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Miscellany of questions and information tidbits on day-to-day interaction with technology
It’s not a question of ability. The Philippines produces a staggering figure in terms of brain power for engineering, science, IT, and mathematics. It’s really a question of why: why aren’t Filipinos building their own rockets? Well the simple answer is also the lazy rhetorical one: “Why make when you can buy?” And there again…
Like most technologies that permeate society today, social media, as it turns out, originally came of age as a weapon. Though it was originally pitched as a peachy digital hangout for catching up with friends and as a platform for “activism” aimed at fostering “social good”, what it is really being used for today is…
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Self-described feminist and “accidental writer” Beth Angsioco in a tweet recently posed this question to the Titas of the Philippine Twitterverse… Will you subscribe to a Chinese telco? Throwing this question to Twitterverse. True to form of Philippine Titadom, the responses were shrill. There is hope though. One of them, after deciding “Absolutely not!”, at…
Rappler CEO Maria Ressa just can’t stop once she gets started about Facebook. Indeed, she got started on Facebook way back when she threw a massive embrace around the gargantuan social media platform in the early days when she pitched her organisation as a “social news network”. Like many media organisations at the time, Rappler…
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So the Land Transportation Office (LTO) is caught off guard regarding the repercussions of the enforcement of rules for modified vehicles. They do not have any implementing guidelines whatsoever. The LTO has now earned the ire and the hatred of most of the 4×4 community. To me it’s a simple solution. Other countries already have their…
You gotta hand it to the circlejerk relationship Rappler manages to cling on to with the New York Times. This recent article, Soldiers in Facebook’s War on Fake News Are Feeling Overrun makes like CEO Maria Ressa’s Rapplerettes are on a mission from God. The tone of the piece goes beyond drama into the realm…
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As I type this on my old T420 laptop, annoyed about how its performance has greatly diminished with age, I have my iPhone 6s plugged into it charging for the 2nd time today, also annoyed at how its battery capacity has greatly decreased over the last three years. I am convinced that I will need…
I have always been a iPod Nano fanatic. Which already makes me a rare breed. The problem with being a rare breed is by definition you are under represented in the marketplace. If you are under represented then your wants don’t tend to be addressed. Your cell phone is not only your phone…
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