Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

It’s graduation season again, and resumes have started flooding into the office. After years of having a “no-fresh-grads” hiring policy, my employer will finally be accepting junior software developers into the company. Woe to those who will train under me! Hehe
One of the things first time job hunters don’t realize is how both [...]

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We suddenly noticed that the widespread corruption we see in others is also the corruption we detect in ourselves.

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This has happened twice already this month alone.
We have had 2 sets of clients whose return flights, prior to their departure date, have been arbitrarily canceled, forcing those clients to rebook to an earlier or later flight that they did not prefer.
The first case was a client who went to Palawan and was supposed to [...]

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Recently I’ve come across some commercials on Youtube from the US that illustrate the risk of posting personal information and photos in the internet. This is particularly relevant in there where sexual predation via the internet had become a real problem in the late 90s, early 2000s.
I had the same quandary when my wife put [...]

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Woopee!
One problem I’ve had of late is that I’ve run out of hosting space. I swiftly filled up my 100MB (Silver package) hosting on Marvinsweb.
I was pleasantly surprised when I read this entry on Marvinsweb’s blog. I IMed their help desk over Yahoo! Messenger, asking them when it will be implemented, and they told me [...]

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When I was growing up as a child in the sunset years of the Marcos regime, it was customary to label people as “loyalists” to the late dictator. Marcos, despite all his misgivings, was a deeply charismatic person, himself able to establish a cult following not unlike that of Joseph Estrada. Some people talked about [...]

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