I'm at The Block in SM City North Edsa for a WiFi testing event that started at 1 PM (I got here just before 3--yay for punctuality). We bloggers are supposed to "stress test" the new free WiFi hotspot by liveblogging. Now, two dozen bloggers typing random text doesn't sound like much of a stress test to me, so instead of liveblogging, I've been fooling around. I surfed a bit, watched some YouTube videos, and even tried downloading from BitTorrent. The connection speed is decent--I was pulling around 40 KB/s from a torrent that may or may not be legal. Hey, I could have been downloading the latest Ubuntu release. It's possible.

I don't see many familiar faces around here, probably because it's a workday and most of my blogger friends are at work. I did chat briefly with Carl, who has an interesting new site that I spent quite a few minutes looking at. It has pictures of pretty girls. No boobies though. Boo.

This reminds me... SM is known to have a family-friendly image. They don't even show R-rated movies in their cinemas. So I wonder if their new free WiFi would have filters that prevents people from accessing porn and other good stuff. I'm tempted to load up some porn sites and find out, but there are too many people around, and I don't want to look like a total perv.

Anyway, it's past 5 PM now, and the testing period has officially ended, so my "live blog" wasn't actually live. Yay for procrastination.

NON-LIVE UPDATE: Holy shit! I won a laptop!

I heard that the SM people would be raffling off an Asus laptop after the event. To be honest, that was the only reason I participated. I've never won anything in a raffle before, but I figured that my odds would be good in this one considering the small number of participants (around 30). And I got lucky. Yay!

I'm not sure what I want to do with my shiny new Asus X58Le. The specs look pretty good, but it's big (with the 15.6" screen and all). I have the arms of an 9-year-old girl, and my tiny Asus Eee PC is about the heaviest machine that I can lug around without having to stop and rest every five minutes, so I'm inclined to sell this new one. Anyone interested?