by Alex | Jan 7, 2010 | Education
Part of the tasks of descriptive linguistics is to seek out patterns which shouldn’t be that much of an effort since humans are said to be innately equipped with capacities to seek out patterns. And the task seems to be easier with analytic languages like...
by Alex | Jan 5, 2010 | Money
Just a few months into having my own credit card, I’m now reassessing the benefits of owning one. There are many arguments that try to justify the existence of the credit card. Some people think that credit cards can be used a sort of insurance policy for those...
by Alex | Jan 2, 2010 | Internet
Overexposed in the Blogosphere was a really interesting post about from a few years back. Are we really that overexposed online? Should we fear overexposure? Have we thrown our Miranda rights out of the window because of this? That everything we say or do online will...
by Alex | Dec 26, 2009 | Life
Filipinos are not traditional. We’re complacent. Every year, we subject to ourselves to the dreary rituals no matter how adulterated these traditions have become. People would consider doing “the same thing” every year during that long stretch of 100...
by Alex | Dec 21, 2009 | News
It’s funny what kinds of laws our lawmakers are trying to spring on us. There was that flag change. Now, it’s making sure that Pinoy time is synchronized with HB 6905. But hey, it’s not like we don’t have our own time zone (+8 GMT). We could...
