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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:36:55 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gabriel at SM North Wing with Mommy Love</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:55:27 -0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:02:54 -0000</pubDate>
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<description>Me and my son, Cherokee, went on a weekend sortie to the Sierra Tree Farm, owned by Ramon and Ann Vidal of TWO; in Gaas, Balamban, Cebu to join members of the Cebu Mountaineering Society (CeMS) where we celebrated our Christmas party there as well as witnessing the induction of new members of CeMS.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 1 Dec 2007 03:18:21 -0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:03:05 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee</title>
<description>There has never been a book presented to the greater public and told in the American Indian&#x27;s point of view.  It is the tale of Sitting Bull, Cochise, Red Cloud, Chief Joseph and other great American Indian chiefs who fought for their people&#x27;s survival against the advancing wave of white Americans encroaching upon their territory that brought with them their greed and callousness and their diseases which they got and infected from their masters in Europe.  It also gave details of the white Americans aversion for the land which the American Indians possessed and how this race of rascals and thieves deceive and threatened every Indian chief and its people into giving all their land without any renumeration.  Surely, you will notice in this book how the noble red man stand out against the white Americans in terms of manners and speech.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 5 Nov 2007 08:21:33 -0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sat, 3 Nov 2007 11:57:00 -0000</pubDate>
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<description>My main personal blogging</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:09:29 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>WRITING FOR THE SAKE OF WRITING (AND MY EARNEST CONVERSION TO IT)</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:56:06 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>Jeff Wayne: WAR OF THE WORLDS</title>
<description>A 1979 rock opera version of H.G. Wells&#x27; best-selling novel &#x22;War of the Worlds&#x22;.  One of my best album favorites ever.  Visit this site -</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:39:50 -0000</pubDate>
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<description>The 18th birthday celebration of my eldest son, Gringo, a first yeat BSIT student at the Asian College of Technology.

Happy birthday</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:07:36 -0000</pubDate>
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<description>Fiesta celebration in honor of our patron saint, Sta.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:03:39 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>Cherokee&#x27;s Birthday</title>
<description>My youngest son, Cherokee, a Grade VI pupil at the University of Southern Philippines-Mabini Campus, gets to celebrate his 12th birthday.

Happy birthday</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:59:23 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>Scorpions:  THE BALLADS...THE SCORPIONS SAGA!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:26:21 -0000</pubDate>
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<title>OpenOffice 2.1</title>
<description>I have tried the OpenOffice.org office application suite for 7 months now and I find this application having the same features with Microsoft Office, give or take a few details.  What I like about OpenOffice is its documents are lighter in size than that of MS Office.  For example, I downloaded the Book of Psalms from Claretian Publications in MS Word format and it is all of 512 Kb in size but when I converted it to Ooo Writer its size shrinked to 123 Kb and I was able to save 389 Kb disk space for other uses.  OpenOffice documents can also be easily converted into Microsoft and PDF file formats.  One good thing about OpenOffice is it is free and you could download the 2.3 version from &#x3C;a href=http://openoffice.org&#x3E;http://openoffice.org&#x3C;/a&#x3E;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:12:42 -0000</pubDate>
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