James Sarmiento

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• Randy David and his calling

  In Government, Politics
  June 29th, 2009 | Bookmark or share | Comment

  Randy David never dreamed to run for Congress or any electoral seat. In his newspaper columns, he writes his travels, family, and more often are his readings and teachings as a professor and how they are linked to daily events. His writings never told or gave an impression that he wants to run for politics, not even after reportedly consistent offers to be politically supported, election after election.

  

  Randy David (Source: Wikipedia)

  He is a Filipino intellectual yet he never had arrogance to push ideas to his readers; However good or bad the result was, he celebrated the instances when the Philippines decide as a group of people, as nation. This is the source of respect to him as a media personality and more so as an academic.

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• World celebrates Michael Jackson

  In Music
  June 28th, 2009 | Bookmark or share | Comment

  Still a few days after the death of Michael Jackson, people around the world mourns his body but celebrates his music. The King of Pop leaves behind a legendary imprint in the hearts of fans, which span across generations, countries, race, religion, culture and language.

  Michael Jackson performing “Man in the Mirror”, my favorite song from him, at the 1988 Grammy Awards.

  Motown Records founder Berry Gordy following the artist’s death was quoted saying, “Michael Jackson doesn’t just come along once in a century or a lifetime – he only comes along once.”

  Jackson died on Thursday in L.A. after suffering a cardiac arrest.

• How to uninstall Nokia Maps 3.0

  In Gadget, Internet
  April 26th, 2009 | Bookmark or share | 4 comments

  A couple of weeks after I got my Nokia 5800 phone in January, I installed Nokia Maps 3.0 beta. I was lured by the ‘3.0′ tag simply because it means a later version than the one built-in to my phone. However, it does not support touch interface.

  

  After months of losing the Maps 2.0 Touch, I finally got it back in my phone. Next issue is to make it work with my operator.

  Then the uninstaller of the 3.0 beta version just won’t show up on my phone. When I tried to overwrite it by a 2.0 installer that I got from Nokia Maps website, unidentified overwrite error happens. I didn’t see solutions on how to bring back my built-in Maps, not from techy phone forums and Nokia support. I almost gave up until recently.

  I just thought that if 2.0 and 3.0 installation files have problems, why not try the 1.0 version. I know I should have figured this earlier!

  Anyway, how to do it? Disclaimer though, this is not a sure shot but this is what I did. This was for a Nokia 5800 Express Music phone and there is no confirmation that this will work for other models.

  1. In the memory card of your phone, delete the ‘cities’ folder and ‘qf’ file. They are data for the current Maps installed. They will be brought back by a fresh Maps application.
  2. Install an earlier than 2.0 version, say Nokia Maps 1.2 (for S60, third edition). The goal is for us to see the application in the ‘Installed applications’ list. Nokia Maps 2.0 and 3.0 won’t show in the applications list, probably because it is aimed to be a built-in application of the phone.
  3. Go to Settings > Application mgr. > Installed apps. While the maps application is visible in the list, uninstall it through options menu.
  4. Now go to the main menu of your phone. Browse through the applications. If you see that Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch and it is working, you are good to go. If not, use the installer of the Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch interface. It should work fine now. Surprisingly for me, I don’t have to install it again. It seems it was there all along just covered by the 3.0 installation.

  Hope this helps.