How to stop google.com bookmark from redirecting

to local google versions.

For example I type in google.com and I get redirected to google.com.ph (Philippines)

I've been trying to find an easy way to avoid getting redirected for so long. Seems the solution was simple enough.

The link I now use for google is this:

www.google.com/ncr or www.google.com/webhp

I think it works for all country local sites.

Hope it helps!

Bayantel DSL vs Globe Broadband

Truthfully there is no contest. Bayantel wins this one hands down.

Bayantel DSL delivers their promised speed and also allows port forwarding, an important feature to most of us. Globe Broadband on the other hand, has intermittent connections, slow speeds during peak hours and no port forwarding.

Too bad Bayantel DSL is not available at my Baguio location.

Friendster Blogs is Stupid

Not the blogs, or the bloggers. The blog system.

I just spent some time to try out the Friendster blog system, and I now know that it is as buggy, unreliable, and unwieldy as the regular Friendster page. It is extremely hard to perform advanced editing and customization on it. Your posts get lost in a bunch of errors. It has the steepest learning curve I have ever seen in a blogging site.

Here's one example of what I'm talking about. After typing in a blog post I decide to place it in a category, but the add new categories button didn't seem to respond so I clicked on it again, and again, and again. I was frustrated. Then, after a reload I found out that I created 5 duplicate categories. The problems didn't stop there. I decided to publish my new post, but after clicking "publish", nothing happened! Even after 8 minutes, nothing happened. I eventually got the post up but it took some time and a lot of patience. (I don't even want to tell how I got it up, that would be tiring.)

In the end, if you want to blog, do it somewhere else. Friendster blogs is just not worth it.