Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

Yesterday, Rome Jorge of the Manila Times wrote about “Blogs as the new literature” in his column Culture Vulture. I particularly love this part as to “Why we blog”: For the writer, the blog is an instrument of clarity. Deciding how much to reveal separates candor from insensitivity, value from vanity, courage from exhibitionism. By [...]

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I got an unpleasant surprise when I browsed through this morning’s paper, when I saw something that looks a lot like politics in the supposedly non-political Sports section of the Inquirer: MALACAÑANG has cleared the way for Rudy Hatfield to return to the Philippine Basketball Association, but he has a long way to go to [...]

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A former officemate of mine sent me this rather amusing “anatomy.” It’s up to the call-center agent readers of my blog to figure out if it’s accurate: Just wanted to post this as a light note on a profession that has been a subject of a lot of discussions both in… Of Call Center Agents, [...]

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By now most Filipinos would probably be familiar with the theme of ABS-CBN‘s Pinoy Big Brother entitled “Pinoy Ako” and performed by the band Orange and Lemons. However, one of the yahoogroups I’m in brought my attention to the song Chandeliers performed by an 80s band, The Care. You could hear the song (low sound [...]

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Yesterday, my mother-in-law sent a series of text messages to my wife. She told my wife about her plans to revive the mini-hospital/clinic they used to run in Pangasinan, which they closed some time after my father-in-law died a decade ago. My uncles-in-law, who both live abroad and are going to finance the refurbishment of [...]

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Well, she’s the best way to calm me down, no questions asked. CJ wearing glasses with the lenses removed. Makes daddy smile any day

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Last Friday, I cursed a guard in the MRT Ortigas Station over a can of milk. My wife texted me that CJ’s milk has run out and I oughta get a new can. So off I go to Watson’s Megamall, though not before I lined up the ATM machine to get some money (it was [...]

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A rather crass comment in my previous post about the anti-software piracy drive being undertaken by the Business Software Alliance, Optical Media Board and National Bureau of Investigation had me thinking and asking myself; why is software piracy so rampant in the first place, and why is software piracy only being combatted now? The BSA [...]

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Dapat kahapon ko pa nailathala itong akdang ito, isang akdang naisulat ko na noong nakaraang taon bilang tugon sa isang thread sa forums ng PNB, sa paksa ukol sa kung anong klaseng pinuno ang dapat nating ihalal noong 2004. Ngayon sa gitna ng mga isyung gumigimbal sa ating bansa at sa pagala-ala sa ika-33 taon [...]

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Please forward these to everyone you know so it may reach ALL internet cafe owners that still use pirated Microsoft software in their shops: As you know, the deadline set by the Pilipinas Anti Piracy Team (BSA, Optical Media Board, and NBI) lapsed last friday. Although the authorities deny that they’ve started raiding internet cafes, [...]

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