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Old trees mowed down before Creation Month

Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 1 September 2008

I could cry.

clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net

MANILA, Philippines—An environmentalist group Sunday condemned the “gruesome slaughter” of age-old trees in a plaza fronting the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, Manila, a week before the celebration of Creation Month which starts Monday.

Ecowaste Coalition said 29 healthy narra, mahogany, mango, neem, fire and Indian trees in Plaza Roma were cut down [...]

Do I really need an OS?

Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Recently, I read some posts (1 and 2) by Larry Dignan on ZDNet. He had this to say:
The OS will never be totally irrelevant, but it will be increasingly less important. It’ll be plumbing.
He also introduced me to the idea of “the Webtop, which will deliver programs through the browser.”
Actually, the idea doesn’t surprise me. [...]

Sniffing out Pinoy science news online

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 [...]

Diving for dugongs

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 [...]

Random Tala

Posted by: Kat on: Sunday, 29 June 2008

The local news in my hometown featured animators from General Santos City one morning. Apparently, an ICT group based there is aiming to turn GenSan into the animation capital of the Philippines. I think that would be great, because (1) I’d love to see GenSan get on the ICT train, (2) animation is something for [...]