Maria Blogs

I was reading CNN news this morning when this caught my eye:
Fine for 24 downloads: $1.9M
Whoa …
I can understand where the music and film industry comes from. Heck, even CNN is suffering cos web sites across the globe including Google syndicates their content, makes money on ads on pages where CNN content are displayed while [...]

Was surfing through the 11th Annual Provincetown Film Festival web site and found some really interesting indie films being shown in Ptown from June 17th to the 21st. I am majorly wishing I am there to get my indie film fix.
Instead, I am going to write about some of the entries, most of which were [...]

I really don’t know. The last pandemic in 1968 ultimately killing 1 million people happened before my age group was born.
This new strain, A(H1N1) seems to be affecting more younger people (between the ages of 5 – 24) but pregnant women and those with preexisting medical conditions are also at higher risk.
With the new global [...]

CPDRC inmates (Cebu, Philippines) must have some very interesting music/video library.
And a lot of idle guards.

Could you imagine skinheads, latinos and african american gangs dancing to the beat of Jai Ho inside San Quentin prison in California? Not a chance. They’d probably be dancing to avoid getting strung up during one of their gang/race-related riots.