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Personal website of Atty. Vincent S. Isles, Cebu City, PH

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Cebu should celebrate its foundation day on June 4, 1565, not August 6, 1569

Atty. Vincent S. Isles August 6, 2024

August 6, 1569 was the date of the confirmation of the position of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi as governor of Cebu in a royal cedula. More than four years before,…

Technology

Thunderbird and Google Workspace email

Atty. Vincent S. Isles September 11, 2023

The V. Isles & Co. Law Firm uses Google Workspace, and thus its email (@vislesco.com) is using Google’s Gmail infrastructure. In July, I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird for the management…

Law Practice

Theory different from practice?

Atty. Vincent S. Isles July 28, 2023

Project Jurisprudence posted this on their Facebook Page with the caption “Your thoughts?”: This is my reaction to this post from Project Jurisprudence: This is clearly written from the perspective…

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How the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) is computed

Atty. Vincent S. Isles July 27, 2023

Sections 284 and 285 of the Local Government Code (Republic Act No. 7160) lay the rules on the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) (renamed National Tax Allotment since 2022). First, the…

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AttyV.com versus ISLESV.NET

Atty. Vincent S. Isles July 27, 2023

As I’ve posted last week, I have recovered ISLESV.NET, and would be removing all contents from attyv.com and transferring them to ISLESV.NET, reserving for another use attyv.com which is registered…

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Cannot use Thunderbird with Skiff email (July 2023)

Atty. Vincent S. Isles July 24, 2023

Based on the discussion on this Reddit thread, it seems that it is not possible to use Thunderbird to access your @skiff.com email account for now (July 2023). I hope…

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Cannot use Thunderbird with ProtonMail without paying

Atty. Vincent S. Isles July 23, 2023

Proton Mail is an email service provider with an emphasis on privacy and security. Its emails are end-to-end encrypted, and presumably they could not even read our emails on their…

Technology

Reverse chronological order in Thunderbird

Atty. Vincent S. Isles July 23, 2023

To always show emails in reverse chronological order (latest on top) in Thunderbird, go to View > Sort by and then make sure that Date and Descending are checked. If…

Technology

Outlook 2016 is incompatible with @gmail.com (July 2023)

Atty. Vincent S. Isles July 23, 2023

As part of this year’s technical housekeeping, I decided that I would use just one email client for all my email accounts, the top two of which are vincent.isles@vislesco.com for…

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bentong.topcities.com

Atty. Vincent S. Isles July 22, 2023

The litigation over Internet Archive‘s decision during the pandemic to allow its users to “check out” digital copies of copyrighted books in its collections triggered my curiosity to look into…

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Cebu should celebrate its foundation day on June 4, 1565, not August 6, 1569

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