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  • So you want to live in Lapu-Lapu City?

    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…

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  • Blogging, not blogging

    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…

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  • There’s something about Imee

    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…

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  • Turning a discarded PC into a newsroom intranet server

    (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…

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  • In Chile they call it davilar

    A Taiwan stock trader, according to a Reuters report posted in News.com, “mistakenly bought $251 million worth of shares with a misstroke of her computer keyboard.” The report said the company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million. The report said “the trader was unfamiliar with new computer systems and will…

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