Aquino-Roxas tandem wins in DEMOCKRASYA – DLSU-D mock elections

2010 March 15
by jhay | with 541 views

Through the initiative of the NSTP-CWTS, particularly their Voter’s Education classes, in cooperation with the University Student Council and the DLSU-D Pre-Law Society, a month long activity about educating voters for the automated national elections this coming May 2010 was held in De La Salle University – DasmariƱas.
It culminated in a mock elections for all [...]

Intel’s Light Peak – faster communication between devices

2010 March 15
by jhay | with 153 views

What used to be enjoyed exclusively by big telecommunications companies in their data centers, fiber optic communication between devices and between the chips embedded within would soon be available to the mass market this year thanks to Intel’s Light Peak technology.
It’s a codename for Intel’s new high-speed optical cable technology designed to connect electronic devices [...]

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse trailer

2010 March 13
by jhay | with 149 views

Fans the world over are already raving with anticipation for the next installment of the Twilight: Eclipse, which would premiere this coming June 30, 2010. Check out the trailer below:

Harry Potter is so over, I may not be a die-hard Twilight fan, but as long as I see wolves the size of SUVs, I’m going [...]

Pentax Optio W90 12.1 MP Waterproof Digital Camera

2010 March 10
by jhay | with 193 views

The first time I’ve ever laid my hands on a Pentax camera was years ago back in high school, when I tried out my uncle’s film SLR that had a broken 50mm lens. It was bulky, heavy, and looked like it would stand the rugged outdoors.
The same could be said to the upcoming Pentax Optio [...]

Charter Change: Unicameral or Bicameral congress

2010 March 9

Earlier this afternoon, in our mock Constitutional Convention, the assembly convened as a committee of the whole, took up tackled briefly the issue of whether or not the Philippine legislative department be switched from the present bicameral congress into a unicameral congress.
It was proposed to switch to a unicameral congress for the following reasons that [...]

Arroyo’s Legacy: More poor Filipinos

2010 March 8
by jhay | with 112 views

It took the nine years of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s term as President, for one of her advisers to admit a glaring and irrefutable fact: Filipinos are poorer now than even before GMA took office.
Arroyo’s economic adviser, Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said:
My biggest frustration as a presidential adviser is that 34 quarters of uninterrupted expansion in the [...]

Porn Detection Stick by Paraben

2010 March 4
by jhay | with 299 views

Specialized computer forensic software maker Paraben has come out with a clever device to detect adult material in a computer, the aptly named Paraben Porn Detection Stick.
It’s a USB device with a built-in software that when run, scans the hard drive to look for pornographic content. It employs various techniques to distinguish porn from non-porn [...]

1987 Constitution of The Republic of the Philippines

2010 March 2
by jhay | with 242 views

Though there are a lot of sources for the full text of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines on the web most of it are in html or web page format, some with embedded html tags that ruins the layout of the text whenever it is copied from the web and pasted into your word [...]

Charter Change at DLSU-D

2010 March 1
by jhay | with 177 views

Election season has pushed the burning topic of Charter Change to the back burner with the electorate and the public being fed with propaganda from candidates that the problems of our country stems from the obscene and systematic corruption in our government.
That’s not the case in our Parliamentary Procedures course as starting tomorrow, we officially [...]

The State of the Internet

2010 February 28
by jhay | with 159 views

Ever wonder where the internet stands theses days? How many of us netizens are online and how many spam emails are sent as of the latest? @jess3 has the answers in this nifty video:

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

The graphics, typography and music are simply cool!
Props to cocoy

3Tier Group’s Map of Solar and Wind Energy hot-spots

2010 February 26
by jhay | with 231 views

We’ve seen many maps about global forest cover, or what’s left of it, glacial maps, but now a new world map has just been completed that will help push the adoption of renewable energy systems world wide.
The new world map shows the best spots in the world to build solar or wind power plants or [...]