Yesterday, I changed my site’s template from Jakarta to the 3-column version of Relaxation. Jakarta has great graphics but it was too heavy on the eyes. Relaxation lives up to its name. It’s the theme used by pundit Manuel L. Quezon III in his must-read blog.
Using Jalenack’s Ajax shoutbox made the integration of the tag [...]

I’m an Askal - an asong kalye. Philippine football fans, according to this Sun.Star Cebu report by my brother, want the national team named after the ubiquitous street dog.

I think it’s a great idea and a great logo (rendered by sports writer Glenn Michelena based on a sketch by retired goalkeeper and Sun.Star Cebu copy [...]

Don’t. Our less-than-a-year-old TV set conked out last week after a power surge. The service of Mactan Electric Company (MECO, which at times may mean mediocre electric company) has become more erratic than it already is lately.
To be fair, Meco’s services have improved, albeit incrementally. Last year, whenever rains were particularly strong – the [...]

I haven’t been able to post entries lately. Events in Manila are getting in the way. I’m posting entries at Sun.Star’s Citizen Watch: The Arroyo Presidency. For the first time, I was able to publish a story of an ongoing press conference before it had even finished. I was prepared to do rewrites if the [...]

The drone of politicians’ voices in the TV set near my work station was interrupted Friday night by the grating voice of Ilocos Norte Rep. Imee Marcos answering a GMA 7 reporter’s question on who she thinks should lead the country.
Imee, acting like a teenager being asked to divulge which F4 member she had the [...]

(Note: This is version .5 of the article. I estimate five more rewrites to finalize this.)
The newsroom recently upgraded computers used by its reporters. The computers, with clock speeds ranging from 166 Mhz to 500 MHZ, were early generation Pentiums and were primarily used for word processing.
I told our editor-in-chief I wanted to try to [...]