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Nicolas Sarkozy gets podcasted

Famous French blogger Loic Le Meur makes history by interviewing presidential French Minister of Interior Nicolas Sarkozy.

Not only is it the first-ever podcast by a French political leader, it also marks a startling break with customary etiquette, as Sarkozy and Le Meur address each other with the familiar “tu” rather than “vous” during their 30-minute meeting. “Bravo!” read many of the hundreds of viewer commentaries posted on Le Meur’s blog over the past few days. Many are heralding the interview as a watershed event, showing that French politicians can no longer afford to ignore the growing importance of nontraditional media

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sick

Wow, is like everyone catching a cold, fever, asthma, headache? 3/4 of the people I know are down with something.

I have all three!

Discuss.

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WordPress 2.0

Aaron Brazell, who does a great job over at Technosailor did a fantastic post for Problogger defining the 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.0.

We’re currently running at version 1.5, supporting better spam guards and the ability to recognize podcasts. WP 2.0 looks even more promising.

Yep, WordPress is getting a mighty upgrade and I’m so dying to see what it will resemble in the next few days.

WordPress? WTF if that?

If you’ve been seriously blogging for any bit of time at all, you’ve heard of the juggernaut that is WordPress. WordPress, of course, is the most popular self-hosted blogging platform utilized by independent writers. The official launch of WordPress 2.0 is upon us and, no doubt, the blogosphere will be buzzing about its launch. As a tester of the product since the early days of the WordPress 2.0 alpha builds, I’ve watched, participated and even assisted in the development of this software.

From what Aaron writes, it seems that WordPress 2.0 is turning into a drag-and dropping, community-building, anti-spam shooting, CMS generating monster that will truly benefit bloggers of every stock.

Oh crap, this is such a technical post. I doubt you got this far into the post with a smile still on your face.

Oops. I did it again.

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Merry Christmas!

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On behalf of my dog Hondo, I would like to greet everyone a very Merry Christmas!

late bloomer

Though I didn’t win the Philips 5.1 home theatre system or a shopping spree in any Ayala Mall, Monday night was one of the more memorable evenings I’ve ever experienced.

And if I tell you the reason, you’re going to laugh at me. Real loud.

You see, last night was the very first time I got drunk. My 25 years of gallyvanting has been limited to caffeine shots in coffee places and bottomless iced tea in restaurants. Add the few shots of hard liquor here and there to cap the pinnacle of my wild life.

Of all places to get drunk, it was at the year-end Microsoft party at Fiesta San Miguel over at The Dusit Hotel. Now any bar with the words Fiesta and San Miguel put together leaves you with but an obvious clue as to what people do there.

Apparently, Fiesta San Miguel serves their draft straight from the brewery into your glass. They brew their own beer! Damn, no wonder it was like water. I had eight.. or was that nine huge mugs. With bottomless bibingka and puto bumbong.