Jayvee has a lot on his mind about technology, publishing and communications

“Love looks through a telescope; Envii, through a microscope.” - Josh Billings

Hey folks, I’m back and posting between the sniffles. My seasonal flu is spot on with the weather change. Because of this I haven’t really had the time to fiddle with something that came through the mail - the Verzio Envii, which is Verzio’s first Windows Mobile 6 handheld. First saw this little thing at the Verzio store in Bonifacio High Street and lookie here - there’s finally one in the mail.
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I recommend Stowe Boyd’s post on PR Spam. In the Philippine context, what he’s saying is that PR practitioners should engage bloggers and journalists through social tools like Twitter or Facebook, and not through the email inbox. That way, it looks more like an invitation to join in on the conversation, with our time well spent in listening to a pitch. Stowe wants PR practitioners to stop spamming inboxes:
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Today, my parents celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary. We had lunch at the Bellevue in Alabang.

I did the math and since I’m turning 28 this year, being the eldest means that I came into the picture five years into their married life. Apparently in those five years my parents thrived with a lot of dogs, in the absence of children, to the extent that it was part of their home’s blueprint to have a cemented kennel to house our two German Shepherds beside the wet kitchen (today it serves the purpose of a stock room). The pugs and German Shepherds gave way to a single beagle which was then replaced in modern day by Hondo, our family dog and third pillow in bed.

We practically grew up with dogs. Here’s a photo of my brother with our first beagle which was stylized from the Joe Cool “Snoopy” franchise (Snoopy is Charlie Brown’s beagle):

In all its entirety - taking my parents’ wedding anniversary and mothers day celebration tomorrow, it is thus that I declare how I seem to attract and pacify animals, namely dogs, stray cats and some breeds of freshwater fish.

Wala lang.

Happy Mothers Day

I’ve been playing Mario Kart since 1998 on the N64. I’ve played it on the Nintendo DS and at the arcades as well - I remember spending afternoons at Rockwell as they had the first arcade to showcase Mario Kart with the card system that could track and save your race records in a small piece of plastic.
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I’m really happy for my good friend Riane - she’s put up an amazing bed linen business. None of those boring sheets here. Tag Linens is very generous with what they offer - you get a complete bed linen set: comforter cover and cover for two pillows (who sleeps with just one pillow anyway?!). So what you basically get are linens designed by my friend at really affordable prices because what you would have used to buy just a comforter also gets your two pillow cases! The easy guide to Tag Linens and price list can be found here or here!

Here are photos of the first collection of bed linens. Now from May 6 to 24, Tag Linens is offering a special Mothers Day promotional discount:

Delivery takes one to three days but if you live in the beautiful south like me (BF Homes, Las Pinas, Sucat, Alabang, etc) then she can deliver within the day!

So Animoto launched their referral program a few days ago - refer a friend for a full pass sign up and you get 3 months free! So far I’ve had two successful sign ups I was able to try out the full length video production and was able to churn this show out from the David and Goliath Little Losers launch last Tuesday. Boy that was fun!

I made a little “mistake” with the video and will try to correct if I could just add more photos. If you do get to try out the full video feature, you really need to do about 40 to 50 shots for anything more than three minutes of video. That’s, well a rough estimate as photos will tend to double in a single screen if you don’t. But oh well, it still looks great!

It’s been a while since my last video tutorial — this next one I promise will not fail to isolate. In fact, this may probably have the biggest impact to your career especially if you are in the IT, new media, or communications sector. Very multi-sectoral and so useful!

The video tutorial can be viewed here (pardon me but for some reason I’ve been having problems with embedding the video).

Enjoy!

Popped in Twitter while encoding a video and saw Steve Rubel’s link to Times, an RSS feed reader like no other. I downloaded the 14 day demo and exported my OPML from Vienna, my default reader to Times.

First impressions - IT’S PRETTY! Times is an RSS reader by Acrylic that allows you to read your feeds like you would a newspaper. All your feeds are prettified into a NY Times like layout with thumbnails and scroll bars. it’s actually sort of like a combination between your feed reader and the Wordpress Revolution theme.

The application costs USD $30.00. Not sure if I’d be willing to shell out that much money for a feed reader when I can more or less get the same experience with something that’s free. So yeah, $30.00 for ambiance.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

4GB RAM; effective 3.2GB of RAM on a 2G MacBook. But that’s fine — the 1GB can be used in case I dual boot.

Thanks, Longbeard.

I’m excited. Yeah I really am. By no doubt I’ve always been vocal about what a great place mag:net cafe BHS is - great memories with many great people from Geek Chorus, the Lomo folks, LU and Yehey!, and acquaintances from PR and advertising. We all seemed to converge here on Mondays or Tuesdays for Rockeoke or SPIT, whatever the poison was (turns out beer wasn’t the real poison).

But yeah I’m especially excited for this event. This is an exclusive blogger-only meet up sponsored by David and Goliath, the makers of the famous “Bloggers Suck!” tees. They will be launching a new shirt line on Tuesday, May 6 2008. And really, if you’re a mag:net patron, Tuesday nights are SPIT nights — once you’ve been spat at, you’ll crave for more!

The sign up sheet is posted here. Please feel free to sign up for the David and Goliath Event at mag:net.

P.S. mag:net BHS now has free WiFi.