The Beanster Blog

INC in the BOC  For the people, by the people is a myth. We live in a failed democracy, it's all an illusion. No different from president BS Aquino's mantra of "Daang Matuwid" (Straight Path).  No less than four (4) I would say highly placed government officials have pressured Sevilla to quit his post because the ex-chief of customs refused to give Atty. Raval the helm for the Bureau of Customs (BOC) intellectual property division, enforcement and security services (ESS).  The Raval appointment is being lobbied by Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC), a popular religious group in the Philippines.  It is a fact that corruption is rampant within our government. It is also a fact that religious groups with their claims of a "bulk vote" can exert a lot of influence onto our morally ambiguous and power hungry politicians. So there are no surprises there.  My questions are... 1. Are the four cabinet dorks, members of INC? Did they act because they were instructed by the higher...

THIS IS A TECHNICAL PREVIEW, BUGS ARE A PART OF IT. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL THIS FIRMWARE IF YOU ARE FAINT OF HEART, OR IF YOUR DEVICE IS MISSION CRITICAL. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Windows Phone 10 Tech Preview Updated while I was sleeping As a member of the Windows Insider Program , I was able to get the 1st release of Windows 10 Tech Preview for my Microsoft Lumia 535 Dual SIM. In retrospect I shouldn't have enabled automatic updates with the TP. I knew it was going to be buggy but I guess curiosity got the better of me as it always does with new versions of an OS (I play around with Windows 10 Tech Preview for PCs, iOS firmware betas, and OSX betas)  The 1st tech preview is very buggy if your device is mission critical please do not install it. That being said I am very pleased that Microsoft is going with a wider release on Windows Phone 10.  So as I am typing this I am using the Windows Phone Recovery Tool to rollback to 8.1  waiting for th...

Jeepneys are a not a symbol. They are a symptom.  Jeepneys are not a sign of Filipino ingenuity. They are in fact a sign of Filipinos refusing to move forward and clinging to an obsolete and unsafe concept left over from WWII. Until we remove jeepneys from our roads and move them into art galleries or museums, this country will not truly move forward.  The DOTC / LTO / LTFRB do not have the balls to do the right thing and slowly phase out these rolling piles of junk with a misplaced sense of being engineering feats and works of art, while in fact they are not. They are a scourge to other motorists, traffic, safety, and the environment.  I'd love to see a plan implemented that our roads would be Jeepney free in 5-10 years. Start by not giving new franchises, then stop renewing them, and of course you need to re-educate / retrain the drivers and provide them with modern safer vehicles.  Being anti-Jeepney is not anti-poor, it's pro-safety and pro-prog...

The bad news: abrasion of the cornea again, this one is bigger than the 1st time. The good news: only one eye this time. The right eye.