Voter's Education? I'd say Voter's Restriction.

I currently am a student of an electoral participation NSTP class on our school. A part of the whole class has been tasked to hand out and communicate guideline materials for the incoming May 2010 elections.  These materials contained a myriad of useful information regarding the automated/computerized election and were written in a language all Kagayanons know: Visayan. Sad to say, even though the materials were written in the most basic of all basic languages here in Cagayan de Oro, a few people still were not able to read them.

I thought and asked myself: “Hey, why not restrict a portion of all the people in the Philippines from voting? Sure they have the right to vote. We’re not taking it away from them. If they couldn’t read, then obviously, they couldn’t vote. If they couldn’t vote, then they shouldn’t have a reason to complain why we’re not allowing them to vote.”

Why people do not believe in aliens :)

Whenever I ask people whether they believe in aliens or not, I always expect their answer to be “no”, or any answer that you could infer to “no”. Also, whenever I watch nerdy shows that talk about extraterrestrial life, chances are, the people talking about those things do not believe in aliens.

Holy crap. I’m not writing tech stuff anymore -.-’ Anyway, back to topic.

There are quite a lot of reasons why people do not believe in aliens. Some are obvious, some are not. Some are even so fucking funny that you’d just want to believe in aliens anyway. Heck, I believe in aliens. Biased discussion? No. I will only be discussing a few that I know.

People don’t believe in aliens because of the simple fact that they haven’t seen one. EVER. This is one of the most common reasons why people don’t believe in aliens. “To see is to believe”, they say. If you’re one of them, maybe you’d say “I would believe in aliens the moment I see them” or whatever or some shit like that. There are, however, a few footages of UFO sightings around the world, most of which are hoax.

Most complicated computer problem I ever had!

I am extremely pissed off right now. I spent P380 for a cable that was supposed to help me get my cousin’s laptop going again. Still, I get no good results.

Let’s head straight to the problem.

When he handed me over the laptop, I gave it a quick look. I booted it up and it tried to load Windows XP. A few seconds later, the screen went blank and gave me a blue screen of death. I assume that this was the problem he was speaking of. Also, I couldn’t boot into safe mode, plain old command prompt, and many others.

I thought to myself that this is going to be easy. It seemed easy.

The next thing I tried to do was to try to use my PCLinuxOS live CD to try to backup. I put the CD in the drive and started up his laptop. I then noticed that the BIOS (PhoenixBIOS) didn’t try to boot from CDROM. Then again, I thought this was going to be easy.

Facebook-fu for WTF moments :)

This post is dedicated to all Facebook users who have regular WTF moments like “Shit! I closed the effin tab accidentally!”,  “#!@* !  100 notifications?!?!”, and the like. I easily get annoyed by these things so I came up with a lot of strategies to prevent myself from easily bursting with anger.

1. “%@#! That wasn’t the tab I wanted to close!” <– A WTF moment where one accidentally closes a tab. Annoying when you were still doing something with that tab.

This WTF moment is easy. After your uncareful hands (sure, it wasn’t your fault ^^) accidentally closed the tab, simply hit CTRL + SHIFT + T at the same time to restore the tab. Works with most major tabbed browsers like Firefox, IE6 and up, Chrome, Opera, etc.

If Cory Aquino didn't die…

If Cory Aquino didn’t die, do you think Noynoy would be as famous as he is now? Do you think he would be talked about or recommended as the new president?

I’m asking this question because I had a very negative reaction or comment when I heard people suggesting that Noynoy should be the new president of the country. I heard these from the news, from the people around me, and most especially, the interviewing session that we had to do for our NSTP class.

This thing that I hear around are alarming. EXTREMELY ALARMING.

Long time no post.

Am I simply busy?

Squeeze the hell out of the N73 (Speed up the N73)

It has been months since the last time I updated my N73 firmware. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to make Nokia update the damn phone.

However, there are a couple of things that we can do in the meantime to help speed up the N73. I decided to write this to help those who get pissed of by the N73.

Here are the things that can be done to “tweak” the N73.

Overkill by Paranoia.

Sounds like a song performed by a band, doesn’t it?

Before I begin writing the rest of the post, please take a look at the screenshot.

Well, who said you can’t?

For what?

Yesterday, our class had our preliminary examinations for the First Year Formation Program. That was the worst exam that I took in my entire life.

No, not because it’s hard, but because the coverage was simply useless.

All that we had to MEMORIZE were ; the school mission statement, the 3 c’s (competence, conscience, and commitment), and the staff of the school.

Useful? No.

Improvised thing #1 (Auto shutdown computer with Free Download Manager. No internet connection!)

One night, I  knew that I’d have a hard time sleeping, so I planned to use this laptop play music until all the songs in the playlist are done playing. I know there are music players that automatically shutdown the computer when the playlist ends, but I shut the router down hours before I planned of sleeping.

Anyway, before I do any more stupid stuff, let me begin. This is the first episode of my hopefully-continuous series.

You will learn from this post how to automatically shut down your computer with Free Download Manager without an internet connection. Haven’t heard of that, have you?