Links

Going out of town for a couple of days, here are links to some interesting posts I've read

To air is pre-pre-pre human

Carrying Ancient History In The Gut

If the First Bite Doesn’t Do It, the Second One Will

Dinosaurs: Beyond Cute

Pleistocene Medicine for Battling HIV

Mythbusting - it's harder than you think

Ah, E. coli...is there any limit to your uses?

200 milyon

Dalawang daang milyon! Ito daw yung pera na sabi ni COMELEC Chairman Abalos na ibibigay kay Sec. Neri kung maaprubahan ang NBN-ZTE. Nahihilo ako sa laki ng pinag-uusapang pera dito. Kay Secretary Neri pa lang iyan, di pa natin alam kung magkano ang mapupunta kay Chairman Abalos, o kung magkano ang mapupunta kina Mike Arroyo, kung kasali nga siya. Paano pa yung mas mabababa ang posisyon sa kanila? May parte din kaya sila? Kung susumahin natin, bilyong piso siguro ang aabutin ng suhol para lang maaprubahan ang proyekto na ito

Nakakahilo, ni hindi ko maarok kung gaano kadaming pera ang 200 milyon. Ni hindi pa ako nakakakita ng 200 libong piso, paano pa kaya ang 200 milyon. Ini-isip ko pa lang nasusuka na ako. Kung may 200 milyon ako puede na akong mag retiro, maski ibangko ko lang siya at maski na 2 porsiyento kada taon ang kita nito, mayroon akong 4 na milyon taon-taon. Hindi ko na kakailanganing maghanap ng bargain na libro sa booksale, puede ko nang bilhin lahat ng librong gusto ko.

200 milyon, putsa.

Walang Bakla sa Iran

Sabi ng Presidente ng Iran, baka dahil sa pinapatay nila yung makita nila.

Update:

O kaya nagiging babae.

Alicia Silverstone for PETA

Not really a fan of PETA, but hey, it's Alicia Silverstone. :)

Excel 2007 Can't Multiply

Excel Can't Multiply - AppScout

"We all learned how to multiply with pencil and paper, even great big numbers and decimals. But when it comes to something important like a blueprint or a scientific formula we reach for a calculator - or a spreadsheet. That's much more reliable, right? Well, not if the spreadsheet is Excel 2007. Over the weekend a member of the microsoft.public.excel newsgroup revealed that Excel 2007 thinks that 850*77.1 is 100,000. What's the correct answer? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Anybody? Right, it should be 65,535. Other members verified that the error carries over into some (but not all) calculations based on the incorrect result. Microsoft has been informed of the bug, but hasn't yet formulated a response."

Might as well try out Open Office. Di mo na kailangang magbayad ng libo-libong piso o maging pirata.

Update 10/6/07

Here is an explanation on why excel can't multiply and his verdict:

"In general, I like ragging on Microsoft as much (if not more than) you average Mac user. But I can't say that I really blame them too much for this one. Floating point arithmetic and conversion is a nightmare - it's enormously complex, and the demand for speed is extraordinary. Slowing things down a tiny bit - taking an extra microsecond per conversion - can have a huge impact on the performance of the system. That kind of code is under constant pressure to squeeze out every last drop of performance. And errors like this are so easy to miss, while catching them in testing is almost impossible. You can only reliably catch this kind of problem by doing a detailed analysis of the logic of the code, and all you need to do is miss one out of hundreds of different corner cases, and you're hosed. It's just so hard to get right that the only surprise is that they've made so few mistakes like this."

LUPA by ASIN

Balita by Asin

UP coach marooned

Una kong nabasa itong balita sa Manila Bulletin, pero mas maganda titulo ng istorya sa Inquirer.

Nasipa si Joe Lipa bilang coach ng UP. Hindi naman natin masisisi ang UP sa pagsipa kay coach Lipa dahil walang ipinanalong laro ang UP ngayon.

Medyo nalungkot lang ako dahil nung pumasok ako sa UP, si Lipa din ang coach noon at kaka-panalo lang ng UP ng championship (kaya alam niyo na kung gaano ako katanda). :)

Kabaro

Napunta na ba kayo sa isang party kung saan may ibang tao na kapareho niyo ang damit? Alam niyo na ang naramdaman ko ng ipakita ni Nashman na pareho pala ang template na ginagamit namin dito sa blogger.

Bagong pili yung template na ginamit ko, nagsawa na ko sa dati kong template kaya kumuha ako ng bago, hindi ko napansin na pareho ang gamit namin. Pareho na gamit naming pangalan, pareho pa gamit naming template, buhay nga naman, parang life :).

Kaya binago ko ang kulay ng aking blog, hindi ko mabago talaga yung template, pero siguro sa pagbabago ng kulay hindi na masyado halata na pareho gamit namin.

Papagawa na talaga ako sa misis ko ng original na template, matagal na naman niya akong gawan eh.

Learn How to Draw

Update

The video was been removed, sorry :(