Archive for the 'Personal' Category

The Third and Fourth Screens - The 1st JesCom Media Convention

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

I just did a presentation discussing the developments in both the Internet and Mobile space. My presentation was entitled “The Third and Fourth Screens”. This conference is sponsored by the Jesuit Communications. It is called The 1st JesCom Media Convention. Here are the details.
This August, Jesuit Communications, Inc. will be holding its first media […]

Taxing Bloggers?

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I just deposited a Text Links AD (TLA) check today to my US dollar account. I normally deposit checks for various reasons and until today I have not been asked for any additional information except for my account number. Today was different. I handed over the check to the friend bank teller, as usual. She […]

New Way to Build Stuff on the Internet

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

A few weeks back Google released a new tool (as BETA) called Google Gears. Simply put it is a set of tools that allow store and serve application resources locally, store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database and run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness. Google also makes the API available to third party […]

Philippine Politics == Metro Manila Politics?

Monday, May 28th, 2007

I do not normally write about local politics since it is out of topic. However, since this is my personal blog, I can write whatever I want right? So, If you (my readers) don’t like it please feel free to complain with a comment.
I just read this analysis article from Inquirer.net that talks about […]

Paying Taxes via SMS with G-Cash

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Here is another interesting move by Philippines’ second largest mobile network operators, Globe. Together with with Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), which is responsible for tax collection in the country, they have introduced a new service called PAYBIR.
PAYBIR is a project initiated by BIR to support its Tax Collection Drive. Through the PAYBIR […]

Ateneo de Manila DISCS is a COE!

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Congratulations to the Ateneo de Manila University’s Department of Information Systems and Computer Science for recently being granted Center of Excellence (COE) for Information Technology Status by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). Here are some of the details from our department chair’s blog.
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) named the Ateneo a Center of […]

Yu Chu Village: Ancestral Home

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

An uncle of mine just came back from a family roots trip to China. We are fortunate enough to have him document his trip with a few good pictures. I have selected a few pictures of our ancestral village. It is the Village of Yu-Chu in the Jiaomei Town, Longhai City, Zhangzhou, Fookien Province, China […]

CS 197 Student Project’s for SY 2006-2007

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Congratulations to all CS 197 students who have completed their capstone projects for this school year. I am particularly pleased by the performance of my advisees this school year. I believe this is the year in which most of the projects where completed either on-time or ahead of time.

Prototype Web Services and Instant Messaging […]

Omid Etemadi Top 4 in 2007 Physician Licensure Exam

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

I rarely post about friends of mine. But, this is an exception. I just read in the news that a high school classmate of mine named Omid Uy Etemadi (graduated from the Cebu Institute of Medicine aka Velez) ranked number 4 in the 2007 Physician Licensure Exam. I guess Omit stopped focusing on Basketball Cards? […]

More Barcelona Stuff

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Ola again! I am back in the Philippines and have been able to collect more pictures of our stay in Spain. Again, all of them can be found in my flickr site. Since, I don’t have a professional account only the latest 200 images can be shown at any given time. Tsk. Tsk.

GSMA World 2007 […]