Some Creative Commons Pitfalls

ZDNet Asia featured an article discussing 3 common myths associated with the Creative Commons license which I thought worthwhile here. While it is patterned after FOSS licensing, it is nevertheless important to point out common misinterpretations of CC licenses in the interest of promoting respect for creative works. The article provides legal perspectives on these [...]

Towards the Horizon Further

It seems there’s nothing wrong with how I did the previous semester. I’m now expecting at least decent grades to keep my status in the program safe. No worries unlike the previous semester in short.
Having IS295a as my only major subject this coming semester, I have to start thinking about the final project required of [...]

On Pauses and Breaks

A month ago, all I looked up to was the end of the semester. I thought much of the stress would come to a halt. I thought a lot of the pressures would ebb with school at a standstill.
I never couldn’t have been more wrong.
I’ve never seen problems at work pile up this much in [...]

On Best Practices

The previous semester had me pouring a good deal of time and more than a pound of neurons into an ethics portfolio as part of the requirements for a class in computer ethics. It was then when blogging and my internet journeyman experience came in handy. I was surely thankful all those times and effort [...]

Even on a Lazy Weekend

I guess it will be quite some time before finance people talk about something else.
The Wall Street mess has pretty much set off the alarm for markets to scramble for contingencies. This as the ordinary person is left to wait and see how its ripples will affect one who doesn’t bother with stocks and financial [...]

Alternative to an Alternative

I switched to Firefox way back mainly because of a lot of reasons adding up to my over-all discontent on Internet Explorer. I was glad I made the switch then. Enhanced usability, less pop-ups and faster loading of pages was all too good reasons to have me consider another browser for my needs.
Add the fact [...]

Division by Zero

What is any number divided by 0? Undefined. What is 0 divided by 0? Indeterminate.
How are the two different? Here’s a math forum page informally and discreetly explaining “undefined” as something where the answer does not exist while “indeterminate” as something that “if it pops up somewhere, you don’t know what its value will [...]

Impact on a Walled Street

One of the big things I never got to lay a finger on here during my long hiatus is the Wall Street crisis. By now, even those who aren’t into finance, economics or current events would’ve at least heard the ordeal over that side of North America. By now too, a lot of experts would’ve [...]

On Smooth Cuts

And now for a bit of history.
It has oftentimes been the stuff of legend that the Muslims had a weapon that supposedly gave them the advantage over Christian counterparts during the crusades. The former is said to have swords strong enough to cut “through European swords and even rock.” That is, the Damascus sword prided [...]