Category: Daily Ramblings

3 days late I know but well, better late than never. Talked with Terai for about 20 minutes last night. We both agreed that 2006 will be a banner year. She’ll be back in March so hopefully the gang will get together to do something.

On the 30th Pia and I went to Jake’s place for lunch. It was late lunch – we ate around 2.30 because he was still preparing the pasta when we arrived. Bardy joined us and we had fun chit-chatting and eating. Pia and I had brough apple pie from Calea with us. Instead of cream, we were given butterscotch sauce. At first I was wary about having that with apple pie but the combination was delicious.

The purpose of our visit was to watch Children of Dune. Bardy only stayed until 5.00 because he had to go home and get ready for a high school reunion. Watching the DVD was great because we were making all kinds of snarky comments. In one scene, one of the characters was complaining of not being understood and the next moment she was having sex with one of her advisers….so that’s the kind of “understanding” she’s looking for. That became our inside joke for the rest of the movie…definately puts a new spin on the phrase “all you need is some love and understanding” *grin*

New Year’s was relatively quiet. Lots of fireworks and food at my cousin’s place but I left early – around 2 a.m. Feeling dog tired enough to just crash into bed and drift off to sleep. Thank goodness for a late wake up call 😀

I don’t post here.
I have all these ideas for things that never get off the ground.

*kicks self*

Duncan at BlogHerald posted this news item: “Chinese Bloggers poor, students” about a survey that found that most Chinese bloggers are poor or students. These are individuals “who earn less than RMB2000 ($247 USD)” every month

I’m curious to know about the blogger profile of Pinoys because I earn less than those poor Chinese bloggers but I don’t really think of myself as poor. Hard up sometimes but not poooooooor.

Which reminds me of an article a month or so back when GMA proudly announced that things were looking up as a survey had said less people said they were poor. I remember thinking to myself “more people probably checked the impoverished box versus the poor box”.

It’s a sobering reality when P100 really doesn’t buy you much – I spent almost 3/4 of that on transportation alone a few days back. And for Bacolod living that’s too much!

What about you? Do you fall north or south of these figures or is it the same?

The Business Software Alliance warns schools, internet cafes and other computer-related establishments to be on guard against “unscrupulous persons pretending to be members of the Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team conducting raids on companies using unlicensed computer software for extortion purposes.”

These people are playing on people’s fears of being caught with pirated software as a large percentage of software use in the Philippines is illegal.

In recent weeks the Anti-Piracy Task Force has been conducting raids on those businesses selling pirated softwares but they are now shifting their focus onto business that use pirated software.

The Sun Star Cebu has a good article on blogging in the Philippines and it’s growing influence

While there are those who say the influence of Pinoy bloggers will be tempered by the low Internet penetration in the country, Veneracion says this is with the “presumption that what are published in blogs are not discussed beyond the sector that has Internet access.�

“We do not know this for sure. While blog readers are limited to those with Internet access, each one of these readers has family, neighbors, colleagues, friends and acquaintances, and we do not really know whether they discuss with these people what they read in blogs,� she says.

If we’re talking about the Garci-tapes/Gloriagate scandal of June, Yuga’s blog really helped in getting the tapes out there for the consuming public to listen and and discuss.

A lot of what I see on the news these days is not the whole truth; some tv stations have a particular slant when they report the news so it’s not like we’re given the facts. Blogs help to provide other points of view, discussion points. This is the only way a healthy, democratic society can develop.

Via BlogHerald

Watching the news a few days ago I believed that Hurricane Katrina would cause damage but not to this extent: Thousands could be dead, serious crime in New Orleans, lack of aid…

You can send it donations through:
American Red Cross
Amazon and for something even more proactive
Army.com’s Job Listings

I’m having one of those days where I have a ton of stuff to do but I can’t focus on a single thing. I feel like I’m going round in circles but nothing is getting done.

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