SHRAPNEL OFF THE WALL

Colonel YEBRA

BINGO!

The Department of Justice investigation on the Hongkong Tourist Bus Incident struck a veritable gold mine in Colonel Yebra, Chief Negotiator for the hostage taking.

He actually said the magic word that we would like to hear from the witnesses, and that is “SUSPENSION”. And he offered this to Captain Mendoza as a solution to the problem. This appeared to make the most promising solution to the hostage taking because the Captain just wants to be reinstated.

Capt. Mendoza took control of the tourist bus to primarily hasten the review of his motion for reconsideration to the OMBUDSMAN. A suspension of the DISMISSAL order which came down summarily on Captain Mendoza mainly due to mistaken declarations would have downgraded the dismissed status of Captain Mendoza to a mere suspension pending the outcome of the Ombudsman review, and also would make him eligible for retirement benefits and a possible reinstatement. The handwritten note signed by the Ombudsman, Mercedita Guttierez, to review his case only made Captain Mendoza irate because by this note Captain Mendoza would have his situation reverted to square one, which implies another period of waiting. It also appears that there was a prior attempt by the Deputy Ombudsman to bilk Captain Mendoza for something like a P150,000 for the review to proceed.

Colonel Yebra came just a tad this close to the solution of this incident, but I would prefer that he coursed whatever suspension downgrading he had in mind thru the Office of the Ombudsman first instead of the Mayor or the PNP, because the Mayor and the PNP might be at fault if they reversed the decision of the Ombudsman.

BUT LO! This particular decision from the Ombudsman came in a letter that mentioned the “suspension” decision into an “abeyance” order which probably would amount to the same thing. The only thing about this letter is that it came too late. The Keystone SWAT was already on its marksmanship test.

Within the same hearing was Colonel Yebra’s presentation of the Crisis Management Protocal, adding that the new rules were in the process of activation in such that the relevant people with the government were in limbo as regards the transition period. In other words, there was nobody who can clearly say that he was in charge.  I would have chosen Colonel Yebra as the one in charge for the moment because he knows what the proper solution would be. He was doing great even without training on Psychology. Heck, in these particular situations, one does not need international training in the psychology of the human behavior. One needs only the good old Pinoy social protocol on pakikisama!

Colonel Yebra declined to comment on matters concerning the Office of the Ombudsman whose efficacy, I believe, has already been outworn by time lag.

Colonel Yebra, it was disclosed, has just took the bar examinations, so there.

All the books and all the notes about hostage taking negotiations will not tell you this one thing:

Nobody would take other people as hostages if he does not have a glimmer of hope that his demand/s will be met.

Maestro Alexander Bui

Also competing in the America’s Got Talent Contest, his latest performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” virtually stripped his three judges down to the level of cultural ignoramuses. Such was their own term for it, “cultural ignoramuses.”

If they were a little on the high-brow side, they would have realized that Maestro Bui has done something like what virtuoso pianists have done—-transcribed Rimsky-Korsakov’s piece into something like jazz without missing a note or beat.

Pianists like Vladimir Horowitz have done this sort of thing by transcribing Franz Liszt’ Hungarian Rhapsody  No. 2  into a version that requires playing one theme of the same piece on the right hand while playing the other theme on the left.

OBSERVE: this is the original piece of “The Flight of the Bumblebee” as played by Geofrey Rush in the movie  “Shine”.

Flight of the Bumblebee.wmv

And this is Maestro Alexander Bui’s jazzy version :

The Bumblebee.wmv

Clearly, the judging was a far cry from what Simon Colwell could have done, and him forming the famous “Il Divo” group, and him being the producer of this particular Talent Show.

Or perhaps this particular talent that Maestro Alexander Bui has should find a better venue than this kind of a show.

Failure to Communicate

In my post of August 27th, on the page before this one about his brother Gregorio, I did mention that the all the events that ensued resulted from a failure of communication. Now they  are using the term lack of coordination—-no sir, it would be failure to communicate. They had all the coordination they were trained for. They just were not communicating.

There are things that should have been done but were not done. Right now it would be pre-empting the authorities to disclose their shortcomings which they will discover later on in the course of their investigations.

The Congress’ hearings on the incident have been on closed doors, so I guess what they will publicize would be their conclusions which are, I opine, another of those things.

Remember, failure to communicate  cannot be remedied by an apple a day.

“WHAT  WE  HAVE  HERE  IS  A  FAILURE  TO  COMMUNICATE!” *

*(quote-unquote by Strother Martin and Paul Newman in the movie Cool Hand Luke)

The Hongkong Swat and Forensics

 The lacklustre performance of the Manila Keystone SWAT compels us to believe that they need help. Much as we know that they have been successful in all their SWAT operations, it is high time to swallow their pill and invite some other equivalent organization like the Hongkong SWAT and The Hongkong Forensics (by whatever names these bureaus are called), to come and visit the country. The object is not to invite reprimand, or chides, or sneers from them, but to exchange notes on how to do some things. After all, these equivalent bureaus have developed different tactics and different methods stemming from different case experience. Let us term this a friendly exchange of pleasantries between counterpart agencies.

There is no more opportune a time as this because such a visitation by the British-trained Hongkong operatives and technologists would be remedial not only to the strained relations between the two peoples, but it would tend to wash away the thoughts that the analyses, and investigations, and reports would be whitewashed, as is common practice to even the big countries like the USA. Both the Chinese and the Filipinos would then be assured that all things are done properly and that some profound intentions for cameraderie are being re-established.

Nobody would accept  a report which is WHITEwashed, because everybody has seen everything in COLOR.

TO all the Security and forensics personnel in the Philippines, I believe that a formal invitation to the Hongkong Security and Forensics would be better for all the government entities and the peoples of both countries. Please understand that such a visitation is not to humiliate but to propagate! Prove to the visitors that you are more trigger-happy with your smiles than with your sidearms!

The Anatomy of A Hostage Taking

 In the coming days, for sure these days are coming, people will dissect the anatomy  of the Manila Bus taken over by bemedalled Captain Mendoza, PNP.

All those entities relevant to the hostage taking of the bus loaded with Hongkong tourists will be shaken and then put together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

There will be none, it is believed, whom amongst these entities from the Ombudsman, Malacanang, PNP, DILG, Manila Police , the Keystone SWAT, the media , and the bystanders would accept a piece of the blame for the incident.

We ought to be ashamed of ourselves, particularly those who would throw the blame towards the fall guys.

Let him who hast no blame cast his shame on the next goat. Let him who hast no shame cast his blame on the next goat.

People will lay blame on other people.

People will apologize.

People will criticize other people.

People will offer their regrets.

People will throw stinging words at other people.

People will sympathize and offer condolences.

People will sneer at other people.

People will promise to do better next time.

But for all these conflicts and wars between the characters we call people.

I, personally, find the greatest, alleviating satisfaction

That none of these people are putting the blame on

Captain Rolando Del Rosario Mendoza, PNP.

Captain Mendoza

This is Captain Mendoza, Philippine National Police, slumped dead in a most helpless predicament.

He asked to be reinstated to his former rank and position in the PNP so that he can be eligible to collect retirement pay.

In desperation about his cases pending in the courts too long, he took a bus of Chinese tourists and held them hostage.

He is shown here as giving aid to a diabetic hostage whom he set free as part of the negotiations. After this all those he came to know could testify that he was a good man.

 Today, the moon is full.

But suddenly, oh so suddenly, the drama shifted somewhere else towards his brother who came to sympathize.

Which brother wouldn’t at a time like this. And naturally, too, the Police didn’t like to be outstaged by anything, including his brother and/or the media.

So the police carted the brother off , together with his family, with much tussling and hauling.

What follows the next minute was an enraged Captain Mendoza venting  his wrath off on some of the hostages.

No less than the highest official of the land blamed the killings on the media. But didn’t Captain Mendoza asked specifically for the media to come and help? Could the situation have been resolved had the media came in to be the go-between? I mean he couldn’t trust the police who has all its guns trained at him to convey a message, could he!

I would rather have the media there, and with all the other police activities. The camera does not lie.

It would settle any doubts.

Was this necessary?

I see no point in this. The logic escapes me. Domination of the men-at-arms rule.

A point arrived when some particular group came to help resolve the problem.

But the Philippine National Police just couldn’t wait!

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 The Cardinal Rule : Dead Men Don’t Talk

Of Viruses and Anti-Viruses

Have you noticed that whenever a new virus, or malware, comes out, there is already a cure for them that can be downloaded from the internet?

Perhaps the Anti-viruses are concocted first before the virus is propagated, no?

First Impression of VIPRE Antivirus Premium

HOOOOO-Boy! This software scans so DING-BLASTED slow. A custom scan of the Downloads and  the Documents lasted 3:12:55. and a DEEP scan lasted 4:32:54, or the best part of dawn. It scanned the C:\ partition , or half of the 500 Gb hard drive.

The manual run scanned 14 processes, 340,118 files,24,463 registr items, and deposed of 149 cookies. The Norton software can do this about two to three times faster, but it did fail to quarantine these three items:

1. Windows Enhancer from C:\Windows.old\System32\SBCeleb.dll

2. BehavesLikeWin32.Malware(v) from C:\Download Zips\WSFT_Home_T128_install.exe and also from c:\Windows.old\Program Files\IBM Simple Backup_install.exe

3. A trojan named Trojan.

Windows.old is the folder given to the old windows that the Windows 7 Ultimate installs over and is kept there for further use. I use this folder for comparing, and sometimes re-installing, the original programs that I need. These three quarantined items may not have given me any problem at all because they were with the desktop for that long a time. But I will never know.

What impresses me most about this VIPRE antivirus software is its detailed tabulation of the firewall actvity. It shows what ip addresses and processes are bringing in with their bytes and  and going out of the desktops carrying their number of bytes. It also warns of who is presenty “listening” to the computer, and that would not cerainly be the mother-in-law.

I guess it is a matter of choice whether one prefers a nit-picking meticulous busisi or a fast in and out intrusion.

UPDATES….and debacles

Remember what I wrote about UPDATES? A lot of updates are for the benefit of the software authors who seek to control or limit the functions of their software for purposes of added financial gains from the software. This is why this blog from Wordpress has not been updated to Wordpress 3.0.1. by yours truly.

Wordpress has not expressed fully why the update. Besides, I am wary of updates that warns that I have to back up my files first before I proceed with the update. Chances are a debacle may result after the update. The Norton debacle is an example of this. I was not warned to back up my files beforehand, though. And Norton was such a trusted site in my book before this.

Now comes an email that landed in my INBOX, meaning the contents may be a mail IED. It came from upgradeteam89@india.com sent to info@domain.com with the subject : DearWebmail customer you have to contact this E-mail ID {upgradeteam89@india.com}.

Wuuuppps! Now why do you think I should contact this people?

Kung sino ang nangangailangan siya ang lumapit! Kung sino ang nangangakati siya ang kumalabit!

Seriously now, I’ll have to scan this email first, with the VIPRE!

NORTON Anti-Spam a big programming BUNGLE!

Now a message  from my mailbox reads “please remove all addresses which Norton Anti-spam filters”!

Wuupps! Not on yer life, boy! I just crossed the Norton auto generated spam rule off the mailbox instead. After I did this, all the messages from the electronic stores that I have been waiting for suddenly arrived in bunches. Ho boy, what a mess. And what a screw-up!

This is what I think happened—-with all the web-published complaints about the Norton Anti-spam letting through a lot what it should have filtered, the program was modified.

Now, most email programs allow messages to come through Port No. 25. I don’t know what your email configuration is, but it has always entered my desktops thru Port No. 25.

Symantec Norton Antivirus company enters my desktop thru another port, which is also a port which is different from Microsoft’s. Any other port from these three ports is considered a virus entry, so Norton shuts it down, or at least checks on the other ports which has suddenly become active. It so happens my mail forwarder coming from my blogsite, coolambo.ca, comes thru a port which is also different, so the modified anti-spam program of Norton shuts this coolambo port down, effectively blocking my forwarded messages.

What is worse, the modified program catches all the messages coming thru Port No. 25 and funnels them towards only one email address.

But I have six email addresses all for different purposes. The messages for these are distributed by message rules as per specified email address.  So mail addressed to rickoshay goes to a folder named pele, those for orakulo goes to a folder named (ehem)emeterio, and so forth and so on.

What the screwed-up Norton did was to catch all the messages and passed them all thru one Norton Anti-Spam folder and crossing out all the message rules with big, red X’s.

And then the crash came when, after installing the new-bungled software of Norton, the anti-spam is at a lost as to where to restore the image of the backup messages, since it crossed out the message rules that distribute the messages. It probably was looking for the folders in the All Users/Application Data to drop it, but I chose to store my messages somewhere else—the external drive. This is inaccessible to the Norton program, most particularly when it is turned off!

So the messages were lost on the first restart of my desktop. If they were in the temporary files of the RAM, it is now kaput.

This storage files for the .dbx messages are the ones the Norton Support Group were looking for so that they can restore the messages. Heck! After gaining remote control of my desktop for the better part of the day, they were unable to do it. Everybody apologized for the inconvenience that was caused me, and that I was assured that nothing is to be done refund-wise for all the messages I lost which are, to me, legal documents.

I say again, the programmers of this screwed software should have placed an anti-spam filter FOR EACH address as it came in to the mailbox, and not forcing all the messages to squeeze thru one entry port and then just letting them go to choose where they want to go.

I am doing away with Norton Anti-Spam. I am old enough to know what is porn and what is not!

By the way, I noticed in this program—-any message from any store that you delete will be added to their spam definitions. This is why my electronic bills are not coming through. I delete the expired bills. So next time, these bills are considered spam.

And if I might add, and since it deleted messages, the Anti-Spam of Norton Internet Security 2010 is worse than a virus in your computer.

(To disable NIS 2010 Anti-spam, click on Norton icon, click on internet settings, turn Anti-spam off permanently.  Then go to OE tools/message rules remove auto generated norton rule, re-configure the exed message rules, restart computer)

Norton Anti-Spam Mangles Outlook Express 6

Norton Anti-Spam mangles Outlook Express 6

It’s a debacle, I said to myself after the day is over.

I woke up yesterday morning to find my email messages erased.

The day before that I accepted a Norton offer to activate the Norton Anti-Spam to protect my email. Little did I realize that the Norton Internet Security 2010 would actually be the program that would cause the crash of my Outlook Express 6. I had the notion that Outlook Express 6 will not be supported by Microsoft anymore and that there will be third party firms that will do this. But I did not expect Symantec to cause this debacle and hasten my shift to these third party firms.

 The problem with this Norton Anti-spam program is that it assumes a lot of things on Outlook Express 6, firstly, that it assumes that there is only one email address associated with this and that every message goes to the INBOX. Well, I have seven email addresses in this email program, and all these go towards one page. They are, of course, organized to land on their specified folders by message rules. And these rules were actually dismembered by the Norton Anti-spam program.

The message rules that distributes the messages to the specified folders were marked off with big, red-letter X’s, and on the first rule is marked ‘Norton antispam rule’. And for the clincher—–the messages that it removed from the specified folders did not land in the INBOX as the Anti-spam rule now goes. Those messages are now lost. My internet provider, Shawcable represented by somebody named Kim (#4270) verifies that Shawcable does not keep a copy of the messages it passes to its clients. They did before but now no more. So a download of these messages will not be forthcoming.

But where did the lost messages go? This is the biggest goof-up of the Norton programmers. They should have programmed the software to move the messages first before they altered the message rules. Now the software does not know where to put these messages. The big assumption is that the messages will be compacted and dropped in a dbx box somewhere in the Application Data of Microsoft Identities. No,not my email configuration. This dbx mailbox is user-defined and I chose to make another folder to store these messages. This is to confuse malwares further, as some of my email addresses are actually redirected from other addresses. The Anti-spam program should have checked first from the Properties tab where the dbx box is. Golly, this is not the Symantec company that I use to deal with.

 A System Restore will not bring back deleted messages. Using a backup copy of your desktop will bring them back but in .dbx file extensions, if you are lucky to still be using the XP OS and not the Windows 7 OS. The .bkf backup extension will not work in Windows 7. Guess what? There are companies now that sprang up to sell programs that will help computer users with my kind of problem. Would this be what Microsoft is up to? I wonder. This should require another separate writeup, eh?

There are lessons to be learned from this email crash. Usually, one can read between the lines. I left a lot of space in-between the lines, you know!

 Anyway, to make it moré exciting for the readers, I am putting up the complete chats with Norton Control For Assisted Support Analysts. These follow on the next succeeding posts.

Have fun reading these, folks. You’re lucky that you can have fun reading these.

Norton Anti-Spam Mangles Outlook Express 6

1:49 PM Connecting to Rescue Gateway: control.app02-13.logmeinrescue.com…

1:49 PM Connected to Rescue Gateway. A support representative will be with you shortly.

1:49 PM Support session established with Srilatha Maharana.

 1:50 PM Srilatha Maharana: Welcome, I am now connected to your computer.

 1:50 PM Remote Control started by Srilatha Maharana.

 1:56 PM Srilatha Maharana: Emmanuel, I have disabled the Anti Spam in the settings.

1:57 PM Srilatha Maharana: You will not face this issue.

1:57 PM Srilatha Maharana: However the Anti Spam, filters the emails to a separate folder.

1:58 PM Srilatha Maharana: And the Anti Spam feature is disabled now.

1:58 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: Are you finished now?

1:58 PM Srilatha Maharana: Yes Emmanuel.

2:00 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: Make sure, because I will be terribly disappointed. I could have done what you did. But the problem was not fixed. I still do not have my lost messages. You know that I will do what I said I will do. You, and not I, will close this session

2:01 PM Srilatha Maharana: I understand your concern. I have disabled the Anti Spam feature permanently.

2:01 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: You should have disabled Norton permanently

2:02 PM Srilatha Maharana: Emmanuel, I really apologize for the inconvenience that were caused to you.

2:02 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: Apologies will not help me now, would it?

2:03 PM Srilatha Maharana: But you can check with the emails and if you still face the issue you can get back to us with the same case number.

2:05 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: I restored outlook express configuration by myself, now you restore the messages. If they are not restored, then you actually have not given me any support at all.

2:07 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: I will have to mention your name to verify my case on my website and also the case number, ok? No hard feelings.

2:08 PM Srilatha Maharana: Emmanuel, I really apologize for the issue that you are facing.

2:09 PM Srilatha Maharana: Please show me the messages that got deleted form the emails.

2:10 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: How can I show them to you if they are gine already?

2:11 PM Srilatha Maharana: There are no sent items, is this you are facing?

2:13 PM Srilatha Maharana: And you are suspecting that this is due to the Norton Anti Spam. Am I correct?

2:13 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: No sent items, no messages on capmorgan, no messages on pele, no messages on emeterio, no messages on coolambo, just about no messages on anything. That is what I am facing.

2:13 PM Srilatha Maharana:  And you are suspecting that this is due to the Norton Anti Spam. Am I correct?

2:14 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: This only came out after norton anti-spam, correct?

2:16 PM Srilatha Maharana: Emmanuel, Norton Anti Spam, filters the messages/emails to a separate folder. But if you suspect that the issue is related to Norton Anti Spam, then I have disabled that feature. You can check by sending one email.

2:18 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: The message rules were changed and all messages were controlled by norton anti-spam, correct? And all messages are now diverted to the inbox, not to the specified folders, correct? I am not concerned about what is going to happen now, but what has happend after norton anti-spam, correct. You have not fixed anything, correct?

2:22 PM Srilatha Maharana: I have disabled the Norton Anti Spam, and now your messages will come to your Inbox.

2:23 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: I knew that, I even told you that, didn’t I. Tell me something I do not know!

2:24 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: Watch it now, this conversation will land in my wensite as a copy, OK?

2:25 PM Srilatha Maharana: Emmanuel, I understand how frustrated it is to you. But the Anti Spam does not delete the messages.

2:26 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: Are you now saying that I deleted the messages?

2:26 PM Srilatha Maharana: As I disabled it, you can check for some days, that you are getting the mails to your Inbox or no.

2:28 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: Oh sure, it will from now on, but what about the messages it deleted? You know what? You are beating around the bush. Norton has had it from me. And this is a 3-pc copy I bought.

2:32 PM Srilatha Maharana: Emmanuel, I regret to say that there is no such feature in the Norton product.

2:34 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: You are now telling me that the Norton Internet Security 2010 has no 3-pc copy. Thwn your company charged me two copies more than necessary. Now I want my money back! I want all my money back for all the troubles Norton has brought me.

2:35 PM Srilatha Maharana: Emmanuel, I understand your concern.

2:36 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: Finally you do. Does this mean that I am going to get my money back?

2:37 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: Satisfaction guaranteed, right?

2:38 PM Srilatha Maharana: Emmanuel, as I said earlier that Anti Spam did not delete the messages, so there is no option to retrieve them.

2:39 PM : Emmanuel Viardo :: It didn’t, then who did? YOU?

Norton Anti-Spam Mangles Outlook Express 6

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 Status Analyst Vimal Raj is here to assist you. Issue: Direct To Live : 500892283 End Session Emmanuel Viardo has entered room.

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 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 15:55:55 MDT 2010)>You will receive a survey to rate your overall experience with Symantec. If you do not wish to receive this email please inform the consultant.

 Welcome to Symantec Support, my name is Vimal Raj.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 15:55:59 MDT 2010)>Hi, my name is VimalRaj and I am a Case Manager with Norton Support. I will handle your case from here.

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 16:56:09 MDT 2010)>You never said that you are giving up on the problem, if so, my next question is whom do I contact regarding a refund

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 15:58:53 MDT 2010)>You must be very disappointed and I can certainly understand why. I am here to help. Let me try to fix this for you.

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:00:31 MDT 2010)>Don’t please don’t. I have given you people 2 hours free rein on my desktop already with no positive results. Just provide me a contact person for a refund, OK?

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:02:19 MDT 2010)>And if you must know, your supervisor, Jones D Matthew just dismantled my Norton Security so there ius no way you can proceed now

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:03:01 MDT 2010)>Emmanuel, let me make sure I understand this, the issue is that you want the refund for the Norton product since your issue was not resolved. Is that correct?

Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:03:14 MDT 2010)>Yes

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:04:03 MDT 2010)>That’s understandable. I’m here to help you with the issue now, and I’ll be your single point of contact for this case.

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:04:55 MDT 2010)>Do you know what is going on? What exactly is my problem and how do you intend to resolve it?

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:05:36 MDT 2010)>Yes Emmanuel, I have gone through the case notes and will try my best to resolve this issue.

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:05:52 MDT 2010)>What is my problem?

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:06:06 MDT 2010)>I understand your concern about this issue, kindly co-operate with me so that we can together get this one done right now.

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:06:37 MDT 2010)>How? you don’t even know what the issue is.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:07:46 MDT 2010)>Sir, I have gone the case notes. May I confirm that the Norton Anti spam feature has deleted some of your emails and you would like to restore them ?

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:09:02 MDT 2010)>OK now you’re talking. How do you intend to restore my messages that the Anti-spam lost?

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:10:38 MDT 2010)>Sure, let me explain it to you. Your case reference number remains the same, that is 500892283.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:11:37 MDT 2010)>Please understand that the Norton Anti spam feature does not delete any emails from the list. It will only select any email as spam which will be present in the Antispam folder or Junk mail.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:11:49 MDT 2010)>I would like to give you my email address so that you can contact me directly about this issue. My email address is casemanager@support02.norton.com.

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:14:44 MDT 2010)>Now, that was what your people keep saying, but they cannot explain why the anti-spam changed the message rules in my outlook exporess to divert every message to the inbox and not to the specified folders. If you cannot explain this, then maybe you should forget about this and point me to the customer relations person.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:16:01 MDT 2010)>Can you tell me how you came to know that the emails were deleted by the Norton Antispam folder ?

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:20:24 MDT 2010)>Sure, after this I will hang up, ok? Very early this morning I opened up my email and found out that some folders were missing, folders where I send each specific message according to the addresses. Even the SENT folder messages were missing.I look at the tools/ message rules and found the first thing was Norton Anti-spam, and the other message rules were marked with a big red-letter X. The next messages (two of them) landed on the INBOX. Now tell me, what could have deleted these messages?

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:21:41 MDT 2010)>I understand your concern. If the emails were deleted by the Norton Antispam feature then the emails from the Sent items would never be deleted.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:22:28 MDT 2010)>Because the Norton Antispam feature is designed in such a way that the emails marked as spam would be moved into the Antispam folder or Junk mail. Also, the emails from the Sent items would never be removed.

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:22:36 MDT 2010)>Why not? Your anti-spam re-configured my outlook express!

Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:23:21 MDT 2010)>Emmanuel, the Norton Antispam feature will not automatically remove the emails.

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:23:52 MDT 2010)>But it automatically re-configures the outlook express!

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:24:59 MDT 2010)>Alright, I see that the previous supervisor has removed the Norton product to check if the emails are retrieved after its installation. Are you emails retrieved ?

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:28:11 MDT 2010)>NO! I re-configured the addresses myself. No messages are retrieved. Even the default email address emeterio(orakulo@shaw.ca) I had to add again. Your people never did anything to change what my outlook express is now. Where is my emmy folder?

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:29:40 MDT 2010)>I need to look into the computer and check what has happened exactly. Shall I take the remote access of the computer ?

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:30:02 MDT 2010)>Understand this fully—-the email messages are lost! I do not believe any of you can bring them back. Your ant-spam should have transferred this messages first before it changed the message rules. Now it transferred the messdages to nowhere. Tell me now why I will not ask for a refund?

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:31:02 MDT 2010)>No, noit again, you guys have been inside my computer for that long a time. If your supervisor cannot fix it, I don’t think you can.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:30:56 MDT 2010)>Emmanuel, please understand that the Norton Antispam feature does not remove any emails from the computer.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:31:37 MDT 2010)>Could you please provide me the email address with which you have purchased the Norton product ?

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:31:48 MDT 2010)>Watch your language, please, a copy of this will be printed on my website before this day is over.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:32:19 MDT 2010)>I apologize for the inconvenience caused to you.

Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:33:27 MDT 2010)>And then….

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:35:47 MDT 2010)>I bought this copy from Future Shop

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:37:27 MDT 2010)>I understand your frustration Emmanuel and I would feel the same if it was happened to me. Please accept my apologies.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:38:03 MDT 2010)>Since the issue persists I shall arrange a call back from the Engineering support team so that they can research on this and help you fix the issue.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:38:09 MDT 2010)>Is this fine with you ?

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:40:28 MDT 2010)>NO! I want my money back. This is a 3-pc copy. I have 70 days left on it. I sould have a different feeling now when you gus say Internet Security, why your product is the first thing that brought my email down!

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:41:34 MDT 2010)>Send me your Customer Relations man, he should know how to satisfy an irate man like me.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:42:02 MDT 2010)>I’m sorry for the inconvenience caused to you Emmanuel. I can see that the Norton product which you are using has only 68 days and will be expiring on Oct 16 2010 . Since the product is out of the refund period I may not be able to process the refund.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:42:28 MDT 2010)>Sure, I shall arrange  a call back from the Customer Relations department and they’ll get back to you within 24 to 48 hours.

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:43:06 MDT 2010)>Could you please provide me the specific time for the call back ?

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:43:21 MDT 2010)>Even your product refund has an expiry date?

 Vimal Raj(Sun Aug 8 16:44:05 MDT 2010)>Exactly, since you have almost used the Norton product, the refund for it could not be processed.

 Emmanuel Viardo(Sun Aug 8 17:44:37 MDT 2010)>No hard feelings now, your Customer Relations man need not hurry. I have made up my mind. I will end this session after I send this

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Chat ID: 1a7e7c7e-ca1c-4656-9964-e04c30834253

Problem : Direct To Live : 500892283

advanced_tool_log: Email with reconnect link has been sent to:guest@email.address

advanced_tool_log: If you get disconnected, click the link to reconnect to the same chat session.

 Emmanuel Viardo : what now?

Srilatha: Please wiat while I update the case and transfer you.

 Emmanuel Viardo : OK, good

Srilatha: Thank you for being online.

Srilatha: I am transferring you.

Srilatha: SYMC_TRANS:ESCALATE

Ramiz: Hi Emmanuel, my name is Ramiz and I am the Case Manager with Norton Support. I will handle your case from here.

 Emmanuel Viardo : Hey, I can’t go. I’ve got problems, remember?

Jones: You will receive a survey to rate your overall experience with Symantec. If you do not wish to receive this email please inform the consultant.

 Welcome to Symantec Support, my name is Jones.

Jones: Hi Emmanuel, my name is Jones DMathew and I am the Case Manager with Norton Support. I will handle your case from here.

Emmanuel Viardo: Jones DMathew,Case Manager. you are the third name to talk to me. Go ahaead I am listening.

Ramiz: Analyst has closed chat and left the room

Jones: Emmanuel, I see you’re having issues with accessing mails after enabling Norton Antispam feature. Am I correct? 

Emmanuel Viardo: Now, Ramiz is talking to me, right, not Jones.

Jones: I’m here to help you with the issue now and I’ll be your point of contact for this case.

Emmanuel Viardo: Jones, you are correct.

Emmanuel Viardo: Glad to know that somebody knows what to do in this case

Jones: Before we begin, I would like to give you an email address so that you can contact me directly about this issue. You can reach me at casemanager@support02.norton.com.

Emmanuel Viardo: Gotcha! case manager@support02.norton.com

Jones: Please note that your case reference remains the same, that is Case ID 500892283 .

Jones: Let me take a look at it. I would like to take a look into your computer to get a clear picture, as well as provide you a speedy resolution.

Jones: I can connect to your computer and remotely work to resolve this issue. I can perform the steps required on your computer from here, while you can sit back and watch.

 This is a secure connection, and I will not access any personal information stored on your computer. If you are concerned at any point of time, you can disconnect the session by clicking on the end button. I would encourage you to view the troubleshooting from your end.

 If for any reason you need to be away from your computer, you can inform me via the chat window and we can disconnect the session and resume once you are back.

 Shall we continue with the remote connection to your computer?

 Emmanuel Viardo: case ID 500892283, yes please continue

Jones: To set up a connection:

1. Open a new page on your Internet Explorer browser

2. Now, copy and paste this link http://help.norton.com into your Internet Explorer address bar

3. And, then enter in the 6 digit pin code 798974    and click [Connect to technician]

4. You will now see a prompt to accept the connection. Please click on [Yes]. It may take a few minutes for me to connect.

Jones: Remote Control successfully initiated.

Jones: I will check Norton Internet Security and Outlook settings. Have you checked Junk folder under Outlook ?

Emmanuel Viardo: No, I do not believe I saw one. I will go there now

Jones: Emmanuel, may I know whether you need to remove these entries from Norton Antispam rules?

Emmanuel Viardo: It never affected the outlook express before, but you may remove it if you wish

Emmanuel Viardo: By the way, most of my senders are from Canada

Jones: Emmanuel, before we start I would like to inform you that Norton Antispam message rule will not remove any contacts, message from your Outlook, it will either move mails to Norton Antispam folder or Junk folder.

Jones: I will help you with disabling Norton Antispam feature and uncheck Norton Antispam rule.

Jones: We will then recheck whether you’re able to retrieve these .

Jones: Shall I proceed with that, please?

Emmanuel Viardo: Sure, you have the ball

Jones: Thank you, could you please reheck this and check wether you’re able to access email address, mails?

Emmanuel Viardo: still missing the emeterio (orakulo@shaw.ca) and emmy @coolambo.ca and some other certificates that needs printing out. The inbox shows only 2 messages that came in today

Emmanuel Viardo: The bulk of those missing is in the SENT messages also

Jones: Emmanuel , may I know whether you  had messages under inbox  before Norton installation?

Emmanuel Viardo: Yes, all the CBCnews notices and some other mail that did not go to the ’specified folders’

Jones: Emmanuel, it seems that Norton Antispam is not the conflicting with the mails. To check could you please forward a mail from your account to your inbox, to check whether you’re able to access them?

Emmanuel Viardo: ok

Emmanuel Viardo: yeah, it gets forwarded to inbox, not to emeterio(orakulo)

Emmanuel Viardo: That was not the problem, though. That was the consequence of the problem. Diverting the mail to inbox by the anti-spam somehow lost the mail in the process. The message rules were re-configured by the Anti-spam.

Jones: Emmanuel, I can understand your concern, but the blocked list do not have any orakulo@shaw.ca and emmy @coolambo.ca. Norton Antispame rule will only filter and transfer files to Antispam folder. No files will be removed. In that case, we will move on to the next set of steps

Jones: Emmanuel, we will check whether you’re able to access these after removing Norton program and check whether issue is related to Norton installation. Once issue is fixed, we will reinstall Norton program with default settings.

Jones: Shall I proceed with that, please?

Emmanuel Viardo: The Anti-spam should have sent the messages to the inbox first BEFORE it re-configured the message rules. The Anti-spam now controls ONLY one email address, eliminating the others.

Emmanuel Viardo: Accessing them is no problem now. Retrieving the messages is the problem. If you are not able to do this, then I will have to do this myself. This would mean getting rid of Norton and getting my money back.

Jones: Please accept our sincerest apologies. We would like to assure you that we are doing everything to resolve your issue. Shall we uninstall Norton program and check if you’re able to access message and check whether issue is releated to Norton installation?

Emmanuel Viardo: You will have this desktop control for today. Do whatever you want. Tell me if you give up retrieving the messages. I will have to come back for you as there are other desktops I will attend to. Please continue if you wish.

Jones: Emmanuel, The steps that I will take to do this are.

1) Download the installation files needed on to your Desktop.

2) Download and run the Norton Removal tool which will uninstall your Norton Product.

3) I will then restart your computer and install and activate Norton Product on your computer.

Jones: We are about to restart your computer and you should automatically reconnect back to me.

Jones: It might take few minutes to run Norton removal tool as it will remove Norton files, traces so that we can check whether issue is related to Norton installation.

Jones: Norton program is now uninstalled from your computer. Could you please check whether you’re able to retrieve mails now.

Jones: I would like to help you with this issue but we seem to be having technical difficulties. Please respond if you are still there and require assistance.

Jones: As I’m still not seeing any response from you, I will have to close this chat session. You can reach me at casemanager@support02.norton.com to let me know when we can continue, and I’ll make sure your email is acknowledged through a phone call. Please don’t forget to include your case reference number and preferred date and time for a callback, so that we can ensure we establish contact with you. Your case number is 500892283 .

Thank you for contacting Norton Support.

Jones: Analyst has closed chat and left the room

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Fumble No. 2

 The Noynoy Administration’s Fumble No. 2 is accomplished by no other than  International Court Nominee Miriam Senator Defensor-Santiago when she tackled the Truth Commission from behind with a wince-making declaration that the Truth Commission is actually unconstitutional.

Fumble No. 1 was made also under the auspices of the Truth Commission.

If this be so, then all the investigations of the Truth Commission would be illegal, and therefore those subpoenaed do not have to come.

The fast-draw Lady Senator is right, I opine, because legally, Congress has the sole right to form agencies such as the what the Truth Commission is supposed to do. And logically, the Executive Department may not form agencies which may tend to harrass the members of the Judicial and Legislative Departments.

Mayhaps the presently formed Truth Commission may be downgraded to an investigative unit under, perhaps, the Treasury Department. In which case, Davide would assume the duties of an Elliot Ness, and would consequently distribute T-men badges to the members of his panel, er, staff, together with some firearms for each.

The Noynoy Administration should realize that what Moby Dick intentions it has against the corrupt people from the last Administration may only be accomplished with the significant support of Congress.

For instance, any impeachment complaint against the Ombudsman will not progress any further because she would only reason out that the cases that she is supposedly sitting on would require more proof, the bulk of which can be secured by the Congress’ remedying actions of amending some particular laws in the Constitution.

What these laws are is for the Noynoy Administration to find out.

(Not only vampires and bats travel by moonlight. Highwaymen do, too)

Windows 7 Ultimate, the second

Windows 7 Ultimate, the second—-PROGRAMS

 It is getting clearer to me the reason for the multiple shelves and cabinets for the files on Windows 7. A file can now be opened in more ways than one. Moreover, a file can be processed in more ways than one. This arrangement becomes very helpful when the user is stuck on a procedure and is looking for a way out, or is looking to connect to a file or program. Since a program or a file can be accessed in several ways, the user does not have to close the operation he is in to get to another particular file or program. This is analogous to a driver who lost his way to Baclaran. Instead of turning around to pick up the road that he knows, he simply turns towards another direction or another route. This provides the user with OPTIONS—-no turning back, just go ahead, as if he was under a GPS voice direction. Now this arrangement may not be that favorable to the old users of Windows XP who have already burnt in their minds the way towards a file and the program to activate it. You can’t teach old dogs new tricks easily. Old dogs will whine and whimper and protest. I do protest, but I guess I have to burn myself a newer route towards that Record Now program. I must learn that there are OPTIONS open at almost any part of an operation.

 While we are on the subject of Record Now, let me explain what this is. This is a program to butn  files on a cd or dvd blank disk. It came as an integral part of the IBM OEM software, and was called IBM Record Now, actually made by Veritas. When the Sony dvd drives arrived, this Record Now was adopted to run its burning program controlled by what is called PX engine. This was made by Sonic.  It eased out the IBM Record Now and updated it to what is the most widely used burning engine, the Record Now 6.7. It never failed the burn.

 Comes now Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) and the Record Now failed to initialize even after the Windows Easy Transfer procedure. Transferring the files by external hard drive also failed to make it work. The only way the transfers would work is by reloading it via back-up restoration. But the .bkf backup program will not work on Windows 7 restore program, so a complete reload via disk will have to do. Alas, a Record Now 6.7 disk is non-existent.

 Painstakingly, I had to search my archives to the px.dll and the px engine zip file to load it on the Windows 7. Still no go. But good’ol Microsoft Support, they made it go the next day. It appears every program that is to be loaded to Windows 7 has to be processed in the Registry, too.

 Now, the Registry in Windows 7 cannot be reached by the earlier version of Start/Run/regedit, not anymore. But I must find this out. The Registry is where some particular OS shenanigans are devised.(heheheheh)

The Windows 7 programs, or those that I have encountered so far are not user friendly. The .pps file extension programs (like the Sunrise_Sunset.pps) does not open up with an autorun of sound and show. It opens up in .ppt. which is merely a Microsoft Powerpoint work area.  The Windows side by side command does not tile the folders vertically. Drag and drop by this method is non-existent. I can, however, drag a file and just point the cursor to a folder and the file is copied there as if dragged and dropped.

 The Dell Studio XPS Windows 7 Home Premium specializes in media so it incorporates a Cyberlink PowerDvd DX which is a mere stripped down player of PowerDvd. But it plays a blu-ray movie and HD videos. The HP Windows 7 Home Premium specializes in anime and games and the drive it has also specializes in fast refresh. Good for STARCRAFT playing. Also downloading shareware movies.

 I searched the windows system 32 for the command prompt program and I found it. This is the MS DOS program which I use to create my lotto (ehem) programs in Basic. The CMD feature is the first thing I look for in any new OS version of Windows!

 But I still bewail the fact that my Adobe Creative Suite could not be transferred to Windows 7. The software asks to be uninstalled first and then reloaded again. This I did already but the program insists that the Suite has to be uninstalled first. This means that I just cannot give up my Windows XP Pro upon which my second Adobe Creative Suite thrives.

 A funny thing about this Adobe company—when its programs run on my computer, it seems as if they have taken over the computer and that Microsoft is nowhere in sight.

Rain, rain, go away….

Let us save some water for a rainy day!

Sala ka na sa tuyot, sala ka pa rin sa lunod!

The country chokes from drought during the dry season

and dives under floods during the rainy days.

What do we do under such situations? Save water for the time when it would be needed. Logical, isn’t it?

How many scientists and Engineers and Mirons do we have in the country? Enough to think up of something (aside from contriving to skim money from government contracts).

How many of them would be required to conjure up concrete reservoirs for the cities and man-made lakes for the suburbs? How many of them would it take to think of widening and dredging the rivers and raising the height of dams to hold more water. Do we have the ingenuity to think of something like the Tennessee Valley Authority? What about large-scale digging of wells to feed aqueducts? What about making a large man-made lake in Central Luzon where river control projects are constantly being messed up by pseudo Engineers? When will we stop depending on the Angat river for all our water needs. It is not as wide as the Nile, you know, nor as resource-laden!

When will we ever learn?

Neither An Einstein Nor A Superman…..

People who declare that they are neither an Einstein nor a Superman

in my opinion,

are attempting to cover their asses

before they even belch.

Scooby-Doos, that’s what they really are!

Windows 7 Ultimate

Windows 7 Ultimate

I am not wont to write product reviews if I were only constrained to say what I like about a particular product.  Neither would I do this if I will be required to say only what I do not like of a certain product. I feel more gratified about myself were I to write what is good and what is bad about the product. More so if I can provide a comparison with other similar products in the market.

People who write reviews that contain only what they feel for the product are unfair. More so if they are paid to do this. They must be able to compare and contrast between products if only to cover a lot of the situations obtaining in the consumer world. Otherwise, the public would not really know what they are writing about.

 The issue nowadays is whether Microsoft is telling the truth about their new computer operating system, the Windows 7.  Smarting from the public repugnance of the OS predecessor Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced the Windows 7 with such publicity and concern for public opinion that the OS actually slid in easily on the customers’ approval. Of course, the paying customers were also hungry for another operating system to replace the Windows Vista, unmindful of the fact that the Windows 7 is merely a modified, streamlined Windows Vista. What is Microsoft up to is the question to ask.

 If one were to buy a new computer today, it will advertently have an OS which is Windows 7, simply because there is nothing else which is more convenient to use other than Windows. In fact, the one who buys a new computer loaded with Windows 7 is much better off than the one who would upgrade their existing computers to Windows 7.

 But there are more people in the world who would upgrade rather than buy a new one. That is, if they really need another one and if they can afford another one. I myself prefer upgrading than buying a new pc. But I did buy one, a Dell, and another, an HP, just to settle my curiosity and to see whether Microsoft is telling the truth about Windows 7.

 But still I did the upgrade just to determine exactly which problems may arise in the process. Now comes the very important procedure of transferring the files from the old XP computer to the upgraded Windows 7 computer. Microsoft recommends using the Windows Easy Transfer method using an external hard drive. The files are copied to the external drive and then they are automatically reloaded to the computer after the Windows 7 upgrade is finished. This is easy, except the Windows Easy Transfer selects what files it is to collect and transfer. Guess what, it ignored about two-thirds of my program files and chose to transfer those that began with Windows, like Windows Media Player, Windows Encoder, etc; and afterwards gave a hint that I should transfer the rest of the files myself by reloading the programs.

 By the way, I chose as my test computer the oldest one I had which passed the Upgrade Advisor—-an IBM Netvista with 1 Gb ram and which I successfully upgraded from 40Gb to 80 Gb and then to 500 Gb hard disk capacity. It has a Sound Blaster 24 bit sound card and an ATI video card. I expected this pc to provide me with problems as I upgrade to Windows 7 ULTIMATE.  I chose this top-of-the-line version because I would like to know whether an XP OS can run on the same computer loaded with a Windows 7, a feature which only the top-of-the line Ultimate is able to do. My trials say it does but it is a little more complicated to explain how this is done. My suggestion is that if the very simple instructions from the Microsoft Download website still confuses you, get this book—“Switching to Microsoft Windows 7” —-the painless way to upgrade from Windows XP or Vista. This paperback by Elna Tymes and Charles Prael covers a lot of situations that Microsoft did not document.

 The first procedure that I tried was creating a second partition on the 500 GB drive and loaded the system on the empty drive and this was automatically renamed the “C” drive.

Now I have two partitions, one loaded with Windows 7 Ultimate, and the other still has the Windows XP Pro. Upon startup, the bios prods you to choose which operating system you want to open. This went okay for a time until I deleted something from one of the drives. It seems one partition still affects the other because when I deleted something from the System 32, the whole caboodle went down.

 Problems on startup are “skillfully” fixed by the Windows 7 software, from cd/rom  drive strappings to sound and graphic settings. The Recovery and Restore programs are better contrived than the XP Pro, although if a problem is insurmountable, the Ultimate just gives up and recycles on the same spot or just stands still with a blank stare. The XP Pro bypasses an insurmountable problem and keeps up a dialogue to lead you to the bios as a last resort.

While I had the Netvista testing the Ultimate, I had the Intellistation M Pro desktop running beside it with the XP Pro. This arrangement provided me with bases for comparison of the operating systems. Both are IBM desktops with IBM bios.

 The Netvista has a very quick startup and it opens files with a snap.  Even though it has only 1 Gb ram as against the 2 Gb of the M Pro; and 2 Ghz speed as against 3.4 Ghz of the M Pro, it kept up the pace. It had nothing, however, of the IBM delay (or buffer) to its executions in such a way that when a mistake is done on the keyboard, there is no correcting it. The mistake just goes through the consequences. The M Pro, however, simply isolates the mistake and refrains from executing it.

 The files of the Netvista is neatly organized and categories are well classified. Compared to the M Pro, the Netvista has more shelves and cabinets for each category. However, I find it easier to locate a file in the M Pro, which has fewer shelves, for the simple reason that it is in that one cabinet and not anywhere else.

 The Netvista was upgraded from XP Pro to the Windows 7 Ultimate, but it never did exhibit the hangups and crashes the way it is doing now after the upgrade, probably because the Ultimate OS is so sensitive to anything that is not in order, like a loose adapter or connector somewhere, that it refuses to budge anytime it senses that something is amiss. The XP Pro, having a delay time, ignores the problem and just bypasses it or beeps and beeps until the problem is aright.

 (To be continued)

Senator Trillanes

Senator Trillanes, Incarcerated.

For an administration that uses ‘People Power’ as a byword, it still continues to imprison duly-elected Senators, like Trillanes here.

The number of Filipinos that elected him as Senator would fill up the spaces in front of the Luneta Grandstand several times over. Now if THAT is not PEOPLE POWER I do not know what is in this democracy.

The term PEOPLE POWER has been maligned ever since it came out at EDSA. In fact, so many offenses have been done in its name that it has now become a sham, and shameful are the people that use this phrase to justify a cause.

Trillanes has been put in jail for what they call ‘rebellion’ wherein nobody was hurt, no hostage was taken, and the ‘rebels’ surrendered. That ‘rebellion’ was more like a protest, if you ask me. But why the harsh punishment. He was not doing anything more different than what Gringo Honasan did, nor Ponce Enrile, nor FVR. But what would make his actions different from what the nuns and the priests did? Is it because they did their ‘protests’ in the name of PEOPLE POWER? Does any protest have to start in EDSA before it becomes a ‘legal’ protest? If the only way to describe the term ‘PEOPLE POWER’ is a show of force on the streets, then what the hey are we going to the elections for?

Let me put it this way—-There just might be some elements of the Philippine Democratic Government that are not in deep accord with what Senator Trillanes has to say. Come to think of it, what was the ‘rebellion’ all about? He was not allowed to explain his motives. He was just clapped in jail. Now some elements are preventing him to do his duties as a Senator and attend the Senate meetings. What would they be afraid of? Most probably they are afraid of what Trillanes will say in a privilege speech as a Senator!

This should be interesting, referring to what Senator Trillanes would say.

I may have an idea of what he is going to say, and upon this note let me put it this way—what the Noynoy Administration will do after hearing what Senator Trillanes say in public will prove its sincerity in  making ‘Pagbabago’ and ‘ituloy ang paglalaban’!

 (It might be that I have to start consulting my crystal ball more often now)