Even Monkeys Have Human Characteristics
Some said that Filipinos love monkey business but I haven’t heard somebody said that monkeys have human characteristics until the result of the research on monkeys did by the team of US and Italian scientists was released. It was already known that human prefers to be with other who try to imitate their gestures, postures or mannerism although those who are being imitated don’t know that the others are imitating them. And before the study was done, it was not yet known that these characteristics was true with the monkeys. But the result of the study proved that monkeys love the people who monkey them around . According to the study, monkeys love to be with those scientist who tried to imitate them than those scientists who did not. The monkey used … Read entire article »
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Bad Weather Breaks Communication Cables, Affects PLDT & Smart
Submarine communication cables within the APCN 2 (Asia-Pacific Cable Network) which connects countries in the Asia Pacific region of which Philippine landing point is in Batangas Bay, Batangas City, was broken due to the bad weather. The fault occurred in between China, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore yesterday and affects the communication services of PLDT and SMART. Smart’s mobile subscribers may experience difficulties in communicating their loveones abroad and those who are using Smart Bro and Smart Bro Plugit will experience slow connection when visiting websites hosted abroad. On the other hand, PLDT is currently re-routing traffic to the other cable system. It’s the second time since 2006 the internet connection of PLDT and Smart was affected by the fault in the submarine fiber optic cable system due to the natural problems. In December … Read entire article »
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President Gloria Arroyo, First ePassport Holder
The state-of-the-art passport, ePassport, has been launched during the 111th founding celebration of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) of the Philippines. The first Filipino to have the ePassport is no other than President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo with the serial number EA0000001. The security features of the ePassport includes a hidden encoded image, holographic lamination, and the tamper-proof IC chip that stores the personal data of the holder and his digital photo. The ePassport can be read using the chip reader which is already used by authorities controlling the borders. And it is also noted that there are more than 60 countries using the ePassport already. … Read entire article »
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“Caffeine”, New Google Search Engine
Google is currently working for the new version of the search engine that supposed to be increased in size, better speed and better ranking of websites compared to the current version of the engine. Google‘s goal is to have a better search engine by which it can only be done when the search engine 1. Crawls a large chunk of the web. 2. Indexes the resulting pages and compute how reputable those pages are. 3. Ranks and returns the most relevant pages for users’ queries as quickly as possible. For now, you can try the new search engine by visiting the URL = http://www2.sandbox.google.com/. But why does Google tried to improve its search engine through this project? Everybody knows the answer of Google to this question. Google simply wants to deliver a more better result in a … Read entire article »
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The Philippine Blogs Award
My other blog was recently nominated to the Philippine Blogs Award. It’s my wife who nominated the blog actually. She told me the next day after she nominated the blog. In my inbox, I also received an email coming from the system of the Philippine Blogs Award website. I was required to fill the form to make the nomination of my blog final. But what’s the point of joining the Philippine Blog Award? Actually, the blog was nominated on this kind of Award festival twice and it’s the third time. And I don’t think my blog will be chooses even just one award. I think, the award is just for me and I don’t deserve it. Why? Well, the blog is just a crap. I blog there to develop my writing skills and I am … Read entire article »
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