Alienworld
Life’s a Gas
Monday, October 20th, 2008When the price of gasoline can cost you an arm and a leg, thus making you virtually paralized, the wisdom of even having a car becomes debatable. Mobility versus budget. Even looking at auto insurance quotes become a luxury when you know that you’re never going to take the car out of the garage ever [...]
Uncertain times
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008In these days of sudden rain when outdoor furniture covers don’t seem to be a very good idea; when you can wake up to a sunny day but be doused by the time you have your morning coffee; when you read in the papers that world commodities prices have gone down but you see that [...]
Tell me what you want what you really really want
Friday, September 26th, 2008This was hanging from the gate of a large house a couple of blocks away from where I live. Most of the houses in this subdivision formerly known as Baltao have now been turned into bodegas or boarding houses. I suppose this house was no exception. I took this picture more than a week ago, [...]
So that’s where KPI comes from
Friday, September 5th, 2008Business performance management (BPM) (or Corporate performance management (CPM), Enterprise performance management, Operational performance management, Business performance optimization) is a set of processes that help organizations optimize their business performance. It is a framework for organizing, automating and analyzing business methodologies, metrics, processes and systems that drive business performance.
BPM is seen as the next generation [...]
If you are 39 years old and above…
Saturday, July 19th, 2008If you happen to :
be at least 39 years old at the time you are reading this
have gone to school in the Philippines, whether in public or private school
have worn white Spartan canvass rubber shoes when you were a kid
I would like you to play the video and then close your eyes. You don’t need [...]
Master Chief and the Arbiter
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Having two grown sons (well one is almost but not quite grown) who grew up on computers and computer games, Halo 3 is not strange to me, clueless to computer games higher than the Battle Realms genre as I may be. I can recognize the theme when I hear it, my younger son used to [...]
Sky High
Saturday, June 28th, 2008The establishment of college loans in the Philippines may be an alternative answer to rising tuition costs in the country.
A militant student group on Saturday questioned the non-inclusion of private schools in the tuition moratorium announcement of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, saying this has left a greater number of the country’s students to the mercy of [...]
The streets have eyes
Saturday, June 28th, 2008GPS Tracking should be included in the features of any brand new vechile for sale. I’m sure that any prospective car owner will not mind paying just a little more for that new car as long as they have the assurance that should the car get jacked or is used without permission, they will be [...]
Sowing the seeds
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Back when I was in grade school there was a program that the government launched called the Green Revolution. Simply put, the Green Revolution encouraged everyone—whether they were city dwellers or those who lived in the suburbs and provinces—who had a plot of land to plant vegetables. Schools were especially enjoined to do so, as [...]
The accidental geek redux
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008I’ve lost track on how many times I’ve tried to make something out of our TLD kusangpalo.com. Once it had been a Joomla site offering services for something that Sam and I do as a homegrown business. We offered services for domain name registration and web design and hosting, including creating presentations burnt on mini-cd’s [...]
Take me back in time
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Nothing like a weekend of movie flashbacks. I’ve lined up my slob list for this weekend. Braveheart, Ever After, The Name of the Rose, The Other Boleyn Girl, Robin Hood (the Patrick Bergin one, not the Kevin Costner one). Not just a bunch of people in renaissance clothing, I think it’s a healthy mix of [...]
As easy as it used to be
Sunday, May 25th, 2008Henry Jones Jr. then and now.
That IS his name, you know. Indiana was the dog’s name.
I’d been on an Indiana Jones trivia reverie for the past couple of days, ever since I found out that all cinemas at the Powerplant mall were showing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It had been [...]