WE OFTEN HEAR and read about “Generation Y” or “Gen Y.” But who actually belong to this group and why are they lumped together under this label? What distinguishes Gen Y from the other “generations”?
My little research on the subject narrowed down for me who the Gen Y folks are. They are those born roughly [...]
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN intrigued and impressed by Sun Tzu’s famous work that’s why when I found the complete text of The Art of War (in English, of course) a couple of years ago, I kept it in my computer archive ever since. You’ll never know when it will come in handy as a reference material.
Now that [...]
I HAVE MANAGED to avoid the subject of politics in my blog until now. When I started my blog I made a very conscious decision not to venture into the realm of politics. It’s not because I do not have any opinions to share in relation to our very colorful political landscape but precisely because [...]
Q: In golf, where did the term “Caddie” come from?
A: When Mary, later Queen of Scots, went to France as a young girl (for education & survival), Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the Scot game “golf”. So he had the first golf course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make [...]
ANOTHER MEMBER of the UPMBA Housemates celebrated his birthday in September. Mr. Alex Evaristo, MBA, turned only-God-knows-how-many-years-old last September 13. I won’t force a figure out of him. Do not ask others what you dread others asking you is still wise counsel. At least we are all growing in wisdom and stature.
Alex is many things [...]
IT’S REALLY very plain and simple. Ease of Texting.
With the Philippines sending out 600 million text messages a day, SMS or Texting remains to be the KILLER mobile application in the country. It should be obvious that cellphone design, at least for the Philippine market, should take this into consideration and make Ease of Texting [...]
I HAD A MEETING in Ortigas Center on August 27 and I took the opportunity to touch base with two good friends, Karen and Aileen. They were to meet for lunch in Mega Mall that day so I invited myself into their lunch date. I couldn’t bear the thought of two of my lady friends, both [...]
I CHANCED UPON this very interesting material in a local magazine while waiting my turn for a hair cut last week.
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If you could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from [...]
ON AUGUST 21st I REPORTED the first major milestone of aWonderfulBlog: First 1,000 daily unique hits since I started monitoring my blog’s traffic on July 16 (see blog post).
Another major milestone again managed to sneak on me. Apparently, on September 4, my blog reached its first 10,000 hits (not unique) since July 16. Again it [...]
CHROME IS ALL OVER the place since last week. All the tech Websites, online forums and info tech sections of major newspapers are abuzz with the newest browser from Google. Even my CEO already asked my opinion on Chrome last week shortly after I read about it in CIO.com.
And why not? It seems Google can’t [...]
IN MY BLOG ENTRY the other day I wondered about how many text messages are sent in the Philippines every single day. The daily average is 600 million, which translates to about 12 text messages per cellphone user per day.
My curiosity again got the better of me, as it always does, so I went ahead [...]
AND IT’S HERE, thank goodness.
I’ve already written so much about Netbooks (or sub-notebooks, or mini-laptops, whichever you choose to call ‘em) because I’ve used quite a number of them since they were introduced in the Philippine Market in January 2008. I’m an early adopter.
It comes with the territory. CIO’s all over are more and more [...]
