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- Edward Said, 1935-2003
I received sad news today via SMS. I was stuck in the hospital so I didn’t find out about it until a few hours ago.
Edward Said, prolific author, revered scholar and spokesman for the Palestinian cause, died this Thursday of leukemia.
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- Home Sweet Hovel
Last Monday, I started “pre-residency” at the Philippine General Hospital under the Department of Internal Medicine. There are around forty candidates trying out for twenty one slots so I’m trying not to get my hopes up. I’ll just do my job, study hard for the upcoming practical exam, and try to learn as much as […]
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- Pop Goes Yahoo!
Like a lot of Yahoo! Mail users, I was very disappointed when they decided to discontinue their free POP3 access feature. Now, in order to access your account with an email client, you have to sign up for their pay service. Microsoft-owned Hotmail, their strongest competitor, still allows free POP3 access, but the service’s spam-filtering […]
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- Biohazard
Have you ever wondered how long it takes for zombies to overrun a city?
Kevan Davis’ site contains a java app called the Zombie Infection Simulation. Now I’ve seen crazy mathematical models before, but this one looks like it was inspired by the genre-resurrecting zombie flick “28 Days Later.”
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- Taking The Oath
The Oath-taking Ceremony for New Physicians was punctuated with speeches; some boring, some only mildly entertaining. Dr. Billote, the chair of the Board of Medicine, tried to make things interesting by cracking an old joke — one about lawyers and doctors. The speakers got polite laughs and applauses from those who cared to listen. After […]
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- Stories
I was called to go on 12 hour duty in a nearby hospital last night. One of the doctors had somewhere to go and asked if she could leave half of her shift to me. I agreed, knowing that after years of doing clinical work in the PGH it would be nice to work in […]
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- Nine Eleven
Today, the world remembers the thousands who lost their lives in what is probably the most brutal terrorist attack ever to be committed on American soil. Two years have passed but the threat of terror continues to loom despite an apparently concerted effort to hunt down the perpetrators.
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- Blog Squad
The victims of the infamous blog plagiarist have banded together and put up a new site called blogger power, encouraging other bloggers to report instances of plagiarism and sharing tips on how to deter would-be pilferers.
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- Kanlungan
While clearing out some of the junk in my room, I found two Buklod albums in my long-buried cassette tape collection, one borrowed from an old college classmate; the other, bought in an in-campus bookstore in the University. In college, it was near impossible not to have heard of Noel Cabangon and his erstwhile partner […]
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- Identity, Intimacy, Idiocy
I used to think plagiarism of internet sources only happened in an academic context. That is, until I came upon this blog entry. Apparently, a blogger named Keiko (probably not her real name) has been copying posts from other bloggers and passing them of as her own. Her victims have organized an anti-Keiko campaign, berating […]
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