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Ingredients: 1 cup water 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup brown sugar 4 large eggs cup nuts 2 cups dried fruit (750 ml) bottle tequila (Jose Cuervo or your other favorite brand) Directions: 1. Sample the tequila to check quality. 2. Take a large bowl; check the tequila again to be sure it is of the highest quality. 3. Pour one level cup tequila and drink. 4. Turn on the electric mixer. 5. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. 6. Add one peastoon of sugar. 7. Beat again. 8. At this point it's best to make sure the tequila is still ok, so try another cup just in case. 9. Turn off the mixerer thingy. 10. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. 11. Pick the frigging fruit off the floor. 12. Mix on the turner. 13. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters just pry it loose with a drewscriver. 14. Sample the tequila to check for tonsisticity. 15. Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. 16. Who geeves a sheet. 17. Check

Merry Christmas to everyone! May the spirit of the love and sharing be with everyone not just this holiday season, but all year round. My apologies for the lack of updates. The long vacation has a way of turning one's brain into mush. :-)

Underneath is a brief position paper I wrote a few months back about how telecommuting could be instituted in government service. I gave a copy of this paper to my superior and even sent a copy of this to the Civil Service Commission . Frankly, I haven't been getting that much enthusiasm regarding telecommuting, but I think as a work arrangement, the time is right to try it out in government. INSTITUTING TELECOMMUTING AS A VIABLE WORK ARRANGEMENT IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE Work is something you do, not something you travel to. - Leonhard, Woody, The Underground Guide to Telecommuting Business leaders in the Philippines now trust their employees to work remotely, according to a survey commissioned by business communication applications provider Avaya Inc. The study shows that 75 percent of Filipino managers now trust their staff to telecommute and 68 percent believe that allowing employees to telecommute improves their productivity. - CIO.de I. Introduction With today’s spiraling fuel,

Reflection off an extremely well-polished cylindrical pillar at The Podium.

After almost a week of having no wired internet access at my home, I'm finally back online, with a new ADSL modem and faster speeds to boot. ZyXEL P-600 ADSL modem. Being able to browse the internet at up to 1 Mbps almost makes the aggravation worth it, but to be perfectly honest, I still think PLDT 's service still stinks. It was around two months before they really took action on my request to migrate my account from legacy DSL to IPDSLAM, and it involved quite a number of phone calls before they really did anything. There's lack of coordination between their customer service representatives and technical personnel, field technicians wouldn't arrive when they said they would, or they would arrive unannounced, and no one even bothered to mention that my internet connection would be dead for a few days to a week while the migration was in progress. Well, at least my connection is up and running again, and for that I'm thankful. As for their service and tech support,

It's been six days, and I still don't have internet access at home, no thanks to PLDT 's excruciatingly slow process of migrating my legacy DSL account to IPDSLAM (Internet Protocol Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer). It all started in the last week of September, I forgot exactly when. I visited PLDT's office in SM Megamall and requested that my DSL account be migrated to IPDSLAM since I was only getting half the bandwidth I was supposed to be getting, based on their P999 plan . My request was promptly entered into their system, I was given a service order number for future reference, and I was reassured that the migration would be seamless, and I would notice an increase in my bandwidth allocation after several days. After more than a month with no perceptible difference in browsing speeds I called up PLDT's customer service hotline (171). On my first call I was told their system was down so they were unable to follow up the status of my service request. A

Several weeks ago I bought a new notebook computer to replace my aging Asus A9Rp . The Asus , while tough as nails and as reliable as a Toyota, was starting to get a bit long in the tooth, and compared to its contemporaries, getting to be a bit of a dinosaur. While the Asus A9Rp is by no means a cutting edge notebook computer even when it was brand new, it was perfectly adequate for most computing purposes such as word processing, internet browsing, watching DVDs, and even gaming thanks to its built-in ATI Radeon™ Xpress 200M graphics. Where it does fall short, is in its size, and weight. It has a 15" screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio, so it's not widescreen. Not being widescreen, the notebook itself occupies a fairly big squarish footprint which inevitably makes it heavier than average at about 3.26 kilograms (7.17 lbs). With today's notebooks (and netbooks) sometimes weighing less than half that, I decided it was time for a change...and this time, other than price, weight