Download Day 2008

Leave it up to Mozilla to come up with the creativity for almost anything. This time, it has to be the record books–the Guiness Book of World Records to be exact. They intend to come up with a world record for “the most software downloads in 24 hours” on Firefox 3’s launch date. Not bad [...]

72 Months Hence

It was only recently that I’ve realized that it has been six years since I started working. Perhaps it was this collection of ID pics from my first job that caused the pause to look back at what happened and changed over that span of time. Looking at my pic there, it does seem a [...]

7.5 Going 8.0

I’ve been using AVG Free for computer protection ever since I’ve had my own laptop at home. Back then, my primary consideration was cost. After doing a modest amount of research, I went for it. Right now, I have 2 notebooks here running the software for security and protection.
Since version 7.5 would be supported by [...]

Talk About Perspectives

For the 4000th click just registered by this blog, here’s a lengthy list of puns on the half full or half empty perspectives of different people from this humor page:

A well-known proverb states: an optimistic would say a glass is half full, while a pessimist would say it is half empty. What would people of [...]

Time to Unlearn

I don’t recall now but I remember someone pointing out that a lot of the things learned in life later are just really about unlearning things taught to one earlier. While the vein of truth was evident there, it was just earlier when my wife and I were taking a look at the contents of [...]

Juggling Javascript

I’ve been using Javascript for years now but it’s just recently when I’m starting to go from intermediate to the next echelon in terms of my level of expertise. Far back before the start of this millennium, common uses of the scripting language is on form validation and rollovers.
As early as a few years after [...]

Last Straws

I’ve been meaning to write about SA’s demise or triumph against NO by now but who would have known? I guess the fact that there still are two final straws to be drawn in the NBA magnifies the level of competition out there right now. While the last slot for the east will be determined [...]

A Slice of Diversity

For the longest time I’ve known, I’ve never been stuck with a single topic alone when it comes to having my interest in the internet. For more than a decade now, I’ve been one of the netizens watching along the sidelines for what would be significant for a lot more years to come.
Perhaps one of [...]

Just Another Mother’s Day Greeting

No translations here since I’m pretty exhausted right now.

So after getting to celebrate Mother’s Day with my family for a few hours, I get to write an entry somewhat related to the day. Thanks to a genuine-sounding text message, (at least to me it comes across as such:)

Happy mother’r day to your mom at sa [...]

Intellectual Influences

I encountered this post at Inquirer Current this week. It links to Foreign Policy’s survey of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals (subject to a simple criteria really) among its readers so out of interest, I participated.
One is allowed to choose 5 intellectuals so I opted for:

Lee Kuan Yew – The first PM of Singapore and [...]