Category Archives: Personal

Tonka

By Jed | Published: October 17, 2012

My brother and I had Tonka trucks in the 70s. I wonder if they still make toys this tough. These days diecast is considered top of the line. Back then we treated diecast as synonymous to plastic.  

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

By Jed | Published: September 17, 2012

I have been listening to the audiobook of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder on my Sansa ClipZip on my daily commute to and from work. I finished the audiobook just this morning in a bus in EDSA around 6AM PHT. Quite surprised at the last part wherein Alice [...]

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trying out wp for android

By Jed | Published: June 18, 2012

i like the interface for starters. Let’s see how this works out.

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GoDaddy does not allow Paypal if you are using promo codes

By Jed | Published: December 26, 2011

I have always paid online transactions via Paypal including GoDaddy, Hostgator, NameCheap, etc. My last GoDaddy purchase was on October. I used Paypal there too. Today I tried to purchase a new domain (I got around 30 or so domains, the majority of which are spread between GoDaddy and NameCheap) and when I tried to [...]

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Donate to Wikipedia

By Jed | Published: November 29, 2011

I just donated to Wikipedia. Why? Free knowledge and “information must be free” and all that banter. It’s real for me. It should be to you too. I can still remember when information I wanted was so scarce. If you didn’t have a set of encyclopedia or a library close by — you’re pretty much [...]

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Unsubscribing from security mailing lists

By Jed | Published: November 23, 2011

In the process of hooking my gmail account to android, I now have a chance to resurrect my gmail account for real email usage and not just a repo of mailing lists I have subscribed through all these years. Yes that’s 10 plus years of non-stop security threads from full disclosure, pen-test, bugtraq and many [...]

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How to compute mutual fund earnings

By Jed | Published: July 19, 2011

http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/value-mutual-fund-investment/

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Atlas Shrugged Movie

By Jed | Published: March 15, 2011

Eagerly waiting for the Atlas Shrugged movie. Read it back in high school and loved it.

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Moty at the Shangri-la

By Jed | Published: February 10, 2011
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My target heart rate

By Jed | Published: November 3, 2010

We should sustain this heart rate for AT LEAST 20 minutes which is the minimum recommendations for health and weight loss. You can go up to 45 or even 60 minutes depending on your requirements or medical condition.

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