Gaijin, in Japanese means “an outsider”

For the past weeks, I feel like an outsider peering into other people’s lives. I guess that’s how one feel when visiting people you haven’t been with for a long time.

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Sooner or later, Foursquare must standardize it’s venue naming convention. Truth be told, it should be now not later. Venue naming is already chaotic and it only adds more duplicate venues than before.

I even saw one user entering the same venue 4 times and another venue 5 times! Why? The venue can be written in different ways. I can say this guy is a seasoned Foursquare user because he added a lot of other venues, we can assume that he is aware of the rules and guidelines in entering a new venue.

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Last night, I was on my home when I saw an on-going rescue to help a man who went up at the tallest billboard in EDSA corner of Quezon Avenue. The man wants to commit suicide or so it appears from everyone at the ground.

Here are some of my thoughts and report of what happened from the ground (the reactions of the people, their views, sentiments) and the objective of the man who went all the way up of the billboard, endangering his own life as well as others.

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Wow, this is every gamers dream – a real-life experience of a virtual world game! Welcome to Game Nation, the world’s first experiential video game theme partk and resort!!

They said it themselves: Your dreams and fantasies will come to life in adventures yet to be told. You will become anything you like and live out the character you create. But this is no game. It’s real.

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SM Cyberzone officially launched on April 30th at SM Southmall, Las Piñas City. For those who are not familiar or just took the “SM Cyberzone” area for granted, it is a project of SM Supermalls in creating the best I.T. hubs in the Philippines.

But if like us you are a regular of SM Mall of Asia then you already know about the project since two years ago. I think the SM Cyberzone at SM Mall of Asia was a trial run, a sort-of live sandbox.

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After retail therapy this afternoon, it came to me… would it be easier if people come with labels and tags so we can just refer to these simple notes for instructions on how to get along with them?

Think about it. These instructions would really come in handy.

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I have been fixing Foursquare venue entries for three weeks now and I keep on seeing the same problems over and over again. Duplicate entries, wrong addresses, venues that are supposed to be different but not, and different formatting or the lack thereof.

Officially, there are no standard formatting for venue names other than using the establishment’s “official” name. For example, instead of Starbucks it must be Starbucks Coffee; instead of Kenny Rogers the correct name to use is Kenny Rogers Roasters. Additionally, there is no way in their current system to avoid the creation of duplicate entries and wrong addresses, most of these are coming from their mobile apps particularly the Foursquare iPhone app.

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Take a look at Angelica Jen Hecell Castaneda Rodriguez, she’s beautiful right? There’s a rumor about the Angelica Jen Hecell Castaneda Rodriguez Scandal Pic and I was able to eye on it. Read more

Playdom, a leading social gaming company acquires Acclaim, a developer of online games, casual games, single-player games, and social networking games. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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SGDK2 is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed for developing multi-layer scrolling tile-based games. It includes a map editor, graphics editor, code editor (but coding is not required), plan editor, sprite definition editor, frameset editor, and tileset editor.

It is written in C# and utilized OpenGL. SGDK2 and games created from it requires the .NET Framework 2.0 and OpenGL v1.2 or later. Games will run in Windows and Linux that passes the requirements.

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