TONYO CRUZ

Month: October 2007

  • Get your own domain at just P175 for first year!

    One thing I forgot the past few days is to tell you readers about HostMySite where I registered my tonyocruz.com domain name. US-based HostMySite has a special promo: $4.00 (P175.00) for new domain registrations for the first year. This is a great deal. It is the lowest rates nowadays for first year domain registration. Remember:…

  • Four National Artists to pay tribute to Amado V. Hernandez

    An important announcement from the AVHRC: Four National Artists collaborate in a tribute to Amado V. Hernandez on Nov. 30, 8:00 pm at the Nicanor Abelardo Hall of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Everyone’s invited to (re)discover a Ka Amado and his pro-people poetry.

  • Google Phone: Coming very soon?

    Internet giant Google is set to announce its “mobile plans” which may include a Google Phone and open-source operating system for phones that will compete with Symbian, Apple, Palm and Blackberry. If this happens, it will spell tragic consequences for Palm which critics and observers say may face extinction due to the company’s failure to…

  • Hijacked tanker’s crew overpowers pirates; Nine Pinoys among crew

    The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that nine Filipino seafarers are among the 23 crew members of a tanker that was hijacked by pirates Sunday just off the Somali coast. A more recent CNN report now says that the tanker’s crew fought back and have successfully overpowered the pirates. A US warship is also…

  • Thoughts about UP and the ‘new’ UP Hymn

    The University of the Philippines is more popularly known as a bastion of activism. But perhaps unknown to many, the vast majority of students, faculty, non-academic personnel and administrators aren’t activists. For most of its history and even until now, UP is actually a very pro-Establishment institution. In fact, it is a pillar of the…

  • Two years after Subic case, US Marines in Japan accused of another gang-rape

    The Philippines marks the second anniversary Thursday of the controversial Subic rape case that resulted in the conviction of one of the four US servicemen tagged as rapists by victim “Nicole” and helped compel senators to raise calls for a review or abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement between the US and the Philippines Elsewhere,…

  • MALAYA: DFA to ensure benefits for kin of UN peacekeeper

    By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 30, 2007 THE Department of Foreign Affairs on Monday confirmed that malaria killed Lt. Col. Renerio Batalla, the United Nations peacekeeper who died in Sudan last Oct. 24, which was also UN Day. DFA spokesperson Claro Cristobal said the Philippine Permanent Mission to the UN led by Ambassador Hilario…

  • UK’s first Muslim minister detained at US airport

    Inquirer reports that US airport authorities detained one of the US government’s invited guests — the first Muslim member of the British cabinet — and searched his luggage searched for explosives: International Development Minister Shahid Malik was detained for about 40 minutes at Washington Dulles airport Sunday by the Department of Homeland Security after meeting…

  • Australians turn pub into church

    Here’s some really weird news from Australia: Some Aussies have turned a beer joint into a church! Excerpts from the Reuters report: … worshippers were offered not only a message from the bible but also a meal and tea and coffee, but anyone could have a pint before or after the church service…

  • Free WIFI for wildfire-hit southern California

    Here’s a little bit of good news to the victims of the southern California wildfires: AT&T has decided to make a very generous offer to the Southern California region after wildfires swept through the terrain and destroyed homes and ruined lives in it’s path. The areas that AT&T has stated it will be offering Free…

  • Arroyo, Mendoza treated nation badly over NBN

    An Inquirer report says Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza cannot get over his “harrowing” experience when he appeared before the Senate blue ribbon committee last month. Read about Mendoza’s version of reality and his melodramatic performance in a sit-down with Inquirer editors here. I was there at the Senate plenary hall during all those…

  • MALAYA: RP faces water shortage

    By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Oct. 29, 2007 THE Philippines faces a shortage of clean potable water in the next few years but government is addressing the problem wrongly by relying on privatization, a coalition of non-government organization said. The coalition, Water for the People Network (W4PN), said the privatization policy has resulted in control…

  • Ubuntu certificate of authenticity

    It is not required but it surely looks cool when sticked on your computer. Thanks to MenZa on Ubuntu Forum for the idea and the actual design. Feel free to copy, print, post and forward. For those who are curious about Ubuntu or would like to try it, please go here.

  • Tech links for the week

    Today being a Sunday, here‘s a fresh rendering of the famous painting Last Supper using Lego. In a bid to curb iPhone reselling, Apple has started a policy of refusing cash payments for new iPhone purchases and limited to just two the number of iPhone units one person may purchase. MySpace will soon offer free…

  • US agency fakes press conference, apologizes

    The US Federal Emergency Management Agency, strongly criticized over its abysmal performance during and after hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, tried to pull a fast one on the media last week. FEMA had a hastily-organized, informed reporters a mere 15 minutes before the appointed time and made employees pose as reporters. In the media briefing,…

  • Harry Potter, a leftist?!

    Harry Potter — a leftist?! Read the Yahoo! News item that refers to an analysis published by the French newspaper Liberation. Previously, author J.K. Rowling “outed” Aldus Dumbledore, the wizard schoolmaster at Hogwarts, the school Harry Potter goes to. Photo from Wikipedia which put this caption: A set of 1st class stamps issued 17 July…

  • MALAYA: UN prober skeptical of AFP actions

    By REGINA BENGCO Malaya Oct. 27, 2007 THE UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings on Thursday said he will remain skeptical on the investigations of the Armed Forces into the human rights violations of the military until he sees the results. A Malacañang press statement said Philip Alston made the remark during a meeting in…

  • What’s inside a computer mouse?

    What else but… Cool!

  • Luchi needs type B+ blood

    Luchi Perez of the Amado V. Hernandez Resource Center is now confined at a hospital in Quezon City. She badly needs type B+ blood donations. Alternatively, people may also donate type A or O blood as replacement for whatever type B+ blood she may use from the hospital blood bank. If you wish to help…

  • Glorietta blast videos net 46,000 views on YouTube

    As of today, more than 46,000 people have viewed Gambit01’s Glorietta blast videos posted two YouTube. Watch the videos here and here. Taken using a camera phone, Gambit01’s videos are currently the “most watched” among a number of videos taken immediately after the terrible incident last week. As for photos, Disney Cute Land is perhaps…

  • Funny video on condoms

    Here’s a break from the sordid news of GMA’s pardon for Estrada. Its a funny public service announcement from India that aims to raise awareness on condoms for family planning and disease prevention. Enjoy and have a safe weekend!

  • Reviews are out as Apple unleashes Leopard

    Today, Oct. 26, Apple unleashes its much-awaited Leopard operating system. It will be available for about $100 from the Apple store online. Before you Mac lovers snag your upgrades, read the instructive reviews as “matrixed” by Gizmodo. Apple’s Steve Jobs says Leopard will help steer the company through the next decade, or something to that…