Happy Valentines Day, IT Pinoys!!!

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need some geek lovin?

this is probably the geekiest form of showing affection ever… check this out! thinkgeek came up with this fascinating idea for lovebirds out there. all you need to do is buy one glowing shirt for yourself, and another for your significant other.both of you need to wear the shirt. if you two are apart, both […]

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yahoo! philippines says yahoo!

looks like yahoo! philippines isn’t worried about the gloomy economy, in fact they feel quite “bullish” this year for they see a lot of opportunities in the country. “Despite the gloom and doom scenarios, our industry continues to thrive,” Joselito Añonuevo, Yahoo! Philippines GM highlighted. with much better IT infrastructure and web hosting getting cheaper […]

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IT PINOY! in Facebook!

we’re officially joining the facebook community! here, all you readers can log into and post in the discussion boards your thoughts and share your videos and notes as well… even if some claims that facebook is just a mimicry of twitter and friendfeed, i don’t really care, i still find facebook as a kewl social […]

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UK's $6.6bil high-tech card boo boo

UK recently launched a “very promising” high-tech id systems with the intention of putting vast personal info in just one card. the program which costs $6.6B USD (£4.7B) however would most probably all go into waste as they (read this!) – FORGOT TO BUDGET & INCLUDE CARD READERS FOR THESE ID’s!!! what duh???!!!! the card […]

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oracle university

heya IT Pinoys!interested in learning Oracle? check out and register with their course schedule for ’09. for feb ’09, they offer the following courses for the IT PINOYs: feb9 – Oracle Database 10g: Performance Tuning feb16 – Oracle Database 10g: Program with PL/SQL feb16 – Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g: Implementation Part I feb23 – Oracle […]

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tweetube

are you always on the go yet always online firing up twitter updates about yourself? you might consider tweetube.com. launched around jan ’09, tweetube (which got it’s take from tweetpic) allows you to post your own videos as well as share your fav youtube videos via tweeter. i just tried it today and finally got […]

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Should IT Pinoys worry about ageism

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 […]

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Unix time 1234567890 is Valentines Day

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 […]

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Gates Open a Jar of Insects

crazy 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 […]

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