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Vindicated (again)

John Gruber of daringfireball posted about his top apps and it’s nice to know that I’m on the right track in my choices.

He matters to me because first, he wrote the Markdown parsing script which I use in this blog. Second is that if you read his articles, it’s evident that he is pure Apple. However, he is one of the Mac-heads who still think straight. This simply translates to him knowing the shit from the diamonds – which is opposite to those who love everything Apple… especially if it’s from Apple itself. And though one may not agree 100% with what he says all the time, at least on knows his opinions are reasonable in any context.

Which is why I turn to him for any late breaking Apple stuff, since he usually has a good handle on the whole thing. So with software, he now has his top applications list, which is listed below.

And for the honorable mentions

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Have the terrorists won?

Having some inclination to photography, one will obviously hear or read about issues that deal with security. Particularly how photographers are usually denied the rights to taking photographs of certain places. Of course normal people would find it unfortunate, but ultimately couldn’t really care less about the plights of these photographers.

Photographers see these incidents as a big deal and never take them lightly, which is understandable – especially if they depended on it for a living.

However, when taking everything in the context of terrorism in the US, I can’t help but think that indeed, the terrorists have won. Fear has crippled the nation so much that it is becoming ridiculous… or is it?

What I’ve noticed is that though indeed there might have been unconstitutional to arbitrarily decide on which rights are allowed to photographers on specific places, I can’t help but think that sometimes any specialized group tends to merely think in the context of their own little worlds… in this case it’s the photographers. But in no way am I attacking them, since I too, like taking pictures. And I certainly want to be able to take pictures anytime and anywhere I want.

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Interesting Google thing

Well, I guess it was pretty obvious that I beat every single human being in the world to the punch when it comes to nargalzius. Well except Dan Akkroyd – who actually coined the name (from the movie She’s Having a Baby, ending credits).

Having said all that, might I add that it’s worth mentioning that not only am I #1 in the results of a google search of the word “nargalzius,” but apparently, [almost] every goddamn hit it makes is directly related to me!

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Alas, I knew it well

Damn, suddenly my cell-line won’t work, turns out the last payment I made (online) didn’t register at all… so no harm done, but of course now my line’s been temporarily suspended.

I then went to http://www.bpiexpressbills.com and saw this announcement:

Effective February 19, 2005 we will discontinue the payment and presentment facilities of ExpressBills for the following companies:

  • Globe HandyPhone
  • GlobeLines
  • Sky Internet
  • Manila Water
  • Alabang Waterworks

Bummer!

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