Drove my dad (actually Jem drove since my car got trapped by neighbors’ cars but I was co-driver so there :P) to the airport early this morning.
A Menudo song came up on the radio. They we’re the original boy band though not exactly Boyz II Men.
Saw a billboard of Centrum with Piolo Pascual saying “I want to be complete”. Guess he’s waiting for his Jerry Maguire.
Saw another billboard, this one of a movie. The Half Blood Samurai. He must get plenty of dizzy spells.
I need sleep.
I just added the WordPress OpenID Plugin. I’m now OpenID-enabled! What does this mean? It means that aside from registering and logging in to this site, you can also use your OpenID to log in. Where do you get your OpenID? You probably have one already. If you have a Yahoo! account, you just need to enable it here. If you have a WordPress.com account, you already have it enabled. Even VeriSign is in the game. There are even more providers where you can get an OpenID from. How does an OpenID work? When you log in to an OpenID-enabled site, you can opt to just give your OpenID URL. You will be asked to log in to your OpenID provider. Once logged in, you can choose which information (e.g. name, email, etc) being requested you will permit your provider to send to the OpenID-enabled site. Once that’s done, you’re authenticated at the OpenID-enabled site and it can then proceed to registering you or letting you do things such as posting comments and the like. No more need for so many account names and passwords. Simple huh?
It’s over. Finally, the long running DVD format war has effectively come to an end. Toshiba declared yesterday that it no longer will develop, make, or market HD-DVD players and recorders. Because Toshiba is the biggest proponent of HD-DVD, their action essentially concedes defeat to Sony’s competing Blu-Ray format. The beginning of the end came about when Warner announced early this year that it will produce content only on Blu-Ray. Warner has a huge amount of content and when they shifted to Blu-Ray, it’s just a matter of time. Less than a month it turns out. So now i guess everyone will be producing Blu-Ray players, recorders, and media hopefully driving down prices. So what? The future of content is online.
When I first saw the trailer of A Very Long Engagement so long ago, I thought I have a pretty good idea what the story is about. I finally got to watch it last night and I found out that it wasn’t exactly as I expected. Set in France just after World War I, the story is about a girl, Mathilde, looking for her fiance, Manech, who went missing and presumed dead after the horrific Battle of the Somme. Yet she did not believe he is gone. When you love someone, when do you give up hope and admit that he is lost to you? In this case, you don’t. She went on a determined search for him and gradually put together pieces of the mystery. Despite all the difficulties she encountered and all the discouraging answers she got, she persevered. In the end, she finds out that… Well, I guess that’s for you to also find out.
Rating: 4/5
Trend Micro is suing Barracuda because the latter supposedly infringes on a patent the former owns regarding the implementation of a anti-virus through an SMTP and FTP gateway. Apparently, Trend Micro is threatened by the less expensive solution of Barracuda which involves off-the-shelf hardware components and the open source Clam Anti-Virus. And so, instead of lowering its cost or improving its own features and services, it decides to sue on the grounds of its stupid patent. It only goes to show that they’re not really concerned about the security of computer users but only on their own profit. That’s just lame.