It's a little past two a.m. on the morning of December 25 and the house is already quiet. I've finished washing the dis after the Noche Buena and I'm also ready to catch my sleep.
I remember when I was a kid, the revelry would be reaching its peak just about this time. Back then, the midnight mass began (not ended) at midnight. We would be coming back home a little after one.
It was the job of the youngest member of the family to call out the recipients and hand out the gifts. That was my brother's job for several years. Our cousins who lived in the city would be spending the night at our house. So there was definitely a crowd in the house.
Things do change. My cousins have gone on with their own lives. They have started their own families and their own traditions. So too have we. People leave this life and so we make adjustments.
And life goes on
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The Watcher and The Fence
This fence sitter is coming down from her post because some time in your life you have to get into the action. There are others out there who may be complaining about how things are turning out but are unwilling to get involved. The only way for change to happen is for us to get moving and make it happen.
Actually, that is far from the point of this post. It seems to me that we are being complacent about the automated elections. We see that it produced a count and we trust that it will do the same on election day. Now, there was a glitch found. Something I find strange because shouldn't the COMELEC and Smartmatic have been working hand in hand from the start. Were not the programmers told about the design of the ballot?
So there was a problem in the testing. The solution? Change the program with the corrected version. We will just sit tight and watch as the provider replaces the memory disk in each machine. We are giving them one weekend to run the tests. If there is another glitch, we will probably postpone the elections or revert to manual counting which will be a nightmare for the teachers really.
So they will replace the memory disk Has anybody audited the program they are putting in there? Yes, I see a reason to look at the conspiracy theory. In whose favor? I have my guess but that's just what it is so let's not speculate here. I am only forwarding a concern from a practicing systems person.
Who is doing quality control for the software in the PCOS machines?
Actually, that is far from the point of this post. It seems to me that we are being complacent about the automated elections. We see that it produced a count and we trust that it will do the same on election day. Now, there was a glitch found. Something I find strange because shouldn't the COMELEC and Smartmatic have been working hand in hand from the start. Were not the programmers told about the design of the ballot?
So there was a problem in the testing. The solution? Change the program with the corrected version. We will just sit tight and watch as the provider replaces the memory disk in each machine. We are giving them one weekend to run the tests. If there is another glitch, we will probably postpone the elections or revert to manual counting which will be a nightmare for the teachers really.
So they will replace the memory disk Has anybody audited the program they are putting in there? Yes, I see a reason to look at the conspiracy theory. In whose favor? I have my guess but that's just what it is so let's not speculate here. I am only forwarding a concern from a practicing systems person.
Who is doing quality control for the software in the PCOS machines?
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