After I posted the entry below and I’d been typing for about an hour on Word, the window “Find and Replace” kept popping out, so I closed all windows. Then it happened again. All the icons were tumbling and somersaulting and swirling, if you can’t picture that in your head, it’s the live electronic, video version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. The Geeks yesterday explained to me that the computer keeps “refreshing” itself. Maybe not vivid enough for you, if I were to describe it to you , it’s like the refresh button is being pressed by an unseen hand and it’s being clicked at the speed of a hundred thousand times per second such that the icons on the screen are somersaulting and swirling in place . Definitely not a human hand. Unseen hand nga eh! (ayan, naiinis na ko, that’s my alarm).
I think it’s grounded.
The computer doctor showed me I could still work on F1 mode. Press F1 then click the program, then it boots. So he said maybe it’s software, the OS (operating system); so i could just replace my OS with a lower version. (i don’t want to replace it, it’s original; so he said I could save the hard disk and get another hard disk and put the different OS there). The Geeks yesterday told me that if I kept working on F1 mode, the hardware problem gets worse. But our secretary now tells me one of our computers works that way (F1) because the battery is busted.
So many theories.
I think it’s grounded. (eh kung ako ang tama? Kahit abugado lang ako….ayan, kapag totoong inis na nasa tagalog na ……it seems grounded to me.)
I haven’t returned calls. Sorry.
I cannot be talked to in a rational way, I will send a distress signal like the gizmo if you try to ask me something.
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Sometimes, news articles tend to be one-sided, only relying on a single source of information without even getting the other comment of the others involved in the story. One example: “QC court junks ABS-CBN’s P63 million damage suit vs. AGB Nielsen,” published on the Philippine Star last January 8, 2008 (Tuesday). In that story, the Quezon City RTC Branch 80 dismissed the multi million civil complaint filed by television giant ABS-CBN against the said global ratings firm because it had been “prematurely filed.”
However, reporter Reinir Padua wrote only the statements said by AGB’s lawyer. Throughout the whole story, it’s obvious that there’s no effort from the reporter to seek comment from the case’s defeated party, ABS-CBN. All you can read there are the lawyer’s explanation and happiness over the court’s decision favoring his client. The story is not balanced. The journalist’s code of ethics prohibits writing single-sourced stories. In this case, he violated the provision obliging journalists to recognize their duty to air the other side of the story.
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Yesteday, Business Mirror published an advertorial on page D1 (right on the first page of the sports section). The title was ‘Zoom Kobe III: Inspired by the Black Mamba. ‘The deadly beauty that is black mamba can strike with keen accuracy at maximum speed and in rapid succession..’ it began. It went on to compare the pair of shoes to Kobe Bryant’s kind of game and his competitiveness. There was no doubt about the promotional nature of the article, as there was a lone shot (without journalistic significance) of the newly-launched pair of rubber shoes.
If they wanted to advertise the shoes, they should have put it (the article) somewhere else, or have labeled the article for what it was, and not pass it off as legitimate news. These days nobody complains about seeing ads on the newspaper or television. The media outfits have to survive and we’re not depriving them of this right. But with that right comes the obligation to “not suppress essential facts nor distort the truth by omission or improper emphasis,” as the Journalist’s Code of Ethics puts it. So it’s up to them to pay it forward and advertise clean.
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