Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

I’ve been a member of the Pwede Na! Complete Pinoy Guide to Personal Finance Yahoogroup since 2004, ever since I’ve bought the book, but I rarely join the discussions there. However, an email sent by a member of the group containing yet another analysis of the country’s problems caught my ire, which started a fiery [...]

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The death of May Leong spawned a very long comment thread on her last blog entry, which reveals the complications of living and working in Singapore. The issue starts with a comment that asserts that “the problem is with herself (May Leong)”: Pardon me, but i think the problem lies with herself. Her emphasis on [...]

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When someone says “life is unfair”, it often means something bad happened to that person. Most people don’t realize the duality that “fairness” implies. So I’ll invoke that duality in saying that “life is unfair” because something lucky is happening to me. I guess you’re wondering why. Early the other evening an HR officer called [...]

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Carla‘s entry about an article on entrepreneurship led me to the blog of Tony Lopez of BizNewsAsia. In his articles, Lopez quotes Senator Manny Villar, who thinks that the most significant challenge that Filipino entrepreneurship faces is our own mindset regarding it: The senator wondered why the Philippines haven’t progressed all these years. And he [...]

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One of the most valuable things that I learned during my Ang Pahayagang Plaridel days is that there are more than two sides to a story. Most of the time, if you’re only aware of two sides, you still haven’t delved deep enough into the story to have an objective “take” at it. While in [...]

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Late last December, Connie Veneracion aka the Sassy Lawyer wrote in her Manila Standard column of the same name about how media’s use of game shows and charitable foundations breed a culture of dependence. In the local game show/variety show scene, ABS-CBN’s Wowowee is currently the hottest item, enjoying high ratings and viewership not only [...]

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About six months ago a friend of mine tipped me about PLDT offering a 999-per-month DSL plan. At first I didn’t believe him, since PLDT was not actively advertising the plan. But when he swore that he already got one, it got me interested. 999 pesos a month definitely sounds good for a 384 kbps [...]

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I came across a very commendable project on the net in the form of Massachusets Institute of Technology Media Lab‘s quest to produce $100 laptops. They envision it alongside another, more daunting but every bit as commendable quest: One Laptop per Child, where they seek being able to provide one laptop per child in every [...]

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