More Tech Trends

All PDI InfoTech articles for the week under way:
Low-Cost Laptops for Big Returns in Education
I first wrote about XO in this blog entry after having heard about it early this year. Apparently the laptop bannered as a serious economical alternative for students especially for those in third world countries will hit the U.S. and Canadian [...]

Growing Up Anyone?

Just a second serving of “You Know Your Kid’s a Lot Like You When…” really or what parenting had in store for me two years after that post.
Fatherhood’s not only about providing necessities and goodies to children. An even more important responsibility not of fathers alone but of parents in general is to [...]

Modern-day Trends

IT Anyone?
While the IT-sector of the Philippine economy has undoubtedly grown, I never thought the figure’s currently pegged at 400,000 related jobs from 8,000 last 2000. That is if co-Chairman of the National Competitiveness Council, Cesar B. Bautista is to be believed.
In an Infotech article written at PDI today, he spoke of a positive outlook [...]

Technology and Etiquette

Pulled from 6 Things to Consider are bad technology habits and email etiquette I wish a lot of people these days would read and keep in mind. The gist of the first goes:

Talking on the cell phone at inappropriate places.
Interrupting a conversation to answer you cellphone.
Constantly checking email.
Don’t use unusual ringtones.
Hiding behind Voice mail.
Calling back [...]

Stairs Standard

Just weeks before I get another ball into my juggling act, I encounter something to remind me to proceed with caution as I was searching for stuff to give me more ideas as to what to expect at UPOU.
Nope, either image’s scary. Guess it’s just part of the back-to-school jitters.

The Week’s Worth Elsewhere

Plowing Through Plowshares
This view reminds me of a fact my former professor told our class once: Land Reforms and other agricultural programs’ benefits often have the flaw of not actually being felt by the most destitute farmers for whom the endeavors are supposed to be for. That Pakistani viewpoint highlights just how much the centuries-old [...]

A Smashing Touchdown

A common theme in movies is a meteorite or asteroid streaking down from the skies and blowing up a sizeable portion of the earth then causing a catastrophe wiping out a significant fraction of humanity if not its entirety.
No tsunamis, earthquakes or gigantic explosions in this one though. If a featured AFP news yesterday is [...]

Hard Copying

No matter how long you’ve been wrestling your brand of technology, something just tantalizingly time-consuming and frustrating pops up once in a while. Oftentimes it’s just something overlooked among the sea of possibilities today’s technology allows us to do.
As far as my four years of stay in the Notes/Domino development arena, I have my share [...]

Grilled Bitefulls

Sleepless as an owl, hungry as a bear…
So before I go get my fill, here’s a blog entry on do’s and don’t’s for your grilled cheese, (something I want right now really.) Of course tons of recipes should come with it.
*Makes a mad dash to the kitchen…*

The Beautiful Ones

It’s another one of those conventional things the normal person is accustomed to in his/her everyday life that has the focus of a science research: attention given to attractive people.
Jon Maner of the University of Florida is the leader of the study, which “flashed pictures of attractive men and women and average-looking men and women [...]