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Globelines Broadband cheaper rates
In: Internet and Web
4 Feb 2010
Business sure know how to sucker punch you. I just noticed that Globelines is offering much cheaper rates for new broadband subscribers. My Php 1995 2 Mbps plan and landline is now only Php 1295.
Thinking it’s unfair, I called [...]
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- Tags: Broadband, Globe, Globelines, Internet
Globelines using new IP ranges?
In: Internet and Web
14 Jan 2010Just a quickie. I just noticed that I get 180 prefix when I connect recently. Maybe starting around a week ago. I used to get the dreaded 203 or 222 prefix which meant that I’m on their oftentimes shared public IP.
I used to have such bad luck with Globe’s shared public IP addresses. That meant [...]
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- Tags: DSL, Globelines, Internet, IP
Pirated scholarship
13 Jan 2010I feel so old in saying “How I wish we had the learning resources kids have these days.” The Internet and the availability of information has, I think, has pretty much the same effect as, say the photocopying machine or the word processor. I just can’t imagine writing a 100-page thesis
Just last night, my younger [...]
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- Tags: Downloads, Ebooks, Education, Language, Linguistics
Inhibitionism
In: Internet and Web
2 Jan 2010Overexposed in the Blogosphere was a really interesting post about from a few years back. Are we really that overexposed online? Should we fear overexposure? Have we thrown our Miranda rights out of the window because of this? That everything we say or do online will be used against us?
I do believe that one of [...]
The real Negastar
29 Dec 2009Quite a number of people have commented about the barrage of pessimistic status messages on my Twitter/Facebook page. A few make jokes about it. A few even expressed concern about it.
Just before the break, I got to talk to a friend of mine from the department and she brought the idea of being “nega.” Pondered [...]
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- Tags: Facebook, Internet, Personality, Pessimism, Twitter
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