Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

The Doing Business 2008 report, an annual study conducted by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, states that the Philippines ranked 133rd out of 178 economies surveyed in terms of ease of putting up and doing business in the country:
Regulations affecting 10 stages of a business life are measured from the perspective of the [...]

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Replace the “S” with an “F” on the title and you’ll know how I really feel.
Our phone line died last Tuesday. People could hear the number ringing but there’s no dial tone at our end of the line. We immediately reported it to PLDT’s 173, but as usual they give all kinds of excuses for [...]

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The news this past week amuses me, in the sense that it appears that god (or at least, as interpreted by man) in all forms and religions has been too getting too many headlines in different parts of the world for different reasons — enough perhaps for atheists to take notice. And be amused as [...]

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I made the following comment on Torn And Frayed in Manila’s post, Erap: It never happened:
Nothing surprises me in Philippine politics anymore, torn. I think you should get used to it — in a morbid kind of way — like a coroner getting used to the dead.
and it irked a fellow named Cogs:
That’s the spirit, [...]

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The title says (or rather, asks) it all: does a blog without AdSense, or other forms of ads, make sense?
I was struck once when a blogger friend and colleague asked me once why I don’t have AdSense on my blog. My blog has been around for three years, two of them in its own domain, [...]

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I got this in my email the other day, and it made me sad:

Marj is a friend from Canada (she migrated there around 1995) who I met over mIRC in 1998 and met in real-life around 2000. We lost touch after I started working in 2002. A month before my wedding in 2004, I asked [...]

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In Cashflow 101, an advanced Monopoly-like board game created by Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki to teach the ins-and-outs of financial independence, there are tiles that say “Opportunity”, wherein when you land there, you have to take an “Opportunity Card”, read it aloud — it describes the opportunity, its cost, and its effect [...]

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When I first wrote Dreams of a Career Shift I remember seeing some TV clips regarding that very same topic — specifically about the 1 year A320 certification crash course given by the Clark Aviation School. It’s only recently that I’ve found a similar clip, albeit not precisely the one I got to see:

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Nick of Tingog.com renews his campaign to boycott the Manila Standard Today in light of its decision to reject Malu Fernandez’s resignation and keep her in its roster of writers. She resumed writing last Monday.
In his campaign, Nick implores everyone to boycott the Manila Standard Today, by not buying their paper or accessing their site.
While [...]

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When I watched the replay of ANC’s Media in Focus regarding the reactions to the Malu Fernandez controversy (you can watch it here, courtesy of Ria Jose), they showed a statement from Manila Standard Today which stated that the editors of the said paper have not accepted Malu Fernandez’s resignation. A few days before that, [...]

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