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I’m not usually brand-centric, but with laptops/notebooks, I tend to favor two brands alone because of its reliability: Fujitsu and Toshiba. Read more on Selecting a brand of laptop

Got an SMS advisory from Globe Telecom on Christmas Eve. Read more on Globe Advisory: Incorrect GPRS settings?

At the winter solstice, December 22, 2006, J.K. Rowling released the title of the last book of the Harry Potter series: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Read more on Title of last Harry Potter book revealed

A highly-charged and always-on-the-go job is more susceptible to technostress, and in my experience, a mobile phone adds more to this than anything else. Here are some things I learned along the way in how to keep my sanity. Read more on Keeping "mobile phone technostress" under control

I never knew whether it’s proper to apologize for not updating my blog. I read somewhere I shouldn’t; but I usually feel guilty about the simplest things, so allow me to say sorry to all of you for the brief interruption. Read more on In my fortress of solitude

I lost an insanely expensive fountain pen months ago, & have been heartbroken ever since. My efforts to find a suitable replacement proved futile, as stores over here seem to think that there are no other brands in the world except for Parker & Cross. Read more on Gliding on the Lamy Safari Fountain Pen

Firefox 2.0? Ho-hum. After all, how can such a great browser impress us further? But a spellchecker’s there, & that’s always good; and a feed reader, which unfortunately didn’t live up to the standards of Sage. Read more on Decreasing the size of Firefox’s tabs

When using the mambot {mosimage}, Joomla automatically puts a horizontal space (hspace) around your image. This can destroy a website layout, especially one that is specifically sized up to the last pixel. Read more on Removing horizontal space in mosimage

One of our QA’s job requirements is to make sure that the source code submitted by the programmers is “clean” – meaning, no hidden email addresses, personal copyright information, etc. Read more on Developers say the funniest things

You’re happily surfing, and you realized too late that one of the URLs you’ve clicked was actually a PDF document. You hate it. It takes a long time to load, makes your browser hang, or confuses so much with the toolbars that you unknowingly close your browser.Read more on Disable PDF viewing in Firefox