In my quest to share knowledge with everyone, I had created the forums website http://ask.bobreyes.com (Ask Bob Reyes dot com).

Everyone is free to ASK questions, and anyone may ANSWER them at the forums.

Enjoy our weekend!

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The Philippine Baskeball Association (PBL) had just opened last Saturday at the San Andres Gym. Yesterday, Toyota-Otis Sparks won over Hapee-PCU, 77-73.

To quote some clippings in local newspapers and website today about my cousin Boyet Bautista:

“Toyota-Otis leaned on Filipino American Joe Devance and peppery guard Boyet Bautista in the crucial stretch to beat Hapee Toothpaste, 77-73, Sunday in the 2006 Philippine Basketball League Unity Cup at the De La Salle Greenhills.

The 6-foot-7 Devance received a perfect pass from Bautista and hit an undergoal shot to give Toyota a decisive 75-73 lead with only 10 seconds remaining in the game.”
(By FRANK CALAPRE — The Manila Times Correspondent)

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Another reason why to be proud of becoming a Filipino:

NASA acknowledged on 03 Mar 2006 the discovery of Jupiter’s new Red Spot (The Great Red Spot is a great anti-cyclonic [high pressure] storm akin to a hurricane on Earth, but it is enormous [three Earths would fit within its boundaries] and it has persisted for at least the 400 years that humans have observed it through telescopes.) called Red Jr. by an amateur Filipino astromer from Cebu, Christopher Go.

Mabuhay ka, Christopher Go! We are proud of you!

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I just got mine!

After two (02) weeks of signing-up at the queu pages in http://www.googlepages.com, they had emailed me this morning saying that I may now use that wonderful service.

What’s in-store for you with GooglePages? Well, you have the ability to edit any webpage (not an entire website, yet) and have the option to host it at yourgmailname.googlepages.com for free!

My site there is online at http://robert.reyes.googlepages.com/home (for testing purposes)

Thank you, Google!

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Michael Dell, the President of the world’s biggest computer company is in Manila, Philippines for the opening of Dell’s Contact Support Center at the SM Mall of Asia yesterday.

The opening of the contact center will require around 1,400 employees, doubled from the original plan of 700. It will also boost an state-of-the-art system, wherein support services personnel can connect remotely to their client’s PCs.

Mabuhay, Michael Dell!

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Microsoft announced that they are delaying the launch of Windows Vista (consumer version), the long overdue update to Windows XP, by January 2007.

The product was originally announced to be launched before the Holidays of 2006. Microsoft however confirmed that the business version of Vista will be out in the market by November 2006.

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Remember my post regarding How Secured Netopia Is sometime November last year? Well, they had changed a little.

I am currently writing this blog entry here at Netopia Smart Wireless Center near DLSU, and for the first time I am using Mozilla Firefox. The downside, the version is only 1.0.7.

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Nope! Don’t get me wrong: SOS will not be in the Philippines, yet. What I want to say is that I am very happy everytime we shop at SM Makati, atleast for the past three weeks.

Three (03) consecutive Sundays that we had been shopping at SM Makati and everytime, the piped-in music will play cuts from different Swing Out Sister albums. How nice of them. Keep those music flowing.

Just wondering, when will SOS be back to Manila? The last time they were here, I was not permitted to watch their concert at the CCP, because I was just eight years old then. Hehehe ..

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Yes! You had heard it right! Writely, the web word processor, has been acquired by Google in an undisclosed amount.

What does this mean to an average (?) internet user like me? Well, worry no more that Writely is not charging us not a single cent. They had also stopped receiving donations since yesterday, following the announcement of the acquisition in both of the companies blogs.

Writely is here to stay!

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Yesterday, I saw in the late night news that a Congresswoman was arrested amidst a rally in commemoration of International Women’s Day.

This is not the first time that they had arrested (but according to the PNP, again: it is not an arrest, but rather than an invite) an elected official.

Is martial law already declared? When? I had not heard that martial law was declared again since 1972! Do these cops do not know a thing called as “Parliamentary Immunity”?

Damn! Sayang ang taxes na binabayad namin!

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Months after the Ortigas shootout (or was it a rub-out, huh?), the PNP-TMG strikes again! This time, according to them, they were chasing a Toyota Altis of a known carjacker. When the chase reached the area of Ortigas junction, they had fired on a vehicle, which they assumed is being driven by the carjacker. Unfortunately, it was not a Toyota Altis whom they had open fired upon: it’s a Toyota Vios of a private firm’s Vice-President.

Sus mio! Don’t they know the Rules of Engagement? Or are they just trigger-happy, money-sucking cops?

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The Runway 06/24 of Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (RPLL) has been closed for air traffic almost thirty (30) minutes already due to a disabled Cebu Pacific (CEB) DC9 aircraft with flat tires.

Initial reports indicate that two (02) of the aircraft’s landing gears raptured while preparing for take off. No injuries noted, though.

The runway was opened to departing and arriving flights some two (02) hours after.

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I am so happy because the third server of TurfSite Computing, Inc. is now up and running. Though I am still testing and rectifying from configurations and stuff, it is indeed up and running.

The new server runs on CentOS with a dual Intel Xeon 3.06GHz CPU and 8.0GB of RAM.

My aim to to consolidate all the accounts in my Server1 and Server2 to this new server within this month.

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