WordPress 3.1 was released on February 22 and is codenamed “Reinhardt” in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. WordPress 3.1 is a major release and it includes a lot of enhancements for normal users and developers. The release is sure to contain some security fixes too so and I immediately backed up my WordPress […]

Below is a video spreading in the blogosphere. This is supposedly the video from a CCTV of one the restaurants in Ortigas (Oyster Boy Metro Walk(?)) showing a new laptop theft modus operandi. I am posting this as an awareness campaign to all, so that we can prevent this kind of activities from happening again. […]

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) launched a new generation of Philippine Banknotes. It boasts of several new security features including embossed prints, improved serial numbers, embedded security fibers, a watermark, and a security thread among others. Leading the new Philippines money is the new P1000 bill with Josefa Llanes Escoda, Vicente Lim, and Jose […]

Wow! Menardconnect.com turned 2 this week. After 342 posts, 1588 legit comments, 13416 spam comments, 60 (sometimes peaking at 79) feedburner subscribers, 175 Facebook page likes (and other stats to follow) I am very happy with menardconnect.com activities that officially started on the first complete post (Eheads Concert CD Review on December 4, 2008) and […]

I’m getting some calls from unlisted numbers. Some of the numbers are from mobile phones and some are from land lines. For the land lines some are from Metro Manila while some are from the provinces so I compiled some list of Philippines NDD Codes to help me sort the numbers. So what is NDD anyway? NDD […]

One thing I noticed in my blogs is that if the post is getting some considerable page views, comment spam will surely follow. I have created my formal comment policy to set some guidelines for legit commenter but I believe comment spammers are using some automated system of some sort so creativity in handling the […]