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Convergence in digital messaging: Facebook is on top of it

April 8, 2011 benign0 1 Comment

Convergence is sweeping the social networking world. Facebook recently implemented an across-the-board consolidation of all its messaging services, bringing them all together within one page stream. These are now accessible through an all-encompassing “Messages” link on our profile navigation pane where there was formerly a link labelled “Inbox”. Mail, text messaging, chat, and “other real-time…

Tech Talk

Most Pinoys just laugh. Den Abesamis laughs all the way to the bank

April 8, 2011 benign0 3 Comments

I didn’t realise how much this quiet batchmate of mine had achieved in the last quarter century until I read about his “return” in the lifestyle section of the Inquirer.net. I used to see Den Abesamis in high school and grade school but did not know him at all. Obviously he was a physical standout…

Glitz and Glamour

PNoy: being president is about hard work and not about popularity

April 7, 2011April 8, 2011 Ilda 24 Comments

They say love hurts. Or at least being rejected does. Whether it is a lover or a friend â€“ they say that being jilted is just like getting punched in the gut. Spare a thought for Philippine President Noynoy Aquino. PNoy and his team were left licking their wounds after their most recent approval rating…

Government, Media, Politics

Ms Carmi Martin: college graduate at 47!

April 7, 2011April 7, 2011 benign0 1 Comment

Congratulations to star of the 1980s Carmi Martin for graduating at 47 with a fine arts degree from the Philippine Women’s University (PWU)! Martin co-starred with Freddie Web in the seminal Filipino sitcom Chicks to Chicks at the height of her fame. Martin in an interview said in Tagalog that showbiz for her is not…

Glitz and Glamour

Are younger computer users more technologically savvy?

April 6, 2011April 6, 2011 benign0 5 Comments

Remember the old days when you had to know how to program a computer in order to use one? Nowadays using a computer is like watching TV. We use it without having to know what makes it tick. There is no appreciation of how clever one had to be to come up with an app…

Tech Talk

What does one use an iPad for?

April 5, 2011April 5, 2011 benign0 4 Comments

Always on and ready for use, lightweight, slim, clean-lined, and sexily minimalist. You can read books and magazines on it, play games, and do other media-rich stuff. Even when it is off, it looks great. It’s arguably the coolest piece of hi-tech hardware in the market. All good. I’ve just got one question though: What…

Tech Talk

Real advise for Filipinos desperately praying for jobs

April 5, 2011April 6, 2011 benign0 11 Comments

Joblessness is indeed a big problem in the Philippines. It is Third World labour supply on steroids — an exceedingly pathetic situation that sees the economic value of Filipino labour utterly flattened under the sheer weight of the vast numbers of warm bodies out on the streets in jeepney- and bus-loads looking for jobs. The…

Development, Economy, Education, Lifestyle, Religion

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