PLANTATION BAY, Mactan, Cebu, Philippines–Sure, sometimes we all want to get away from it all, especially if you’re in a beautiful resort like Plantation Bay, but it’s always reassuring to know that technology is here to keep us connected to the outside world.

Not that I’m here on vacation. I arrived this afternoon together with other gaming journalists for the RAN Online global conference which kicks off tomorrow.

I’ll be blogging the event for our hackenslash gaming site, which we relaunched as a blog yesterday.

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OUR hackenslash gaming site is now a blog.

It’s our very first site to be transformed into a blog, and it’s the seventh blog in the INQUIRER.net Blogs network.

Find out why we turned it into a blog.

TO FURTHER enhance our online coverage of the upcoming Philippine elections in May, we’ve beefed up our Eleksyon 2007 site by adding a Google Earth map and a survey section.

The Eleksyon 2007 Google Earth map allows you to click on any marker on the Philippine map to see the number of voters per province, broken down by municipality and city. The figures are as of the 2004 elections.

Meanwhile, the Survey Says section offers comparative charts based on the Social Weather Stations and Pulse Asia surveys to allow readers to keep track of the survey rankings of candidates over the course of the campaign.

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UPDATE: Read Lawrence Casiraya’s INQUIRER.net Infotech article.

PACIFIC INTERNET president and managing director Joji Yap says Internet service providers are bullish over the business opportunities that voice over IP will create.

Here’s the video interview conducted by INQUIRER.net Lawrence Casiraya.

JAC TING LIM and Rod Andres were our guests on hackenslash: the podcast, Episode 6: “Jac of All Trades.”

Jac and Rod talked about comic books, cosplay and life as a girl gamer. OK, Jac talked about being a girl gamer, and Rod obviously talked about being a guy gamer, heh. Plus it was INQUIRER.net events coordinator and hackenslash image model Claire Chan’s first time to co-host our “Hot Seat” segment, and boy did we roast each other, heh.

Here are some pics that Jayvee Fernandez took prior to the podcast recording session.

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