The Long Walk Home (3 of 3)

Indeed the immediate area near our place was pitch black with occasional candles lit. What was surprising was the activeness of a lot of people past that time of the night. Something definitely wasn’t right. And I’m not yet talking of the knee-length water on the streets yet.
Why did things have to be hard for [...]

The Long Walk Home (2 of 3)

If memory serves me right, it was before 7 in the evening when I made my push to Monumento. Yes it was quite early but the terrible weather made it look discouraging to take the option. I was getting more and more worried. The stillness of traffic along with the gusts of the wind and [...]

The Long Walk Home (1 of 3)

I guess the price I have to pay for aiming a notch higher career-wise would be abandoning writing here for most of the time I’m doing post-grad studies. Countless events and issues passed yet my busy everydays kept me from revisiting my turf in cyberspace. That in spite of promising myself (at least twice if [...]

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 [...]

The Digital Age in Green

In expressing my reluctance to jump into Vista’s ship a few posts ago, the main point raised there is that there’s nothing much new brought to the table at the expense of the number of computers going to the obsolescence mill. Also included is a mention of the concept paper I did for an environmental [...]

Flipside of More PC’s: Vista Factor

Here’s something I have written for more than a month now. Obviously it spent a lot of time in the heap of blogging todo stuff. Thankfully I can post a something substantial on the subject already.

A Technology Perspective
When there were noises about Microsoft Vista as early as 2 to 3 years ago, I knew it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bears on the Loose

Just when the U.S. West Coast was done with the a hot and dry summer which saw forest fires in the region I wrote about here and here, it’s now the black bears’ turn to show up in the western states. Apparently the hungry beasts have been affected by the drought brought about by this [...]