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ShutterBlog: A travel photo blog workshop with Ms. Jojie Alcantara

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I can’t hide my excitement for this event not only because I’m one of Ms. Jojie’s fan but also because she was instrumental in teaching me the basics of photojournalism.

Ms. Jojie Alcantara is an engaging writer who dabbles in the arts- painting, photography to name a few and travels incessantly around the country “to promote her hometown to the world”. She is a lifestyle and travel writer for national dailies like Manila Bulletin and local newspaper Sunstar Davao. She writes about her travels at Dabawenya.me.  She has this penchant for funny signs she encounters during travels and blogs about it on her now defunct but very lively website witerary.com. Her travel photos and photography portfolio is astounding to say at least and some of her photos are published in known travel magazines like Mabuhay (of Phil. Airlines). You can view here photos in flickr or in her pbase galleries.

Of course we had our past with dabawenya Jojie Alcantara. She was our  resource speaker in previous photojournalism workshop with the SOX Bloggers at The Farm in Carpenter Hill Koronadal City last 2009. I still use a legendary and prehistoric Powershot A20 point and shoot camera  that time but I really enjoyed the workshop so much I got hooked in photography since then.

So on Tuesday, June 12, 2012, about 25 active members of the Soccsksargen Bloggers Mindanao’s Funnest Blogging Circle, will be converging at GenSan View Resort, one of the city’s famed inland resorts for another travel photo blog workshop- The ShutterBlog. This is an exclusive workshop for the Sox Bloggers by Project O! Consultants together with CameraHaus, the #1 dealer of cameras and camera accessories in the city located inside KCC Mall of GenSan, and GenSan View Resort, the Official Venue.

Ms. Jojie Alcantara will have a meet and greet event at the Camera Haus inside KCC Mall, this June 11, 2012 at around 5:30PM.

For those who were invited to attend this workshop, here’s a driving direction I made out of Google Map, from GenSan Rotunda to Gensan View Port. Click the picture for a larger view..

Driving directions to Nursery Road, Lagao, General Santos City, South Cotabato, Philippines (Gensan View Resort)
Starting from National Hwy/Pan-Philippine Hwy

  1. Head east on National Hwy/Pan-Philippine Hwy
  2. Continue to follow Pan-Philippine Hwy
  3. Turn Left on the Asian Highway with Soccsargen Hospital as landmark
  4. Take the 2nd left onto Nursery Rd
  5. Continue straight to stay on Nursery Rd
  6. Turn Right at an Unknown Road to Gensan View resort

Total: 9.7 km - about 16 mins

Comment here for the kml file should you want it “loaded” in your smartphones with GPS capability.

“Born and Raised” by John Mayer

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I like the recent album Born and Raised released by John Mayer just last May 22, 2012.  Reminded me of the country music by Bob Dylan and Neil Young before. His best album so far, in my opinion.

Here’s the track list:

No. Title Length
1. “Queen of California” 4:10
2. “The Age of Worry” 2:38
3. “Shadow Days“ 3:53
4. “Speak for Me” 3:45
5. “Something Like Olivia” 3:01
6. “Born and Raised” 4:48
7. “If I Ever Get Around to Living” 5:22
8. “Love Is a Verb” 2:24
9. “Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967″ 5:08
10. “Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey” 4:39
11. “A Face to Call Home” 4:45
12. “Born and Raised (Reprise)” 2:01
13. “Fool to Love You (iTunes bonus track) ”

Born and Raised

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17th
Feb

iCloud, App Store, iTunes and Facetime fix Hackintosh Lion 10.7.2

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I’m upgrading to Lion OS specifically because of this feature- the iCloud. So I was quite frustrated when iCloud “told” me this when I tried to login after upgrading to 10.7.2 :

Your Apple ID is valid but is not an iCloud account

The same thing happens when I tried to log in to my itunes or app store accounts. Denied. Or it was not recognized by Apple or some other error messages.

I did cross check my itunes and app store id on my IOS 5 devices’s iCloud and they are all working. So I figured out this must be something related to hackintosh upgrades.

I did find quite a number of “fix” but they all didn’t work for my hackintosh build. The first two “fix” I tried crashed my hackintosh. I must warn you though that this may not necessarily work for you, or crash your hackintosh (slim chance) or if you have a hackintosh with a raid volume, it may also crash or would not boot at all. But personally, I find this the simpliest and less drastic way of fixing that icloud bug. And it worked!

  1. Download EFI Studio and open it up.
  2. In the dropdown menu for devices, create a device string for your on board LAN.
  3. Paste that string to your org.chamelon.com.plist
  4. I deleted the “ethernetbuiltin” string.
  5. Reboot.
Here is part of an example of your org.chamelon.com.plist
<key>ethernetbuiltin</key>
<string>no</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>paste the string here</string>
Now you have a working Icloud, itunes, facetime account!. Enjoy!
(Note: Please comment below if this didn’t work for your hackintosh build)