48 hours on, I still have not been able to watch the video of Kim Yu-Na taking the first ever gold (and also podium finish) for Korea in Olympic figure skating. Basically, if you miss live screening on TV and if the country you reside in doesn’t offer an online service that lets you view [...]
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Ars Technica discusses an interesting topic in an article titled ‘Sorry, English major, the engineers have triumphed’:
In 2008, Nicholas Carr took to the pages of The Atlantic to make the provocative case that Google might be “making us stupid.” His basic worry was that a reliance on the Web was rewiring his brain, that he [...]
I was listening to a sermon on the Internet and came to a small yet ground-breaking epiphany, which I can deeply relate to many of my own personal experiences and decisions. Here’s a well-known passage from the Book of Numbers in GNB, my favourite translation:
(13.30) Caleb silenced the people who were complaining against Moses, and [...]
I just learned that Paul Kangas of Nightly Business Report, a PBS production and my favourite television (now over the Internet) programme, had his final appearance as co-anchor on 31 December, 2009, marking the end of his 30-year career on the show.
I have been a fan of both Paul Kangas and his co-anchor Susie Gharib [...]
Nokia is certainly no KIA, because, well, it’s all about “Connecting People” and not “More Car for Your Money.” Still, when it comes to pronouncing the name, lots and lots of people insist on what it is not, i.e. no-KIA, as opposed to what it is, i.e. Nokia.
Granted, it may be argued that those not-sure-how-to-pronounce [...]
Does a person’s occupation or professional title dictate whether they are a geek? Probably not. This might serve as a counter-example (translation: Is Mr Fillon our Prime Minister a true geek?). Even in workplaces whose members are allegedly tech-savvy, it’s kind of hard to find people who are geeky at the core. I, too, have [...]
Fiji occupies my thoughts a lot these days. It must be the doomsday headlines delivered over the past week in much the same tone as the calamitous reports on North Korea, Sudan, and Thailand. But one thing is for sure: Despite all those perilous keywords and travel warnings, Fiji is no Thailand. It’s no war [...]
All IT job interviews carry a product-specific, technical component – and rightly so. But if you are an employer, assessing a candidate solely on the grounds of specialised expertise cannot always be fair. On the other hand, relying heavily on character and cultural fit is also potentially risky because that does not necessarily gauge the [...]
The name “Jeremy Bentham” must ring a bell for two very different, almost certainly mutually-exclusive groups of people: ones who remember the English philosopher and social reformer of the early 19th century; and the other group being hardcore fans of LOST, a 21st century American drama TV series. I, of course, belong to the latter.
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