Net Neutrality

I was thinking a possible conspiracy theory behind the whole Net Neutrality thing. For those who don’t know what Net Neutrality is (quoted from wikipedia)

It identifies network bias toward or against particular classes of application or providers of content or services.

The general principle that network providers should not discriminate between people or organizations that provide services over a network. Companies selling broadband Internet access to consumers should not make contracts with service providers (such as websites) to provide better Internet access than is available for service providers who don’t have such agreements.

In the Philippines it really doesn’t matter because we’ve already lost the battle. Our telcos pretty much have a monopoly over the communication resources – so we are all already living in a world where “Net Neutrality” is already a lost cause.

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South Park composite sketches

Just thought I’d share this. I saw an episode in South Park showing a sketch of what the four boys would probably look like in real life (and not to mention that the characters thought they were bad drawings hehehehe.

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Oh and so not to waste postage “space,” lemme include their response to the Church of Scientology after successfully preventing a repeat of episode 12 of season 9:

“So, Scientology, you may have won this battle, but the million-year war for Earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will not stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!”

Color

Another song entitled “Color” has been posted on the music page. It’s a song from my band from high school (circa 1996). It was a collaborative effort of three of us in the band, however to be fair, the bulk of the song was from our vocalist Raffy Manalo (who wrote the words and basic melody).

It’s very upbeat, which is a welcome break from the previous two, slow songs.

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Another song

And yet another song has been uploaded to the music section. This time, it’s a religious song composed by my friend (GP Eleria) entitled “Jess”.

He also did the sequencing of the background music, so my role in the song (aside from the vocals) is the mixing and mastering – which was quite a challenge because he sent me a single track for the music. All instruments, loops etc. were already mixed into the track so there was no way to manipulate individual instrument levels.

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New song finished

I finished my newest song. This was my first Filipino written song so I was constantly struggling with the right balance of simple to complex pinoy words. I wanted to make the sentences simple enough for normal speech/singing, but complex enough to sound… lyrical (for lack of a better term). Anyways I still don’t know if I got it right – and ultimately I could never personally judge because I don’t really “compose” in a Filipino mindset.

Tell me what you think, it can be found in my music page, It’s entitled “Hiling”

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