The Colegio de la Purisima Concepcion website runs on my as-yet-still-in-development CMS: Mazungumzo, which is in turn powered by the truly truly wonderful CodeIgniter PHP framework.
Mazungumzo is a Swahili term meaning conversation, and at its core, the Mazungumzo platform is meant to be an enabler for conversation: between students, between teachers and administrators, between [...]
Colegio de la Purisima Concepcion website
Manny Villar and the World’s Smallest Violin
In the spirit of Chiz Escudero Real Ultimate Facts, I give you: Manny Villar and the World’s Smallest Violin — Real Ultimate Facts!
Storing a CSV text file into a C Struct
I came across a problem where I wanted to grab some data off a CSV text file (see sample below) and plug it into a data structure, but — and there’s always a “but” — I had to do it in ANSI C. Eyeroll. Doing it in Python would be a snap:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
path = "players.txt"
dbfile = [...]
Mar Roxas: A Failure of PR or a Failure of Humanity?
Apparently, a failure of PR, according to the following tweets:
Re: Quintuplets, story going around is completely inaccurate. We never abandoned them. We never stopped giving assistance…
Social welfare officer recommended that instead of cash, they be given livelihood training so that they won’t become dependent…
They sought help from a radio anchor who misinterpreted it as abandonment. [...]
August 12 ‘09 Bullets
Jun Bautista takes the time to clarify the moves by UP Law Professor Harry Roque, et al → “We were led to think that Congress finally crafted a mandate for full automation in the coming 2010 elections, but a review of the amendatory law will reveal that it provides for a hybrid election (partly automated [...]
PCIJ Report on GMA Wealth part 1
The declared wealth of President Arroyo has increased the fastest, and by amounts much bigger, than the net growth in the declared wealth of three presidents before her — Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos, and Estrada — combined. Read part one of the PCIJ Report.
Alternative locations for your Grey Poupon, Madam President
So, okay, maybe they didn’t have any Grey Poupon; the thought remains the same, and Steven Tyler’s advice is still very much valid.
Days after this report from the PDI, indicating that “more than nine million Filipino families consider themselves poor, while nearly two in five say they are “food poor,” according to the latest Social [...]
Cory envy: CARPer signed into law
It’s become a fad, of late, to compare and contrast our two female Presidents Cory and Gloria, although it strikes me as more than a little sad that it was only after she died that Cory clearly gained the upper hand in that contest. Lost and politically discarded in the years after her term ended, [...]
The conceit of higher education
The conceit of higher education is in thinking that we are solely responsible for achieving it. That it is through our intelligence, or diligence, that we succeed. Ignoring the countless opportunities we’ve had, by simply being born to a family that can afford to put us through school.
By all means, raise sin taxes
Taxes should come from alcohol and tobacco and not from books[…] Tax hazards to lungs and livers, do not tax minds[…]
GMA, July 27 2009 SONA
I meant to discuss this, but bigger things took more of my attention than I expected. Being a heavy smoker, I will be among the millions of consumers directly affected, so [...]
