From the daily archives: Saturday, March 31, 2007
One of the organizers of the Philippine Blog Awards, Abe Olandres, is interviewed by RPN-9.
I’m sitting here at the Globe booth just outside the Philippine Blog Awards, waiting for the ceremonies to begin. After more than a year of communicating with him on the phone and online, I finally met Abe Olandres, one of the organizers and, as it turns out, my Web host, too.
IN his 1975 short story “Remembering Needleman,” Woody Allen recounts the enigmatic last words of the eccentric professor, Sandor Needleman, after he was tapped on the head by a wrecking ball on his lunch hour. “No thanks, I already own a penguin.” For some strange reason, the line has stayed with me all these years. Now I finally have an excuse to use it. Perhaps the question to Needleman’s cryptic last words was: “Want to install an expensive, proprietary operating system?”
