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3 Blogs Finalists In The 2011 Philippine Blog Awards

Posted in Random Thoughts on December 3rd, 2011 by Romelo Itong

Three of my blogs were fortunate enough to be chosen as Finalists in this year’s Philippine Blog Awards. The three blogs that got are: 1. San Pablo City Online (http://www.sanpablocity.net), 2. Kabalyero (http://www.kabalyero.net) and 3. in2ndLIFE (http://www.in2ndlife.com).

(Official Philippine Blog Awards Website)

San Pablo City Online is a Finalist under the Travel Category – Luzon while Kabalyero and in2ndLIFE are Finalists under the Gaming Category – National. The winners were announced last night in the awarding ceremony which was held at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: awarding ceremony, awards, blog awards, finalist, gaming category, in2ndlife, kabalyero, pba, philippine, philippine blog awards, san pablo city online, travel category, winners

My Computer’s Power Supply Unit Blew Up

Posted in Random Thoughts on June 9th, 2011 by Romelo Itong

This morning my computer’s power supply unit blew up after plugging it in. Sparks went flying around inside the case where the power supply unit was. I immediately unplugged it and took the power supply unit out of the case to avoid any extra damage to the computer.

My Computer's PSU Blew Up

Currently, the computer I am using is an older computer powered by an Intel Celeron D processor. It’s no where near the speed and performance of my work computer which is powered by an AMD Phenom II X6 processor but it allows me to browse the internet, send and receive e-mails and write my blog posts. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: amd, blew up, blowing up, blown away, celeron d, intel celeron d, phenom ii x6, power supply, power supply unit, psu

SmartBro Has Serious Security Issues

Posted in Random Thoughts on May 22nd, 2011 by Romelo Itong

A couple of days ago, my internet connection went down again. I immediately contacted my ISP, SmartBro, and reported the problem. The customer service representative guided me through the troubleshooting process. It didn’t fix the problem but he was able to determine where the problem was.

(SmartBROken, Image Credit: Google Image Search)

The customer service representative created a service request and had us scheduled two days later. My internet access went down on May 20, 2011 and service technicians from SmartBro were scheduled to come by two days later, May 22, 2011. Because of this unexpected problem, I had 2 days of no internet access. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: antenna, contractor, customer service representative, illegal connections, internet access, isp, messing with the system, security issues, service technician, smartbro

SmartBro Internet Access Down

Posted in Random Thoughts on April 1st, 2011 by Romelo Itong

My SmartBro Internet Access was down for almost a week, four days to be exact, and that translates to a few days of no work at all. Having an active internet connection is very important to me because everything I do revolves around it. From designing websites to building virtual items for Second Life and blogging. Without internet access, I can’t do anything except maybe play non-internet based games like Freelancer and Sid Meier’s Pirates. Yeah, I know they’re old but they’re the only games I got.

SmartBroKen
(Image Courtesy of Google Image Search)

We called SmartBro’s Customer Service many times and everytime we call them, they would always make us do all these troubleshooting stuff like turning off the modem, checking the cable, etc. After a couple of days, they finally scheduled a technician to come to our home and take a look at the problem but it will take their contracted technicians another two days to come. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: canopy, contractors, illegal connection, internet access down, reset, smartbro