Category Archives: Random Stuff

USB to the rescue of smokers

Smokers alert! If you want to sneak a puff and remain politically correct in office, here’s something to take care of the irritating second-hand smoke. According to the product’s Japanese supplier, opening the USB ashtray will trigger a fan that sucks the smoke from your cigarette through an absorbing filter. Naturally, any fumes you breathe… Read More »

Who’s making iPhone for Apple?

Foxconn will be the main assembler, Unimicron and Tripod will likely supply the PCBs, Lite-On and Primax the camera modules, Largan Precision the camera lenses, Catcher and Foxconn the cases, Entery the connectors, Sunrex the push buttons. Rumours also had it that Cambridge Silicon Radio will be supplying iPhone’s Bluetooth module, Samsung will be supplying… Read More »

Fireworks in Makati

Fireworks display in Makati during New Year’s Eve countdown, staged by the same company that is responsible for the World Pyro Olympics at Mall of Asia last year. This video was shot from the balcony of my apartment using a digital camera. Yeah… I know, I need to get better equipment. Anyone willing to contribute… Read More »

Have a slice of Sbarro

You know what? I’ve been here in Makati for close to 18 months now and only recently did I realise that there is good pizza to be had outside the Pizza Hut-Shakey’s duopoly. The pizza place in question is called Sbarro, which serves pizzas unlike anything I’ve tried before. When I visited the branch at… Read More »

Quote of the day

“The new media age of Web 2.0 is threatening only if you believe that an excess of democracy is the road to anarchy.” ~ Richard Stengel, Managing Editor of TIME.