around this time last year, history channel premiered “Life After People” wherein it incredibly depicted life on earth without us. as an IT PINOY one that struck me most was how it showed the possible problems our current technology might face. digital camcorders, digital photos, web sites and blogs – all of these are recorded […]
Morethe dominoes continue to fumble and this time the biggest economic crunch in recent years has it’s eyes on foreign workers in the u.s. – specifically those carrying h-1b visas. Charles Cooper of CNET news reported:“My point is that during a layoff, companies should not be retaining H-1B or other work visa program employees over […]
MoreIT PINOYs all ready know about Intel’s closure in the Philippines last week, which caused around 3000 PINOYs ending up jobless. wait till you see how much worst it is once you see this figure… in the USA it was a manic monday indeed as around 71,400 cuts have been made as of January 26 […]
Morei’ve been searching around on how blogging started and found Clive Thompson’s The Early Years, thought i share this to my fellow IT PINOYs… January 1994: Swarthmore student Justin Hall creates first blog ever, Links.net. December 1997: Online diarist Jorn Barger coins the term “Weblog” for “logging the Web.” April 1999: Programmer Peter Merholz shortens […]
Morein the past couple of weeks, you might have read or seen on the news about PINOY students being suspended for writing against their school principal via their blogs. since this incident, various discussions arose such as freedom of speech, responsibility in blogging, blogging as journalism, invasion of privacy, even child-abuse law was mentioned to […]
Morei promise this is but a fresh air after getting all those recent news of layoffs. —- JOB OPENING —- just trying to help out a friend who works as a recruiter @ RCG-IT Philippines. they are in need of Rates & Forms Specialists, with data encoding/processing/verification experience, it is also good if the candidate […]
Morelooks like there’s no stopping the vatican from plunging into mainstream high technology as they recently had a deal with google for the pope’s own channel. this came after Pope Benedict XVI has setup his own you-tube space as well a facebook account. the pope welcomes these new technologies as a “gift” for these mediums […]
Morenews of layoffs are staggering and worrisome and the most recent was done by Intel as they just closed shop, Microsoft Philippines however has just announced that the country will not be affected by the announced job cuts worldwide. this is great news in a string of not so great news lately… at least the […]
Morei never really thought that Bush’s tech legacy be this bad… imagine the whitehouse like this – with disconnected/busy phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts. U.S. President Obama who has been known to utilize technology, on his first day seeing whitehouse this way is definitely not a good start.. […]
Morecan’t get enough of AJAX? found this great site for AJAX development, check out Google Code’s AJAX API playground. enjoy playing!
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