laptop down to the bare metal and putting it back together again, a very lengthy ordeal, it now works without overheating. The pink vertical line on the display is still there and is probably incurable.
No matter what kind of deal I come across in the future, I will never buy another laptop. [...]

I will be offline until I can fix this laptop and my DSL service is restored to normal.
The laptop is shutting down on its own due to heat issues. There's probably a half inch of dust clogging the CPU fan because it no longer turns. I don't have the proper tools here and have to [...]