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Robert Cringely: Maybe the Best Use for Web Logging Is to Teach Us More About Ourselves.

There are several other interesting insights by Robert Cringely that can be found in the archive section of his site. And when I say ‘interesting’, I mean _interesting.

I know that RTFM has a number of variants… but I never thought it was this much. One’s UTSL… ‘Use the Source, Luke’. Found this while reading Robert Tappan Morris Jr-related information inside the wikipedia.

You can also find interesting PDFs at Robert Tappan Morris Jr.’s MIT site.

July 22 is the Pi Approximation Day and Mary Magdalene‘s feast day. I don’t know but Mary Magdalene reminds me also of the other Phi.

Read my mind.

Wikipedia, the source of the links above, is cool…

…and PHP5 rocks.

A blog overview on how Microsoft conducts its interviews.

GUI now too complex.

Good design succeeds on three levels, he says: the reflective – the impression of the product on the intellect; the behavioural – the way you use it; and the visceral – its appeal to the emotions.

Averatec C3500 Tablet PC… anyone?

Non-FoxPro tuesday linkwarps:

Yes jobs are being outsource… then Star wars… now comes outsourced fries. From gizmo to ‘life changing cultural icon’, the iPod Nation.

And here’s something new, black holes do not destroy everything it devour. What makes it more interesting is it comes from the same person that gave the opposite argument 30 years ago… Stephen Hawking. A hidden recycle bin was discovered perhaps.

LeaderLOG: Longhorn and Linux. Before you raise your arms and start yelling ‘Foul!’, read the whole article first. Here are some reactions from inside the LonghornBlogs.com site.

A new face of cybercrime.

Ah… I still have to finish some stuff first.

How To Start a Blog (via Unpluggable.com)

I have a pencil holder that somehow looks like this. Of course Lian Li PC-V1000 is cooler by nineteen folds. Here’s another review at DansData. Does it come with a cute little red-eye drooling white mice too?

Gates: OpenSource Kills Jobs and the crowd at SlashDot goes wild.

At first glance I thought he was referring to Steve Jobs, who just gave away a 17-inch Powerbook, a 40GB iPod, and a 10,000 song gift certificate to Kevin Britten after downloading the 100 millionth song from the iTunes music store.

If I have some extra money to burn I would probably like to acquire something like this ASP Aquarium. (via Gizmodo.com) I’ve been wanting to include an image here on this site for quite some time now but this would be the first time i actually placed one.

Hopefully 13K is not much of a bother especially to those who are reading this inside their RSS Readers.

UPDATE: Edited some table dimensions from percent to pixels to make things look better inside some RSS Readers.

Marketeers Can’t Count.

What is the point of blogging? | How to Start a Weblog – Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Say Whatever the Hell I Felt like Saying to a Bunch of People I Never Met.

Avatar posted a bunch of ‘Must Have Tools’ for GMail.

Busting the Biggest PC Myths.

What You Should Know About Download.Ject (Better late than never).

When I started doing this blog of mine and discovering RSS (I was a little late with this RSS thing), one of my early favorite blog site was from Sriram Kishnan.

If my memory serves me well, Sriram is a student from India, an intelligent one that is talking about IT-related stuff, giving out Internet Explorer and Matrix reviews and a good post entitled User Interface != Usable Interface to name a few. It was the latter link that pulled me to his site when I saw Foxpro guru, Craig Berntson, linking to it.

Which makes me think… how come I don’t see Filipino IT-related students blogging about the things they learn from school these days? Back when I was teaching GFX/HTML-related stuff a couple of years ago I did introduced GreyMatter and blogging to one batch of students. It was graphics-related then… I wanted to see something programming related.

Any chance we can do something about this, old-friend-Areman?

If any Philippine-based IT schools are starting this too, please fire me up some links. I am interested reading those blogs.

I saw a link to eSoft Interactive first on Avatar’s Digital Kitchen. eSoft Interactive is a software company that develops games for handhelds based here on the Philippine soil. Traffic Jam is one of their games.

Although I don’t own any handhelds nor am I into ‘serious’ game-related stuff since those old Starcraft days, I would like to post a link to their site. Partly this is what this site is all about… ’empowering’ (whatever the heck that means to you) Filipino software developers whether they’re using Visual Foxpro or some other language.

How about creating a sort of blog and a feed about the thoughts that goes behind, above and beyond those brains of yours, oh-developers-of-eSoftInteractive?

From ArsTechnica: Microsoft patents a method to transmit data and power over the human body.

I would refrain from posting insights for now. Let’s just say that humans have this tendency to fear what they cannot fully understand.

And behold the Great Avatar’s Digital Kitchen.

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