found this post from stackoverflow asking, “Should developers worry about ageism?” here’s the snapshot of the question – “Having worked in software development for 12 years, I’ve recently started to worry about ageism in the industry. Seeing I’m not too bad at what I do I’ve never really worried about where my next job’s going […]
the geek in me found this coincidence intriguing… on feb14 ’09, this Valentine’s Day @ precisely 12:31:30am (cet) / 07:31:30am (manila), the UNIX time will be 1234567890. for the IT PINOYs who didn’t know, UNIX time is measured in the number of seconds elapsed since midnight of Jan1, 1970. oh yes, love is in the […]
Morecrazy but brilliant! this is how i see today’s amusing story involving Microsoft’s Bill Gates opening up a jar of mosquitoes in a TED conference just to stress his concern about malaria. “I brought some. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected,” Gates said. Bill who […]
MoreNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes. –Henry David Thoreau i guess google got inspired by these words as they launched Google Latitude, a new Google Maps feature for mobile devices as well as a free app for your iGoogle. you only […]
Moreyup, you read it right! interesting news ey and will surely blow you out of your mind! korea communications commission has alotted $24 billion to secure a 1Gbps access by 2012! it is part of giving Korean IT infrastructure a boost as well as to create around 120,000 jobs.for the IT PINOYs who weren’t listening […]
Morethe commission on elections (COMELEC) recently laid out it’s plans to automate the 2010 elections. all i can say is – it’s about time! did you know that the COMELEC automation law was passed as early as around 1997? RA8436 and later an amendment RA9369, “authorizing the commission on elections to use an automated election […]
Morei started IT PINOY! around four months ago all for the purpose of sharing my passion in IT (and of course get a chance to earn some money as well). and for three months now i’ve seriously considered (and pushed back) buying my own domain. thoughts like, what if work gets in the way and […]
Moreyou might have heard of the recent news about gary granda, a PINOY singer/song-writer who aired his complaint about how he was “abused” by GMA-7 Network over a song/jingle he wrote. hear his whole story here: http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?track=gary-granada-vs-gma-kapuso Gary Granada vs GMA Kapuso by dosomethingworthwhile as an IT PINOY, i’m glad to know that our local […]
Moreyesterday jan 31 @ around 630am(pst)/1030pm(manila), this text tagged all google search results as “This site may harm your computer!” scary huh? it indeed happen! the official google blog have apologized and attributed this to a human error. a routine process done by google is to tag web sites with this text if it was […]
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