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Samsung MetroWear 2007

Tippi, my classmate in French, invited everyone in class to the Samsung Metrowear 2007 fashion show where she will be showcasing her latest designs along with those of other designers. Only three(?) of us actually went and just as well since the place was already packed as it was. We had to squeeze our way to the front of the catwalk and we ended up standing towards the back.

Of course I took pictures. But do they suck! The light was low so I had to use a lower ISO resulting in graininess. We were also a bit too far and my pitiful kit lens couldn’t reach out that far so I had to crop resulting in loss of detail. Finally, my shooting posture was awkward as I tried to shoot over the heads of people while being careful not to jostle anybody. Bottom line: I need to practice more under different conditions.

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Famous Half Pinoys

This morning Jem sent me this joke:

Famous Half Pinoys:
Jaime Ayala – half pinoy, half Spanish
Henry Sy – half pinoy, half Chinese
Lito Atienza – half pinoy, half Hawaiian shirt
John Osmena – half pinoy, half pinay
Prospero Pichay – half pinoy, half gulay
Mike Arroyo – half pinoy, half baboy
GMA – half only

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Beowulf

I was already planning to watch Beowulf but on regular cinema when Val clued me in to the fact that it will be available in full-length 3D on IMAX. Who would pass up seeing Angelina Jolie in 3Delectable goodieness, right? So tonight, I watched it at SM Mall of Asia’s IMAX Cinema.

Beowulf, as you all probably know, is an old English poem. And I do mean old. Unless you’ve been living under a rock… for centuries… then you probably would have heard of it. If you haven’t, suffice to say it is all those stories that you love to hear before bedtime rolled into one: kings, queens, warriors, monsters, and treasures.

But what can I say about the movie? “AWESOME!” would be a good start. Beowulf is already a great tale in itself. But the retelling by Neil Gaiman, Angelina Jolie, the great acting as usual by Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich, seeing it on the BIG screen, on IMAX, in 3D, and did I say Angelina Jolie? All these makes it even bigger and better.

Shell out those hard-earned bucks and watch it on IMAX. It’s worth it.

Rating: 6/5 (extra point for the extra dimension)

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LinkSys WRT54G Version 7

The LinkSys WRT54G is a ubiquitous router. In fact, I have one at home and two at the office. The one at home works fine but the same can’t be said for the two at the office. Every once in a while, you can’t connect to the WiFi network and you have to reboot. And often, you can’t access the web based administration console at all. Normally, the solution would be to upgrade the firmware. But if you have a WRT54G version 7, which is the case, you’re out of luck: LinkSys also does not provide firmware updates for this version. Or so I thought. So it was pretty hopeless for a while. But this morning, I learned that apparently LinkSys provides firmware upgrades for Europe. You can get it here. We’ve upgraded the routers at the office and everything is going smoothly so far.

UPDATE: It didn’t change anything. Darn!