The Four-eyed Journal

It’s probably late than never, but it’s great news that Firefox 3.5 has been released yesterday for the masses to download and enjoy.
Those who fell in love with Google Chrome and it’s many great features sans plugins & extensions support would probably switch back to Firefox 3.5 because the same cool features in Chrome like [...]

When I learned that I was amongst the few bloggers who were chosen to be given a .com.ph domain for free, the first thing that came to my mind was to name it after myself. Thus, jrocas.com.ph was born. I just fancied the idea of my name being associated with my home country and besides, [...]

Another weekend, another round of PhotoHunt. I know I’ve been absent the past few weekends but hey, it’s always nice to be joining again.
This weekend’s theme is all about ‘flags‘. Since June is the month the Philippines celebrates its day of Independence Day, the National Flag and historical flags like those used during the Revolution [...]

The last time I used Digsby was last year. Back then I was glad an app allowed me to sign to my multiply IM accounts at the same time. However, I decided to stop using it because it was quite the resource hog back then.
All that has changed thanks to Build 60 of Digsby. Here’s [...]

First, I’m thankful our forum on HR 1109 was a huge success! I’ve got lots of videos, stories and photos to share in the coming days so watch out for that. Sorry if we were not able to do a live stream of the event because of some ridiculous IT policies by the University.
Anyways, the [...]

Tomorrow, the LCDC, SERVE Volunteers and the Social Sciences Department of De La Salle University – Dasmariñas will launch a forum on House Resolution 1109 with guest speakers Fr Joaquin Bernas, SJ of the Ateneo Law School and member of the 1986 Constitutional Convention Commission, Rep Elpidio Barzaga, Jr of the Cavite’s 2nd district who’s [...]

This is what’s happening in the city of Bozeman, with a population of 25,000 people in southwestern Montana, US of A as reported by DailyTech:
An anonymous citizen who applied for a city job alerted local media that he or she had to provide log-in information and passwords for any and all social networking web sites [...]

This was the first question we pondered upon today in my Argumentation & Debate class.
The discussion was good though a bit stale, as most ideas put forward were a re-hash of what my other classmate has already said; that truth is not absolute, rather it is relative.
The opposite side was taken up by the first [...]

Yesterday, I expected the first meeting of my statistics class to be the start of a boring and tormented semester of taking another math subject. My hatred or lack of enthusiasm in math as a subject stems back to my high school days spent being humiliated in front of class by a teacher who forced [...]

Okay, first it was cell phones’ radio signals that could threaten your chances of becoming a father, now laptops and the heat they generate!
This is a stern warning from reproductive specialist Suzanne Kavic, MD from the Loyola University Health System (LUHS):
“However, the heat generated from laptops can impact sperm production and development making it difficult [...]

Well I have. You can now find me on Facebook using the url: http://www.facebook.com/JuliusRocas
I experienced no troubles or even lag time when grabbing my own username. It wasn’t even a surprise to see that no one else has claimed it because there may be a billion guys named “Julius” out there, there’s only a handful [...]

The newest and most up-to-date version of WordPress has just been released to the public today. Version 2.8 is named after notable Jazz musician Chet Baker. A quick summary of what’s new with WP 2.8 is showcased here in this video:

It’s true that the most notable improvement brought by WP 2.8 is its speed. My [...]