Posted on November 6 •
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The Regional Schools Press Conference commences in Tandag next week, and yours truly will be joining the said competition.
The RSPC brings together Caraga’s most budding campus journalists in friendly competition to find out who will represent the region in the National Schools Press Conference, which will be held some time in February next year in [...]
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Posted on November 5 •
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We’ve been waiting for this day to come for years now, and finally, it has come to pass: the United States has chosen her next leader in Democratic senator Barack Obama.
This blog congratulates the president-elect. I hope, pray and believe that he can lead America and the world to better days. I know it will [...]
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Posted on November 3 •
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Oliver Robillo, Mindanao Blogger-in-Chief and organizer of the first ever WordCamp Philippines, recently came up with yet another timely project in light of the general elections, which are coming up in two years’ time. Presenting RP2010, the election watchblog.
The blog’s “About” page pretty much says it all:
The RP2010.com blog endeavors to be the poll watchdog [...]
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Posted on October 31 •
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When Gizmodo alerted me to the fact that Intrepid Ibex, the latest version of popular Linux distro Ubuntu, was out for download, the early adopter in me screamed, “upgrade!” So today, I spent the entirety of the day away from the computer and on my iPhone as Ubuntu upgraded to 8.10. Finally, after ten hours [...]
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The National Novel Writing Month begins in just 24 hours, and I’m participating for the first time! I’m going to use a long-forgotten plot from a story in one of my abandoned Mibba accounts, and my novel is tentatively titled “Calhoun Beach”. I even have a book cover already!
NaNoWriMo, as the project is often called, [...]
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Posted on October 28 •
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In only seven short days, the American people will storm the polls to cast their ballot for their next president, the next leader of the Free World.
There’s been all this mudslinging between the Republican and Democratic campaigns. Nasty namecalling, adamant arguing about one another’s policies’ incompetence—all the stuff you’d expect to see on the campaign [...]
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Posted on October 15 •
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Meet Manuel. He’s six years of age, although if you look at his tiny, lanky frame, you’d swear he was four. He, his four siblings, and his mother live in a cardboard house on a sidewalk in Metro Manila. None of his siblings (who are eight, nine, and twelve years old) go to school; instead, [...]
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Posted on October 10 •
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As an early birthday gift, my folks got me the iPhone 3G this week. Woot! It’s an amazing cell phone—a computer in your palm, really—and I was literally jumping for joy when I first coddled the device in my hands.
I won’t write a review. We’ve read enough of those. I’ll praise the iPhone instead. With [...]
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