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Here’s a rundown of the worst places to eat in Baguio City. You’ve been warned!

#1 Zola

Patria de Baguio Building, Session Road

Oh my gawd! You know something’s wrong when they can’t even get your regular longganisa right. The food could have been kinda fine if it were bland, but the taste is just all wrong for most of the meals other than the pizzas, which are acceptable but not great, and with Don Henrico’s, Volante, and Vizco’s just down the sidewalk, why bother coming here? If you’re looking to have lunch here, don’t. Just head on over to Steaks and Toppings just behind the building, you get double the servings for much less than Zola’s overpriced rice meals. They also serve this tastes-like-used-dishwater with a horrible horrible horrible after taste… they call it coffee… and you pay 40 pesos to torture yourself. Ack! I wouldn’t recommend this place even to my worst enemy… well, honestly, maybe I would.

#2 Figaro

3rd Level Sunset Terrace, SM City Baguio Mall, Luneta Hill

Small mugs, overpriced, Airborne Access WiFi has several blocked sites, and rude service crew. Nuff said.

#3 Shakey’s SM Baguio

Upper Ground Level Parkview Terrace, SM City Baguio Mall, Luneta Hill

Shakey’s used to be my favorite pizza restaurant back when they were in the now-demolished Skyworld Building along Session Road. Now? Everything is dry. Sayang.

{ I’ll be updating this list often, it’ll soon be up to ten places NOT to go to. Coming soon: Best places to eat in Baguio. }

Internet auction site eBay has decided to pull all of its online advertising from Google after a clash erupted between the two companies.

The two internet heavyweights planned promotional events over the same time period, provoking the row between the companies.

eBay was scheduled to hold its annual conference and largest event of the year, eBay Live, in which over 10,000 eBay enthusiasts would gather in Boston to network and explore new strategies and solutions.

At the same time, Google planned to host a “Google Checkout Party” to promote its online payment service. Google reportedly attempt to lure people from the eBay event. Google boasted that its event, also held in Boston, would provide free food, drinks, and messages. Google also claimed that it was “a celebration of user choice.” Google has already clashed with eBay over Google Checkout, which competes directly with eBay-owned PayPal, the favoured online payments system for eBay purchases.

eBay subsequently announced that it would be retracting all of its advertising from Google. It is suspected that eBay cancelled their advertisements due to the rival Google event, but eBay declined to say if pulling their advertisements was a direct result of this. eBay is one of Googles’ largest advertisers and typically spends about £12.5 million annually on US Google adverts alone.

Upon announcement of eBay’s cancellation, Google quickly called off their party stating on their blog that, “eBay Live attendees have plenty of activities to keep them busy this week in Boston, and we did not want to detract from that activity. After speaking with officials at eBay we at Google agreed that it was better for us not to feature this event during the eBay Live conference.”

Google’s Street View feature for Google Maps, which enables users to see certain parts of several big US cities through panoramic images, has caused a new trend: Street Spotting.

After going through some of the images, I’ve concluded that America is a strange strange place filled with people with half-heads, no-heads, and an unsatiable horniness.

Link to Google StreetView

As the US stock market closed for the weekend, Apple, the iPod and maker of the beloved Macintoch computer, surged past the $100 billion mark to finish with a market valuation of $102.7 billion dollars.

Still 20-50% smaller than most of the large enterprise technology companies (Cisco, IBM, Intel, HP), Apple has the 3rd largest cash horde of the companies displayed, larger than HP, Google, IBM, and Intel. They have passed in value database king Oracle and left behind former computer manufacturing and consumer electronic powerhouses, Dell and Sony. If you haven’t already, it’s time to reevaluate the strength and power of the company that nearly went out of business ten years ago… as well as the power of consumer technology in an industry once dominated by the enterprise.

Data compiled from Yahoo Finance.

Dell does not have cash reserves.

Sony’s cash reserve evaporated when their batteries started blowing up some Dells and PowerBooks. iDiot.