• Filipinos Win Dukes Choice Awards, Our Lady of Fatima Feast Day, and Stevie Wonder QuoteTuesday, 13 May 2008

    At the the world’s biggest Java technology event, the 12th annual JavaOne Conference, held in San Francisco last week, three UP-Diliman Computer Science majors were awarded the prestigious Duke’s Choice Award by no other than the inventor of…

    “Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.” — Stevie Wonder (May 13, 1950 - ), blind musician and artist who has won more than 20 Grammy Awards

    Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima. Every year, pilgrims travel to Portugal to visit the site of Mama Mary’s apparitions to three shepherd children in 1917. One of the highlights of the annual pilgrimage which happens on the 12th-13th of May is the…

    For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance… - Psalm 94

  • PCs Now Legal in Cuba, Cinco De Mayo, and Karl Marx QuoteMonday, 05 May 2008

    Last Friday, personal computers were sold legally for the first time in Cuba. And people flocked to the first authorized computer shop to see what a computer looks like. Many of them could only afford to…

    “Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.” — Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883), Founder of modern Communism and co-author of “The Communist Manifesto”

    Mexican communities all over the world are celebrating Cinco De Mayo fiestas today. So don’t be surprised if you experience an uncontrollable urge to have some tequila after…

    Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth. -Psalm 68

  • XYZ-Blog (Reflections of a Newbie Blogger)Thursday, 23 August 2007

    X-Blog
    In Algebra, the letter x is used as a variable which means that it can be anything. In Science, Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovered special rays that could penetrate solid materials but he didn’t know much about the rays so he called them x-rays. In Hollywood, you’ve got to have the X-factor to make it. The […]