Sugar and Toys: An Educational Perspective

A month after the commencement of the 2007-08 school year in the Philippines, the same ol’ hindrances to child learning can be heard: lack of classrooms and facilities, low wages for public school teachers which compel a lot of them to seek greener pasteurs elsewhere, the great number of children starting elementary but not even [...]

A Look into the Asian Identity

Asia Times had an article last week about the re-emergence of the “‘Asian values’ debate” as “Asia regains its self-confidence and reasserts itself on the international stage.”
The article by Chietigj Bajpaee takes a comprehensive look at the Asian identity’s history taking into account ideological, religious and political perspectives which had the center stage for defining [...]

Hit and Run

The Economist published an article last month which took a look at one of the serious causes of deaths among children and young people. The image of the WHO data shown below comes from the said article of the same title.

Anyway the article takes a look at the 1.2 million road deaths annually apart from [...]

Blog of the Day: 6 Things to Consider

I first mentioned Steve Atkinson’s 6 Things to Consider here when I referred to his 6 Common Energy Saving Myths. And just an entry before I used his iPhone pros and cons entry to wrap up an entry on the hyped gadget.
The blog in itself presents 6 different lists for different stuff 6 times a [...]

A Closer look at the iPhone

The iPhone’s going to be on sale in the U.S. tomorrow and the consumerism marked by the hype surrounding the launch is pretty much found in the internet. I’m not that much into gadgets but Apple’s iPhone hype had me taking a look into that direction.
A previous feed from Bruce Elgort’s blog made mention of [...]

The Mystery of China’s Celtic Mummies

A certain blog entry of the same title bearing the same contents from this article by the UK independent got my attention over the weekend. The same content about the discovery can be found all throughout a lot of other blogs including this Uyghur American Association page.
That is the mummies found in China are strangely, [...]

Unearthing Ancient Egypt

Last weekend, I encountered three Yahoo news bits regarding archaeological discoveries in Egypt. The first one is the discovery of a 3000 year-old mummy. It was identified as a high priest to the god Amun in the southern city of Luxor, antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass told the official MENA news agency on Saturday.
The next is [...]

Common Energy Myths

Just encountered a blog entry on 6 things to consider when it comes to energy saving these days. The said tips are from an even larger list of tips from this blog from the same author of the former, Steven G. Atkinson, who himself is a technology consultant and an author. Here are the 6 [...]

Blog of the Day: Codestore

I’ve been mentioning Jake’s site, Codestore, in at least two previous posts so I thought I would just as well feature him for the third Blog of the Day. This and the fact that I’ve ripped off taken two cool Lotus Notes icons from his previous blog posts actually, (including the one shown here.)
In [...]

Programming Quotes

Much as I would have wanted to pick one from the list of quotes found somewhere in Jeff Atwood’s blog entry a month ago, (or somewhere else among the pages in the links there,) I just can’t. I encountered the said blog from Jake’s blogroll and is definitely worth a longer look.
What can I say, [...]