The Misadventures of Penoi

We h00ted in Singapore’s COMEX 2009 a point and shoot compact camera. Olympus Tough-8000, a shockproof and waterproof digital camera.  Personal choice of my wife coz she likes to take underwater pictures. There goes my XBOX hehehe.

Olympus Tough-8000 digital camera Benefits

SHOCKPROOF (6.6ft.)
Life can be tough, this camera is tougher. Rugged metal body and revolutionary shock-absorbing construction are designed to withstand a 6.6-foot drop, bump or other mishap.
WATERPROOF (33ft.)
A revolutionary system of waterproof seals and gaskets keeps water out so you can take pictures as deep as 33 feet underwater.
FREEZEPROOF (14°F/-10°C)
Boldly enter that winter wonderland without worrying about your camera. This camera is winterized to perform at below-freezing temperatures.
CRUSHPROOF (220lbf.)
With a rugged body and reinforced LCD, the STYLUS TOUGH-8000 withstands up to 220 pounds of pressure so your camera and images are protected.
DUAL IMAGE STABILIZATION
Forget about blurry shots with this 2-in-1 anti-blur solution. Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization compensates for camera shake to keep your shots steady while Digital Image Stabilization captures crisp, clear images in any situation.

Our freebies includes:



Screen protector                                    USB Card reader



Floating arm band                             Two 8Gb microSDHC



Table tripod                                    Two batteries



Gavio headphone

Tabo Stress Test



Let’s see if this a true waterproof camera using the “Tabo” stress test



Soak for a while



Look Ma!!! still Alive!!!



Coming SOON!!! The “Inodoro” Stress Test

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COMEX is a yearly IT show in Singapore showcasing the latest technologies in a bargain price

In US, a baby born at 9:09 on 9/9/09 weighing 9lb, 9ounce. Paglaki siguro nito, magaling suwerte siya sa Lucky 9 :) more info at gmanews.tv

Have you tried Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer 2009? It is a blog editor that supports blogger and wordpress. Now you can layout your blog posting the easy way.  Supports Technorati, LiveJournal, Flickr etc tagging, picture, photo album, table, map and video. You can add also  plugins from its Windows Live Writer Extensions

Full Feature List
In addition to the highlights of this release, here’s the list of all the major new features added since Windows Live Writer 2008:

• New border treatments (including Instant Photo)


• Crop and tilt photos


• Insert multiple photos


• Toolbar alignment commands enabled for images


• Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums


• Insert and publish video to YouTube


• Additional spell checking languages: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian


• Server-side tagging (for supported blogs)


• Type-down filtering in the Open dialog


• Twitter, Digg and Flickr Plug-ins


• Improved blog account setup


• Lightbox and Windows Live Spaces inline preview support


• Improved category control: adding categories, type-down filtering


• Tabbed view switching


• AutoLink glossary


• Smart quotes/typographic characters


• Word count


• Support for bidirectional languages (like Hebrew and Arabic)


• Tabs for view switching


• Updated look and feel

It is still in active development so beware of some bugs that might come in your way.

Windows Live Writer 2009 Download

Next year is our National Election, but for now, go register and cast your vote to NU Rock Awards 2009

Here's my pick for this year's Rock awards

1. Artist of the Year
Sugarfree
2. Album of the Year
Villains

3. Vocalist of the Year
Ebe Dancel

4. Guitarist of the Year
Manuel Legarda

5. Bassist of the Year
Buddy Zabala

6. Drummer of the Year
JB Leonor

7. Song of the Year
Hay Buhay

8. Best New Artist
Abstain

9. Best Album Packaging
Mornings and Airports(Sugarfree)

10. Best Music Video
Ibrahim (Wolfgang)

11. Producer of the Year
Manuel Legarda

12. Smart / URock
College Band of the Year
Abstain

domain renewal? not yet as my hosting's exchange rate is still Php45 = $1

Support Eddie Gil for President Movement!!!

Condolence to Iglesia ni Cristo. more info at gmanews

Who says that you can only receive spam messages thru email. Well here a concrete example of old school spammer. Everyday we recieved tons of flyers from our mailbox where spam filtering will not work.

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Holiday na naman sa Pinas. At isa yan sa mga namimiss ko sa Pinas.  Long weekends at Christmas Vacation. Working overseas demands much of your time. Kung baga eh kain lang at tulog ang pahinga. Hindi na din magtama ang schedule namin ni Misis. Paano kami magkakaroon ng munting Penoi nito. :(

Tagalog muna tayo!!!! Night shift :( nakakahilo at nakakapagod sa katawan. Pero ang maganda dito, pagdating ng madaling araw eh wala na halos ginagawa. Hintay hintay lang ng mga alerts. Binisita ko ang dati kong blog na penoycentral.blogdrive.com Kuwela nga pla dati ang mga entry ko sa blog na kung saan eh wiling wili sa pagbabasa ang asawa ko ngayon.

Kasayang balik balikan ang mga entry ko noon. Hindi ko akalain na nakakapag-blog ako ng ganun. Siguro hindi masyadong busy at nabibigyan ng time ang blogging. Siguro magandang ibalik ko ang dating penoycentral. Hay bahala na...

Sony announced its new PS3 Slim!!! Good news for gamers and sad news for Linux geeks though as this new console doesnt have an install other OS option.

Sony stated in the press materials. Apparently Linux just isn't entertaining enough to make the cut. 

more read at  Arstechnica

I had my first Chuck Taylor when i was in my high school years. Shoes immortalized by Eraserheads in their Ultraelectromagneticpop album. Red in color bought using profit from selling sweet beans to my classmates.

Yesterday, my wife gave me Converse Chuck Taylor Metallica and Justice for All Edition as gift for our monthsary. Thanks Mama!!!

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After the comment of Freddie Aguilar to Arnel Pineda and Charice Pempengco, many Filipino's throw their angst to Ka Freddie. One of this is vandalizing Freddie Aguilar's Wikipedia entry

Freddie Aguilar , better known as Aguilar The Talangka , is a mukhang unggoy folk musician from the Philippines. He is best known for the hit Anak ng Talangka, which became the anthem for the opposition to the Marcos regime during the 1986 People Power Revolution.[1] He is heavily associated with Pinoy rock.[2]

He is not well known internationally, and within the Philippines and Asia-Pacific region, claiming fame as the best imitator, fake song writer and singer of the Philippines.

-- Taken from wikipedia.org

Condolence to Aquino Family and to million Filipinos. Corazon Aquino, may she Rest in Peace.

It was year 2007, so many things happened to my life... loosing my job...financial problems...new job after 4 months hiatus... my rants about Wolfgang Reunion concert in Music Museum... and now, after years of waiting, Wolfgang and Razorback released their Alive 2007 CD. Thanks to modern era, i was able to order here in Singapore thru priss of wolfgang mailing list.

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Tracks:

Center of the sun

Giyang

voodo who do

Temple

as oceans

rp deathsquad

what grows in your garden

manna

sanctified

tabi ng bulkan

war pigs

CD includes Wolfgang and Razorback stickers, amob.com card, promo code for free in-games in levelup, not much of inlay cards, BEERS not included.

Yesterday i upgraded my Samsung LCD TV LA40B6450T1M's firmware. At first im quite nervous. Oh come on, i dont want our very own 40 inches tv to become a brick. Downloaded firmware at www.samsung.com.sg/support page, unzipped software at my thumbdrive, load the firmware using the update utility of the TV.. and that's it. Proud owner of one of the latest LCD tv in the world with updated firmware.

Shocking news!!! King of Pop Michael jackson dies in a Los Angeles hospital. Cause of death still unknown.  More info at GMAnews

My native home town in San Pascual Batangas was hit by a tornado with hailstorm.  I could not imagine, not even in this lifetime that our town will experience snow(as the local folks believe in) Is this the effect of global warming? Where places that do not experience tornado has now tornado, places that do not experience typhoons, now experience typhoons, etc. So much for Knowing-like movies for me.

More stories at Abs-cbn News

While looking for an alternative to VLC, i stumbled upon Kantaris a new media player.  Kantaris is a media player based from the source code of Videolan Client VLC and Bass audio library. It has cool 3d menu, last.fm, cool movie trailer and 3d video library. Also, kantaris support mp3, dvd and cd audio playing(search amazon and last.fm for cd covers and info).



Video Library for your locally saved movies. It searches IMDB database for movie covers and information





3D Movie Trailers



3D Menu

Kantaris media player is still on the early stage and have bugs but i can't wait for the final release.

We are contemplating to replace our borrowed TV. At first we are puzzled if we go for PLASMA TV or a LCD TV.  For some obvious reasons like power consumption, good gaming experience, price, etc. we opted for LCD TV. But now here's the deal, we are confused if we will go for Samsung LCD TV Series 5(around SGD1,900 for 40inches), or pay an extra bucks for Samsung LCD TV Series 6(around SGD2,700 40inches). Both have free DVD Home Theater system or a 21inches Flat TV.

I researched for the pros and con and found some interesting reviews from ProductWiki. Although im convinced(financially) on Series 5, my wife wants Series6 because of the Crystal Clear capability of that product line of LCD TV. Oh well, let see what happens.