Apologies for the unannounced blogging hiatus. Like that silly hobbit Bilbo Baggins, I went off adventuring to other nooks and climes which, unfortunately, are full of goblins, trolls, giant spiders, and miserly dragons. Thankfully, there are also good people like the elves, the dwarves, the eagles, and the men of Dale. We all worked together to slay Smaug the miserly, fire-breathing dragon.
Heh. If only that is the reason for my blogging hiatus. The real problem actually is that my internet connection has been very problematic. And more urgent duties prevented me from blogging during hours when the connection is okay.
The Ballad of Ira Hayes is a song written by Peter La Farge in honor of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who served in the US Marines during World War II. You can read more about him at wikipedia. The footages included in this video appear to have been taken from the movie, Flags of Our Fathers which stars Adam Beach, the Ojibwa actor we blogged about a year ago.
I wanted to use, “How The West Gets Information From Us and Deny Us Access to the Information” as the title for this post but it’s very long so let’s make do with the title above.
Anyways, this topic came to mind when I came across a story about Banaue earthworms at the Wall Street Journal. I wanted to read the whole article but it says:
What a bull. So someone from the Wall Street Journal goes to Banaue to do a story on the rice crisis, gets some information from our Banaue kailiyans, and limits online access to his article to those who can pay WSJ’s subscription fee? Isn’t this information piracy? As someone who believes in free access to information, I say it is. And it is happening silently without our knowledge.
Nag-blog na tayo tungkol sa Palarong Pambansa eh di lubosin na natin. Here’s the top performers from the Cordillera Administrative Region during the recently concluded Palarong Pambansa 2008. Information taken from the horrendously user-unfriendly Palaro site.
Three cheers to Marie Felice Gallaga for breaking a national high jump record. Kasta man nga kailiyan. By the way, her name may actually be Marla Felice Ellaga because this is the name that’s listed at the Palaro website. Marie/Marla, according to some news reports, is from Baguio City.
Cordillera athlete breaks high jump record using improvised equipment ABS-CBN News
Apologies for the unannounced blogging hiatus. Like that silly hobbit Bilbo Baggins, I went off adventuring to other nooks and climes which, unfortunately, are full of goblins, trolls, giant spiders, and miserly dragons. Thankfully, there are also good people like the elves, the dwarves, the eagles, and the men of Dale. We all worked together to slay Smaug the miserly, fire-breathing dragon.