I am just finishing a trip to the US. I was fortunate enough to visit one of the most popular places of computer lore … Silicon Valley. Out of our meager dwelling in Palo Alto, we were able to go around and visit new people, companies and places. The biggest names in information technology are […]
Where does one draw the line between government regulation and plain meddling? Yuga has this post about some of the NTC’s plans to force websites and blog to register with them. I have been trying to dig for the original Manila Times article but could not find it. So if somebody has a copy please […]
The Jesuit Modo de Proceder (Way of Proceeding) is summarized by Chris Lowney in his book Heroic Leadership into four main components.
Self-awareness. It says in order to successful in any endeavor one must know oneself first. It is important that one know ones goals, principles, capabilities and weakness. A venerable SWOT session on the self […]
I was just doing a bit of reading about call centers lately. I have been working in this sunshine industry for about five (5) years already. I do not actually do the taking or making of call but I do build and support call center infrastructure. The call center industry in the Philippines is a […]
A Slashdot reader has this entry about Paul Graham commenting on Microsoft being dead. Not the throw in the towel dead but that has lost is big bad “borg” image. Maybe Slashdot should change its category logo for Microsoft? Wacha say Mr. Taco?
He doesn’t mean dead as in six feet under, but rather that the […]
The US Patent system has gone from a bit broken in some place to weird. I just read this article from Slashdot about an LSI engineer getting a patent for a Linked List in April 11 2006?!?! Now this is really strange.
Congratulations are in order to Ming-Jen Wang of LSI Logic Corporation who, in patent […]
We all know that United States of America has become a very litigious society where filling a lawsuit is become more and more common. But, this article from InformationWeek about a Colorado woman suing the Internet Archive for crawling her website despite a notice on her website clearly prohibiting its copying for any reason. The […]
Guru “can be a pro-blogger but does not want to admit it” Migz Paraz wrote a piece on developer exodus a few months back. In his article, Migs mentions the growing trend of Philippine software development talent moving abroad to find jobs that have more lucrative pay. This is typical of Java, dotNET and C/C++ […]
eBay property Skype has launched a new service that allows called parties in the Skype system to earn money. This new service is called Skype Prime and is undergoing a public beta now.
In short, it enables paid Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls. You can charge other people for calling you either a one-off fee or […]
After attending a meeting in the office, my boss mentioned something that was very very interesting. It sounded like an old saying that could have been attributed to Confucious. However, I did a Google and did not find any match. So this must be something new I guess. In the spirit of my previous pearl’s […]
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