Happy Birthday, World Wide Web!

It's sengil chukha hamnida for the first website ever launched. For us netizens, this might have been one of the greatest moments of history.

The first website ever launched went live on August 6, 1991.

Read Not so high-tech anymore: The first website ever celebrates its 20th birthday in Time.com.

Coffee-oke.

I believe shouting is therapeutic. When all of a sudden the worlds pins you down, and you get to eat dirt from all the distress, shouting at the top of your lungs seems to expel all the stress out. See how Regine does it, with musicality of course. ( And for the record, it's belt, not shout.)

Nasyonalismo at ang Puso mo.

Hindi ko alam kung maituturing bang karumal-dumal na karanasan ang sa ami'y kamakailan lamang na nangyari. 

Halos mag-aalas nwebe na ng gabi ng makumpleto ang aming grupong hayok na hayok na sa pagkain na kahit siguro'y isang buong buhay na manok ay kayang kayang lamunin ng hindi pinapatawad kahit ang bahaging ipinangalan sa isang brand ng sapatos. Dahil nararamdaman namin na kami'y sosyal (affluent kumbaga) noong gabing yaon, napagpasyahan naming huwag munang sugurin ang bulalo sa talipapa at sa halip ay magtungo sa isang sosyal umano na restaurant, ay hindi, cafe and diner pala, odibaaa!!. Sadyang nakaeenganyo ang air con sa panahon ngayong pati ang problema mo sa lovelife ay binabaling sa global warming.

Do not distract us.

BELOVED ENGINEERS,

Do not allow yourself to worry over lousy overreactions to your opinion, of which you are rightfully entitled. You have tons of other things to think about other than what others think of you and how you might appear to them. If you do so, you are giving these people the means to become popular. Everybody wants to be talked about and in the process you are giving these people the very thing that they want.

Engineering is a tough course (not the toughest for others already claimed the tough spot. But to quote Janina, it came from one of the tough ten) and it requires (among all other things) FOCUS. When you are distracted from your work, buildings may collapse, factories may explode or airplanes may crash. The fabric of the world as humans made it may wear and tear and find us all helpless, if not inexistent. Distraction gives birth to mistakes, and all engineers who take the oath of accuracy treat error susceptibility as a malady, much like the allergen to their allergy.

IRONorwaY.

IT WAS very ironic. Two instances of horrific violence occurred in one of the most peaceful and peace-loving countries in the world last Saturday. An apparently mad, paranoid individual set off a bomb that killed seven people in downtown Oslo and later massacred 93 people, most of them children, in the island youth camp of Utoya.

It was the worst case of carnage in Norway since World War II and the deadliest day of terror in Western Europe since the Madrid bombings in 2004. Norway is a pacifist, peaceful country that hosts the annual Nobel Peace Prize awards. (The irony in the Nobel Peace Prize itself is that it was funded by Alfred Nobel, the man who invented the detonator or blasting cap for detonating nitroglycerin and igniting explosives.)

To the few who have taste

 Greetings!

I have a couple of announcements to make concerning you, my dear readers. ( Who still haven't found a way to overthrow my blackmails so you could sever your ties to readership of my blog.)

I have managed, despite my esteemed reputation of barely passing CSC 101, to spice up my blog and incorporate the like button and comments section from Facebook. That is, you can now like any of my posts (or dislike if you will but hey keep it to yourself) by simply hitting the Like button appearing after the title. Likewise, you can post comments at the end of every post.

Words of caution: First, you must have a Facebook account and logged in. (I factor this in because although it may sound highly improbable, there are netizens out there without a Facebook account. Example: Jessica Zafra.) Second, the plug-ins do not appear in the homepage. You must go to the post itself by clicking on its title.

I would like to thank AllBlogTools.com for the codes and the instructions. Still, I must say I have to congratulate myself. Digging into the HTML code was quite a feat. I guess proofreading training back in high school journalism proved eventually useful.

Enjoy reading!

Always,

JanMell, who just bought himself The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive by John Graham-Cumming

"For every one student who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity."

          -C.S. Lewis