Stumbled upon this when I was digging around Google. A boy was born to a Dr. Walid Elias Kai and his wife Carol. The baby’s name: Oliver Google Kai. Dr. Kai is just so passionate about the search engine that he didn’t waver from his determination to name his offspring that despite relatives convincing him [...]
Entries from October 2005
A boy named Google
October 26th, 2005 · 2 Comments
Tags: Tech Stuff
Cannot find its own product
October 24th, 2005 · 1 Comment
I was getting new templates for a presentation that I was creating so I went to the Microsoft Office Online site. I saw this on the page as I was about to complete the download: Screen capture edited to highlight my disbelief! I have nothing against Microsoft as I have been a long time user [...]
Tags: Slice-of-Life · Tech Stuff
Another FEMA “WTF” moment for me
October 21st, 2005 · No Comments
My subscription copy of The New York Times Online just arrived and I decided to take a break from what I was doing to read the articles. Imagine my surprise when I read this: An aide to Mr. Brown responded hours later that the director would need a restaurant in Baton Rouge that night. “It [...]
Tags: The Top Stories
Woman throws children into the bay in SF
October 21st, 2005 · No Comments
Ok, I do hear voices in my head and I have conversations with myself. However I draw the line on this. A 23-year-old woman threw her 3 children off the pier in the Embarcadero are in San Francisco, CA. The children were 1, 3 and 6 years old and from news sources, they found 1 [...]
Tags: The Top Stories
Time’s All-Time 100 Novels
October 20th, 2005 · No Comments
Time Magazine released its All-Time 100 Novels list. The list includes books in English published from 1923 (The first year of the magazine). I looked through the list and saw that as much as I love books, I have only read 5 (Okay, 4 1/2) of the books on the list. And I read most [...]
Tags: The Printed Page
“My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
October 13th, 2005 · No Comments
It goes without saying that Iñigo Montoya, the guy who uttered the line I used as the title, is one of my favorite fictional characters. His passion and single-mindedness strikes a chord in me that I really can’t define. The Princess Bride movie directed by Rob Reiner is in my list of all-time favorite movies. [...]
Tags: The Top Stories
Yummy!
October 2nd, 2005 · No Comments
Have been hankering for carrot cake for several days now. mah Bebe told me that we should go to Chocolate Kiss Cafe. So off we went to my alma mater, UP Diliman. Because it’s Saturday, the 2nd floor was the one open. They had a pianist who was playing a varied list of pop songs [...]
Tags: Tummy Fillers
Imported
October 1st, 2005 · No Comments
My main blog was Suzaku’s Second Shrine over on Blog-City. It was so fun and easy to use the Blog-City software as they continually improved on it and added more features. When I signed up with them, it was the early days yet and sometimes the site is inaccessible. I was desperate to blog then [...]
Tags: Slice-of-Life