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Archive for January, 2009
UPDATE: And they fixed it in a matter of minutes. Read Google’s official statement on the matter. (Thanks, Tina!)
All of a sudden all search results are flagged as harmful, even Google’s own! Hah, run around and do a Chicken [...]
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- Tags: Google, Internet
The title says it all. For those who spent their teens in the 90s, I’m sure you can remember that great Levi’s commercial that featured Portishead’s Glory Box. I’ve been searching far and wide and exhausting my Google-fu to find it on the net to no avail. I need not download it or anything (copyright [...]
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- Tags: Advertisements, Glory Box, Music, Portishead, TV
Focus on basic education
In: Education
31 Jan 2009Our educational system needs a revamp and fixing it by adding another year to college education is not the way to go.
Writing as a person who has taught college freshman courses, I can readily tell that the problem is not with college education but with the 10 years of basic education that should have prepared [...]
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- Tags: Education, Language, Teaching
Will you still have a job tomorrow?
In: Work
27 Jan 2009It’s quite scary when you hear about the thousands of lost jobs these days. It makes you think about the stability of any job position in whichever industry. I have previously posed a question of whether the the economic crunch will have IT freelancers turning their sights inward to the local markets or not. [...]
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- Tags: Business, Career, Jobs, Work
Asus A8Jr hinge woes… again
In: Computers
22 Jan 2009Whenever my tool of the trade isn’t in fully functional condition, I get depressed. Attribute that to my OCD and AR perhaps. Bottom line is that my Asus A8Jr workhorse’s Achilles heel surfaced yet again – the dreaded hinge problem is back. It has been the design flaw of Asus’ A8 series but just when [...]
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- Tags: A8Jr, ASUS
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