Wesley So wins Dubai Open is the news. He had a brisk start and led the tournament till the end, with just one hiccup in the sixth round. Top Filipino grandmaster and whiz kid Wesley So never let it slip. He won the tournament with 7/9 and a 2708 performance.
Category: General
Access Linux Files from Windows XP
Access to Ext2/Ext3 from Windows XP. I believe this is a “read only” access, not a “write” one. Nevertheless, this could definitely prove useful in my everyday computing now that I’m dual booting in Ubuntu and Windows XP.
2007 Bar Exam Results
In time for the release of the 2007 Bar Exam results today, this website got alot of hits due to the entry I posted a year ago, which is for the 2006 exams. I know no one personal who took the 2007 exams, so I didn’t blog about it. Nevertheless, the 2007 exam results can be found here, here and here.
1992 R. Magsaysay Awardee – Washington SyCip
A lengthy but interesting read about the biography of Washington Sycip and the history of SGV & Co. Referred to me by Marky.
Sidenotes in Deuts.NET
While I was cleaning my site for broken links, here are some I learned:
- This is what zooomr has become. It’s supposed to compete with flickr, but how can it compete when your photos once hosted in them are gone. This is what actually happened to some of my photos in zooomr. Those were not the ‘masterpiece’ type of photos, but hey, they serve as a documentation of my life. Poor photos, poor photo sharing site.
- News sites to avoid linking to when creating posts: Yahoo! News and Manila Bulletin. Why? Because they can’t maintain static pages for their news articles for quite a long period of time, a year or two you’ll find broken links in your blog posts.
- Successful / implementation for my permalinks. All posts now appear to have a / in the end. This will definitely affect search engine referrals and ultimately traffic. But hopefully, all will be back to normal soon. Nevertheless, I’ve prepared a friendly 404 landing page just in case one would get lost, with the related posts plugin to refer them to the nearest, possibly related, article.
An Interesting Early Photography
Neatorama outlines the interesting history of photography. It’s also interesting to note that the first ever photograph was a grainy one taken with an exposure time of 8 hours. The most expensive photograph, taken in 1904, was priced at US$2.9 million in 2006.
Awaiting WordPress 2.5
This site is proudly powered by WordPress (WP).
With lots of updates going on into the core of wordpress install, particularly with the upcoming WordPress 2.5, a lot of features are being introduced. I’m afraid there will come a time that WordPress would not be as lightweight but functional as it used to be. WordPress users are asking for features left and right specific to their needs. The WordPress team, it appears to me, are moving towards satisfying all those requests by the various users in one package, that is WordPress.
Bear Stearns at 2.4% of Book Value
Could this be how bad the recession in the US is right now?
Bear Stearns Cos., one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and and brokerage firms in the world, entered into a deal to sell its business to JP Morgan Chase & Co., another investment banking company, for 236 million dollars or equivalent to $2 per share, which translates to only around 2.4% of its book value.
Bloomberg and other business news magazines and websites are all over the issue.
To illustrate how bad this deal is, the deal was sealed last Sunday (March 16, 2008) at $2, Bear Stearns stock last Friday (March 14) was trading at $30, more than $60 last week, and more than $150 last year. Moreover, the Company reported a book value of $84.09 in the fourth quarter of 2007.
CIA Exam November 2007
The official results of the November 2007 Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) Exams for Philippines candidates are out, although the news are not yet included in the News and Events section of the IIA Philippines website as of this post. Results are also available for CFSA (Certified Financial Services Auditor) and CCSA (Certification for Control Self-Assessment) examinations.
The Gold Medal Award (Top 1), two of the Certificate of Excellence awards (Top 5), and nine of the Certificate of Honor awards (Top 25) were garnered by Filipinos. This means that aside from the Top 1, 40% of the Top 5 and 36% of the Top 25 were Filipinos!
Click PDF icon to download the results in PDF format.
Now that’s what you call Filipino excellence!
Sigabong XX and Pabarock Posters
The UP Hamili Brotherhood and UP Hamilia Sisterhood sponsored events in Iloilo, the Sigabong and Pabarock. See their posters below:
