To those of you who are wondering whether next Monday will be declared a non-working day because of the Holiday Economics Act and the upcoming Labor Day, the answer can be found here. Labor Day will STILL be celebrated on May 1 (Thursday) and will not be moved to the nearest Monday. They should probably [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Philippines'
Sponsor a Child
April 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Heroes, Philippines
A few months ago, I was reading the blog of Cay Horstmann (author of Core Java, Core JSF and many others) and came across his The OLPC and Java post. I got an OLPC for the holiday season. No, it wasn’t for the Horstmann twins—after all, it is one laptop per child, so the child [...]
Globe 3G – New Mobile Browsing Rates
April 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Tools
Great news for Globe subscribers! Globe has announced a new time-based pricing model (5 pesos for every 15 minutes) for mobile browsing. This looks better than Smart’s (10 pesos for every 30 minutes) current offering if you’re the type of person who just use this facility to download your emails (and read them offline) which [...]
Luntian Bags
April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Heroes, Philippines
I was watching a local TV program last weekend and they talked about being “earth friendly”. I wanted to do my part in promoting environment awareness so I’m blogging about a website which I was able to note down, that of Luntian Bags. Luntian Bags are reusable bags made of canvas that come in different [...]
Tags: Bags·Earth Friendly·Environment·Global Warming·Philippines
New PayPal Philippines withdraw feature
January 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Books, Business, Philippines
eBay’s online payment division and the global leader in online payments, PayPal, has added a new withdrawal feature for its Philippine and Indonesian members, allowing them to conveniently withdraw funds from their PayPal accounts to their local bank accounts. See: http://pages.ebay.ph/bankwithdrawal/ It’s probably a good time to go back to reading my first ebook from [...]
IT HERO3S Solutions Challenge
January 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Heroes, Philippines, Programming
The IT HERO3S CHALLENGE is a Solutions Development Challenge for Developers and IT Professionals in the Philippines. The aim of the contest is to provide a solution for an actual NEED by any of the participating NGOs. Unfortunately, the deadline for submission of entries was two days ago (January 15, 2008). Too bad I didn’t [...]
Tags: Dotnet·Microsoft·NGO·Philippines
The Philippine National Library
January 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Library, Philippines
I came across a treasured site this morning while reading through my emails. It’s the official website of our country’s National Library (or “Pambansang Aklatan” in Filipino). The contents of the site look fairly ok. I have this dream of building the best Library Software and I could probably use this site as starting point [...]
Tags: Library·Philippines