Far From Neutral Notions - Philippine politics, culture and stuff

It never ceases to amaze me how a nation could be so thoroughly convinced of its inferiority that its government would often bend over backwards to give a foreign power (read: the US) what they want, and its constituents would aspire to be something they are not. On further deliberation though, it is not so surprising. Amazing, yes, but sadly not surprising.

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Just thoughts on outsourcing

I once noted in a previous post that the real peril of outsourcing is not the risk of ‘losing seats’ but becoming too reliant on the revenue the industry generates. However, this recent news report is cause for concern:

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SEO, xHTML, CSS and why they shouldn’t matter

Well, to me on a personal level, anyway. I know of people for which it’s their bread and butter. Make no mistake, I think web standards are a good thing. They make a web desinger’s life easier for one thing, and they make surfing the web a more pleasant experience. And SEO? I’ve been reading up on it lately (see the link above), and who wouldn’t want a high pagerank? Read the rest of this entry »

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Better Late than Never

Facing his crew after a stunning discovery, Malcolm Reynolds, captain of the transport ship Serenity faces his crew. “Y’all got on this boat for different reasons, but y’all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people… better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin’. I aim to misbehave.”

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