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“Hosting Account Suspended” and Other Tech Troubles
Lesson learned: When downloading podcasts in an Internet café, save the downloads directly to a memory card or flash drive. Otherwise – disaster.
Yesterday morning, I spent three hours in an Internet café in Cebu updating my favorite podcasts. I saved the files to the computer’s desktop, intending to copy them all to my MP3 player when I was finished. Unfortunately, the computer crashed. In the …
Syncing Google Chrome with My Google Account
Should I sync up the Google Chrome browser with my Google account?
Every time I log in to my Google account, I am asked to do this. One advantage is that I would only have to sign in once to have access to all the Google services: Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Google+, and all the others. Another advantage is to have my bookmarks follow me from …
Custom Item Limit in WordPress Menu
As anyone who knows me is aware, I encounter a lot of computer problems in my day-to-day life. Things rarely seem to work out, and no matter how much time and effort I put in to mastering WordPress and WordPress-related things, I never seem to learn anything helpful. It’s as if my brain has reached a technical memory limit. It simply refuses to process or …
Video Post: Rebuilding After Super Typhoon Yolanda
I shot this video on December 7, 2013, one month after super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). I was walking through what was left of the shoreline barangay of Seawall in Tacloban City. When I first saw this area after the typhoon, there was literally nothing left. The entire community – save for one or two concrete structures – had been washed away by the storm surge …
Video Post: Aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda
The area shown in this video was a thriving seashore community in Tacloban City before super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) roared through and flattened it. The video was shot on December 7, 2013, about a month after the typhoon, and people have already cleared away most of the debris and rubble and started to rebuild.
