Month: February 2007

Don’t you just hate it when people “grandstand” at your, or other people’s expense? Have you ever seen people giving crude, offhand, unfair, let-the-public-know remarks against another person without thinking of the consequences? It’s sad, especially when the remarks given turn out to be blatant lies because the “grandstander” ought to have gotten their facts…

How good are you at judging a person’s character, especially a co-worker’s? I believe I suck at it. I just found out recently that a former co-worker of mine was responsible for some pretty nasty, behind-the-scenes office maneuvering and politicking that eventually helped me decide to leave my job at one of the companies that…

If you’re a Barangay Ginebra fan like me, then you’ll be absolutely delighted to know that the Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings bagged the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup last night via a thrilling, 96-94, come-from-behind victory over the San Miguel Beermen at the famed Araneta Coliseum. Ginebra fell behind 0-2 early in the series,…

Kimmie sent me an email that pointed out a fairly recent Business Week article about Google losing in a copyright infringement suit filed by a Belgian publisher and copyright group. Apparently, the Belgian publisher (Copiepresse) didn’t like the idea that some of their copyrighted titles and news articles appeared on the Belgian Google News or…

Conne and I heard mass a while ago at Greenbelt Chapel, which is about a block away from my office. Today is “Ash Wednesday” by the way, an important day for Catholics. It marks the first day of Lent. And is the only day that Catholics actually get to boldly walk around bearing a symbol…

Have you ever wondered which word between “daddy” and “mommy” will a toddler be able to utter and pronounce earlier? I’ve heard somewhere that toddlers usually pronounce “daddy” earlier. And I believe that it’s true as evidenced by my 15-month-old toddler, CJ. Conne was able to write about the experience in her blog.

One of the reasons why this day is so special, aside from celebrating Chinese New Year, is because it’s my late father’s birthday.  My dad was a military officer and a Philippine Air Force fighter pilot. He was a member of the famed Philippine Air Force Blue Diamonds aerobatic team. He lost his life serving…

I recently blogged about Google’s Google Book Project. Now get this, Google finally opened up Gmail to newcomers just a few hours ago. They finally decided to drop its ‘invitation-only’ restriction. Gmail, which is now the 3rd largest email hosting company, currently has approximately 60 million users. And with the existing 2.8GB (and growing) mailbox…