The EDSA Bus Hazard

A bus ran over a two-year old girl and her mother at EDSA yesterday. The girl died while her mother sustained injuries. It was not too long ago when a prominent doctor’s car got hit by a bus killing the doctor and causing the car to go up in flames. That and many more.

Every driver knows how hazardous EDSA is with all those buses. They weave in and out of their dedicated bus lanes and cause accidents with private vehicles, other buses, and pedestrians.

And when they’re not speeding around like the maniacs that they are, they’re causing monstrous traffic jams at intersections where they wait and wait and wait for passengers. One thing you would notice is that most of the buses have few passengers if any. You have to wonder, do we need so many buses and bus companies?

It’s too bad that the government, is not acting on this menace. For as long as they don’t do anything, there will be no justice for all victims of accidents involving buses. But I wouldn’t hold my breath for that. There’s just too much money involved.

Farewell to Cory

Corazon Aquino, popularly knows as Cory to all Filipinos, former president of the Philippines, symbol of hope during the dark days of a dictatorship, has passed away after a long battle with cancer. Farewell. You will be missed by this country, by this people.

WalkingHotSpot

I’ve been coming up against the office internet filter quite frequently and I’ve decided to just use my Asus EEE PC 900HA and my Nokia E51 to browse the net. Since the E51 has no Bluetooth, I had to rely on software that allows the phone to share it’s HSDPA connection by becoming a WiFi router.

Previously, I’ve been using JoikuSpot but there are times when it seems just a bit too flakey  so I decided instead to register WalkingHotSpot. It has the same features, as Joikuspot but seems to be a bit more stable. Now I can surf anytime, anywhere.

Diablo II and Mac OS X

We we’re looking for an alternative to DoTA and I decided to get another cult classic from Blizzard: Diablo II. I didn’t get it from the online store since Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction would have cost me $40 while the Diablo II Battle Chest is only P1795 at DataBlitz and includes Diablo and a strategy guide to boot. Still, I didn’t use the installer CDs. Instead, I used the keys to register online, and downloaded the installers for both PC and Mac.

Setting up Diablo II on the PC was easy but the same could not be said for my sister’s MacBook. For some reason, the game would stop with an error. We researched the problem and it turned out that Apple, in its characteristic infallible wisdom, had disabled 256-color support on the graphics driver. This broke Diablo II and other games that relies on it.

The good news is Blizzard has released a beta patch that allows the game to run. The bad news is it doesn’t work on Battle.Net. Still, it was good enough since it at least allows us to play on the LAN.

We did and it was still pretty fun for a quite old game :)

Second Ultrasound: It’s a Girl!

ultrasound2We finally got  to have another ultrasound. This time it’s abdominal. As before, Michelle went into the ultrasound room where the sonologist did the procedure. After a while, he (yes, a he… but with feminine inclinations) called me in and also showed me. He turned the monitor and there she was. He showed us that it’s in all probability (maybe some gender bias included) a baby girl. As we looked on (marveled?), she moved her arms as if in irritation at all these adults disturbing her. She’s soooo cute!