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Hello, friends! I've been studying a lot lately here in UP Mindanao and these are what I have learned from one of my major subjects, CMSC56: I have learned that "Logic" is a study of reasoning, a study of necessary truth and of systematic methods for clearly expressing & rigorously demonstrating such truths. Logical operations are modifiers, conjunctions (and), disjunctions (or), conditional (if-then, implication), bi-conditional (if and only if). ...so on and so forth... Well, I realised CMSC56 may be a headache in some sort, but it is really intellectually stimulating. Well, I wanna share some of my notes on the application of the rules of inferences in logic: e.g. You are about to leave for school and discovered you don't have your glasses. You have the following true statements: If my glasses are on the kitchen table, then I saw my glasses at breakfast. I was reading newspapers in the living room or I was reading newspapers in the kitchen. If I was reading ...

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Dear friends, Yesterday, we had our first sessions in CMSC11. Sir Tecson gave us the guidelines in how to use the computer lab, the priniciples of Computer Science, this and that. What amazes me most here in UP Mindanao is that this institution uses only open-source software , and it only uses the open-source Operating System, Linux . In UP Min, most of our Linux PCs run in the Mandriva Distribution under the K Desktop Environment. After just the first semester, I really fell in love with Linux with its stability, strong architecture, being virus-free and virus-proof (unless you move files to Windows), and undeniably as user-friendly as Windows (if you feel comfortable with Windows software, and its open-source Linux counterparts). I am glad UP Mindanao's Information Technology Office (ITO) has made a decision to shift the main OS from Windows to Linux, to avoid the hassles of commercial licenses of commercial software, like Windows. Microsoft, the company that makes the Window...

Dear friends, I'm here at the UP Mindanao IT Kiosk , a newly-opened computer center in this University. Here, my Internet Fee, included in the Miscellaneous Fees (for us freshies), is applied here, i.e. free access to computer services for the first 20 hours unlike ILC/LRC ( >:-( ). After that, I have to pay Php 15.00 an hour. Thank God for TOFI and the Administrative Order PERR-07-86 by Prexy (that's the colloquial term for "President") Roman. (but I'm still not happy for the increase of tuition. grrr...). I am now a Student Volunteer at the Interactive Learning Center/Learning Resource Center of UP Mindanao. Now, I now have working loads. However, since it's Volunteer Work, I don't really have a pay for this kind of work. I am still waiting for OSA's announcement for Student Assistantships for this semester that I applied. I hope that I'll be hired. I want to have some revenues, so I posted Advertisements here in this blog. It is courtes...

Dear friends, It's been another great week of classes in UP Mindanao. Upon learning that AH1 (Dimension of Identity: Understanding Ourselves through Reading and Writing) has been dissolved , I have to file a change of matriculation to this subject. Now, instead of AH1, it is now SSP1 (Philippine History) , with Professor Jowel F. Canuday as the assigned faculty for this class. :-/ Here are my classes for the semester and how we started it: MATH26: Ms. May Anne Mata is again our instructor for this subject. Since we, the ComSci batch, knew of her since MATH17, we should not have to introduced ourselves further. However, there were upper-class studes in that class, so we have to know them. There was also a 1st Year BSABE stude in this class. :-) Our first lessons were the Straight Line, the Distance Formulae, the Midpoint of A Line Segment, the Slope of A Line, and the Circle. CMSC56: Mr. Riannel Tecson was our instructor for this subject. Now he will be with us for the whole sem...

Dearie friends, I finally endured another process of enrolment in the University of the Philippines Mindanao for the Second Semester of Academic Year 2007-2008, and again... REGISTERED . Well, first things first. I went on to UP Min to enrol as a BS CompSci student for the Second Semester. My, my, what a looooooong process I should undertake to be REGISTERED in UP Min. Before everything, in my last post, "A Chance to Live My Life", I was still contemplating on my decision to be in UP Min. There, on the whole span of the semestral break, I did many thoughts on what I should to to continue to be an Isko . There, me and my parents agreed upon some things with each other so I can still continue in UP Min: Never WASTE time in the Interactive Learning Center/Learning Resource Center (ILC/LRC) computer facilities again. I wasted a lot of time and energy being obsessed being Online everyday in the previous semester. When I requested how much my debts in ILC/LRC were, it reached ...

Dear friends, It's November again... Cancer (Astrology.com) Dear Kenneth, As winter and the joy-filled, though often hectic, holiday season draws near, we should prepare to put our best karmic foot forward. After all, it's never too early to begin making strides toward New Year’s resolution success! All new Moons represent beginnings, and when the Moon moves in to passionate Scorpio on November 8, it's time to give your desires and emotions full expression. Invest time and energy -- and perhaps even finances -- into something you care about and want to nurture and grow. Letting go of past hang-ups or self-defeating notions will help move you forward. Hold everything on November 15, though, when Mars turns retrograde. Delays will occur, but not to worry! Mercury's sextile on November 16 will helps you make smart decisions and regain any lost ground. KENNETH