Opinions and Writings
Profit and loss
The span of April to June mark the biggest spending months that I've had for the past couple of years. A couple of years ago, I emptied my accounts for our mom's funeral. Last year, it was that short beach vacation. This year, it's the house and the furniture. When I...
Valued opinion
One career drawback of working from home is that it takes its toll on the social aspect of one's life and career. As for career advancement, who knows when the recession will end or, God forbid, another dotcom bubble bursts? Not that I'm saying that working online is...
The profitability of English Studies
I might have been brash to attack my own (dying) degree but reality does affirm that English Studies (BAES, UP Diliman) has zero profitability. Survey the graduates of our batch and not one (aside from those who are teaching) has found a field to which the core...
Steak and strippers
Bryan (who happens to have finally launched Constant Random Change) and I have been discussing all sorts of things from technology to business. One points of our discussion was this observation on management and the technology business by former Ruby on Rails hacker...
Mmm… Gadgets
This morning has got to be one of the better days of this year. Some aspects of my ego. Team Sugoi got invited to the MSI-ECS Product Demo day at their Libis office and by jeebus, it was fun! The demo day was organized by a friend and I got invited as a blogger (for...
Finally! NBA Playoffs 2009
Yes! After 82 games for each of the 30 team of the regular season, we're down to just the top 8 for each conference. I always favored the playoffs over the regular season due to the heightened grit and intensity when glory is at stake. Last season, I was rooting for...
The much-awaited Los Chupacabras songs (for free)
I really don't know what's with Los Chupacabras recently but for those who have seen them play and liked them, here's some oodles of great news for you. Carl (their bassist) just freely "leaked" their recorded songs via e-mail and is encouraging us (the ones who got...
I am a bluish god!
The whole span of watching the Watchmen movie, I was just waiting for Dr. Manhattan to scream that. I've read the comics before and I know that nowhere in all 12 volumes did Dr. Manhattan do that. But since he's played by Billy Crudup and Billy Crudup played a guy who...
How does one delimit a blog post?
Quite a lot of students are working on blogs for their term papers and even undergraduate thesis. Those would include me, since I'm working on a critical discourse analysis of the Philippine blogosphere (particularly the discourse of the de la Paz-Pangandaman issue)....