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We've got an android ínside our ride this morning

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Lately we've been minding some few renovations inside our ride. When we have just purchased a new sound system inside it, we thought of actually having something to view upon. A mobile theater system so to speak. We usually place our notebook in the dashboard then let our kids watch from the backseat, but too bad, it doesn't have some solid state drive so we're afraid it might get damaged because of some vibrations. Then we just decided to buy an APad , a smaller one and something that would fit rightly on top of our dashboard. We grabbed a unit of an aPad ( MID APad M701  7.0 Inch Touch Screen  Android Tablet PC ) because its cheap and its running in Android OS. Android is opensource and there's an android app market installed in it where we can shop for cools apps for free. And for it's purpose as an in-house movie player for our car, it would serve very much beyond our need. I can do my e-book reading (as a colored version of a Kindle ), plants vs zombi

The whereabouts of our car repair and maintenance

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We gave our ride, a Daewoo GTE Racer, some holiday treat this Christmas season. Since it's a second hand auto, we had it's airconditioning system fixed and we bought a set of interior car mats on it. Next up, is its periodic car maintenance by changing the brake pads, spark plugs, fuel and oil filters, change engine and gear oil and replaced the wiper blades. Finally we've had the auto tint replaced, bought a new car stereo and speaker. Here's a map of our whereabouts regarding our car maintenance. View CAR SOLUTIONS in a larger map Periodic Car Maintenance at CAPITOL AUTO SUPPLY Auto Tint installation Car Stereo, Speaker and Power Antenna Installation Maintaining a car was quite expensive but really the comfort it brings us especially when we have our kids on board is really worth the spend.

This Family Badly Wants a Blackberry Curve 3G for Another Weekend/Holiday Adventure...

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It's Christmas time and I'll take a break on writing some geeky stuff and do spend this rare chance to post about my wonderful family. It was my 4th Christmas away from my mom and dad, and also my 4th being a mom to two wonderful kids and a very loving husband. And as I may say I'm so blessed. We do take shots of the very precious moments we do spend together. Be it a simple ice cream eat out, birthdays or our Anniversary, we do keep and treasure every moment were blessed to share together. We say we're camera whores and we badly need a Blackberry Curve 3G to do the task for us. My phone is almost retiring now, and it's a good thing TechPinas has their TechPinas Gadget Bonanza # 1 where I am crossing my fingers on getting a new phone. You know moms, being "kuripot" and all, just of course to save even a little will count much to hardly make both ends meet. Me and my husband Perci are always out for work on weekdays and even on Saturdays too for Perci

Deciphering FX Driver Weird Phonetics

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Everytime I ride an FX on the way to school or the office, I am having this trouble understanding the terms that the FX drivers use when they talk over their radio (walkie talkie). It feels like I'm being alienated or whatever out of place in their conversation with another driver over their walkie-talkie. Quite strange, even wondered why are they having such codes? What if they are leading us to some odd place... "Money Market, Tango, Oscar Kilo Oscar Kilo!" WTF?  hahahah...  Here are some of their frequently used terms,  just so we may be well informed. oscar kilo - OK Tango Sierra - Tandang Sora double mama - MMDA Money Market - Terminal/End of the line, lugar na pinagkakakitaan (NOVALICHES BAYAN) Tango - Tao Uniform Tusok - U-Turn Sierra Mike - SM North Sierra Bravo - SB Road Spaghetti pababa - clover leaf sa balintawak White lady - north cemetery, bagabag cemetery Legaspi - mayon tamagochi -pulis yellow boys - SB traffic officer Kilo Papa - Kingspoint subdivision

Creating Entity-relationship Diagrams (E-R Diagrams)

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Last semester for my introductory GIS class, part of a laboratory exercise is on creating E-R Diagrams which for me is a simple graph of the relationships between different objects within an interface. In programming, it is much like the UML (Unified Modeling Language) class diagrams that we are making before proceeding to the actual coding. E-R diagram  A data model, which is a high level description of the available data, is needed in storing relevant information in a database. In designing databases, there should be a conceptual and the physical phase. The creation of E-R (entity-relationship) diagrams belong to the conceptual phase. The E-R diagram serves as the blueprint before creating a database. There are things such as entity sets within an E-R Diagram 1. Entity – person, place, object, event, concept.  representation in the E-R diagram - table in the database shape in the E-R diagram -  RECTANGLE  2. Entity sets – collection of similar entities (same as “class” in ob