I’ve been indifferent to politics for as long as I can remember. I don’t know why exactly, but there’s something about it that don’t interest me much. Add to that the fact that I find it hard to understand how all those political stuff go about (and that I myself refuse to understand them thoroughly), although I found my Political Science subject in college fascinating. But that was it! Maybe it’s because I was brought up by apathetic parents or because I’ve been hanging out with apathetic friends. Maybe there’s something about how a government is run that makes me want to shy away from it or the fact that my impression of a typical government lackey — from what I’ve been hearing from other people since I was a kid — is that he’s corrupt, manipulative, and just plain evil. Lol. My classmates in high school even had a hard time persuading me to run for student body officer when I was in my senior year. I caved eventually — only because I was bored and in dire need of something to do to improve my standing in the honor roll race and to prove myself to this teacher of mine who hated me for that one time I interrupted her in class (She caught me working on a tat-like doodle on my seatmate’s arm, half-listening to her while she was helping us review for NSAT, haha). I was elected, btw, but I can’t say that it made much of a difference. Anyway..

When I read about our former president’s pardon a few days ago, I also felt what other Filipinos felt about it — I felt betrayed and ashamed. To echo what everybody else has been saying, allow me to ask these same questions: Where’s justice in that? What significance does Edsa Dos bring now? What was all the hullabaloo about our former president’s impeachment six years ago and the recent hearing and verdict (where he was sentenced to a penalty of reclusion perpetua) if we’re just gonna throw all of those away just because our current president woke up one morning and decided she wants to pretend to be a nice and forgiving person? I can almost imagine our two favorite presidents meeting over a cup of coffee somewhere, discussing matters, laughing, and exchanging remarks like, “I can’t believe they fell for that!” or “It took you long enough, but thanks mate!” Grrr.

Like I said, I don’t know much about our government (and maybe I’ve just been rambling on about stuff that are actually out of context here, hehe) but the news about the pardon irks me a little. And for someone who knows squat about politics, it doesn’t really take much for me to understand that we have one very twisted government system. Surprise, surprise.

But I guess Karen is right — justice will be served. Not today, but someday it will be. And really, who am I to play judge? Maybe this is a good example of how it is to extend grace to those who don’t deserve it?

Good reads: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Does PageRank matter?

On the techie side of the globe, prolific bloggers and SEO folks are talking about the drastic changes of their blog’s PageRanks (blogs such as problogger.net, johnchow.com, copyblogger.com, weblogtoolscollection.com, andybeard.nu, searchengineland.com, etc) which I’m sure most of you have already heard about. What is my reaction to this? I’m not really sure yet. I could care less, I guess. But hey, at least mine stayed at PR 5, that must count for something, right? No? Whatever. Heh.

Everybody should have realized by now that the Great and Powerful Google is like one big jigsaw puzzle, which means that it’s just so hard to figure out. This SEO Chick brought up a really good point about it. But among the blog posts I’ve read about this topic, I find these two posts unique just ‘coz they have a different tone from the rest: “The Other Side of the Paid Links Coin” by Pat of SEOish.com and “Why You SHOULD Still Care About PageRank” by Kumiko of CashQuests.com.

I’ve got theories (guesses, really) about why this phenomenon happened, but like everybody else, I can’t support them with anything. The only thing I know is that this is a constantly evolving industry which is why this isn’t a surprising phenomenon at all. And, oh, that Google is search engine god so why don’t we all just quit whining. Lol.

Anyway, let’s just move past these things. I’m sure we all have better things to think about. I have a new *Multiply site, so maybe you can start there by adding me to your contact list? Hehehe.

*I seriously doubt that I’d be able to update that site regularly, though.

[EDIT] It’s Mae Paulino’s birthday today. Happy birthday, gurl! :) [/EDIT]

Have a nice long weekend everyone! :)

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