Chicken and Egg

Are you kidding me with all these tweets about the “age-old question” about the chicken and egg finally being answered? First off, it’s a stupid children’s riddle and the answer to it is “that which did not come last.” Ok? Second, even if you don’t want to think of it as a simple riddle and […]

Tuuuuuuuuuubeeeeggggg!

The funny thing with the Angat Dam is that it’s such a sensitive mofo. It rains a little and they have to release water or burst the dam; it stays dry for awhile and the next thing you know, they’re saying it’s critical. Seriously. It’s like you can never make the damned dam happy. Now, […]

Communication FAIL

Got interviewed today about the election protests filed at the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET). My views on those protests can be found HERE. Here’s the thing tho.’ After the interview this afternoon, I find on my Twitter timeline that @inquirerdotnet had re-tweeted @kristinealave. inquirerdotnet2:46pm via TweetDeckRT @kristinealave: Comelec’s @jabjimenez : Poll protests at […]

Poll Protests

Whoever said that the automation of the 2010 elections would eliminate protests? Still, although neither the COMELEC nor Smartmatic ever made that claim – never in my hearing anyway – I suppose that’s what a lot of people were kinda expecting. The fact is, we did say that there would be a deluge of protests […]

AFIS

Working to improve its ability to clean up the list of voters, the COMELEC has gone all-out in its implementation of automated fingerprint identification technology. With the Automated Fingerprint Identification System – or AFIS – at its disposal, the COMELEC will be able easily weed out multiple registrants, i.e., individuals who have more than one […]