It was as if the earth stopped spinning literally when people all over the world begun to pause, watch the news and look back about the man that Michael Jackson was. Yesterday, MSNBC.com reported of the loss of a pop icon never comparable to anyone.  MSNBC headlined it with
“Michael Jackson’s life cut shockingly short”
‘King of [...]

Summer is a great and perfect time to relax and enjoy. This moment of exciting heat pushes us to find the most perfect get away - the beaches. Indeed, summertime will never be complete without sun bathing, beach stretching activities, swimming to the maximum level and even just drowning our eyes with the soothing aroma [...]

I have to write down notes on my cellphone to make sure I can go back to the same bits of information at a later time. I’m doing this as I don’t trust my own mental faculty of remembering things. I don’t think my age at 45 is wearing down on me, but I have [...]

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Earth Hour! Just one hour of lights and electricity outage. I was driving from my cousin’s place, and it was dark on the road. I forgot it was actually earth hour. It was only when I was near my village that I remember why everything is dark.
“Earth Hour 2009″
And so I [...]

The American Idol is a huge success on the entertainment business and Hollywood’s fame. Consequently large amount of revenue goes to Fox, Sony BMG, the designated record label for winning American Idol contestants, and so with the CEOs of 19 Entertainment and Free Mantle Media. As part of the deal, Fox reached an [...]

Cell phones; does it really take much of your available time?
Do you really want to be available for everyone on a 24/7 basis?  Sounds familiar?  A famous person once said that the more available you make yourself; the more available everyone will expect you to be. In actual settings, people will be annoyed if you [...]

Erenas here I come!
I’ve always wanted to travel to my hometown. One sufficient reason is nostalgia and the other just a sheer urge to free myself from immobility. It has been 6 years since I last visited the place where I spent most of my youthful days. A place and time packed with wonderful [...]

My eyes were glued on TV on the news of Francis Magalona’s death at noon last Friday. At first what I thought was just an ordinary showbiz program, was actually a tribute and series of talks about his celebrated life. Just months after his illness was made public last year, I couldn’t believe [...]

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One of the most important insights in the control theory is that the more you know the consequences of your action, the more you can improve your future action’s ability to solve your problem. This was the promise of feedback—something we learned in one of our digital electronics classes. Action theory has suddenly [...]

As the world business and political leaders assemble in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF) today, dark clouds loom over the horizon. This will be a much gloomier summit than the years before. Instead of discussing prospects, they will discuss a litany of bankruptcies, mass layoffs and how to tweak and then re-start [...]

Ubuntu is a Zulu word for humanity, and aptly describes its philosophy: “I am who I am because of those around me”. It is a stable computer operating system (OS) based on Debian GNU/Linux, a popular Linux system. Its target are people like you and me, average users who just want to install an OS [...]

As business persons, trainers and presenters, we use to lug lots of weights and space for our laptop and its accouterments—only to discover that the training venues’ laptops are even better than what we have. But we tried several solutions…..