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Village school improves w/ help from Microsoft

Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Well, MS can’t be all bad, can it?

clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net

The laboratory is using Microsoft Vista, but Dunleavy promised the school that when he visits the village again next year, he would bring along a Microsoft Version 7

What was then a small school in a depressed village began to change

He gave us fund for school [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]