I am a true netizen. From the moment I wake up, the first thing that I would do is head to my computer and check emails and read the news.
I spend more than half of my day in front of my computer. I maintain several websites and at the same time, I want to always […]
Archive for June, 2007
Good news to environmental groups and people! Although much of today’s environmental destruction of the planet (think global warming) has been due to technology, it also through technology that we can heal the planet’s wounds or prevent more damages being inflicted on our precious home.
Steve Gulick, an electrical engineer turned biologist left State University of […]
It has been some time since I last checked my Friendster account. I had been very busy updating some websites and writing content for additional sites, and the thought of checking the updates of my friends at Friendster had slipped my mind, despite the fact that Friendster has been sending email updates to my email […]
Millions with Malware
Posted in Internet, Security, Software, Learn on Jun 29th, 2007
I just read an article saying that according to a research by Google, approximately 10 percent of all webpages published on the internet contain malwares. The research sampled about 4.5 million pages and found that 450,000 of them have scripts and codes that contain spywares, viruses and Trojans.
Just last week while traveling with my boss, […]
Developing and managing a website is an extremely daunting task. Well, actually it depends on the kind of website. For static websites, which means web pages having contents never change at all, it can be easy. But static websites are already very out dated. Today’s websites are very dynamic with pages that gets updated every […]
Humanity to Others
Posted in Learn on Jun 27th, 2007
Last week, a notice of claim of CD for my brother arrived through the postal mail. Since my brother was out of town, I was the one who claimed the said CD.
It was from Ubuntu and was in fact an installer for Ubuntu Linux distribution. When my brother arrived a few days later, I asked […]
My Firefox
Posted in Software on Jun 26th, 2007
I have been using Mozilla’s Firefox browser for many years because a developer friend recommended it to me. Before that, I was a purely Microsoft oriented guy, and I had been using Explorer solely for my browsing. Since using Firefox, I had been very content with the default installations. I liked the security options of […]
What Clicks
Posted in IT on Jun 25th, 2007
I love watching BBC. Aside from their balanced news which are presented in a clear no-nonsense, non-showbizy manner, I also love watching their IT show called Click.
I was late in watching BBC’s Click yesterday, and I was only able to watch the last segment called webscape. This segment hosted by Kate Russel features some of […]
Since high school, I had been very interested in astronomy. I would borrow books from the library and get awed by the pictures of stars and planets from distant galaxies. In college, I had spent many night reading the books by Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. I particularly liked Stephen Hawking’s “Brief History of Time” […]
Deciding what to give to dad
Posted in Thoughts on Jun 24th, 2007
June is the month of fathers. I had been thinking real hard about what gift to give to my father. Last year, I remember having given him a nice watch because his watch has gotten old and I just felt like he needed a new one.
This year, while I was visiting some websites, I came […]
No, I do not mean computer languages like C, Visual Basic or Java, which of course can be easily learned with the hundreds of thousands of programs available on the internet. I am talking about learning a real language, a spoken language like French, Spanish of Chinese.
I used to work for a Japanese outsourcing company […]
Those Stupid Thieves
Posted in Security on Jun 24th, 2007
Two days in a row, I had been receiving separate emails offering me huge amounts of money I can never ever earn even by working for 20 years.
One email came from someone who claimed to be from Singapore and is the external auditor for the United Overseas Bank. His name is Mr. Feng Zhao.
Mr. Zao […]
When Enough Easily Exhausts
Posted in Software on Jun 24th, 2007
I can still remember the time my computer had 32 MB of memory and 64 MB of hard disk storage space and I was happy. Later, I had 128 MB of RAM and 4 Gigagabytes of storage space and I was happy until another higher storage came.
I once asked by my friend which one he would choose among hearing, seeing and talking faculties if all of them disappeared except one. I pondered hard because I know that each of them are important in their own individual and unique ways but I finally decided that it was the sense of sight […]
