AFTER ALMOST A YEAR in hiatus I started running again. I was runner number 291 for the 10-km fun run organized by FEATI University on August 10, 2008 along Roxas Boulevard. Billed “On Your Weight, Get Set, Go! (FEATI University’s Blue & Gold Fun Run),” the August 10 Fun Run is an awareness campaign for [...]
MY YESTERDAY’S BLOG post inspired me enough to google the Web to find more funny and amazing math tricks, anecdotes and puzzles. I am as amazed by the math as by the fact that there are a lot of available materials over the Web on the subject.
Here are some of my finds:
(1) Mathematical Proof that [...]
A MEMBER OF BLUE GENES (the Yahoo Group of ex-IBMers in the Philippines) posted this several months ago. I find it really funny and amazing.
What Makes 100%?
What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been [...]
PEOPLE WHO KNOW ME only in my present job find it somewhat difficult to believe that I’ve had a long and quite successful career in marketing.
I am not surprised by their bewilderment. After all, marketing people think of IT professionals as autistic troglodytes while geeks think of the marketing types as talkative sociopaths.
So far I’ve [...]
‘BEEN DOING SOME CATCHING UP on our growing pile of DVDs at home in the past six to eight weeks. ‘Just thought of making a short note for each movie I’ve seen before some of them disappear in my consciousness forever.
21 - Good plot. Very entertaining. Kevin Spacey is just awesome.
88 Minutes (Al Pacino) - [...]
WHEN IT COMES TO being direct, top of mind is of course Michael Dell of DELL Computer Corporation.
I read Dell’s book, Direct from DELL, last month.
It was the only book I managed to finish reading in the whole month of July. That’s unusual considering my monthly target is to finish three, and I am actually [...]
IT SNEAKED ON ME, this milestone in my young blog. It was last Monday, August 19, when my blog registered its first one thousand daily unique hits. It was a photo finish, actually. The final count by midnight of Monday was 1,001.
There are some caveats to this special achievement.
First, it’s not really a measure of [...]
GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) technology has been around for quite some time now but in the Philippines it remains to be one of those “high tech” gadgetry with limited practical applications. This is partly because we still do not have a sophisticated and updated online mapping system. GPS also is still a very expensive [...]
MY BLOGGING ACTIVITIES took the back seat in the past week. I’ve been devoting a huge chunk of both my work and personal time into my Boy Scout projects.
I’ve been actively involved in the Scouting movement ever since I joined Delbros in May 2007. My CEO, Ed Delgado, is a member of the National [...]
JUDE, NOW A REGULAR visitor of my blog, e-mailed me the other day asking why I still do not have a movie review of The Mummy, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in my blog. (So I am now a movie critic, huh? Am I supposed to feel flattered or what?) Haven’t I watched the movie [...]
CHINESE IS INGRAINED in the Filipino psyche. The Chinese have been our trading partners for eons. Most of us have Chinese blood flowing in our veins in varying degrees. We may not be aware of it but our language is peppered with Chinese words and phrases. These are NOT among them.
Learn Chinese [...]
08.08.08. The Olympic games begin today. Those who can afford it are probably in Beijing now, to watch the games LIVE. That is, if they were able to secure airline tickets and hotel accommodations early enough.
For us lesser mortals, we can take consolation in the fact that technology is now able to bring the games [...]
