Posted by: Kat on: Sunday, 27 July 2008
Light pollution isn’t a new idea, and it isn’t a matter of aesthetics, either. I first read about it in high school. It disrupts human sleep and hormonal patterns, and in some places, you can sue your neighbor for having too much light.
I think if I ranked the types of pollution according to how much [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Saturday, 26 July 2008
Yesterday was my first day at my first job (yay for me!) as a writer/researcher for the website of a local megachurch. :) I’m pretty psyched.
I don’t have a workstation of my own yet, so I had to borrow a laptop from their tech bank. It’s an IBM unit that runs Windows XP. A few [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008
“Highly complex DNA structures can be tranformed into musical sounds, which might eventually be used to monitor sick patients. In the acoustic translation, harmony represents good health, and discord indicates disease.
Finally auditory information will allow surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other physicians to be able to focus on their task and listen at the same time.”
Wooooooow. [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008
This makes me wonder what creatures didn’t crawl out of the sea thanks to this. It also makes me think of Italo Calvino short stories.
If this is true, can you imagine what kind of world we’d be living in if the eruption had never happened and petroleum had never been created?
Posted by: Kat on: Sunday, 20 July 2008
… because apparently, the ISP here at my relatives’ house doesn’t approve of sharing. :p
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 17 July 2008
Wah.
Come on, guys. What’s wrong with learning something new, and saving your school money while you’re at it?
clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net
MAKATI City, Philippines — Local school St. Paul College Pasig (SPCP) has recently decided to replace its existing open source system to standardize on Windows Vista and the latest Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Philippines said.
Microsoft [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 9 July 2008
I’m trying an even more different format for a wikiwalk entry today. I’ve been reading the free ebook of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “This Side of Paradise,” so yesterday, I decided to begin a wikiwalk into the Jazz Age. I’ve always been fascinated by the Roaring 20’s – the exuberance, the fashion, the music – perhaps [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 8 July 2008
A look at the first three pages of both Google and Yahoo! search results are enough to refuel my desire to write for the sake of Philippine science. I’m not talking about just IT, though it seems that I have been for the past few entries. But for a while now, I’ve wanted to learn and write more [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 7 July 2008
I know Portable Apps has been around for a while. In February, I wanted to present my thesis using OpenOffice.org Impress – to Impress them with Impress, so to speak. Because my thesis was about FOSS, I wanted to go from start to finish using FOSS. But because I didn’t have a laptop from which [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Friday, 4 July 2008
Sometime in the summer, I had the great opportunity to tag along with some marine scientists as they conducted a survey of dugongs in the area of my province. :) I wrote an article, and it was published in the local Dumaguete news as well as here.
It’s not my best writing, but then I was [...]
