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Yahoo! reports that searches on Philippine history are up a whopping 509% over the week. All other regional history searches have decreased. Does anybody know why?

The overwhelming interest generated by a link to photos I took of the Apple campus has prompted me to finally post pictures I was saving for later. I introduce to you The Silicon Valley Tourist, a gallery of Silicon Valley signage I took over a span of several weeks.* A boring set of snapshots perhaps to some but I’m sure it would interest a couple of you out there. The album is by no means complete. I plan to visit Google, Adobe, Intel (which is really tough to take a picture of), HP and others soon.

You may be wondering why I frame the company signs between my index finger and my thumb. Well, I figured that’s the only way I could include myself in the picture. At first I thought about using the Pets.com sock puppet or the Geekman action figure as my prop. But in this post-9/11 era, holding up an indiscernible object with a camera pointed at an American high-tech icon would only cause a swarm of SWAT team members to surround me in a matter of seconds. So I settled for my ultra-portable, less suspicious-looking appendages. Besides, there’s something empowering about holding Corporate America between one’s fingers. Mwuhahaha… squish, squish…

*for a true tour of historic Silicon Valley, I direct you to this guy.

Update: Adobe pics are up!

With Yahoo! Mail’s new basic service, I can now send 10MB messages and have 50MB more space while looking at a somewhat sleeker interface. This is no doubt precipitated by better offerings out there.

Ok, to show you what I was talking about a few entries ago, I took a screenshot of my Yahoo! Mail inbox:

‘Nuff said.

And I promise that’s the last on the subject. =)

I noticed that people are coming to my site from doing searches on “perverted names.” Strange thing is I come in first in Google results. People are probably disappointed that I’m merely referring to the names of some spam senders that come into my Yahoo inbox. Ok, recently I found more of these convoluted names:

Gaeddert Dunphy
Shane Arunachalam
Altew Haveman
Litteer Cottle

Eh? It seems now that these spammers are taking the most uncommon surnames, throwing them into a database and spitting them out as first name/last name pairs to be used as senders’ names. Whatever…