Alex @ May 18, 2008 | | Technology | Comments (2)
After a week of GAS-ing, I gave in to my wanton desires and got me a digital camera. Call me crazy but I did spend a lot of sleepless nights thinking of whether I buy myself a camera and if I decided to, what type would I get.
I decided that a camera’s a good investment since I am solely dedicating a large part of my time to my blogging endeavors (Oh yeah, a side announcement, I am not a full-time faculty of UP anymore, though for some reason I still am operating at some capacity in the department). I have been wanting to provide more creative pictures for the blogs that I handle and getting a decent camera should do the job.
Next came the harder part - whether to get an entry-level DSLR, or a good-enough prosumer camera. That left me with two options given my budget - a Nikon D40 (the DSLR) and the Canon Powershot S5 IS (the prosumer). For many hobbyists out there who would be stumbling upon this, one ready quip would be, “I bet you went for the D40.” Probably 90% of all forum threads I’ve read would say that the decision’s a no-brainer and that the DSLR trumps the prosumer any time. But you might cringe on what you’re going to read next.
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Tags: Canon, PowerShot, S5 IS
Alex @ April 20, 2008 | | Money, Sex and Relationships, Technology | Comments (5)
The problem with people with repressed childhoods (like me) is that we tend to overcompensate when we finally gain some independence and get some spare change from our wee salaries. I guess it runs in the family too. I remember my dad buying me an airsoft pistol only for him to play with it more than I had. (Oh yeah, he’ll be dead for eight years now in a few days.)
Anyway, people have been overly critical of my extreme miserliness. I rarely buy stuff and never spend a cent I wouldn’t earn back immediately or in a bad investment (not that I haven’t made a few, and surely, these drove me to wits’ end). Spending, for me, is a sin. My greatest luxury has always been treating my Dearest to something. I rarely buy clothes, gadgets, other effects and doohickeys for myself.
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Tags: DS Lite, Gaming, Nintendo
Alex @ June 2, 2007 | | Education, Internet and Web, Technology | Comments (0)
The Department of Education isn’t a stranger to being given grants (what I term as “alms”) for continuous integration of IT in the education sector. I think the government has had dealings with IT giants like as Oracle with their Oracle Academy and Microsoft with their Partners in Learning program. While these efforts give students and educational institutions a break in their efforts, I still view it in the overall sad state of Philippine education. We rely on the generosity of the large Western capitalists to educate our students.
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Tags: E-learning, Education, ICT, Internet and Web, Technology
Alex @ May 30, 2007 | | Computers, Technology | Comments (1)
Future of computing? Probably. If it’s Microsoft, it’s bound to be a monopoly.
Get the details here.
Tags: Computers, Microsoft-Surface, Technology
Alex @ February 24, 2007 | | Education, Internet and Web, Politics and Society, Technology | Comments (0)
Forget experts. Forget doctorate degrees. Forget international recognition. Forget the Nobel Prize. Who needs to uphold some elite group of people as a bastions of knowledge? We have Wikipedia anyway.
This leads me to ask, is the Web 2.0 subliminally killing authority? Now I’m in a quandary. In my previous post, I was thinking that Barthes’ concept is not applicable to the Web. But aren’t we killing authority. In the larger scale that’s what the Web 2.0 is trying to do - to force the collaborative mass effort to be the source of knowledge over that one “expert.” However, don’t the ideas of collaboration and audience feedback acknowledge the existence of the Author?
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Tags: Authority, Education, Internet and Web, Politics and Society, Technology
