Weng on July 30th, 2007

The news has been littered with celebrities being jailed and DUI for the past few weeks. You got Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Nicole Ritchie, and yep Britney’s in the news again. One would think it would end with Paris’ jail stint, but it seems to have become a bandwagon. Do they give out ‘I Went [...]

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Weng on July 26th, 2007

How do you ‘creatively’ explain and tell kids to turn off their mobile phones? Try telling them that their mobile phones emit sound waves and that it stops the speaker from transmitting the signal from a lapel mike to the speakers. That’s the gist of what the girl explaining sound waves.
For the record, a mobile [...]

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Weng on July 25th, 2007

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 [...]

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Weng on July 17th, 2007

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 [...]

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Weng on July 16th, 2007

Guilty as charged. I was over at the Meralco theater for an afternoon with the kiddies. Literally. More than 60% of the theater were kiddies probably aged 15 and below. A friend of mine invited me to watch it together with her three year old niece, so there we were four adults accompanying one kid.

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