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Rest, Free Man

Jorge Cosgayon — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:36:28 +0000

I consider FrancisM a patriot, if for no other reason than this: he sang songs that inspired me to love my country more. One of the first songs that truly moved me — and it’s all the more significant because he was rapping, and I don’t do hiphop — was his Three Stars and a [...]

What happened to us?

Jorge Cosgayon — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:12:04 +0000

Corazon C. Aquino, February 25, 1986: At last, we are home. Let us remember the day, February 25, 1986; the time, nine in the evening; he occasion, the coming of freedom. Freedom from twenty years of dictatorship, twenty years of oppression, hardship, repression, injustice, corruption, greed, waste and near despair — ended. Ended by a revolution of [...]

No new EDSA post

Jorge Cosgayon — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:22:26 +0000

Because I have nothing new to add to what I’ve already said; they’re all still valid.

More practice: sorting

Jorge Cosgayon — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:35:44 +0000

I wanted to try my hand at sorting, this time, because it’s something I never got around to doing in the past. So I quickly whipped up around ten thousand random integers, put it in a text file, and went to work. My first idea was to do a bubble sort, but the idea of [...]

A BIR Story

Jorge Cosgayon — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:30:55 +0000

Contrary to popular belief, there are actually THREE things in life that are certain: Death, Taxes, and frustration with your tax collector.