Short Term Memory Flash for 2008-04-08
April 9th, 2008 by emersonbanezA new Post “Short Term Memory Flash for 2008-04-08″ was written on the 4/8/2008 at 11:59 pm on “The Bangus Ultimatum”.
* @clickmomukhamo yep twitter tools. works sporadically though. oh
well. not like i have interesting tweets. # [1]
Powered by Twitter Tools [2].
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And So It Ends
April 8th, 2008 by emersonbanezA new Post “And So It Ends” was written on the 4/8/2008 at 8:51 pm on “The Bangus Ultimatum”.
All the grades down the wire today. A flat 1.0 for Negotiation/Alternative Dispute Resolution and a not-so-bad mark in Remedial Law Review. I wasn’t able to get my SLR (Supervised Legal Research) grade, but the college secretary’s office told me to chill and just go back tomorrow (it was already 5 minutes to closing) - and that everyone passed Professor Daway’s SLR class.
So. I guess that’s it. All law school subjects done. Finis. Over. Barring any unforeseen disaster, I am going to graduate this April. After everything I’ve been through these five years, it’s not that easy to chew on the concept. Part of me still can’t believe it (a few weeks ago, I panicked, thinking that I missed pre-enlisting for subjects for next semester, only to realize that there will be no “next semester”).
No next semester. There will however, be bar review, and the bar exams, and hopefully, being a lawyer. Things might get serious from this point on.
http://clickmomukhamo.com/bangus/2008/04/08/and-so-it-ends/
Short Term Memory Flash for 2008-04-07
April 8th, 2008 by emersonbanezA new Post “Short Term Memory Flash for 2008-04-07″ was written on the 4/7/2008 at 11:59 pm on “The Bangus Ultimatum”.
* reading about teh U.N. # [1]
* downloading BSG season premiere # [2]
* there already is a world government, and it’s essentially the U.N.
security council. # [3]
* trying to find out how many twits it would take for the twitter
integration plugin to kick in # [4]
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Bookmarks for March 22nd through April 6th
April 6th, 2008 by emersonbanezA new Post “Bookmarks for March 22nd through April 6th” was written on the 4/6/2008 at 8:03 pm on “The Bangus Ultimatum”.
These are my links for March 22nd through April 6th:
* Crime against peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [1] - A
crime against peace, in international law, refers to the act of
military invasion as a war crime, specifically referring to
starting or waging war against the integrity, independence, or
sovereignty of a territory or state, or else a military violation
* Peremptory norm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [2] - A
peremptory norm (also called jus cogens or ius cogens, Latin for
“compelling law”) is a fundamental principle of international law
which is accepted by the international community of states as a
norm from which no derogation is ever permitted.
* Nuremberg Principles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [3] - The
Nuremberg Principles were a set of guidelines for determining what
constitutes a war crime
* Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Harmless Geek Pranks [4] - Since the
dawn of time, geeks have been playing harmless pranks on their
beloved (but unsuspecting) associates, and it’s up to all of us to
carry the torch forward.
* Lifehacker Book Contest Winner: Darken Windows to Reduce Eye
Strain [5] - I spend a lot of time on my computer, and all the
white pages and bright backgrounds add up to a lot of eye strain
over time, so I’ve overhauled my copy of XP with a few tweaks to
make things a little more bearable.
* Language: Find Out How It’s Said at Forvo [6] - Find out how to
say a word you’re unfamiliar with at web site Forvo. Aiming to one
day have “all the words in the world pronounced”—including
words in 23 languages—Forvo relies on users to generate both
words in demand and the proper pronunciations of
* Technology Review: Blogs: Ed Boyden’s blog: How to Think [7] - 7.
Make your mistakes quickly. You may mess things up on the first
try, but do it fast, and then move on. Document what led to the
error so that you learn what to recognize, and then move on. Get
the mistakes out of the way. As Shakespeare put it, “Our do
* Top aide testifies Taylor ordered soldiers to eat victims -
CNN.com [8] - whoa. i mean, seriously, what are we human beings up
to?
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Wordpress 2.5
March 31st, 2008 by emersonbanezA new Post “Wordpress 2.5″ was written on the 4/1/2008 at 10:41 am on “The Bangus Ultimatum”.
Thanks to Mark for the upgrade. Just testing if the cross-posting still works. Hope nothing is broken.
http://clickmomukhamo.com/bangus/2008/04/01/wordpress-25/
Bookmarks for March 7th through March 20th
March 19th, 2008 by emersonbanez
These are my links for March 7th through March 20th:
- How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8 - Boing Boing TV - But on today's episode of Boing Boing tv, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman shows Xeni how you can use about $8 worth of gear bought on eBay to read personal data from those credit cards — cardholder name, credit card number, and whatever else your bank
- Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog: "A More Perfect Union" - nice obama speech
- How to Cram for a College Exam - If you haven't cracked a book before now or if you just want to be as prepared as possible, cramming the night before an exam is a must. This how-to will guide you through the process.
- Geek Love - New York Times - Wired's Adam Rogers wrote a lovely, sweeping obit for Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax in this weekend's New York Times that included this flowchart showing how D&D was a gateway drug into every kind of nerd-dom:
- play.house - list of music from the tv series house m.d.
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Tilt
February 29th, 2008 by emersonbanez
I’ve always thought that an EDSA-style insurrection was a great hack. Gather a sufficient number of people (usually pissed), and there is art and politics and rage and religion, and with some luck, actual change. It can be beautifully executed, distributed intelligence and diverse agendas converging to achieve shockingly fast political transitions, all with relatively no violence. I have heard my mom talk about Version 1.0, and I was there for Dos.
I’m not sure if I have it in me to go to another.
As beautiful and as enticing as it is, an “EDSA” (I think Makati is the place to be right now) is still a hack - a temporary solution. It is a well-placed application of mass and motion, like nudging a pinball machine with your hips. It’s sexy and exciting as hell, but like any hack, can have unexpected, unintended consequences. Case in point: today’s rally would probably be joined by Erap Estrada, recently convicted of plunder (later pardoned by GMA). Didn’t we already get rid of this sleazebag years ago? Aren’t we supposed to be raging about the kind of corruption that makes Erap free to join rallies? And don’t get me started with Joe “Moral Revolution”* De Venecia within the ranks of the protesters. I’m beginning to think we’ve arrived at the planet of the apes, where the apes ride on horseback and the humans are scurrying like vermin, and the whole world is upside down. Can we really build our futures on such paradoxes?
Maybe I’m just getting old, but really, I’ve had enough of this shit. I want something more elegant, more lasting.
* Smirk
System Failure
February 24th, 2008 by emersonbanez
Alright. Let me just ease into this a bit.
I haven’t attended an NBN/ZTE related rally. Not a single mass for truth or accountability. And although I am not exactly a fan of this administration, I find myself unable to rely on non-secular institutions to solve our problems. Lord knows what happened the last time we had a “divinely-inspired” insurrection/coup d’etat.
It’s easy to tack this mess to character flaws - greedy politicians, or a president who is just plain evil. Or maybe we can look at the way our political code is written and executed. Clearly the provisions giving the president the power to enter into executive agreements was too easily exploited. Perhaps oversight powers of Congress for deals like this could have been more explicit.
This is a failure of secular institutions. This means that this is ultimately our responsibility as voters.
How dare me put this back on our laps, right? Did we really get to know our Congress Critters? Were we actually willing to stick our neck outs for clean, credible presidential elections? Are we actually determined to go out to the streets, for as many times that it would take until we get the leaders we deserve?
Testing
February 15th, 2008 by emersonbanez
Tweaking blog settings. Hopefully, this post in my main blog will automatically be cross-posted to multiply and friendster. And then we are finally back in business.
