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March 20, 2005

Pacquiao vs. Morales

Manny Pacquiao loses to Erik Morales by unanimous decision 113-115.

Anyways, I had lunch with my dad today and we were listening to the game via DZMM (AM radio); and we could’ve sworn that Pacquiao would win by the way that blasted sportscaster was “describing” the fight. This guy [the commentator] was soooo into Pacquiao, that his blow-by-blow reporting was one sided. If his version was the truth, you wouldn’t be surprised if Pacquiao had accidentally killed Morales.

And yet, Morales won – which goes to show how awful that bit of commentator-ship was. It’s one thing to be rooting for your countrymen, but in professional sportscasting, it wouldn’t hurt to try not to be biased… especially if your listeners have nothing else to go with besides the words you’re spitting out. It’s not like watching an NBA game where it didn’t matter even if Charles Barkley himself would root for a particular team – because you can see for yourself how the two teams are doing. In radio, people don’t have a choice but to listen to you, so it would be nice that you relay your information as-is, without any biases.

March 19, 2005January 30, 2018

External audio for everyone

GM adds line-in jack to their cars via Engadget

…See guys, that wasn’t so hard, was it?

I hope the rest of the automobile industry would follow suit so we can finally phase out those tape-adaptors, FM-transmitters, or spending quite a penny on modifying our audio setup just to accomodate external audio devices (iPods, etc.).

A line-in jack is pretty much standard to all audio devices, and now that I’ve read that bit of news, I’m wondering why people (including myself) never noticed that glaring flaw in automobile audio. You pay premiums to modify your car setup, or buy a BMW with iPOD support when a simple audio line-in could’ve solved that problem… and would not be limited to special audio gadgets such as the iPODs.

As the article said: it’s about friggin’ time!

March 17, 2005

Thou art: good; thou art: bad

Why is it that people call art like this bad…

and this priceless?

Not that I’m judging any one of those artworks. It’s just that I don’t see the point of having something like The Museum of Bad Art, when bad art can be considered good – and vise versa. What exactly defines good/bad art? It would be easy to distinguish in the context of realism… but what about the abstract? Like those two up there, or Picasso’s works, or post-modernist artwork which just use a bunch of shapes and colors?

Sometimes I think that the art people look for is in the artist and not the art itself anymore. I dearly hope that’s not the case in the world today.

But in any case, I definitely think that sites like The Museum of Bad Art shouldn’t be in existence because they attempt to quantify something which cannot be quantified – in this case an artworks’ beauty. I say all art made for art’s sake is beautiful, unique, and should be given the chance to be appreciated.

March 17, 2005

Evil empire?

3 tales of how a bit of success has made Apple evil–you be the judge

via MacMerc

Actually, in all honesty, Apple has never blindsided people when it comes to their technology. They release stuff with people fully aware what the limitations are (save for the iTunes part). The real issue for me is how Apple is losing its dedication to the people – which is one of the major reasons why they are still afloat despite a measly overall market-share.

As one article pointed out before – Apple supporters are loyal supporters. They may be a cultish lot, but hey, it works! This entails that [Apple] gaining market share is probably close to minimal (over time), but they sure aren’t losing any customers once they’ve gained them.

So the people aren’t going anywhere… despite what Apple has been doing. While true that Apple is “honest” with its customers most of the time, they tend to take advantage of the customers’ ignorance. They don’t read the fine print anyways, so might as well do this and that… charge em a hefty bill, and still come out looking good, and remaining honest”

March 15, 2005

NOW’s the time to try this

iScroll2 0.18

iScroll2 has just been updated.

via Joel’s blog

I posted a review comparing this little hack to SideTrack a while back, where the former failed dismally to oust the latter. But as I said in the past: it had a lot of potential. That potential already became a reality in its past releases, but the biggest hassle was it never saved your preferences… until now.

There’s only one problem remaining: making sure it doesn’t break on a OS system update. Other than that, for people interested in trying the hack out, I can honestly say that now’s the best time to do so. I’ve personally un-installed SideTrack for good in favor of this hack.