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I routinely check CNN for news in the morning while settling into my work day and was surprised to read this headline ‘Modesty is returning to fashion runways.’ It’s not something I was expecting anytime soon given the trends in the fashion industry and the recent issues on global warming which might prompt designers to […]

I had always thought that non-tropical countries would not hit the 30-degrees Celcius mark, but it the news today just mentioned that a heat wave just hit Europe. We are used to a mean temperature of 20-33 depending on the time of the year. We are, after all, a tropical country—hotter, more humid, and more […]

In the news last week was OLPC and Intel bury the hatchet—for the children. It says that:

After years of squabbling, Intel and Nicholas Negroponte have agreed to put their differences behind them and join forces in bringing PCs to children around the world.
Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project is bringing Intel on board as a […]

I have always wanted to setup a pink and blue site and here’s one about prom makeup that has a good color scheme. I try to make sites that either use analogous or tetradic schemes. I used to work only within the web safe palette but also have recently found out that color most of […]

Last Saturday afternoon, I spent about an hour playing with a neighbor’s 2 year-old daughter-an adorable kid. She was also speaking albeit in just phrases. She could recognize colors or so her mother thought. Where is white? (She points to red) No, no. The the other white. Okay, how about blue? (She still points to […]

Having experienced WiFi technologies on a regular basis and being able to use it in most cafes and Metro Manila malls, I must say that the technology is still far from perfect, but it is a functional alternative to looking for an internet cafe or subscribing to more expensive alternatives such as EVDO using […]

Nicholas Negroponte has been championing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Organization for several years now (Nov 2005) and has yet to produce a real $100 laptop. Its current cost is at $180 since it has to scale up production to really achieve that cost. Now, another player has come out, Intel. As a chip […]

Woohoo! I have Joost. If you’ve been hiding under rock is totally non-techie then you might not have heard of it.
Joost (pronounced ‘juiced’) is a system for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer TV technology, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa).
Joost began […]

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My university email is slow and sometime even unavailable because of the sheer number of students, imagine 80,000 students spread over 7 geographically distant locations and 1 virtual education system. Mind you, those 80,000 students are only in my batch. what about those who’ve graduated and still keep their university emails and those in other […]