Wednesday, December 31, 2003

2003: The year that was. 2004: That year that will be...
Let me blog it this way: 2003: Bombs going off, airstrikes everywhere. War was the event. SARS was the scare. There were deaths everywhere. From battlefields of the desert, through the utmost corner of faraway China. Russia, Turkey, Israel. Saddam was toppled and Iraq crumpled,their leader...captured inside a spider hole!.The "Terminator" became Governor.Blogs was in thing. Embedded word of the year. The iPOD and Tivo were the gadgets to have. The onslaught of virus one after the other kept geeks awake all day..finding ways to eliminate teen hacker freaks. And as the year ends, More Tragedy occured. Iran Earthquake, Gas leak In China. Mudslides in the Philippines and California. Resurgence of SARS and a mad cow disease not helping end the year in good note!.

2004: New Leader for the Philippines. Still will be thesame leader for the U.S. Hopefully the Roadmap to Peace begins anew. Less war, less killings. more peace talks and action. More good things to come for every nation! More good news to blog about!

Uhm okay, thats it! Enjoy New Years Eve. Have a Happy New year. I'm blogging off!

Saturday, December 27, 2003

Something similar of a news

The mudslides were set off on Christmas Day after a downpour fell on hillsides that had been stripped of vegetation by wildfires in October and November. With nothing to hold the soil in place, trees and rocks went roaring down the hillsides, along with the dark-brown mud. .

The California mudslide triggered by heavy downpour of rain reminds me of similar kind of news here with the Leyte mudslide tragedy about a week ago

Yeah, news feels like dejavu all over..only the one that happened here in the country is more severe, I guess.

Friday, December 26, 2003

Freak on the loose

My stats counter has been bogged down by some lame ass dude who tried to do something with their server. I hope it gets fix soon.
Update: Grrr! stats counter hasn't been fixed yet so I have a new one. I guess I'll bring back the old one when it's fixed. Hopefully soon!
You spam, You pay!

What a good idea! For every spam those hoax and fools sends ,they'd have to pay. According to BBC..a group of mircosoft researchers may have come up a solution that could, at least, slow down and deter the spammers.

"The basic idea is that we are trying to shift the equation to make it possible and necessary for a sender to 'pay' for e-mail," explained Ted Wobber of the Microsoft Research group (MSR).

The payment is not made in the currency of money, but in the memory and the computer power required to work out cryptographic puzzles.


Good! Who wants to get emails full of junk nonsense crap! Let those spammers pay somehow. Uhm..hmm, for every unwanted spam I get, they'd have to pay me $10 or 20 bucks. Hahaha..I'd be fcking rich! Well, if it were monetary punishment. Yeah! ^_^
It had to be that one
Word of the year!--"Embedded". Yeah, and "blogs" too I think. Most used words WMD--weapons of mass destruction and SARS-severe acute respiratory syndrome

I remember few years back..most replayed and talked about phrase ..." I did not have (any) sexual contact with that woman" or something like that.

Thursday, December 25, 2003

Christmas gift for sniper killer?

Lee Boyd Malvo gets life sentence instead of death penalty

Malvo, 18, exhaled heavily and hung his head as the clerk read the jury's finding that he met both qualifications for the death penalty.

But then again the jurors decided to spare him the death penalty. I'm not a fan of that punishment but I do agree sometimes. Him getting life sentence is as good as getting the penalty of lethal injection. Knowing that your gonna be spending the rest of your life in jail!
Merry Christmas To All

'Tis the season to remember today is his day!
"For unto us a Child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor,
the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." ---- Isaiah 9:6

Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Wow, SMS from the Pope!

Oh yeah, people can now receive a thought of the day from the Pope via mobile SMS. Guidance and prayers are included as well.

Teeeheehee, The Pope's TxTing!:) I wonder if Vatican uses txting jargon lingo.Hahah. Just goes to show even religious entity and figures do know how to be a mobile techie. Nice!

Monday, December 22, 2003

Bush getting good marks and ratings

I'm sure he's griinning again! And Howard Dean's frowning? Haha.

Meanwhile President Arroyo here is hoping to be grinning too and be up in the polls. Maybe Noli Boy "Kabayan" de Castro can help her surge in the ratings. Uhmm, yeah ok. Yayness
What online blogging and internet know how can do for Presidential bid

Frank Rich's NYTimes(reg req'd) article: Napster runs for President in 04 puts it clearly..

Should Dr. Dean actually end up running against President Bush next year, For all sorts of real-world reasons, stretching from Baghdad to Wall Street, Mr. Bush could squish Dr. Dean like a bug next November. But just as anything can happen in politics, anything can happen on the Internet. As more Americans use file-sharing software than voted for Mr. Bush in the last The luckiest thing that could happen to the Dean campaign is that its opponents remain oblivious to recent digital history and keep focusing on analog analogies to McGovern and Goldwater instead.

Techie Dean does it. Looks like if he wins Democratic run off for President, his voters would be those of hip young file sharing techie geeks. Hehe

Tragedy of deforestation

The video feeds from news channels show how much of mudslide slammed into villages of Leyte leaving a hundred people missing or dead. I was watching the news and people were covered with mud, lifting the dead and the villages were just wiped out by the landslide. It's a pity to see this kind of tragedy knowing that if there were trees..lots of them instead of bare mountains, it might've prevented a total landslide of mud.

Maybe this tragedy would bring attention to the illegal logging and deforestation of our natural resources.

Saturday, December 20, 2003

Just as I suspected, sniper killer gets convicted
Via Washington Post

Lee Boyd Malvo was found guilty and now jury will choose what kind of sentence he would have. The always used brainwash/insanity defense didn't work. My blogging mind though thinks he should be given the life sentence and not the death penalty. Sure what he did was horrible and vicious and tragic but putting him in death penalty will not bring back the innocent victims. Whatever the jury decides, the killer should face the consequence of his actions.

Update: Penalty phase underway
The stories that victims families are telling the jury is compelling and moving you'd have to be a stone not to get affected.

Thursday, December 18, 2003

Expensive way to be a Jetson on vacation

Oh yes, it can be called too as the space vacation adventure of the rich and the (would be famous), as two Americans have agreed to shell out$20 million each for separate eight- to 10-day trips into orbit.

Gee, the money can feed poor children of Africa! But hey, you work hard for your own money you get to do whatever you want. Lucky dudes!

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

What the President doesn't wanna hear..
A Travel advisory! And so the Philippines is protesting the Canadian embassy warning. Sheesh, we can't blame other countries for putting up advisories like that. It's their right to see to see to it that their nationals have been warned. But hey, our country is safe mountie dude! Hehe.
Gee, I can still win?
According to to Village Voice article Howard Dean is still electable.

Hmm..I guess notwithstanding the pounding of words he's getting from his rival democratic candidates. Can he beat Bush though? Possible, if economy is not good.

Here in the Philippines where election campaign seems to have began already, The question for President Arroyo.. Is she still electable? If she's got no other presidentiables breathing down her neck, maybe!
The most common and used argument in trials

It's not surprising to say the least. In almost all cases murder trial, homicide attempts. It just is amazing that laywers and the defendants always uses same kind of defense: INSANITY!. Especially if they think that the case has nowhere to go and it's obvious that a conviction will be the outcome. Take the case of the sniper killer.
U.S. News: Lee Malvo's brainwashing defense. Part of the report says -- The plain facts are now blurred by the defense argument that Malvo should be considered not guilty by reason of insanity. In the end, even if proved, mental illness may not save Malvo from a guilty verdict.

Remember latter part of 90's when school killings were occuring frequently and the people(teenagers) charged would always used the defense of having mental illness, abusive parents, denied love and attention hencethe need to do what they did. Or how about the Menendez trial. They used reason of insanity as their defensefor them not to be convicted. It didn't work out.

Same thing will probably happen to sniper killer.
If it matters to you...
10 Ways To Increase Your Search Engine Ranking

Uhm, haha to some it does.. I guess. Meanwhile my referrers..gosh, lot comes from .net .gov and .edu more than dot com.
Could another "rat in a hole" be found too?

Different hole, same rat and so they found Saddam what about Bin Laden? From NYTimes -- Mr. bin Laden is believed to be hiding. He has chosen far better terrain in which to hide. He also appears to have more loyalty from his close circle of aides than Mr. Hussein did, and therefore has confounded efforts to track him.

"It seems to me they are back at square one," said Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert and author of "Holy War, Inc.," on the rise of Al Qaeda. "My impression is that they are not devoting a lot of resources to it. It seems to be forgotten. Maybe the capture of Saddam will lead them to become interested in it again."

Ooooh..quite true! Better get a move on to it faster!

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Dawn Mass commences today

What we call here a simbang gabi, church service will begin shortly a little after four or depending where one's locality or parish is. For 9 nines days Filipinos here do that tradition of waking up early going to church to hear mass and afterwards having a drink of hot cocoa an a bite of rice cakes, cassava cakes and other native sweets. They say if you completed the whole nine mornings your wish will come true or be granted. Heh, we're a catholic country and we believe in whatever divine miracle happens.
A happy "Dubya"
Iraqis are jubilant with the capture of Saddam. but no one feels like the victor more than Bush himself. Gleeming with grin soo up to his ears deep inisde..when he annouced "good riddance" to Saddam. The Washington Posts says.. His dramatic arrest provides a major political boost for President Bush and considerably complicates the task for the Democrats who have argued that Bush's foreign policy needs a significant overhaul.

Hmm, I wonder if Democrats eating dust! Maybe it should just be Howard Dean. Yaynes. Peace.

Monday, December 15, 2003

Exam week
Got exams later so blogging off. Somebody's mad at me..I'm sorry
Blog reactions to Saddams capture

Ah huh they're still talking and blogging and blabbing about it

Pixelforge -About damn time
Instapundit - Somebody do a bed check on Charles Manson
Amish - Just another typical big-mouthed Arab wimp-in-a-suit.
Tim Blair - has lots different reaction form different bloggers and news
The corner - lotsa links and news reactions

Funny Glenn reaction but dunno who Charles Manson is. Okay, go to the blogrolls for more

Sunday, December 14, 2003

GOOD NEWS!

SADDAM CAPTURED!

"We got him"
said US administrator Paul Bremer. Iraqi journalists in the audience stood, pointed and shouted "Death to Saddam!" and "Down with Saddam!" Saddam was captured Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in a cellar in the town of Adwar, 10 miles from Tikrit, ending one of the most intense manhunts in history.

From t.v pictures he looks tired run out and resigned. But is it him? Of course or they wouldn't show it at all. Okay jubilation for everyone! no more tyrant! Perhaps Iraqis can build a new nation without the fear of the evil man!

It is a victory for the US and Bush administration too (and coalition forces) for today it paid off- the war in Iraq, freeing Iraq and it's people from tyranny and oppression, paving the way for democracy and staying for long even when attacks on US soldiers happened on a daily basis. And now to this..Saddam Hussein's capture! Well, Bin Laden should be next!
Sad news! Philippine foreign minister dead
Secretary Blas Ople died after having trouble breathing aboard a flight to Dubai.

How sad...*shrugs*. He was good politician whatever one might say.

Friday, December 12, 2003

Is FPJ running or not?
Everyones waiting for his confirmation it seems. " Da king", Fernadoe Poe Jr, has given no answer and has kept both his supporters and opponents guessing.

Tsk tsk.. what can I say but, lets hope the country and whoever wll lead the nation(FPJ? uhmm...gee...) will not become just puppets of their masters(erm, Danding Cojuanco and company?)
YEOOUCH! EWW! YIKES!

MANILA (Reuters) - An irate Filipino housewife sliced off her husband's penis while he slept after she discovered text messages from another woman on his mobile phone


LOL ^_^ *giggles* Lorena Bobbit(remember her!? became infamous for doing same exact thing) the second! How sad for the "dismembered" guy" that must have been a painful one! Heh, that'll teach guys to be more careful next time they tinker with their cellphones!

Monday, December 08, 2003

No school today
Yipeee. So obviously I go to a catholic school. It's feast of the Immaculate Conception and traditonally it's when all the second graders take their first Holy Communion :) which I've done ages ago :)

Sunday, December 07, 2003

Everything you need to know
And much more. Because Bay area it's soo damn diversified and if one's clueless...You Know You're In San Francisco When . .
♥ Your contractor is gay, but your hairdresser is straight.
♥ You get on the bus and you're surprised to actually hear a conversation in English. (Hahaha..true eh?!)
♥ Every time there's an earthquake, you're under a table praying that the metropolis will finally get to break away from the mainland.

Teehee just some of my favs. But it actually makes me think weirdness and wackinesss do exists even in such a lovely city! ^_^

Thursday, December 04, 2003

What terrorism and warning advisory can do to performers....
Limp Bizkit shows canceled due to security alert . See, thats what it does. Bands who're supposed to do concerts here decided not to since the State Department warning of increased security threats in the Southeast Asian region I remember last year Red Hot Chili Peppers were supposed to do a concert here too, but same thing happened.

Sad. Not because the band cancelled but it sends a worrying sign cos the other countries will think that Philippines is really not safe for visitors..when I think it is safe. Compared to others!

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Blah blah blogs
Wheeeehehehe! I made a new holiday layout theme for my journal. I mean, who gives a shit (I do I do!)but anyhow, it's a tableless-similar to the ALA and the Three column Holy Grail layout I have. It's green and red and very christmas in effect even without images..Got a DHMTL(picture)frame effect though. And I'm Blogging off now!