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While reorganizing my files a few days ago, I came across a conundrum. It was how to automatically delete many empty folders. I looked for some solutions on the web and came across this page that has instructions on how to delete empty folders without having to install any software (because we don't like the idea of installing a software that would just be rarely used, right?). The procedure was nice and easy, but it was quite long so I built a simple program that would execute the procedure. I called it Swiper and made it available for anybody to use (for free, of course).

Simply place Swiper in the folder which contains the empty sub-folders you want to delete, then run it. No installation, no hassle. If you would like to know how it works, read the contents of the "page." Good luck with your file management!

Hey, this is my first post in several months! School just wouldn't give me more breaks like what I am having now because of typhoon Ondoy.

After the "Bush shoe attack" incident video became hit on YouTube, a company called T-enterprise immediately made a flash game out of it. I made the game available at the bottom of this post for you to try. Enjoy!

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Inquirer.net VDO's Erika Tapalla interviews the Philippine Cosplay Queen Alodia Gosiengfiao, revealing another facet of her personality: life at school and on the web. Her toy collecttion is also featured and her detractors mentioned. Alodia cosplays Haruhi Suzumiya after the interview.

Please be advised that Friendster has suffered a great damage on their site as a computer named h4xor-nytmare had infiltrated their database.

Please, do not log in your accounts or add friends for the time being for the team is currently recovering the losses that were inflicted.

Please spread...

Friendster's downtime is due to a power outage at Friendster’s US data center" (Mike Abundo), not because of any stupidly named machine.

Here is another quick post. Hours ago, while we were waiting for the movie "Quantum of Solace" to start on the big screen, the trailer above was shown. That was only when I learned that a movie was already done based on the favorite. Click here for the information about the movie.

It has been almost a month since my last post. This is because I have been working on so many things lately (aside from enjoying the recent semestral break, LOL), including the most tiring enrollment (so far) in my life that I am not done with yet. *sigh*

I would just like to tell the news of this blog's appearance in Chris Brogan's Rockstars page. (Hurrah!)

Well, I think I should be running now, because today is the last day of enrollment. I promise to be back soon.

Today, October 15, 2008, is this blog's first Blog Action Day. The participants are supposed to post about poverty, a topic I am not inclined to talk about today (tonight rather), sorry. I am just too happy about the semester running its course and because I will be home soon. I do not want to ruin the moment thinking about sad things. But I would like to help in some way hence made this post. I believe that through this post I am helping in the promotion of the event. If you are thinking that it is already late for this post, think again. Many bloggers out there are still up and may update their blogs. If you would like to participate, click here. If you are a Filipino blogger, make another click on the banner above. Good night (GMT +8).

I took the last exam this morning, and my first semester as a college student is finally over! Thank God. I now look forward to coming back to our high school, Philippine Science High Schol - Bicol Region Campus (aka Pisay Bicol), for its tenth-anniversary celebration.

Let's have a music break. There is a playlist below prepared by Marjon followed by two music videos. Enjoy!

The news that Microsoft was about to release the successor to Windows Vista started as a rumor. The rumored Windows was code named Blackcomb, Vienna and Windows 7. Now Mike Nash says that they are about to release the OS and named it the simplest of its code names, Windows 7. Read his statement here.

"Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together." If you are like Jon Perlow, the engineer who started Mail Goggles, as characterized by his statement above, try Gmail's newest feature for it might help you.

To enable Mail Goggles, go to Settings->Labs, select 'Enable', then hit 'Save Changes'. Voila! It may now be configured in the General Settings.

To be allowed to send an email during the times you indicated in the configuration, you must pass a test given by Goggles. Exciting, isn't it? Try to play on the difficulty levels as well.

(from Official Gmail Blog)

YouTube added a feature that makes full-length videos available in "theater view." The feature , when enabled, will widen the player, put the video at the center of the page and add theatrical curtains at its side. An option also lets a user to dim the rest of the page, adding to a user's theater experience. Try some examples from here.

(from Google Operating Sytem)

The much-awaited tenth-anniversary logo of Google (above right), together with a time line of Google's history, has just been released. Meanwhile, Philippine Science High Schol - Bicol Region Campus (aka Pisay Bicol), my alma mater, will also be celebrating ten years of its existence this coming October. The logo for the upcoming event (above left) was selected through a contest.

Now enough of institutions celebrating birthdays. I celebrated my 18th birthday yesterday September 27 (GMT +8), and that makes me of legal age now. *evil grin* By the way, thanks to those who did not forget to say Happy Birthday", or "Palibre naman" (which is another way of greeting, LOL), you guys are the best.

Just what the heck could this kid be doing?

We saw this at a certain Henry Sy slavery institution located somewhere at the intersection of North Avenue and EDSA, approximately a kilometer west of Quezon City Hall and a walking/crawling distance from a rival business edifice.

The function of the attraction is to carry the customer, a kid, and to serve as a miniaturized rickshaw pulled by a mechanical metahuman, but what this ride insinuate to a young human mind can have repercussions that are greater than the simplism of a money making scheme.

The obvious issue here is the ride's implication that slavery is a positive thing. Even if the topics of a Marxist approach are present, and a society would only proceed thru violent revolutions by the people with lesser political power (french revolution, proletarian revolution for socialist societies, slave revolts, tribal wars of the primitive communalism/foraging societies, etc.), the thought of a pure dominance of a dictator is a difficult thing to take in a democratic-grounded society that is the Philippines. Imagine another dictatorship to occupy the government, the same hell and holy crap such as the overused People Power Revolution would again stir (although this I would truly recommend if Erap would be president again, or encourage a nationwide migration). And again the nation would relive the events and the drama that was the Martial Law period. The customers of this ride would not normally magnify the implications of subliminal themes such as autocracy and tyranny, but, come to think of it, a dictatorship can start from the realization of previous interests, and acceptance of the dictator's counsels on establishing a dictatorial government. When you point out a notion that all members in a group agree, one involuntary action is to eradicate all contradicting notions on their belief. If you think this is an impossible assumption, this is exhibited by The Crusades, The Holocaust and The Maguindanao Massacre. In contrast with the ride, if a majority of the customers would congregate to follow their prevailing instinct of controlling people by force or money, a negative concept can emerge from that. As responsible citizens, we cannot afford to have mistakes amidst faulty governance and questionable legislation.

I am not saying that the ride is a work of the devil, but we must train ourselves to notice the details, so we can be aware of existing occurences and its causes.

Would you doubt this man?!?

While he was campaigning, he said that he would pay the Philippines' debt with his own money, completely disregarding the fact that the Philippines' debt amounted to a shitload of money that would make Bill Gates cry. Crying Bill Gates aside, the amount of money that Eddie Gil is willing to spend to pay our debt would make him one of the richest men in the world.

On the brink of tears

It turned out that Eddie Gil might have been lying after all and Bill Gates might have been laughing all the time when Eddie Gil said that he would pay our debt, because, in an amazing and comical set of events worthy of a film, Eddie Gil could not even afford his hotel accommodations and one of his checks even bounced like a ball on steroids. It turned out that Eddie Gil was no billionaire but a poor delusional man who hoped to become president.

However, the true intention of this article is not to make a mockery of Eddi Gil, but to shed light on the Philippines’ problems using Eddie Gil as a starting ground. The problem is that our current situation is so troubling that it is as if Eddie Gil won the presidential elections. Yes. Let that sink in for a moment. Eddie Gil won. Imagine that. Nice huh?

Woohoo! I won!

The problem with the Philippines is that we are so ready to believe our current set of politicians, that we lap up their lies, vote for them, and rush ourselves to total annihilation. We believe that this politician will not steal, we believe that this politician will help us rise from poverty, even a 10+% of the Philippine population believe that Erap Estrada is still a "VALID" candidate despite the fact that he is found guilty of plunder [beyond reasonable doubt]! WTF? I might reconsider my vote if it were jay walking or littering but PLUNDER? Between Erap and Eddie Gil, I will choose Eddie Gil although they have the same hairstyle.

See?

The point is, the Philippines is a country led by a bunch of Eddie Gil's. They are the ones who keep promising us progress and, yet, cannot deliver. They are the ones who are raised to power to help themselves and not the Filipino people. They are the ones who pose as Jose Vidal, and the ones who shout 'Hello, Garci' on the phone. However, the sad part is that most of us are powerless to stop it. Powerless because we do not care, because we cannot do anything, or because we become like them when we have the power to stop them. The Filipinos have always been a conquered race and we never became free from oppression even if we have gained independence from the US. It turned out we only became prisoners of our countrymen who supposedly had the power to free us but never did. We must now shake these chains that bind and shout, "No more to Eddie Gil's and LIES!" and with this shout we can be freed from the chains. No need to wear yellow or orange; we only need to collectively shout and take action and then freedom will follow.