Do you have the ability to overcome fear?
Are You Going To Vote?
November 13, 2009 By 21 Comments
GIGO and ‘tado
July 1, 2009 By 11 Comments
GIGO and ‘Tado Zorro had his Bernardo. The Lone Ranger had his Tonto. And with the much trumped Election Automation comes GIGO and Tado. I first came across the term GIGO as a probinsyano in the Sampaloc district’s hood in Basilio. I took the jeepney to Recto, got off in Morayta, and sat through the [...]
The Law of Conservation of Credibility
July 1, 2009 By 17 Comments
Allow me to start off with a famous O.B.Q. (Original benign0 Quote): The trouble with wiping dust off a mirror is that we get a clearer image of ourselves. – benign0 As such, I cannot agree more with what Norman Sison wrote in a comment on Cocoy’s brilliant piece “Missing the Point on the Road [...]
Christian Monsod And Other Doubting Thomases
March 12, 2009 By 9 Comments
One must find it healthy to know that a former COMELEC Chairman in the person of Christian Monsod has expressed serious concern over whether the full automation for 2010 would make the election clean, fair and honest. Perhaps, there may be any number of other doubting Thomases who share the view that there is no [...]
99.995 Percent
March 12, 2009 By 17 Comments
Comelec Chairman Jose Melo told ABSCBN News that the poll body is “ready for manual elections if poll automation tests fail” — almost as if he expects that very disappointing outcome. He also revealed the key TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION against which all bidding systems will be tested: a required 99.995 percent accuracy rating in reading and [...]
Technology for morons
March 12, 2009 By 29 Comments
Having been a brilliant consultant for most of my career (the part of my career enveloped by daylight, that is) I just have to sit back and laugh heartily at all this “debate” surrounding “election automation”. Organisations and, in this case, entire societies that seek to use technology to metaphorically squeeze a lard-ass into a [...]
Is the Philippines Creating 1984?
February 27, 2009 By 17 Comments
Democracy is something one defends and enriches everyday, isn’t it? Take this bit from RG’s Replying to Right to Reply, which talks about another attempt by those in government to control everything, to regulate everything by those who are out of step with our time. RG’s point is spot on: On its face, the right [...]
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