Category Archives: politics

I got one! (Plus hello again after a blogging hiatus)

Posted on December 6, 2005 by Gabriel

First of all, hey I got one of those Arrovo bills everyone's been talking about.

Now would you look at that.

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Google Bombing Knocks Arroyo Out Of Office! – not

Posted on November 21, 2005 by Gabriel

So the Young Radicals blog managed to get Google to display Arroyo's website whenever someone enters the keywords "pekeng pangulo". Whoopee.

Of course, that would be terrific if people would enter the term "pekeng pangulo" now wouldn't it?

Come on guys. Please. Let's go for "liar", "cheat", "impostor", "defrauder" maybe. But "pekeng pangulo"? Surely, surely you can do better than that.

This just saddens me really. PGMA is still there in all her annoyingness, with her relatives, former students and loyal congressmen hanging onto her for dear life, and for a moment we had her on the run.

But now, things have settled down. The people are going about their business trying to make do with eVAT instead of remembering the Mendiola hosing and even the PGMA tapes just a few weeks ago really, and we've fairly moved on.

In other words, the opposition has failed. And the only thing new is a Google bombing, ranking the PGMA website as the first found when searching for the incredibly popular term: "pekeng pangulo". Sheesh. Continue reading →

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Where art thou (web-based) Opposition?

Posted on October 19, 2005 by Gabriel

I thought of an idea that might help concerned bloggers unite. I wanted to do an affiliate system where bloggers can install on their website a small graphic, maybe something as simple as this:

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8 gadgets in 8 weeks

Posted on October 17, 2005 by Gabriel

Does that mean to say that Bluetooth is completely useless? Of course not. However, I’ve personally not seen an application in popular use that makes use of its capabilities as intended to be, but more to the point, I’ve yet to hear a local conversation amongst friends and other ordinary users that has to do with Bluetooth without involving the nocturnal talents of some starlet, model or hapless student (Which may also serve as an indication of the type of people I hang out with). Continue reading →

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thoughts on the national ID

Posted on April 22, 2005 by Gabriel

My initial thoughts on the National ID border on some measure of disbelief Continue reading →

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