MY VARIED INTERESTS

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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Have you heard somebody telling you this?  Or maybe it was you telling it to somebody else? We always see this happening, especially to people we consider experts in their field.  They can solve the most complex problems of others but they seem to fail in solving the same problems when it becomes their own....
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Have you heard about a couple in the US who allegedly lost custody of their children simply because they chose Nazi-inspired names for their kids? How do Adolf Hitler, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie for your children’s names sound to you?  Well, this American couple actually likes this unmistakably Nazi-inspired names a lot.  And...
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The oldest recorded  and verified age of a person at the time of death is 122 years. Jeanne Calment of France was exactly 122 years and 164 days old when he died on August 4, 1997. This may seem a very long time to most of us, especially considering that the average life span of...
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I just read this interesting article in HowStuffWorks, which led me to my own musings about the subject of time. Time has been a subject of curiosity for me ever since I’ve read about Albert Einstein’s theory of relatively, not that I understand any of it.  And then of course there is not a shortage of...
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Being in a crossroad of major weather systems the Philippines is visited by several weather disturbances every year.  You might think that storms are named as they arrive but they are not.  But not so.  There are already prepared names for tropical storms for years to come. Most territories, including the Philippines, have their own...
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The human body functions as a unit so it makes perfect sense to keep every part in good shape.  But just like any functioning system, some parts are more valuable than others.  To put it more graphically, lose a leg and you will still survive and even function normally to some extent.  But lose...
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I knew it!  Having lotsa friends is not only good for the soul, it is likewise good for the health.  And, believe it or not, there is scientific basis to this. A study conducted by researchers from the Brigham Young University in the US found a correlation between survival chances and being friendly.  Survival odds...
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Tell that to my kids!  And to their mom!  And to the millions of Land Before Time fans all over the world… and you will probably be inviting a world war. What do you mean Cera never existed? Well… that seems to be the subject matter of many online news headlines and tweets in the past...
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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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As the Fifteenth Congress of the Philippines officially opened on July 27, I couldn’t help but be awed at what may well be the most colorful and most interesting assembly of “honorables” to grace the country’s most august body, particularly in the lower house. I took it upon myself to put together a Who’s Who List.  It...
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