Tips

For most people this may sound like kid’s stuff.  But mind you I have seen people misusing — usually interchanging — these seemingly common abbreviations.  And I’ll bet the house you cannot tell me on the fly what i.e. and e.g. stand for. I recently found a fun and easy way to remember the proper...
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When I started my Information Technology career as a software programmer in IBM I was taught that if the software that you created or is selling is behaving in a manner that is not as expected you always and immediately declare that “it is a feature, not a bug.”  That programmer’s mantra has served...
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It’s no secret that I am a big fan of Google.  I have already blogged about Google search tips and pointers at least a couple of times (see I Love Google and The Legend of Google), and I’ve personally referred to them as my personal Google Cheat Sheet.  But it is only now that...
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If you happen to stumble upon my voice, please convince it to return to me the soonest.  It was threatening to leave me yesterday and, thinking it was bluffing, I called its bluff.  This morning when I woke up I realized it made good its threat and abandoned me. How can I be my usual...
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I thought I am just being OC (obsessive-compulsive) because I have the compulsion to stock on stuff in my car — ropes (the knot-tying kind), duck tape, masking tape, double-sided tape, an ice-pick, a sewing kit, alcohol, baby wipes, all sorts of medicines, and hundreds of other odds and ends. Turns out I am just...
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I don’t believe every tip and pointer I receive in my e-mail inbox. †But I always make it a point to save and re-post the sensible and useful ones. †This is one of them. Apparently, there is a proper timing even to as mundane a task as drinking water. The more I think about it...
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This now completes my commitment — to readers of A Wonderful Blog as well as to myself — to transcribe and post all 125 Warren Buffett aphorisms from the book, The Tao of Warren Buffet. †This is the 2nd and last installment, the first one having been posted last January 7. Again, I have posted...
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Iíve never been too much of a Game person ñ until the iPhone that is.† And for the 2nd serving of my new iPhone apps, it is no surprise that Games dominate the list. But let me start with the one I find most useful for me in this set. PS Mobile This is Photo Shop on...
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DESTROYER is only my 6th iPhone game after DuckShoot, iSniper, Twistism (FREE version), Super Word Find (FREE version), and Online Chess (which I am yet to use; FREE version, too). †It’s a “no brainer” game, actually, but that’s really by design. †This is not a game to exercise creativity and boost IQ. †It’s designed...
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Copied this from a poster in a wall of a Karate Kid restaurant somewhere in Metro Manila. †I find it instructive. †You may, too. Yose Bashi Don’t use your chopsticks to pull a dish toward you or push it away from you. Sashi Bashi Don’t spear food with your chopsticks.
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A mighty lot of people spend a lot of their waking hours with this guy, Web Browser. †But did you know that Mr. Browser just turned 15? †He — or rather the world — celebrated his 15th birthday on October 13. †How? †With lots of surfing, I suppose. Read more about it at CIO.com. -o0o- Procedures Recommended...
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I found a very interesting article comparing the newly announced Windows 7 with Mac’s OSX Snow Leopard. †It is, of course, an inevitable face off, with the Snow Leopard winning the contest as far as the author is concerned. †I am inclined to agree. †But I am not exactly an objective juror so you...
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