Opinions and Writings
Globelines using new IP ranges?
Just a quickie. I just noticed that I get 180 prefix when I connect recently. Maybe starting around a week ago. I used to get the dreaded 203 or 222 prefix which meant that I'm on their oftentimes shared public IP. I used to have such bad luck with Globe's shared...
Outpaced
I think I am not alone in saying that it is frustrating to be young academic at a university in a third world. Thanks to the Internet, we know that there are so many exciting studies and researches being done elsewhere. The reality that we are lagging behind has just...
Dispensing indiscriminate advice
People just love to give unsolicited advice. They're annoying as they are but one thing that I really don't like with people who do so is how many of them lead with "Tingnan mo ako..." (better translated as "Compare yourself to my case..."). These people just don't...
Laptops and limited stocks
Being that my lappie is already two and a half years old, it's really high time to consider retiring it. But goodness what a workhorse this ASUS A8Jr is. Left on for 16 hours a day for those two and a half years and the only hitch I ever encountered was the hinge...
More idiot than savant
Part of the tasks of descriptive linguistics is to seek out patterns which shouldn't be that much of an effort since humans are said to be innately equipped with capacities to seek out patterns. And the task seems to be easier with analytic languages like English...
The credit card conundrum
Just a few months into having my own credit card, I'm now reassessing the benefits of owning one. There are many arguments that try to justify the existence of the credit card. Some people think that credit cards can be used a sort of insurance policy for those...
Inhibitionism
Overexposed in the Blogosphere was a really interesting post about from a few years back. Are we really that overexposed online? Should we fear overexposure? Have we thrown our Miranda rights out of the window because of this? That everything we say or do online will...
Christmas complacency
Filipinos are not traditional. We're complacent. Every year, we subject to ourselves to the dreary rituals no matter how adulterated these traditions have become. People would consider doing "the same thing" every year during that long stretch of 100 Days before...
Synchronizing Pinoy time
It's funny what kinds of laws our lawmakers are trying to spring on us. There was that flag change. Now, it's making sure that Pinoy time is synchronized with HB 6905. But hey, it's not like we don't have our own time zone (+8 GMT). We could just hope whatever this...