With my staple viewing piece Heroes thus far not upping the ante in terms of entertainment value and plot excitement, I have turned my attention to a couple of promising newcomer series that premiered this TV season.
And so far so good! Here are the new stuff I fire up…

While migrating the site from Quick Blogcast to Wordpress, I got the chance to browse through all my older blog posts — and realized how much the site has evolved.
In the relatively short span of time that I’ve been publicly chronicling aspects of my life online, there is an…

I started the allanko.com blog almost 2 years ago under GoDaddy.com’s Quick Blogcast, an extremely user-friendly blogging platform, and it thus far had served me and my audience well all this time.
As I progress with blogging and blog maintenance, I’ve come to uncover all that the Quick Blogcast platform…

* Fascinating
points of the etiquette of several cultures around the world are examined fully and frankly on this new British site, Travel Etiquette. Useful if you’re about to travel abroad.
* This is all over the news: two Kelly Hildebrandts — guy and a girl sharing the same name —…

* I have successfully managed to jailbreak my iPod Touch, thanks to this guide. It works and looks a lot better this way, what with 5 columns on my Springboard launcher and other nice non-iTunes apps I’ve installed. Thus far, I love the twitter apps (not sure which one is…

* Lately, my back has been giving me quite a hard time. This article has helped shed light on how posture during sleeping, working, and driving is directly related to back pain.
* As I’ve joined the quirky ranks of folks who take pictures of the food in restos before eating,…

It would be soooo cool if I had the moolah to blow on this!

This is how the journey looks:

Over the past couple of days, I have been exploring the possibility of taking another gadget plunge. I think I am overdue for a phone upgrade, but I have pretty much resolved to wait for the Palm Pre. On the side, I have also been observing all the action over…

Here are the regular podcast subscriptions I have on my iTunes:
* Diggnation, a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories. One of my favorites — Kevin and Alex never fail to perk me up.
* Engadget and gdgt, the latest tech gadget news from…

* I have given up on the failure of my 16GB Transcend SD card. For a couple of days, I’ve been hoping that it would somehow come back to life magically — but now it seems the damage is beyond recovery. Oh well. I’ll just get another one — flash…