Lady Gaga Wears Raw Meat Bikini (Friday, September 10, 2010)
Lady Gaga Wears Raw Meat Bikini for Vogue Hommes Japan. Some say that Lady  Gaga is overacting by wearing a bikini made from fresh meat. The photo shoot was done for Vogue Hommes Japan and the fashion statement in magazine have earned mixed reactio ...

2010 CMA Awards Nominees (Friday, September 10, 2010)
The 44th CMA Awards Nominees is already out and we got the awesome list right here. For this round of awarding, we have 7 categories that the artist would compete on, namely ENTERTAINER of the Year, FEMALE VOCALIST of the Year, MALE VOCALIST of t ...

Win an Italian vacation with George Clooney! (Friday, September 10, 2010)
Photos courtesy of Focus Features True, you’ll never be able to relax because some mysterious Swedes are out to kill you, and every noise in the night causes you to leap out of bed, gun at the ready. And the local priest keeps trying to pry int ...

Prioritize Your Emails Using Gmail Priority Inbox (Thursday, September 9, 2010)
Set to solve your already overwhelmed self in dealing with your voluminous emails in the inbox, Gmail Priority Inbox is here to help you “Get through your email faster” and less stressful. The tool helps you to sort out things according ...

Media to set own rules on covering crises (Thursday, September 9, 2010)
THE major media groups in the country have started to draft clearer editorial and ethical standards that should apply to coverage of crisis situations like the hostage-taking incident last August 23 at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila.  That day, a� ...

Like Roger for chocolate (Thursday, September 9, 2010)
The slightly clueless air is charming. * * * * * Exhale, got through the quarters. Federer defeats Soderling 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 to advance to the US Open semifinals. ...

Cine Europa 13 (Wednesday, September 8, 2010)
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No Corruption = No Poverty? (Tuesday, September 7, 2010)
Exactly 70 days ago, President Benigno Simeon ‘Noynoy’ C. Aquino III became the Philippines’ 15th president, triggering a contagion of hopefulness among Filipinos with his battle cry, ”Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap.” But while his fir ...

P-Noy’s Poverty Challenge (Monday, September 6, 2010)
In the next fortnight, President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III will fly to the United States – his first trip out of the country as chief executive – in part to attend the United Nations General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs ...

Tough Competition (Saturday, September 4, 2010)
Competing at the professional level is tough. Athletes grab onto anything that will give them an edge over their opponent, however tiny. Second place is never desired, for who will remember anyone who placed second in a competitive sport event ? The ...

MAKING EXCUSES (Saturday, August 28, 2010)
I was reading a magazine in the bedroom when my wife and daughter turned the TV on and asked me to watch the Miss Universe pageant. I said ” why don’t you watch downstairs at the family room ?” My wife replied ” no, I want you ...

Hostage-taking, Kidnapping and Serious Illegal Detention (Thursday, August 26, 2010)
Hostages and hostage-taking. We’ve heard these words in the unfortunate incident in the past few days. If the hostage-taker survived and he is charged, it would not be “hostage-taking”. Let’s have a basic discussion on the app ...

CAFETERIA TALK (Wednesday, August 18, 2010)
One of the reasons why I don’t relish the idea of telecommuting or working from home the whole time is I miss the camaraderie at the workplace. Huddling with fellow employees at the cafeteria at lunch takes the stress out of a hectic day and re ...

Why our seminars are for free (Monday, August 16, 2010)
For quite a time now, I am being asked why I keep the web safety seminars for free. Friends say people shy away from free seminars, because they think it is of no value, or it is only a ploy to sell... ...

ABS CBN News Interview (Saturday, August 7, 2010)
Our advocacy got a little push. Thanks to ABS CBN News Online for the mention. This project was born in the middle of my lecture about “protecting your brand by using social web... ...

Reaction to Marites Vitug’s Genaro V. Ong Lecture (Sunday, August 1, 2010)
CFA 1st Annual Genaro V. Ong Lecture CFA Lagerwey Hall July 30, 2010 (Response to Taking Sides: Advocacy Journalism and Good Governance by Marites Dañguilan Vitug) Manuel L. Quezon III Please accept my deepest apologies for not bein ...

State of the Nation Address of President Benigno Aquino III (Official English Translation) (Monday, July 26, 2010)
(Full text of President Aquino’s State of the Nation Address [SONA] delivered on 26 July 2010 before the Congress of the Philippines, Batasan Pambansa Complex, Quezon City. Official English translation courtesy of the Office of the President. O ...

The Long View: Transition (Monday, July 12, 2010)
The Long View Transition By Manuel L. Quezon III Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 05:12:00 07/12/2010 The time has come to bid my readers farewell. I have accepted the President’s invitation to become a member of his communic ...

Notes on the Aquino Inaugural (Wednesday, June 30, 2010)
From Malacanan The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave, Awaits alike th’ inevitable hour:- The paths of glory lead but to the grave. -Thomas Gray, “Elegy Wri ...

President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Inaugural Speech (Wednesday, June 30, 2010)
Full English text of the Inaugural address delivered by President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III on June 30, 2010. Vice-President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay also took his office before Pres. Aquino. The original Filipino version of the Inaugural Addre ...

Back Again (Sunday, March 21, 2010)
It’s not that I have become busier than usual. After blogging for what seemed like a long time, after going through several blogging upheavals and various stages of discovery in my blogging, I just plain stopped. Why exactly? Blogging didn̵ ...

Sleep deprived (Monday, January 25, 2010)
When I arrived at work on Tuesday morning, I opened my bag to get my water bottle. It wasn’t there and I thought that I‘d have to go downstairs to buy a water bottle at the Dollar Store. When I closed my drawer, there I found my water bottle on t ...

Berry unfair (Monday, January 11, 2010)
I was looking at the newspaper after breakfast when my 11-year old son, Ryland said, “Oh, I know her.” “That’s Storm from X-Men,” I said. “Oh, no, wait. She looks different,” he said. “She changes her hair a lot,” I said. “Sometim ...

Running With Augusten Burroughs (Thursday, January 7, 2010)
Let me just finish writing about Augusten Burrough’s memoirs before I forget what I’ve read. I loved A Wolf at the Table so much that I just had to get his other books. After searching the second hand bookstores in my area, I found three more of ...

Collusion, collision in Muslim Mindanao (Saturday, December 12, 2009)
By Francisco Lara Jr. (Francisco Lara Jr. is a research associate at the Crisis States Research Center, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics.) The eruption of violence and the declaration of martial law in Maguindanao exposes the ...

Competent police work, not martial law (Sunday, December 6, 2009)
By Marvic M.V.F. Leonen Dean and Professor of Law University of the Philippines The heinous massacre of civilians in Ampatuan, Maguindanao deserves competence of the highest order in the gathering, preserving, and evaluation of evidence as well as in ...

The ruthless political entrepreneurs of Muslim Mindanao (Tuesday, December 1, 2009)
By Francisco “Pancho” Lara Jr. Research Associate at the Crisis States Research Center, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics. The Maguindanao massacre predicts the eruption of wider violence and conflict as the nation heads t ...

Installing Youtube Direct (Friday, November 20, 2009)
Youtube Direct is a new tool from Google/Youtube that makes it easier for media organizations or websites to request users to submit video clips, review submitted clips, and possibly re-broadcast these clips, just like CNN’s iReport.  It allow ...

What OFWs need to do (Friday, November 13, 2009)
WHILE ON a recent trip to Japan, I heard a story about an OFW driver who nearly wasted away his earnings. He worked in Japan for close to 30 years, and at one point was earning an equivalent of P400,000 a month with overtime pay. He had a wife and ch ...

Nothing But Net (Thursday, November 12, 2009)
By Ruel S. De Vera Associate Editor I was always in awe of encyclopedias. As a child, having a set of reference books at home was an advantage for school work and fun whenever we got bored. My parents were helping out an uncle so we had several diffe ...

100% Renewable Energy (Tuesday, November 10, 2009)
By Dennis Posadas The cover story in the November issue of Scientific American contends that renewable energy can already theoretically power 100% of energy needs, and totally replace carbon emitting sources by 2030. The article authors, Stanford Uni ...

RP joins world review of science education policy (Sunday, November 8, 2009)
DOST The Philippines makes history once again as it joins a review body that would set the science education policy of an international organization for the next seven years. The only ASEAN country to join the panel, the Philippines joins the big w ...

Should you get insurance coverage for acts of God? (Wednesday, November 4, 2009)
THE AMATEUR video taken at the UERM parking lot during the height of typhoon Ondoy showed what happens to cars when flood gets to them: they float and bump into each other, and become heavily damaged. The flood was considered by insurance companies a ...

Some things you don’t just change (Monday, November 2, 2009)
SOMEWHERE in Binondo, in an upstairs room, mami noodles are still made fresh the old way every day. Dough is made from flour, water and egg, and kneaded with the use of a long rolling pin–so long in fact that you can ride on one end literally, ...

My So-Called Life (in Pictures) (Sunday, November 1, 2009)
By Pennie Azarcon-dela Cruz Exec. Editor, Sunday Inquirer Magazine FINALLY, after three weeks of hemming, hawing and chest heaving, I summoned enough resolve to dive into this literal cesspool of memories otherwise known as my baul of soaked baby pic ...

Senate study on nuke power: RP still long way off (Tuesday, October 27, 2009)
By Alexander Villafania INQUIRER.NET MANILA, Philippines – The campaign season is in full swing and so some of the public executives are in hot pursuit of getting voters’ attention. This means many topics up for discussion are left unfinished ...

You Can Be Heroes (Wednesday, October 21, 2009)
By Ruel S. De Vera Associate Editor Heroes are a personal constellation. Every person chooses his or her own celestial bodies to revolve around. There are more public personages and more public allegiances—but even those are marked by personal comm ...

NinfG and Firewall (Tuesday, October 20, 2009)
The latest version of NinfG (version 5.0) has a lot to offer in terms of allowing client-server connectivity. First, it introduces the invoke server module separating components used to invoke remote applications from the core. This does not only dec ...

Promote your resto online (Saturday, October 17, 2009)
WITH A lot of people turning more and more to the Internet for information, restaurant owners would be wise to tap online options to promote their restaurants. At the Restaurant Marketing Reloaded Summit 2009, an event organized by Courage Asia this ...

O my gulay (Monday, October 12, 2009)
WITH THE country reeling from a triple whammy calamity (flooding in the National Capital Region, flooding in Laguna, and flooding in northern Luzon), the last thing we would like to be hit with are price increases. After Typhoon Ondoy unleashed its d ...

How to change hostname in Linux (Wednesday, October 7, 2009)
In order to change the hostname of your linux machine, you can do the following: 1) Edit file /etc/sysconfig/network using your favourite editor, say using vi. [root@mycomp]# vi /etc/sysconfig/network 2) Look for the line with HOSTNAME in it and ch ...

GUEST POST: Stressed at work? Game on! (Friday, September 25, 2009)
By Carmie Dulguime* AT LEAST 50 percent of my daily news feed from my Facebook “friends” is about their games updates. Someone just bought a harvester in Farm Ville. Another one needs help in ordering a hit on Mafia Wars. Yet another one took a p ...

Sympathies for Katrina (Thursday, May 21, 2009)
WE could only sympathize with Katrina. Although some people may think badly of her by putting herself in this situation, at this point, we can only sympathize and pray that this be a lesson to all the other women and that Katrina will overcome this n ...

Respecting the National colors (Tuesday, May 5, 2009)
WE at Samahang Sining at Kultura ng Pilipinas (SSKPil) are one with the observation and stand of NHI Chair Ambeth Ocampo regarding Martin Nievera’s rendition of our National Anthem before the Pacquiao vs. Hatton bout. Similarly, we disagree and wer ...

Questions I’d like to ask the presidentiables (Saturday, May 2, 2009)
By Niña Terol* It’s a Saturday morning, and politics should be the last thing on my mind, especially as I see sunlight filtering in through my sliding door, beckoning me to come out and take a walk already. But I will postpone my grocery trip for ...

Cambridge Science Festival - Part Two (Tuesday, March 31, 2009)
The Cavendish Laboratory is located in the West Cambridge Site - the newer (modern!) buildings are located in this area. It is quite a distance from the City Centre, so we drove there on our car and parked at a road nearby. It wasn’t as crowded ...

Cambridge Science Festival - Part One (Monday, March 30, 2009)
We are indeed privileged to be in Cambridge this year, just in time for its 800th Anniversary year. There are various events organized by the University throughout the whole year to mark the occasion. Additionally, there is also an annual event calle ...