http://www.nychase.com Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:09:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NAIA Terminal 3 is a boon after MDT All domestic travelers may already have submitted themselves to the daunting experience of the Manila Domestic Airport with its cramped chaos and outmoded bus-station charm. If it weren’t for the profusion of airport security personnel and baggage x-ray detectors, one could easily pretend ... http://www.nychase.com/2008/08/local-news-naia-3-erap-and-the-olympic-gold-incentives/ It is remarkable how these Peruvian women separate the ideas of keeping these adorable guinea pigs (known locally as cuy) as household pets, and later on tossed into the frying pan as dinner. In a competition to raise the “fattest, fastest, most fashionable or tastiest rodent,” the indigenous women of ... http://www.nychase.com/2008/07/caviar-on-your-cavy/ Working from home has presented me with a profusion of benefits. And with the aid of technology, conference calls, which one would normally have to undertake in an office equipped with Avaya mechanisms, can now be largely accomplished in a computer outfitted with a softphone utility or more ubiquitously, Skype ... http://www.nychase.com/2008/07/lessons-from-seasoned-web-workers/ HP may have just shattered the record for superfluous packaging when a man received a delivery of a very big box containing wires? No. Worthless AOL media? No. A penguin? No. What the überbox did contain was 16 smaller boxes "which in turn [each] contained (wrapped in foam so they wouldn't ... http://www.nychase.com/2008/07/green-means-less/ I’ve only started to hit the ground running on my blog and there are still a myriad of things to learn about Wordpress. Being a first-time domain owner, I’ve taken a beating on learning how to configure MySQL databases, installing Wordpress 2.6, and constituting a suitable theme – with ... http://www.nychase.com/2008/07/lets-go-wordcamp-ing/ As I have assimilated into my new Work-At-Home (WAH) job, fundamentally a sitting job totally unlike my previous role as a trainer/instructor, I have grown to dislike how oily my face can get after hours of staring at a computer monitor. A greased face against a bright console conjures up ... http://www.nychase.com/2008/07/mask-of-magnanimity/ This blog is a reflection of my vivid and complex inner life. I do a great deal of introspection on things ranging from the ephemeral to the eternal. Some of these thoughts will cause people, myself included, that type of embarrassment which induces a full-frame internal wince, where memories become ... http://www.nychase.com/2008/07/hello-world/