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Born under the star of Capricorn, in the year of the Metal OX, I grew up to the music of the Beatles and witnessed the Ate Guy and Ate Vi fan-feuds, Toyota-Crispa rivalry, and the Thrilla in Manila on TV. Currently I am a friar of the Order of St. Augustine with some nine years of experience in webmastering and a lot more years in being a priest and a teacher. I am at the moment located somewhere in Laguna, Philippines, animating Basic Ecclesial Communities and teaching part-time. I run quite a few websites including AgustinongPinoy, Res Biblica, The Bible Workshop, the Collectanea Informatica and the Mystical Geek.

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The FarmVille Disease

9Feb2010 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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FarmVille Theme Music

The MP3 can be found here: http://www.muziboo.com/patopop007/music/barnyard-farmville-theme-song

2Feb2010 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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FarmVille Cartoons

One of the features I like about FarmVille is the snapshot feature.

The snapshot is automatically stored in one’s FaceBook album provided that the proper permission is given.  Snapshots can then be downloaded and edited using the proper software.  Below are some of the snapshots I’ve taken and edited to look like cartoons.  The software [...]

28Dec2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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FarmVille Starter Tips

If you have a FaceBook account and someone sent you an invitation to be his/her neighbor at FarmVille, know that you’ve been invited to join one of Zynga’s popular games.
FarmVille is a virtual farm where you can grow plants and trees and raise animals.  As you go from one level to another, opportunities are opened [...]

27Dec2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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WordPress MU

I am currently working on the Quaerere website expanding it in order to include even post submissions from students. For this purpose, I will be opening a section which will run under WordPress MU.

8Nov2009 | alesmeralda | 4 comments | Continued
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Augustine and Prayer

This morning I gave a lecture on Augustine’s idea of prayer at the CSA-Biñan as part of the school’s program in understanding Augustinian core values. During the course of the preparation for the talk, I looked at the way the Catechism of the Catholic Church makes use of Augustine’s works. I already knew that Augustine [...]

16Oct2009 | alesmeralda | Comments Off | Continued
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Joining a Great Adventure

This year’s friars’ retreat was held at the Carmelite Missionary Spiritual Center in Tagaytay with Fr. Pat Fahey, OSA as retreat master. The theme of the retreat is the Rule and its spirituality. The retreat master provided us with lists of texts from Augustine and other related materials arranged logically in topics like “Interiority”, “Love [...]

1Oct2009 | alesmeralda | Comments Off | Continued
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How Does One "Konek-Konek"? III

The series of articles on this blog about “konek-konek” arose from a question regarding how certain pastors/popular preachers relate one passage of the Scriptures with another one. This phenomenon has its “Catholic” origins from the Fathers of the Church who sought to explain Scriptures using Scriptures. I have written an article about this with regards to Augustine of Hippo and Guy the Carthusian entitled “Parallel Texts, Textual Resonances and the Liturgy”.

1Oct2009 | alesmeralda | Comments Off | Continued
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LeaderTask: A Software for Leaders

I am no stranger to Personal Information Managers. In fact, for several years now, I’ve been using a Notes Organizer, a Journal software and MS Outlook to organize my appointments, schedules and notes and to catalogue the documents I create. I am a pastor and I work with people who help me in [...]

2Sep2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Records of an Ecclesial Experiment

The BEC Project at the MGCP is progressing. Since the last time I wrote about it (three months ago) we have begun holding training sessions for our BEC leaders regularly. We have more than ten cell leaders under advanced training now coming from four areas of the parish and three more under basic training. The [...]

8Jun2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Most Popular at the Mystical Geek

I don’t often check the statistics for my blogs, but when I looked at the Mystical Geek this morning, I found out that search engines and my other blogs have been bringing readers to my posts. This is indicated by the fact that this week’s most popular content at Mystical Geek are not the ones [...]

4Jun2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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AML Pages: Iconize Your Folders and Notes

1. Download the Sample Icons I have collected for use with AML Pages. (See below)
2. Unzip the RAR file using your desktop’s unzippling utility. Remember where you unzip the archive. There will be three sub-folders in the “Sample Icons” directory: Documents, Folders, Mixed. Each of those sub-folders will have *.ico files.
3. Open up AML Pages. [...]

17May2009 | alesmeralda | 1 comment | Continued
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Research with Biblioscape

Just after writing the article on note-taking, I found a software application that can help one take, organize and process notes with a computer. I have discussed some information managers in this website but not one of these come close to Biblioscape which started out as an organizer for bibliographical references. Biblioscape version 8 has [...]

16May2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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TextBlockWriter

Remember when we learned how to use index cards at school? Index cards are great for taking notes that will eventually be used in a research paper. There are software developers that are working on the index card idea and creating software applications that allow one to create index-card-like documents that one can use and [...]

14May2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Just What Is Life…?

Just what is life,
is it just a passing dream …?
So goes a song I wrote for musical play that was performed many years ago at San Agustin Center of Studies.  What reminded me of the song was an old cartoon I did in 1995 about an experience I had on my first year at the [...]

11May2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Note-Taking High-Tech or Low-Tech

There is an article from Life-Hacker which puts forward Thomas Edison as an example of a successful note-taker. The author describes Edison’s note-taking ability thus:
Famous inventor Thomas Edison is probably the most experienced note-taker in the world. His diary which is still maintained as an important part of the United States historical record contains five [...]

9May2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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AML Pages

I am currently checking out AML Pages. I have been trying it out for a few weeks, writing articles for the Bible Workshop. The software is currently in version 9.10, a testimony to the kind of work that has been put into it. If one is familiar with other Tree Outliners like [...]

7May2009 | alesmeralda | 1 comment | Continued
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Twilight

Twilight.  It is supposed to be a film about teenage vampires.  It  is much ballyhooed.  My niece wrote something about it.  I must admit I was thinking of her review when I saw the movie.  I saw it on DVD, and here are my impressions…

29Dec2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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When Teens Rant

Because the world is falling is an interesting blog, not only because it is written by my niece, but also because it is the kind of blog I’ve wanted to write but am not talented enough to do so.

26Nov2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Lost: The Time-Loop Theory

LOST is about fate versus freedom as this website explains.

7Oct2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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