Opinions and Musings
Honors inflation
It's graduation time once again and I wonder how many kids will be walking tall just because they'd be graduating cum laude or its higher variants. This might be a bit of sourgraping but it seems that it's just so easy to get honors these days. The Revised Genereal...
Bits and bytes
To think that I've spent the past twenty-two years of my life studying in a formal setting. Fancy that. Hours spent inside the classroom. I wonder if that should count as living at all. And guess what I'll be doing for the next few years again. Study. Contrary to what...
Hooliganism or activism
It's quite interesting how people view the Quezon Hall paint throwing incident yesterday. Facebook was practically a warzone between those who lauded the students' move of throwing paint at a school official and those who believed that UP has really dumbed down. As...
Basic IT as GE course
I'm getting sick and tired of the "excuse," "Kaya nga ako nag-English" as an excuse not to know basic math concepts and technology concepts. I've been involved in IT education as writer, editor, trainer and consultant largely because part of my personal advocacy is...
Master baiter
Finally! A bit of time to blog. For the past month, I've been splitting my time between work and thesis writing. And boy that wasn't a pleasant experience at all on so many levels. I remember the pressures of writing my undergraduate thesis (gaining 20 lbs in the...
Globelines Broadband cheaper rates
Business sure know how to sucker punch you. I just noticed that Globelines is offering much cheaper rates for new broadband subscribers. My Php 1995 2 Mbps plan and landline is now only Php 1295. Thinking it's unfair, I called up Globelines to see what they plan to do...
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...