While the nation is under threat of the Swine Flue and the World is at constant war with the recession, our senate is worried about a celebrity sex scandal. We act as if this is the first sex scandal that aired in our nation when dozens have been shown before. While farmers starve and walk a thousand miles to protect the lands that were promised to them our law makers think that the whole country can’t function if a case of infidelity is unsolved.

First of all, I do not understand why they compared this case to that of exploitation and human sex trafficking. I find a perverted man’s habit of taking a video of his unorthodox sexual habits to be no where near of the sex offenses that can even be likened to those. Looking at this case, the only fault I see in Hayden is taking those videos and not informing any of his partners that he was recording videos. What else can they charge him for? Sodomy (which is legal in the Philippines)? Untraditional forms of sex?

In my opinion, if there is a case that THE SENATE should be looking into  it should be against Hayden’s friends who took his laptop and hardrive and spread those videos of him. They’re probably guilty of theft, breach of intellectual property rights and invasion of private property.

Lastly, I said in the 2nd paragraph, I don’t think this is a case that a SENATE inquiry should be held for. Senate inquiries are for matters that deserve public attention because they are matters that concern the public such as the ZTE deal or CAR. From what I the things that I’ve heard on the radio, listening to the senate, I don’t really see a motive behind Bong Revilla’s complain besides getting some limelight and making himself look like a hero so he can get some public support for campaigning next year. How pathetic.

Just to say, I am all for women’s rights and female empowerment, but I do not believe this is a proper method or the proper opportunity to be fighting for it. Again, politicians are just using such activism and ideologies to their advantage just so they can keep their butts in those air-conditioned rooms that the people’s taxes pay for so they can pilfer more money from the already suffering nation. Again, Pathetic

My own personal solution to this for people who like the idea of keeping a private journal but aren’t used to handwriting long entries anymore. The solution is MAMP and WordPress. MAMP gives you an easy way to install MySQL APACHE and PHP for your Mac. Once you have MAMP installed you can then simply create a database for your wordpress and install wordpress. You get to blog and rant but still within the comfort and limits of your computer. Your website should only be accessible from your computer or your home network and with simple changes in the port settings you can require visitors (if you want visitors) to enter a password before being able to view any of part of your blog/site

I loaded 100 prepaid credits unto my cellphone on New Years Eve, Dec 31, 2008 and the next day after sending 6 messages of “Happy new year” my account balance became 0. I called Globe Customer support and they filed a report and well 21 days later after more than 21 follow ups, I still haven’t received any word about my complaint. Apparently this is a real problem with Globe specially if your on prepaid and don’t have a lot of ways to track your account balances. I can see that their customer support representatives are trying all that they can but the problem is they can’t do enough and their support division needs to seriously fire some lazy individuals. Imagine not having any way to contact people on your birthday of all days! What’s even worse is on that same day I was badly disrespected by a CSR who commented that “sir if you do not stop screaming this conversation will end”, first of all no matter how hard I scream (which is actually a justified expression of anger) that agent had no right and according to their codes of conduct should have not threatened that.

Our database servers for Wired was down starting the last week of December and are still down as of today. Eric has already sent tickets and I’ve already sent emails but still nothing so I called Philhosting last monday and I have to say, I have never been more rudely confronted by a CSR all my life. I complained that our servers have been down for almost a month and she immediately interrupted me saying “Sir I do not believe that your servers could be down for a month that’s impossible” in filipino. She kept interrupting me every time I said something and it was really getting on my nerves.

Coming from a country that boasts a great percentage of outsourced callcenters, you would expect better service that this right? Globe I can live with as he was probably under pressure but that woman from Philhosting was definitely too much and it seems I wasn’t the only one who was met with the same response. I already told our president that we want to move hosts as this is definitely the worse hosting I have ever seen. Just to warn everyone, never buy hosting from Philhosting unless you want a headache.

Animal Idol is a parody of American Idol that Ultra Kawaii created! Go on and vote! My money is on Little Golden!

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=1H0TRG0yZ8I[/youtube]

I visited the Rizal Library today to simply kill time as it was one of the best places in campus to go to sleep. I searched their database just to see if they had any books on , Apache and web development and they did!

I wasn’t just able to barrow a book on PHP but I was also get Flash, XML and Ajax scripting books as well.

I started working with PHP when I was a sophomore in high school because I needed to find a way to make updating Farplaneabyss (my old Final Fantasy media site then) easier and faster. I’ve learned a couple more tricks over the past couple of years, more than your usual dynamic and simple PHP inclusion but it was never really enough. Though I’ve been comfortable using PHP, I never really learned formally which is why I never made my own scripts.

I’m so happy now that I have these books to read! I have a lot of free time this summer even with my design job but it helps a lot with the things I have to do.

So far, all of the problems I had with my installation have been fixed. I haven’t seen any other bug problems but let’s just wait and see what happens next.

Global warming is really starting to take its toll on tropical countries like here in the Philippines. Summers here are getting extremely warmer even by tropical standards. It really became evident to me when I woke up last night at 11:45pm sweating like a pig from the heat. Last night was the first night I slept with the air-conditioning turned on since we moved in to our house 5 years ago. I hardly ever use the air-conditioning because I try as much as possible to cut down on electricity use (since I’m already on the computer 10 hours a day).

I really don’t understand how people can keep saying that human action is not to blame for global warming. It maybe a natural occurrence but this is happening at a rate that is unnatural. Even if you say its natural, are you just going to let it kill the world population slowly and not try to at the very least delay it one single bit? If there’s something I’ve learned from designing for the web and encountering different problems with different browsers is that when there is always a way to get around things.

I have been a very big fan of Becca’s designs for such a long time and her blog offers a lot of good designer information and fun reads. Becca was actually nice enough to introduce me to what image replacement was (this was last year) when I was wondering how she made her blog title into a stylized image.

Her last entry was in late June last year which was about aethism and I haven’t seen any activity from her since. Does anyone know where the great Becca Wei is? What has happened? Becca the blog world needs you!