COMELEC officials learn from GMA

If there one lesson Comelec officials could have learned from GMA, it is this: When caught in the act, brazen it out. GMA did so when caught in the act, on tape, micro-managing the cheating in Mindanao.She did it again when caught with her fingers on the ZTE pie. With the help of an improbable [...]

Buying P1 billion worth of UV lamps for the May 10 automated elections

[UPDATE 1: According to a more recent report, the Comelec is appropriating P30 million, not P1 billion, for 77,000 UV lamps. That price (P389 per lamp) sounds more reasonable. Now the UV lamp is only as expensive as one Ballot Secrecy Folder, which Sen Pimentel says, may cost the Comelec P385 per,] [UPDATE 2: According [...]

Why I like Python

No, that’s not a kind of snake. Python is a programming language. I don’t do too much programming nowadays, but when I do, Python is my programming language of choice. I like Python for several reasons: It is object-oriented, which means you can work with an abstract data type that combines data and methods in [...]