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Breaking news and pansit
I have a Pavlovian hankering for pansit whenever news breaks. It is the result of conditioning in the years that I worked in the Sun.Star Cebu Central Newsroom. Whenever a story broke late at night and we knew we had to stay late to prepare the next day’s issue, our editor PA Seares would ask…
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Nganong inyong gibuhian? Naay taga Barrio Luz ato!!!
(In a meeting at the height of lockdowns last year, Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia summed up the high-strung atmosphere when she shared what she observed while going all over the province. She described how people were taking it upon themselves to set up checkpoints and “were not very courteous.” “You will be treated like a…
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Yoyoyified history
Cebu has historians like Drs. Resil Mojares and Jobers Bersales as well as institutions like the Cebuano Studies Center and yet for the historic commemoration of the arrival of the Armada de Maluko, its news outlets turned to the eminent musician Yoyoy Villame. No, not just to reference his song, but for actual historical facts.…
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Disaster response program brings online education to island barangay in Cebu
(This story first came out on Rappler.) To watch a YouTube video for an online lesson in Gilutungan Island, you have to be at the side facing Cordova town. Using mobile data, the phone connects to a server in Cebu City, hopping on to a network facility in Manila, then off to a data center…
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How to download ultra high-res images of works from Google Arts and Culture
I wanted a framed print of The Lady with an Ermine when we were redesigning our workspace during lockdown. Important works such as this painting by Leonardo da Vinci usually have high-resolution images online. The typical sources are Wikimedia Commons and Google Arts and Culture. The Lady with an Ermine has a high resolution copy…