I finally had a long needed vacation and took the family to Boracay. It’s been more or less 8 years since I last set foot on that island and a lot of things had certainly changed. If you’re planning on going to Boracay for the first time and you expect to come to a “tropical paradise”, let me spoil it for you and tell you that you will be sorely disappointed. “Tropical”, yes. “Paradise”, hell no! You’re 16 years too late.

It was about 16 years ago when I went to Boracay for the very first time. Back then, it was still the “tropical paradise” as most of us would have pictured it. A simple bamboo and nipa hut for accommodations. No running water, we got water from a nearby well which we had to boil because it had a bit of salt in it. No fricken jetskis or watersports or scuba diving. No bars. No hotels. It was “tropical paradise” in the truest sense.

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105,000 Euros. You can buy yourself a lot of cool stuff with that amount of cash on you. You can blow it all away at a baccarat table in Morocco. You can build 2 police stations with it too. But why would you do all of those things with 105,000 Euros when you can travel from Russia, to Poland, on to Germany and finally to Zurich (border-less travel ROCKS!) where you can open a number Swiss Account where you can stash more loot later on?

Too bad for Gen. Eliseo de Lapaz that he got caught and now he is stuck playing a game of political hot potato with his bosses. Be a man Gen. de Lapaz, you’re going down anyway so just take those shitheads down with you!

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group’s founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from sudden complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. He was 46.

Full AP Report.

Found this through a submission on Mixx.com. There’s a new search engine built by former Google employees and it’s called “Cuil” (pronounced cool).

The home page is simple, like Google’s so it should present a familiar UI to everyone who has ever used Google.

Cuil Home Page, like Google only darker.

The difference is when you send your query. Cuil presents search results in a different layout from what we are used to.

Search Results for ADHD

As you can see, the way the search results are presented can be a bit overbearing at first. That’s 3 fricken columns of information right there! You even have the option to expand it to 4. I’m trying it out by setting it as my default search engine on Firefox for the next few days.