Archive for August, 2005

Microsoft Beats Apple in Seeking Patent
From Bloomberg News
Apple Computer Inc., whose iPod is the top-selling digital music player in the U.S., lost an attempt to patent some of the device’s technology because rival Microsoft Corp. had already filed a similar application.
Microsoft beat Apple to the patent application by five months, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office [...]


BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Monks at a Belgian abbey have been forced to stop selling their famous beer after it was voted the best in the world and was promptly sold out.


komikon!

12Aug05

Komikon 2005
1st Philippine Komiks Convention 2005
Oct 22, 2005
U.P. Bahay ng Alumni, Diliman, Q.C.
http://www.komikon.blogspot.com
the independent comicbook competition looks interesting, if i didn’t have writer’s block.




bloghunting….

06Aug05

http://waiterrant.net/ — it is what it says it is, an anonymous waiter’s blog about working in the service industry. good writing, good stories.
http://standingonthebox.blogspot.com/ — this one’s an anonymous bouncer’s blog about working in New York.
read them. very interesting, very funny.