Midsemester Standings

Deadline for dropping is officially over and some of my instructors already released our class standing.

• Math 53 – 2.00^
• Nat Sci 2 – 1.50^
• Hum 2 – 1.50*
• Kas 2 – 1.75*
• CS 12 – 1.25*
• PE 2 TT -(?)

Target GWA: 1.650

* – Rough estimate based on recorded and published scores.
^ – Official record.

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This is an outrage!

Telecom giant GLOBE Telecom announced recently a 100%-150% rate increase in their unlimited text service (Unlimitxt, now Unlitxt). The new rates are PhP20/1day, PhP40/2days, PhP80/4days from the old PhP15/1day, PhP25/2days and PhP50/5days. As response to the consumer outrage over the new rates, the National Telecommunications Commission ordered GLOBE to rollback to the old rates, but the company defied it, stating “it [was] invalid.”

Consumer group TXTPower launched a campaign to boycott all GLOBE Telecom’s services on February 7^th. From their blog:

TXTPower’s call for a boycott asks subscribers incensed by Globe’s intransigence to choose any or all of the following:

• Avoid SMS and Calls through the Globe network. Find other ways to communicate.
• Postpone automatic and card reloads
• Postpone GCash transactions
• Postpone line applications
• Refrain from getting icon/music/visual downloads from Globe
• Refrain from using Globe’s GPRS and 3G services

…

TXTPower said the boycott will be lifted once Globe obeys the NTC order and rolls back the price of unlimited texting service.

As a GLOBE subscriber myself, I am disgusted by these hike rates. GLOBE is worse than $MART, now, more than ever. Let us just hope that GLOBE will realize this terrible mistake before it’s too late (when I finally switch networks).

UP Diliman Windows Vista Launch

A friend of mine pointed out on his blog that there will be a UP Diliman launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft’s newest line of operating systems. It will be on February 12 19, 2007 from 1:00-2:30PM, Philippine time, at the Engineering Theater, Melchor Hall, UP Diliman Campus.

ERRATA: The launch is on February 19, not February 12.

Somebody took over.

Somebody took over development of one of my Web site projects, the Batangas State University Integrated School Web site. That’s nice, because I’m not affiliated with the university anymore, and I simply don’t have the time to gather information for the Web site myself. However, I do feel bad because the new webmaster is messing up my original source code. What I mean by messing up, is that he/she is not following the standards I use when I coded the site. She reintroduced elements not defined in the XHTML 1.1 Strict specification, like FONT, B, I. The new webmaster also does not use the appropriate elements for outlines, headings and tabulations.

Well, whoever the new webmaster is, good luck (no sarcasm intended).

Finally, that is one project off my sleeve. That means fewer worries for me. (I’m not getting paid to do that anyway. J)

Trying Microsoft Office Word 2007’s Blog Post Feature

I just installed Microsoft Office 2007 on my laptop PC. Right now, I’m trying to see how well Word’s blog posting feature works (well, I hope it does).