Opinion

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on July 11, 2009

THE 7 PRINCIPLES OF the Leave No Trace have taken the mountaineering and outdoor community here in the Philippines by storm and they have adopted these, to the letter, as their guiding maxims. Well, that is good. I myself would happily endorse it...if you are Caucasian or a westerner or just a plain urban creature who suddenly is fascinated by the outdoors.

Yes, why not? Don't westerners are pampered too much ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on January 1, 2009

I HAPPEN TO RECEIVE from my email an item that got caught my interest. I would have deleted it outright were it not for the phrase “sparks blog outrage”, that I began to unravel this news which got posted in Infotech Section of the Inquirer.net on December 28, 2008 which read:


“Masui, Lanao del Sur Mayor Nasser Pangandaman, Jr. and several of his golf companions and bodyguards figured in an altercation ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on May 19, 2008

THE BEST THING that happened to an average Filipino family wanting to own a family utility vehicle that is very economical in terms of availability, maintenance and operation is the introduction of the Suzuki Every 660 or its more rugged cousin, the Suzuki Scrum, which could either run on normal or on four-wheel drive mode, here in the Philippines. It is more popularly known here as the “multicab”, short for multi-purpose ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on May 2, 2008

FOUR PERSONS RIDING tandem on a motorcycle met a timely vehicular accident at the highway of Looc, Oslob, Cebu on the afternoon of December 1, 2007. All suffered serious physical injuries and were all brought to the Oslob District Hospital for their initial medication and first aid.

There was only one municipal ambulance and one government nurse on duty at the hospital attending the patients. One of the patient, ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on January 24, 2008.

LINUX (lae-noks, lee-nooks, lye-noks, lye-nooks), in whatever way you pronounced it, is the most beautiful word in the English language in use today, or of any other tongue that may have adapted it in their vocabulary. It is beyond ethnic, religious and ideological doctrines and borders. It is convergence in itself, fusing differences in patent, licensing and cost. For Linux is synonymous with freedom and liberation. Freedom ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on December 26, 2007.

I AM A MARGINAL home PC owner and user who, four or five years ago, abandoned the idea of buying or owning another desktop dictated by the high cost of procuring and installing a licensed proprietary operating system, without which my desktop would just be considered a piece of junk. Even if I could afford, at a lower cost, for this software to be installed in my PC from third party sources, I don't see any reason to maintain ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on November 16, 2007.

LAST OCTOBER 15, 2007, I WENT to Mactan Island on some official business. I went to Pier 3 to board the River Ferry launch that was to take me to that island from mainland Cebu. It was 2:30 PM when the launch proceeded to cross the Mactan Channel. The rain had just stopped minutes ago where there was heavy downpour that lasted for about an hour before that.

As the launch was now cruising on the livid blue-green ...