The recent news on the “BIR Sex Scandal” reminds me of the PCIJ report on Peeping Toms going hi-tech (Inside PCIJ and i Report). According to the PCIJ:

Just recently, Technorati’s Dave Sifry posted the “State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006“, which reflects that a total of 57 Million+ blogs are being tracked by Technorati. During the 3rd quarter of 2006, 3 Million blogs were created per month and 100,000 blogs were created everyday. You may have your own opinion, but I must [...]

During a trial in a small town in a southern state, a prosecuting attorney called his first witness to the stand, a grandmotherly, elderly woman. He approached her and asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you know me?” She responded, “Why, yes I do know you, Mr. Williams. I’ve known you since you were a young boy, [...]

Everybody knows about “5-6” and similar lending schemes. Everybody also knows that, ironically, those who are in financial trouble are forced to accept ridiculously high interest rates – which, in many (almost all?) instances, leads to more trouble (financial or otherwise).

By sustaining the unusual course taken by President Arroyo, we are traversing a very dangerous path. We are opening the way to those who, in the end, would turn our democracy into a totalitarian rule. While it may not plunge us straightway into dictatorship, however, it is a step towards a wrong direction. History must [...]

Almost every Filipino knows EDSA, although not everyone may know that it’s a major thoroughfare in Metro Manila. It’s a road that is [in]famous and unique for many things. EDSA One, EDSA Dos, EDSA Tres and the additional (?) episodes that will rival the plot of Starwars.

After deciding that K2 is a great theme and installing it, you may want to customize how your K2 looks and works. There’s a list of great plugins of the install-activate-and-go type. For plugins that require some code tweaking, I mentioned the Bot-Check WordPress plugin vs. Comment Spam. It would have been better to include [...]

Office politics is a fact of institutional or corporate life. As long as organizations exist, office politics will always be there. On a neutral note, office politics is simply the relationship and interaction between and among co-workers (and, to a certain extent, with the bosses). The relationship should ideally be of mutual respect, and the [...]

While presenting a prosecution witness in a criminal case, I was struck by the witness’ answer when asked why she decided to testify (she first saw the victim when the incident happened; the victim died). Without batting an eyelash, she answered that if ever she becomes a victim, she would also want others to testify [...]

I guess all of us experienced, at times, an emptiness which threatens to destroy our neat concept of ourselves and the world. This emptiness is not defined simply by the absence of purpose or the lack of interest in anything (or the apparent interest in everything), although this appears to be a manifestation of such [...]