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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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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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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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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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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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A Joomla Installation

I just finished working on a site threatened with extinction. The Collectanea site that I created on CollectaneaNet76 took me the whole day to finish. There were a lot of premium Joomla Templates to choose from, thanks to the work of anonymous donors. I worked on the site on and off today, [...]

6Oct2008 | alesmeralda | 2 comments | Continued
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The Pontifical Biblical Institute: 100 Years

Maybe I should now apply for a sabbatical in 2009. The Pontifical Biblical Institute will be celebrating its centenary that year and I think some of the activities will be interesting. I received a letter announcing the event just this morning when I went to my parents’ place in Antipolo. R. [...]

15Sep2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Here’s Another Reason For Web Ministry

A few days ago a certain “bernadette” made a comment at the Bible Workshop asking me to help her with a problem.   She has been assigned by her community to prepare the eucharistic liturgy in Tagalog and she found herself ill-equipped for it.  So she asked whether it was possible for me to help her with Tagalog translations, [...]

13Sep2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Pictures from the DOST Booklaunching

Ms. Merle Opeña has made available the pictures from the DOST Booklaunching held at the Renaissance last 16 July, 2008. You may find some of these at the AgustinongPinoy Gallery.
Tags: DOST, ICT+and+Religion, book+launching

26Jul2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Maligaya VI Third Anniversary

Today we celebrate the third anniversary of the Maligaya VI community we established back in the year 2005.  Ben Tindoy, the then out-going President of our Olympia I chapel invited me to visit the Bible prayer group he and his group, the New Jerusalem community, were supporting there.  I went for a few nights of Bible prayer sessions [...]

26Jul2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Blogging, Notepad and BlogJet

I have always been an advocate of the write-your-blogs-offline-principle.  The idea behind is to save on internet connection.  The principle is most useful for those who connect to the internet using prepaid cards so as to maintain a blog, a website or even for writing emails.  My advocacy also promotes the use of Windows Notepad [...]

15May2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued