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  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1145: Where Is The Greatest Good?   4 days, 14 hours ago

    There was no post yesterday because of a leftover from the weekend, the same weekend where I was not able to post last Saturday. I was with the same people, from Friday night to Monday night.

    Let’s just say it’s an early Christmas gift to ourselves, using the thirteenth month money that hasn’t come it yet.

    @@ [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1144: Here We Are Attempting to Soar   1 week, 1 day ago

    There was a para-glider near the end of the mountain range at the back of the school yesterday.

    I was able to see it before my class at 420pm started, facing due north. For a time I thought it was a kite since it seemed to be just hanging there, but then it would twist and [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1143: Learn from Experience? What’s a Teacher For?   1 week, 2 days ago

    The net is still slow today. Maybe by later this afternoon or tomorrow we will get another announcement from the ITC saying that during the weekend the problem will be fixed – again.

    @@ First rule of advertising: make sure that your poster has all of the needed information: what, where, when.

    So if some of these [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1142:It Takes All Angles to Get A Solid Rendering   1 week, 3 days ago

    Sir Leland is having a class right now at the conference table (well one of them anyway) in the student center.

    He has about half a dozen students and there is a meeting of the Student Council in the other half of the room, and it’s only mildly chaotic.

    @@ On another note, let’s talk about degrees [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1141: Random Tuesday Writings and Title   1 week, 4 days ago

    There was no post yesterday because I was not in school. Let’s just say it involved a whole lot of spaghetti.

    @@ We don’t say thank you enough to people for being there. Even if they didn’t go somewhere for you, it should be some consolation to us that our presence there brightened up someone’s [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1140: Just Marking Time with Words   2 weeks ago

    Because of the slow net that has plagued the office the past week, not only have there been days when it was just too frustrating to try to upload content, but it seems on the days when I do try to upload content like yesterday, the belief that I was not able to connect turns [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1139: Slow Start of the Month, Apparently   2 weeks, 1 day ago

    There was again no post yesterday because of the snail-paced speed of the net here in school.

    It was frustrating when every few pages you load would get timed out, and several would not load correctly because it is not text intensive or even just contains one large image or some code.

    @@ Today I would like [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1138: 1st of 3 Days ’'Working’’ This Week   2 weeks, 3 days ago

    There was no post yesterday because there was no net in the campus, and even today it’s painstakingly slow.

    The joke around here is that the howling winds from the most recent typhoon blew over the high-tension wires of the underground cabling and the wireless connections hooking up the school to the outside world.

    It’s amazing how [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1137: Get Over Yourselves Already   3 weeks, 1 day ago

    Two new Mac minis at the Student Center! Thank you to Sir Lawrence of Power Mac Center for the donations!

    @@ Besides that, I gave the welcome remarks at the opening of the college sports fest last night.

    It was simple. I just looked up “lessons from sports” on the internet and rattled them out [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1136: Need for An Exact Measure of Goodness   3 weeks, 2 days ago

    There was no post yesterday, the first regular college class day of the week, because I only got to school after lunch and there was a laboratory class immediately upon arrival. And I had to leave at 5pm.

    The closing ceremonies for the sports camp were great. Highlight of the evening was the fireworks from Enchanted [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1135: Gather Together for Games   3 weeks, 4 days ago

    It’s the last day of the Sports Camp. Closing ceremonies will be tonight. The Integrated School will have no classes until November 2 though, since they already had their report card giving last week.

    There will also be at least one delegation from the provinces that will be staying one extra day tomorrow (and leaving on [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1134: In School, No Classes   3 weeks, 5 days ago

    I just came from the beach again, from the same place as last April with the college faculty. Before that I was there with friends in January of last year. The first time ever I was there was in the mid-nineties.

    This time though I was with the CS oldies, students again just like during that [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo and candy are now friends   3 weeks, 5 days ago

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1133: Last Day of Last Regular Week Till November   4 weeks, 1 day ago

    So this morning the kinder students were supposed to have gone around the offices trick or treating.

    Too bad they didn’t pass by the east wing faculty room or the student center, so that the college students would have been involved.

    I would also like to commend the management of the new cafeteria for letting their staff [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1132: A Long Suffering Female   1 month ago

    Well, after several months of chasing it around the metro (and finding out it was listed in one of those strange schedules where one film is showing in the morning and another in the evening) last night I finally got to watch “The Time Traveler’s Wife”.

    It’s only marginally science fiction, but a lot more complex [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1131: Think of Others, Darn You!!!   1 month ago

    Short but meaningful topics today – well, at least I think they’re meaningful. There are some subjects when you can only say so much, if anything at all.

    @@ Well, what do you know, it works to show concern for a student who doesn’t show up for class by calling him right at the time when [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1130: Why No Preventive/Preemptive Apology?   1 month ago

    You may already be familiar with a local column writer’s ongoing rant against a telecom provider.

    Keywords for searching (no links, sorry): Jessica Z., Globe Tattoo, Livid, Worthless Piece.

    Of course she was assuaged by the company; this is ongoing (and passed around) bad press for them.

    Of course they are going to blame the recent natural calamities. [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1129: Seeing Lousy Negotiation Skills   1 month ago

    What is the nature of compromise? I would like to quote “The Office” on this one: “Ask for $15,000 so I could give you $12,000.”

    Not necessarily that you would request for something unrealistic at the start so that you would get something attainable in the bargain. It does not hurt to ask, because you might [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1128: Short Messages Save The Day   1 month ago

    Computer science pioneer JP had this message in his tweet today: “Stay curious. Discover. Learn something new every day. Be careless. Try to be lost. Explore.”

    It goes so much with my personal philosophy about sustaining that Wonderment of Discovery that I reposted it, adding the following line from one of my recently favorite songs since [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1127: Where Is This World Headed?   1 month, 1 week ago

    This is one of those rare days when there will be an almost entry long post about the DLL.

    @@ Daily Leadership Lesson October 15 - Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

    My take on this: it may be related to today’s world [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1126: Still Learning Some Awesome Things   1 month, 1 week ago

    I was present for my first Sports Camp organizing committee meeting today.

    It was amazing how delegated everything is. There was a secretariat, an accommodations committee (in charge of seeing that all rooms where the participants will sleep are assigned, as well as other activities) a committee for the formation of the students (which will happen [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1125: Blanker and Wiser   1 month, 1 week ago

    First post in four days. There was no post last Saturday because it was spent in the town of Saint Thomas longer than expected, and doing more than expected.

    The night was spent in Festival Mall just to get away from the stress of the day’s work.

    That makes it I think the third time that week [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1124: Thanking All Teachers   1 month, 1 week ago

    And the week is finally over for me. By the week I mean everything not including my robotics lecture and lab, which isn’t considered such as hurdle as all else that has happened this week.

    The teachers’ month culmination that was postponed from last Monday was finally done and over with.

    I’m glad for the two batches [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1123: Not So Virtual Second Life Review   1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Here’s my review of “Surrogates”. First of all, I wish all science fiction movies were like this in showing at the start the progression in the world that leads the writer to speculate on how this play out if projected in the near future. In this movie, it is about having robotics controlled directly by [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1122: Prolonging the Agonizing Unknown   1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Raining sheets, but not heavily, for the first time this week, well, not counting sometime during the night.

    @@ Well, the acts of God befalling this nation have created another first for the school.

    In the most recent revision of the school calendar given out by the Registrar’s Office, the finals week will be moved to December [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1121: Small Thoughts Add Up   1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Just to clarify, yesterday was the first post for the month because the one dated October 1 was technically slated for September 30. It was the first WRITTEN in October.

    @@ I can’t help but think that this time last year, I was in another country. That was a grand.

    @@ I guess it’s Tidbits Tuesday today. [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1120: No More Stalling the Momentum Please   1 month, 2 weeks ago

    First post for the month of October. A lot happened in the interim, which I will tackle in chronological order.

    On Thursday, waiting for word from Sir Mel about the amount of donations left in school again, I accompanied my friend Justin to his family’s large furniture making plant in the town to the south.

    It [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1119: Appealing to the Slackers   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    This was supposed to have been posted yesterday even though I did not even go near any net terminal in the school the whole time. Sadly, my prepaid broadband chose last night not to be able to dial up, so it is now moved to today.

    First thing I would like to do is greet Engineer [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1118: Waiting for the Tide to Go Down   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    No post last Saturday because even though I was able to make it to Justin and Chat’s place with only minimal inconvenience (one of the perks of the light rain transit) there was no Globe broadband when I got there, and I didn’t have enough credits in my Smart Bro pre-paid to connect. Besides, WII [...]

  • P. C. Ocampo wrote a new blog post: 1117: Making Things Easier for Customers   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    The interesting thing about this year’s book fair in the central lobby is that there are now several vendors instead of just one like the previous years. Too bad it’s only four days.

    What was only announced today, at least for the college, is that it’s possible to buy books on salary deduction.

    @@ It seems that [...]