5 Solutions to MRT-3 Rush Hour Sardines-Packed Trains

Dear President Noynoy Aquino and Vice-President Jojo Binay, as the new President and Vice-President of the Republic of the Philippines respectively, I, JC John Sese Cuneta, on behalf of the other patrons of the Blue Line railway system (formerly MRT-3) am submitting to you ideas on how to ease the worst-than-sardines-packed rush hour problem plaguing the Blue Line.

Here is the current situation:




Rush hour. You ride the Blue Line railway system (formerly known as MRT-3). You are at the North bound platform, second station. The platform is jam-packed already. It is 5:00 in the afternoon, the sky is still bright.

The train arrives, as we Filipinos call it, it is sardines-packed. You failed to board the first train. The second train arrives, sardines-packed again. Fail. The third, the fourth, and by this time everyone on the platform are pushing everybody out of the way just to board an already sardines-packed train.

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Comment Changes

Snow World website and blog is using Disqus for our comment system needs. The reason for this is mainly to make it easy to combat spam as they have a better system of doing it, and it is also easier to manage the comments.

There are no problems with b2evolution’s anti-spam system, in fact I have not seen a strong built-in anti-spam system like b2evolution’s - and that is without using Akismet yet! However, as I mentioned Disqus still has a better system and that’s the way to go.

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How-To: Transfer Your Music Data From Last.fm to Libre.fm



If you are a Libre.fm user already (if not go sign-up at alpha.libre.fm) then you may want to transfer your scrobbled tracks from Last.fm.

A special note: this applies to Debian/Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux OS only. However, if you know how to run python scripts in Windows or Mac then theoretically it should be possible to do the steps below.

Let’s begin.

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