Good Reads in Today's Issue of Manila Bulletin

I'm a sucker for news and information but I don't usually find a lot of intersting articles in a single issue of a newspaper to warrant my attention. That's why I'm amazingly surprised at the slew of very interesting articles in today's issue of Manila Bulletin. As I flipped the pages of the paper I find myself more immersed in reading the writeups.

CNet WebWare 100 Winners That I Actually Use

CNET has recently released its Webware 100 list. I've counted 48 of the winner's list that I have used in some way or another (three or four of which I have used in the past, but am no longer using now). Here's the list of the 48 winners that have been "a part of my life:"

UPCAT Results Updates

Batches 1-13 of Resolved Pending Cases have already been posted at the U.P. Office of Admissions. The list of additional Oblation scholarship awardees and INTARMED program candidates has also been released.

List of UPCAT 2009 Oblation Scholars and INTARMED Program Candidates Released

The list of Oblation Scholarship awardees and Candidates for the INTARMED program has been posted at the Office of Admissions. The lists can also be viewed online at the UPCAT Results site.

UPCAT Results Site Stats

I'm just in shock as to how wide the discrepancy is between the UPCAT Results site stats between this year and last year.  Whereas for the UPCAT 2008 site stats, the number of hits for the first day of release was only 26,411 this year, it was a whopping 426,555 hits.  It is also interesting to note that the total no. of hits for January to March 2008 is just 186,000. That's very close to the no. of hits that the PHOpenIX mirror is getting for just the first 2 days it was set up (which is around 175,000).

UPCAT 2009 Results Site Stats (Main Server)

Re: UPCAT 2009 Results Mirror Sites

Just to clarify things, I created a makeshift searchable result script and uploaded it to the 2 mirror sites from scratch just yesterday to help de-load heavy traffic for the UPCAT server.

There were some code oversight when I first uploaded the scripts to the mirror sites 8pm (thus some queries did not return accurate results) but I corrected them as soon as former UPD College of Eng'g. Dean Ega Atanacio brought it to my attention. By 1030pm more or less the search scripts in the mirror sites are as accurate as the original site's search engine. The DILC mirror's database was also corrupted and I was able to repair it by Sunday 12:00am.

UPCAT 2009 Results Released!

UPCAT 2009 results will be posted at the U.P. Office of Admissions at 5am. You can now view it online at the UPCAT 2009 Results site (http://upcat.up.edu.ph/results/).

Congratulations to all who passed!

UPCAT 2009 Results Advisory

The staff of the U.P. Office of Admissions (OADMS) are hard at work in finally releasing the U.P. College Admission Test (UPCAT) results for those who took the August 2008 qualifying exams. Most likely, the OADMS will be be able to post the results on Saturday, 17 January 2008 despite the UPCAT Results page announcement that it will be released on Sunday, 18 January.

So, just stay tuned as I will be adding a new blog entry here as soon as I publish the 2009 results online. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds to this blog here. You can also follow me on twitter at for the same announcement.