The Bangus Ultimatum

These are my links for July 29th through October 6th:

• Featured Windows Download: SpeedRead Increases Your Reading Pace, Retention - Free application SpeedRead is designed to improve your reading speed and retention by quickly flashing a few words at a time on your screen in quick succession.
• Quarkbase : Everything about a Website - Web site Quarkbase offers an organized and detailed overview of any web site, complete with summary, popularity, ownership, traffic information, and even recent blog posts and tweets about the site. In a nutshell, it's sort of like Whois.net on steroids. Quarkbase's accuracy and wealth of information varies based on the popularity of a site, but if you want to know more about a web site, it's a great place to start your search.
• how the current financial crisis came to be - in simple language and stick figures
• Know Your Stuff Home Inventory Software - could be useful. someday.
• What We Use: The Lifehacker Editors’ Favorite Software and Hardware - for my future post-bar project
• Tip Testers: Turn Six Floppy Disks into a Latched Box - a complete box with a latched lid, made from the disk's metal slider

And all of you can re-evaluate any information concerning my demise

I had originally hoped for a lightweight, “agile” bar review that will help me prepare for the basics as well as help me keep my life (on- and off-line). My fellow barristers will probably agree that the bar just doesn’t do lightweight. The bar examinations are so bloated and ponderous that preparing for it acquires its own gravitational pull.  Soon enough the whole thing implodes into itself, and what you have is a hungry maw sucking in time and space and sleep and lots and lots of paper.

I’m done with reading law books (for now). I am far away on my first real vacation since April, and I’ll just blurt out all the acknowledgments I can think of.

I’d like to thank Ruby, my girlfriend, for bearing with me during this difficult time. I could not have made it through the whole thing without her. I don’t say that merely as a turn of phrase. It is the truth in the most forensic sense of the word.

I’d like to thank my family for supporting me through it all.

I’d like to thank Julius and Teya, my fellow inmates in Cell 4-D, for helping me slog through all the work. I’d like to thank Mon and Remir for all the useful tips and encouraging words. Thank you to U.P. Barops 2008.

I would like to thank the academy - the U.P. College of Law and all our teachers for shaping us up all these years. Thank you Florin for finishing the Consti outlines (even if it very nearly killed us all). Thank you Professor Te and Dean Leonen for being there for us during the bar exam month.

I would like to thank (and say sorry) to all my friends. I will see you guys soon, and I promise to answer all your email and accept your facebook invitations.

Well, there’s sleep debt I still have to pay. Good night, guys!

These are my links for July 27th through July 29th:

• Weekend Project: Make a Pen Holder Out of Floppy Disks - Instead of throwing out those old floppy disks, grab a couple of zip ties and turn them into a roomy, DIY pen holder that pays homage to the old school method of data storage.
• Keith Barry does brain magic | Video on TED.com - First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies — in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.
• Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain: Scientific American - Recently, a growing body of research has focused on a particular mental limitation, which has to do with our ability to use a mental trait known as executive function.
• J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine - J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.
• Turn Your Ubuntu Hardy to Mac OSX Leopard - Make Tech Easier - do i really want to do this. m-m-maybe.

These are my links for July 19th from 01:33 to 16:44:

• Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo: Scientific American - This story is a supplement to the feature "Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images" which was printed in the June 2008 issue of Scientific American.
• Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images: Scientific American - Modern software has made manipulation of photographs easier to carry out and harder to uncover than ever before, but the technology also enables new methods of detecting doctored images
• The Free Fall Research Page: Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips by David Carkeet - Admit it: You want to be the sole survivor of an airline disaster. You aren't looking for a disaster to happen, but if it does, you see yourself coming through it.
• Compile Software From Source Code - Webmonkey - Increasingly, though, with the popularity of open-source software, where the source code is available for one and all to read and enjoy, the final step of compiling the code into a runnable program is left up to the user.
• Feature: Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux - You love working inside your Linux desktop, but at the most inconvenient times you've got to reboot into Windows—whether to open a tricky Office file, try out a Windows application, or even just play a quick game. However, with some free tools and a Win
• one hundred push ups - viable project?
• Online Mind Mapping - MindMeister - MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only online, and with as many simultaneous users as you like!

These are my links for July 10th through July 13th:

• Help me setup PLDT DSL w/ Ubuntu - Ubuntu Forums - ubuntu and pldt my dsl…who knew?
• talblog: Sundown - Sun’s own internal battles and basically just NIH by JavaSoft itself hobbled the development of Java as a first-class application development environment. JFC should have simply taken LFC or IFC and continued to develop it. SunSoft should have abandoned
• In Which I Think About Java Again, But Only For A Moment — Thought Palace - My theory is that Java desktop apps succeed only in niches where UI design and usability don’t matter: development tools and enterprise software. Programmers expect things to be crude and complicated: anyone who’ll voluntarily use ‘vi’ in the 21st
• Jobs: No Java for you | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com - Developers hoping to create applications for the Apple iPhone are bound to be disappointed if information trickling out of Apple is to be believed, especially if they wanted to create those applications in the Java programming language.
• Setting up home Wi-Fi using Linksys WRT54G, PLDT myDSL broadband connection | Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments - important when i move a linux machine to a residential place where the only broadband is dsl
• Five ways to keep your PC cool on a hot summer day - a quick-and-easy guide to reducing your computer's power consumption

These are my links for July 6th through July 8th:

• Noodlings » The Sun Also Sets - Recently, a couple articles caught my attention. Triggered by news of the lack of Java on the iPhone, these articles go on to address Java’s failure on the desktop in general.
• planet rome.ro: Apple-NeXT Merger Birthday! - In fact, with the superpower of NeXTSTEP, one of the earliest incarnations of DoomEd had Carmack in his office, me in my office, DoomEd running on both our computers and both of us editing one map together at the same time. I could see John moving entitie
• Java? It’s So Nineties - Sun's groundbreaking programming language vaulted to popularity with Web developers. But now it's losing ground to a raft of upstarts
• Screenshot Tour: Kid-Proof Your PC with SteadyState - When you've got your Windows XP or Vista setup running perfectly, you don't want to lose all your painstaking customizations to a reckless tot, an experiment-minded friend or spouse, or a rogue system-lousing program
• Data Manipulation with Sprog | Linux Journal - Some of the more complicated manipulations pose a briefly satisfying technical challenge, but in the end, data manipulation is boring.

These are my links for July 3rd through July 4th:

• Hive Five: Five Best Windows Maintenance Tools - Hit the jump for an overview of the five best Windows maintenance tools, then cast your vote for the best of the bunch.
• Featured Desktop: Two-Faced Mac-like Windows Desktop - Designer Vijayakrishnan gives us a tour of his gorgeous Windows multi-desktop, which makes you look at it three times to figure out what operating system he's using.
• YouTube - GCC: Current Topics and Future Directions - i miss the gcc
• YouTube - CGAL: The Open Source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library - yes, it's been a while since i cared to watch a lecture on algorithms for computational geometry. i must be bored.
• YouTube - NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo - Steve Jobs demoing the NEXT operating system. Many of the features shown here are now in Macintosh OSX.
• The IT industry is shifting away from Microsoft - The INQUIRER - EVERY SO often, there is a big shift in an industry. The shifts are not usually visible until long after they've happened, making you look back and say: "Oh yeah, things were different back then".