Mobile Inconvenience

The iPhone hype aside, using cellular phones does have its inconvenience. I’ve appreciated them when I started having one nearly 10 years ago but as more and more people embraced the gadget, I’ve gradually used it lesser and lesser. Not that I’m a non-conformist but there really are some inconveniences in using the mobile [...]

Emerging Asia’s Innovation Edge

A business week article of the same title earlier this month focuses on the rapid rate of development of Asia powerhouses China and India. Important points from a report Gartner released days before include:

China is fast becoming the global leader in research. In 2005 as the report mentions, applications for patents in China outnumbered those [...]

On Human Trafficking

If the U.S. Justice Department is right, Human Trafficking is the third largest criminal enterprise worldwide. According to United Nations Development Fund for Women Executive Director Noeleen Heyzer, human trafficking generates an estimated $9.5 billion per year in terms of profit. Furthermore, she says:
Trafficking of persons includes prostitution, debt bondage, forced labor and slavery, and [...]

Obesity is ’socially contagious’?

I’m not a big fan of the blame game but this Yahoo health tidbit roused an amount of interest anyway. The news bit focuses on obesity as something that’s “socially contagious.”
If your friends and family get fat, chances are you will too, researchers report in a startling new study that suggests obesity is “socially contagious” [...]

My Simpsons’ Avatar

So 6 days before the movie is shown I finally got to post this one I found out from Larry about 2 weeks ago. This after seeing everyone else come up with their own Simpsonesque portraits.
So after a few clicks from the official movie website:

The Science of Parking

Urban planning this days has just given parking careful consideration. In its recent article, The New Science of Parking, Time magazine takes a look at an urban issue that has warranted due attention in the recent years.
Take the studies mentioned in the article for example:
In a 2006 study undertaken in a Brooklyn neighborhood by Transportation [...]

Capital Crossroads

An interesting study analyzes decision making based on the survey results regarding the youth’s outlook. Asked on several questions about school, career and marriage were young people from Albania, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Iraq, Malaysia, Romania, and Tajikistan, and as such, is significant in policy making in the future. The questions included were:
Thinking of the years of [...]

The Eight Commandments

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) pertain to 8 items summarizing the pledges of world leaders at the New York headquarters of the UN in September 2000. After the halfway milestone towards the 2015 deadline was officially reached last July 7, The Economist assesses each of the points made then. Here’s the link to the [...]

A Mix on Structural Reform

An Oxford Analytica article came out last Tuesday on the progress on reform since the 1997-98 financial crisis. It contains an analysis of 4 southeast asian countries, (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand,) on the progress of economic stability and remaining structural vulnerabilities after the debacle that gripped the region.
So goes the significance of the article:
Over [...]

Another List of Development Stuff to Think About

I’ve came across several stuff which I’ve decided to collate into a whole list for the interested seasoned developer.

Here’s a list of what not to do when building a website. Josiah Cole gets candid yet ruthless in his quest against web development show-offs. While I don’t agree with everything there, it still presents a pretty [...]