Philippines – Everything is Broken https://play.datalude.com/blog Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:28:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 ID Badge solution https://play.datalude.com/blog/2008/07/id-badge-solution/ https://play.datalude.com/blog/2008/07/id-badge-solution/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:28:29 +0000 http://play.datalude.com/blog/?p=29 Read more]]> Not sure if I've ranted about ID cards in the Philippines yet. Seems like every building you go into, you have to leave a photo ID and sign in. I hate leaving my passport with them, but that's the only photo ID I have. I normally try and argue my way in. Once I left a calling card which seemed to satisfy them. Once I left a credit card, to my amazement and astonishment — just testing the boundaries of stupidity you understand. Several times I've had to call whoever it was I was meeting and get them to collect me from the lobby.

No more. I think I'll just make my own ID card now — no one said they had to be official. Enter … auto badge generator page … http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/badge.php

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