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Hi, Some soldiers and officers who staged a protest 4 years ago walked out of their trial and walked to a 5 star hotel in the Philippines premier district shortly before noon today. They are calling on the rest of the military to withdraw support from President Arroyo and on the public to flock...

SAMSUNG HD161HJ I got one of these for a client. Couldn't find it on the web. There's a HD160HJ but I suppose that is a different model. Testing this machine right now, it seems better in multitasking than my personal 250Gb Seagate 7200.10 SATA.

kinda long presentation. but I agree. have long decided to be cremated. problem here is that, it does not present a savings versus traditional burial in a casket. same costs.

Hello, LM. FWIW, I'd just like to say I understand you need something, help, prayers, relief, somebody to just be there, even if not able to say something... Just hoping you find the strength to keep plugging on and triumphing over whatever has got you down . . for now.

very good photo of your son. am very glad for you and your wife. reminds me of the photos I took of my grandson. yeah!

Congratulations. Now, if you happen to be in the Philippines sometime soon, I can get you into some Parenting Seminars... Kidding. ^_^

http://dansdata.com/gz075.htm Do you tend to agree or what?

That's a big lens, Handy. I wouldn't be carrying it around on a bus here. The stares would acquire a new meaning.

5'5" 165lbx BMI 27.5 I don't feel so good.

Ever since I was young, I've been sort of melancholic. So around my 20's I started answering questions like "Kumusta?" (a tagalog-ization of the Spanish "Como esta?" which roughly translates to "How are you?", with "Buhay pa." or "Still alive" which would communicate the below optimum state of...

Has anyone seen "Malena". I first saw it 2 years ago. Still like it. Uh, if anyone is turned off by subtitles, then you have been warned. Also, I like listening to Italian better than listening to Spanish, don't know why.

I don't know where I got the idea of watching "Spirited Away" but I did and really enjoyed it. Also I got to watch "Letters from Iwo Jima" and I think it is a great movie. Many liked "Flags of our Fathers" but IMO, this one surpasses it by a lot.

hmmmm. When I first watched Blade Runner (I don't remember when, just that I was still young then) I thought to myself, what a great movie (what was it about? huh?) Oh! Sean Young was sooooooo (sigh!) You mean, that's the reason why I thought the movie was great, and also the reason why I...

stores here place hard drives they sell in clear plastic rectangular boxes, you know, those microwave-able things. they are dust-proof and you can stack them.

I watched Hero and really liked it. Grand. For some reason, I also liked Romeo Must Die. It has Jet Li in it, too.

ok, I'll look that up. thanks Howell

I am liking House M.D., too Went through The Practice. It understandably went downhill as it aged, but I am thinking I still like it more than Boston Legal.

I am on a nostalgia streak nowadays. Just watched the following: The Blue Max Somewhere in Time Magnificent Seven Splash Dune (bad movie) Great Escape Les Miserables Shine Am going to be watching soon: The Shining Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Finding Forrester Entrapment

More on the weather . . . You may have heard of the recently concluded boxing match between our Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao and the Mexican Barrera last Sunday. Sugar Ray Leonard was interviewed as part of the hype leading to the match. This is part of the article:

Coug posted a link to a test (didn't read it) and mentioned Avast scored well in that test. I tried Avast and ditched AVG for it. Have been using it since. Caught some viruses in some friends' machines. Has kept my system trouble free. Real time may be cutting into my resources, but I'm not...

Tim, my son and I were looking at the bike you purchased. He said to look at the larger pic and I noticed it didn't have a whole lot of spokes. He sez, it's for the road that's why. Congratulations on that purchase. I'm 100% sure you are thoroughly enjoying it. As for us, we'll be sticking to...

It's a good thing I don't have any money to speak of. Or else I'd be a violent man. If I had the money, I'd break the laptop (not over his head, but that's a thought) and count him a few pieces from my thick wad of $100 bills and tell him to buy a new one and never bother me again. My most...

It is a D500. Only 256mb memory but quick enough for my needs, meaning internet and word processing. 40Gb hard disk

I am typing this on a Dell Latitude 500, a gift from a young lady we cared for 6 years. She now works in Dubai. For some reason, the apartment we now live in is a WiFi hotspot. AFAIK, this laptop was with her for, like, three years. No glitches whatsoever

Would never, never happen here. That would be an invitation to bankrupt one's business.

My best antidote to the burning squirts/ring of fire is lots of veggies. I remember my grandmother (dad's mother) had a medium sized glass jar which she kept at least half full of rice-grain sized chillies. Every now and then, she would pop some into her mouth and ... Maybe it was the...

hohoho, Merc. we've got something in common, though I must confess, I must have eaten only chillies in the <100,000 scoville range. The Wikipedia article rates our Philippine "labuyo" at max 100,000. My father introduced me to chillies by roasting 2 of them and forcing me to eat it as a...

My fantasy, too. But I could never do it. Your long, slow road to penury would be pretty instantaneous one for me. This thread is the fastest growing thread in recent memory. And lots of good info in it.

yeah, this is something to be concerned about. the people in church, though, never tell me to visit the people who stop attending. I would, too, if wasn't too shy. Dropping a line on all of them would be the right thing to do. And I also hope nothing untoward hasn't happened to anyone.

Metro Manila, AFAIK, is one of the most densely populated areas on earth. It is supposedly rain forest if precipitation is the benchmark. We have flash floods during thunderstorms. And typhoons bring destructive winds at least twice a year. The ordinary typhoons with 60-70 kph winds intensify...

I use a good P/S, an olympus 240UZ. But there have been times it must have screaming out its protestations against the heavy pressure on its shutter button, when for some reason it won't click. Usually when I'm trying to take pictures of my grandson. Oh, I am waiting for my 2nd daughter to...

In my place, people have taken well to the 3 Mass Rail Transit (MRTs) systems that have been built. Most are losing money (people won't pay high fares) and the government is paying huge foreign loans taken out to build them. But overall, they are cheaper and faster than the buses and jeeps...

They do? I must search those posts out, then.

Well, you'll be ok as long as you hit the "luzon" part (north) the pirates you are thinking about are in the "palawan" and "mindanao" part (south). And AFAIK, they get their rocket launchers and machine guns from our military who get them from your military. They get the old stuff much of which...

Mad James Rackham I took the test, just for kicks. I wouldn't know how to speak "Pirate" if a gun was placed against me noggin. Still reading up on it. "James", at least, is my grandson's first name. 'Tis not mine. So I was wondering a bit aboot that. Heh, Dave ever plan on doing the Pacific...

This was an old thread!!! Just realized it. Usually hit the "new posts" button and saw it for the first time. I assumed it was a new thread and started reading it as such until I got down to the last post. Wha!?

Thanks for the concern and the advice. I'll be sure to mention it to the doctor when I go for a check-up.

2X a day for me. It's funny nowadays that here in the Philippines, I get to hear the term "mild stroke". Which I can understand to mean a stroke that one survives and one which allows you to be up and about with little or no apparent debilitating effects within 2 weeks. But in my heart, I...

We have a term for your client, Merc. We call guys like those "bobo".

"You need to be hugged" I humbly propose that a person needs somebody close, somebody to walk with. I am thankful that somehow, SF is a "somebody" for Mercutio. But I am hoping that there will be someone, soon . who can offer some more than cyber companionship. We have accepted and we cherish...

"You need to be hugged."

Has the Filipino nation been relocated to Australia? This makes me recall our former President Estrada who was impeached and charged with plunder. He had quite a few mistresses. Each mistress was supposed to have a mansion or two each. Many stories were told about his drinking and gambling all...

BTW, is 30 minutes to disable a filter fast? I was under the (movies) impression that a crack could be done in less than a minute. BTW the first question is legit. The second statement is a joke. I am no programmer. I tried to learn "BASIC" and failed miserably.

I had a friend whose baby (2 years old) was playing games on his father's PC. I saw him standing on a stool, the mouse in his hand, clicking and playing a word game. The baby was looking to broaden his vocabulary while still unable to control his drool. Though I have not had 1st hand...

the third review on the page had the customer sounding like he was disappointed the machine did not have WD drives - only had Samsung drives in them. huh! I'd bet he doesn't have an SF nick.

oops!

But what kind of BB gun would have enough force to shatter safety automotive glass, and puncture steel sheeting? The only BB guns I was exposed to were those used in shooting galleries in the backyard fairs of my childhood. And those almost couldn't topple the lead chickens unless you hit it...

I wanted to watch Tom Cruise in "The Firm" Like getting "Shrek" in German, I got this "The Firm" with Gary Oldman. Was about hooliganism in England. But this were "old" hooligans smashing BMW's, slashing faces, breaking bones. Not kids who should know better. Confirms my belief that my wife is...

There was this Toledo X2 3800 at tigerdirect.ca Skt-939

I enjoy reading this stuff. Makes me remember when I had two Nikon FE2's and a few lenses back in the first half of the 1990's. Turned out I couldn't afford them so the equipment was sold piecemeal to finance more important needs. I had always been afraid to go around Manila with a bulky bag...