Travel Light

When I had a trip outside of the country for the first time, I packed too much. I brought shirts that I were not able to use, and I even forgot to bring an adapter so that I can charge my video camera.

The second time I went outside of the country, I packed clothes that I were not able to use (again!) because I was able to go shopping for clothes anyway. My own clothes + new clothes = disaster. Thank goodness, I didn't have to leave anything behind just because I had no room left in my bag.

I found a site called One Bag and its motto is Travel Light With One Bag! It's a very helpful site to guide you to packing for leisure and/or business. I'm not a seasoned traveler so I have yet to learn and master the art and science of it. There are so many benefits of having one bag to carry when traveling. It just gives you more focus on the trip itself because your luggage has been well thought out that you don't have to worry so much about it anymore. It saves you time, money and your sanity. I do recommend this to everyone because the tips found here are very practical and, dayum, they just make sense.

Plixi RSS feed (LOCKERZ)

TweetPhoto, a photo service meant for Twitter, recently renamed itself probably to avoid any future problems with Twitter for the word "tweet" in their brand. It is now called Plixi and it has incorporated more features in their site to become more of a standalone social network (although it still associates itself with Twitter and Facebook).

I follow some people's TweetPhoto pages on my Google Reader and when I learned of the changes TweetPhoto made, I decided to check out the Plixi pages I'm interested in. I learned that there is no RSS feed link anywhere in personal pages and I was like WUUUUUUT. Anyway, I went back to Google Reader to get a clue. It seems that the TweetPhoto RSS feeds are still alive despite the rebranding because the feeds I subscribed to are still active. So if for some reason, you need to follow anyone on Plixi but you couldn't find their RSS feed, just use this link to subscribe to them:

http://tweetphotoapi.com/api/papi.svc/rss/users/INSERTPLIXIPROFILENUMBERHERE/photos

/edit:  May 11, 2011
Plixi is now Lockerz.

Blocked Facebook and YouTube

The keyword here is LOCAL.


If http://www.facebook.com or http://facebook.com are blocked, you can try using the other local site addresses for Facebook, like English (UK). The link to this local site is http://en-gb.facebook.com and almost works the same way as English (US). I frequently use http://zh-cn.facebook.com (it's Chinese) but whatever works for you, you know. When browsing and you stumble upon a dead end because the link redirects to http://www.facebook.com or http://facebook.com, just insert the language code in the link and you'll be able to access the page.

For YouTube, instead of http://www.youtube.com or http://youtube.com, use http://il.youtube.com. I still haven't figured out what the "il" is for but it works so no big deal.