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Friday, September 26, 2008
Lexmark














It says Lexmark... just use your imagination.:)
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My girlfriend once brought this virus through her USB drive. She picked it up in an internet cafe near her school and she was curious enough to activate it. :)

When I realize what she has done, I then check the kind of damage this script caused to my laptop and my initial investigation tells me that it did not cause anything but populated itself to all my drives. (I could be wrong!) It even claims to protect your PC. But a virus is a virus and should be terminated. (evil grin)
Here are the steps to remove this malicious file:
Once activated this script will copy 3 files to your drives:
 - Autorun.inf,
- ntidr.vbs and
- Radz_services.vbs
And also copies SysRes.vbs to C:\WINDOWS.

Step 0 make sure that you open all your drives.
And you have set "show hidden files" in Tools->Folder Options.. View tab.
Step 1. Download Process Explorer (freeware)
Step 2. In the process Explorer under explorer.exe
find wscript.exe
Step 3. Right click then kill process.
Step 4. find autorun.inf, ntidr.vbs and radz_services.vbs in all your drive.
delete the 3 files in the drives.
Step 5. Go to C:\WINDOWS and delete SysRes.vbs.
Step 6. find all instance of ntidr and radz in the registry.
I found them in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft Visual Studio\FileMRUList\ (probably because I attempted to open this file in Visual Studio)
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MountPoint2\ something encrypted texts
under Shell\AutoPlay, Shell\Auto Run, Shell\Explore and Shell\Open

Step 7. Search for sysres.vbs in the registry.
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscript.exe" "C:\WINDOWS\SysRes.vbs"

Step 8. Search for ntidr and radz in your computer and delete them.


This steps if followed religiously should have fixed the problem.
To check if it the problem is fixed reboot then check you drives (make sure you safely remove USB).
If problem is still there then you must have missed something in your steps so go all over the steps again (religiously). If problem is still there google it and find solution elsewhere. :)
Let me know if I missed something.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Work Life Balance


What's Work Life Balance?

Jo: Work Life Balance is about being able to say, "I can play a guitar not just the keyboard... and the mouse". It's about playing the chords D-A-G-A and at the same time, knowing what a good code looks like. :)
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Monday, September 15, 2008
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I never thought I'd compete in a speech contest but last week, in a drop of a hat, I said YES to participating on a speech contest. I thought, "wow what's the worst thing that could happen? Losing the contest? Maybe."

I soon realized that the worst thing that could happen is to freeze in front of the crowd and lose the contest. I was scared as I imagined myself choking in front of so many people. I imagined the pat in the back of my friends as they say, "you did well" when in fact I froze. Those words of "comfort" is like a sharp knife stabbed through my rib cage and into my heart and every time they decided to comfort me this way, I feel then reaching for that imaginary knife and wiggle it like an endless torture. The night before the contest day, I did not do anything but watch Boston Legal. I watched and listen to the lawyer's eloquent speech in the courtroom and their sensual banter in the office then I thought to myself, "Can I use these tomorrow? Well, evaluating a speech is just like a lawyer, appearing before the jury telling them to free this man or woman because her speech is amazing. " I felt a bit of pressure as I imagine myself again choking while speaking before the audience. Then I reminded myself, "This is just a speech contest." Then I fell asleep.

Contest day came and I was thinking of not coming to the venue:) But then I feel that I have to go. I went there with my friends. I saw my office mate rehearsing her piece then I released wow I have nothing to rehearse. I did not prepare anything. When the contest started, I stood up, feeling a bit of momentum and then in some part of the speech, I lost focus and I forgot what to say. I just made up some words and then try to hit the 2 minute mark of the contest requirement. Right there and then, I know its over- I already lost. I want to apologize to everyone for not making the jump but I know it will humiliate me. My friends, then started giving me my dreaded "pat in the back". Oh no.... I felt every pat and heard every word. But then I realized that I don't have to say sorry. My friends did not need me to say sorry. They were there to give the best support they can give and I am too lame to understand they want to make me feel better. So all that's left is for me to forgive myself. "I'm sorry Jo, I did not made it.", I said to myself. Then deep down inside, I heard me say, "It's alright.:) You had worst.:)"

It is said that failure is a better teacher than success. And I would say, winning is way better than failing. So what did I learn from this experience? I learned that I need to learn how to relax. I need to learn to brainwash myself to excellence and to always have fallback plan just in case I choke. For me, this is more of a mental exercise and exposure. I look at this like making a jar of clay, I will simply persist until I succeed.
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I remembered a story about a doctor who asked the gangster about a lawsuit that was filed against him months ago. The conversation was not verbatim but it went like this:
"The case was dropped.", the gangster replied. "Why what happened?", asked the doctor. "Well, he died.", answered the gangster. "What?", suspiciously exclaimed the doctor. The gangster added, "Yeah, he was found dead. Apparently, he killed himself; He shot himself in the back."
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
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Yesterday, me and my mom watched Harold and Kumar Escape from G Bay. The movie's sexual content and crude humor is heavy so we did a lot of fast forwards. But I found a gem in this movie in a form of a poem. I googled it and found it's title and I would like to share it with you guys:

The Square Root of 3 by Dave Feinberg

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed
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Sonicflood

What's the difference between a regular concert and a worship concert? This question went through my mind as I saw a man coming out from the back of the Waterfront Ballroom stage with a guitar strapped in his shoulders and a book in his left hand. Then he read a passage which talks about the time when Jesus Christ appeared to His disciples after His resurrection. He then highlighted the words, "and they came to worship Him". The crowd roared a thundering shout and the man song the words,"Oh, and I have come to worship You."















I've been to some regular concerts and some worship concert. And I found a difference between regular concert and a worship concert. In a regular concert, the communication during the event is between the artist and the crowd. When the artist sings a beautiful song, the crowd will go on and say, "Wow, what a beautiful song". But in a worship concert, there are three communication process that takes place:
1. Artist and God
2. Artist and crowd
3. Crowd and God.














The artists' job is to lead the crowd not to focus on them but to focus to the one who deserves the glory and the honor and the praise. So when a song that ministers to the people is sang, the crowd will say, "Wow, what a wonderful God." Notice the shift of focus - from the artist to God.




And when the God is enthroned then He will inhabits the praises of His people. He can change the lives of the people and the people can open their hearts and God can touch their spirit. This is one of the wonderful things about singing songs to God it allows us to open our hearts and when we are open we can allow the Holy Spirit to minister to us. A Spirit to spirit connection is established and as the Jesus said, "... God is a Spirit and we should worship Him in spirit and in truth."









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Gossip Girl


It's been a few months now since I saw the last episode of Gossip Girl. You got it right guys, I'm GG fan now. :) My girlfriend, Joyce drag me into it.:) One time, she asked me to download whole season of GG to which I gave here a legitimate excuse why I can't do it. Days later, we had a fight and to make it up to her, I told her that we watch Gossip Girl together on Friday night.:) She was sooooo happy to hear it from me, I could hear the imaginary cheers and claps engulfing the air. Now, come Friday night, she brought a DVD of GG and we watch it. She gave me a run-through of the main characters as the show is running. It did not take me long enough to be intrigued... fascinated.. and mesmerized by the drama that weaved the characters together in the show - I became a fan. Of course, the presence of the sexy and intriguing, Serena Van der Woodsen and the beautiful and ruthless, Blair Waldorf helped keep my eyes glued to the tube for awhile yet what kept me going are the delemas that each character has to face to live a life in the elite Manhattan.

Now, the show will be on it's next season and I'm a bit excited of what's going to happen.

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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Once a blogger is always a blogger.


Once a blogger is always a blogger.


After a looooong slumber....I am now awake...alive.. and hopefully enthusiastic.:D

I hope I still have my readers, as if I really have readers in the first place. But any how, I miss blogging. I did not went away to a far..far..away place unreached by the internet.. I am just around.. banging my head in my work. Like many of the "working" people today.. I am in fact busy. I don't know what happened to me but I just couldn't find the time to blog. I have ideas here and there but I just couldn't drag myself in front of my PC to blog. This is probably the longest blog break that I took. I probably did not have enough why to blog. I was told that if a person has enough why to do something then he will do it.:) So no reason to blog is a biggie of this hiatus.

Why blog now?
I don't know, maybe I saw this photo of me kneeling made me thought of sharing it. I want to share fun stuffs. A lot had happened to me, first, I lost almost all of my business but I found God in my life. I lost a lot of drive in my life but I found a new Driver - Jesus. Yeah, every now and then I take over but now I figured He is a better driver than me. I attended a wedding and believe it or not it made me feel better about settling down... but woooah... hold it right there.. I AM NOT SETTLING DOWN ANYTIME SOON... hahahaha. I'm still scared. hahahahaha...
Bitaw.. God has His time.


Why are you reading this?
Yeah that's a question I would like to as you. Why read this when there are far more better ways to waste your time? If you still reading.. thank you. I want to make it worth your time to say thank you for your time. I am big enough to realize that an idea unread is useless so thank you..
my 5S Master is calling me now so good bye for now.
















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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Purpose Driven










My mother once lectured in a Sunday school about God laughing at people (Psalm 2:4). "Why should I care if God laughs or not?", I asked myself. It didn't really made any sense back then. Probably because I had the wrong question in mind or somehow I could not make any sense of a laughing God. Few weeks ago, I heard a sermon regarding the universe and how big it is compare to the earth. The speaker said something that really amazed me he said, "If our solar system is a size of a quarter (coin) then the whole Milky way galaxy is the same size as the whole North American continent. It's that small (holding up the quarter in his hand)." Wow!!!! It blew my mind!!!

I thought to myself, all the bragging and all the accomplishments that I attained and I can ever attain amounts to nothing compared to the Milky way galaxy. How much more the whole universe?

No wonder God laughs looking at us. We probably look very funny when we try to lift ourselves up. We probably look funny when we try to brag and think we are larger than life. We probably look hilarious thinking that we are better than others. All these things are nothing compared to what God has done. We are so small in the light of the universe and the Bible says that, ...
God has measured off the heavens with his fingers?" (Isaiah 40:12)

God is very very very very HUGE and we are very very very small.

no wonder that the Psalmist wrote in Psalms 8:
3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
the moon and the stars you set in place—
4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
June 14's concert is NOT postponed... I'll take SONICflood's spot. :)


It's been a busy week for me but singing with the band is
always a great experience. I'm excited for June 14, eversince
SONICflood's concert delay was announced, my band and I keeps on
practicing so we can fill in the spot.:)
From Atlanta, Georga to Hongkong then to Singapore and now Cebu City..
it's just amazing! I am so much blessed to be able to sing and just
pursue my passion.

Special thanks to apexjess for the photos.







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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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Here's what I got from promoter's:
SONICFLOOD concert is doing very well and the people are excited about it but unfortunately we have to move to August 16 (Saturday, Waterfront) due to logistical challenges from destination. Please hold on to your tickers, SONICFLOOD representative will make an official statement this week.
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Time Management - a misnomer


Time Management - a misnomer

We cannot manage time. Time passes by and we cannot stop it from flowing nor can we add or move time. Each of us has 24 hours a day, we cannot say, "I'll just spend 20 of my 24 hours today and add the remaining 4 to tomorrow so that I we will have extra 4 hours tomorrow." TIME SUBMITS TO NO MAN. We, therefore, cannot manage time, we can only manage our lives.

[Inspired by my conversation with Jeremy about John Maxwells thoughts on Time Management]

photo by: Chad Baker (gettyimages.com)
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Book Review: The Choice by Og Mandino

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I just finished reading The Choice by Og Mandino and I decided to write a brief review of the book.

As a fan of the author, Og Mandino, the story in this book sounds very familiar. As I am reading the book, I cannot help but think that this is really Og Mandino's life story. Of course, I know that he wasn't connected to an insurance company before he began writing his books but he was called Mr. Success (just like Mark Christopher, the main character of the story) because he was the editor-in-chief of Success Magazine.

As for the story, Og Mandino is a master in weaving his ideals into the stories that he makes and this book, The Choice is not an exception. The content was worth the time and if I have not heard these ideals in a recorded seminar then I am sure these ideals will surely blow my mind.

What I love about the book, was the intensity build-up made by the author. Og made sure that the reader cannot put the book down until it is over. I was caught between wanting to sleep and finding out what's behind the mystery of A.B. Salom.

The way Mark Christopher realized that he and his family didn't have much time together was so touching and it felt so personal. I then thought, what will happen when I will have a family of my own later in my life? Will I reach this kind of dilemma? Will I make these "hard" choices as well? And will my passion really produce success as Mr. Christopher had? It was amazing how these question keeps on popping out in my mind while reading this book. And something in my mind wants to read more in order to know how I can avoid reaching this dilemma but there was not answer to my question. Why? Because I believe that there will come a time when we are going to make the choice between career and family. A time will come where we need to define for ourselves what success is. And how we define success, will determine whether we choose our family or our career.

The book actually speaks more than just the two choice that I presented. Mark Christopher's last speech was also great but I heard this in a recording so this is not new to me. I had problem with the ending thought .:) It's not dramatic enough and it's a bit anti-climatic.

Ultimately, this book is a gem. Thanks Og for leaving us a book that we will cherish.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
Heroes Happen {Here}



Few months ago, Microsoft Cebu invited us in Heroes Happen {here}
where they launched Windows Sever 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008. I enjoyed the launching and was awed by new features for VS 2008 (codenamed: ORCA). We had great food and a photo shoot:





















After a month of waiting, my photo was finally delivered via mail.

Thanks Microsoft Cebu!!!
Special thanks to Raymon, Charisse, Jay, and Rudyard from MS Cebu.
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I got a comment from Mich:
"Is it true that their concert in Cebu will be moved in August? It's in their myspace and in their site. If so, what will we do with our tickets if we bought already?"

Here is my response:
Mich,
I have not received info from promoters. I asked one of them the same question and she told me that the tickets are still good. They can still be used for the concert if ever it will be moved to August.

Thanks for the note Mich.

Everyone,
I will make sure everybody gets an update about this.
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