The meager yuppie salary and expenses

Being a self-supporting student back in college and having the experience of a young urban professional for the past couple of years, I have learned a great deal about handling finances. Back in my college days, I had to budget my tuition, daily allowance, and leisure...

Vista pushes consumers closer to the edge

I do not like what Microsoft is doing with its impending release of Vista. I wrote an article a while back on the requirements of Microsoft’s latest OS. Vista requires more powerful hardware to run and a number of people, including colleagues have been...

NBA Live 07: What game?

Shifting to some tech discussion, pardon for the shift in focus. I have always been a fan of sports games in the PC. And ever since I got hooked in them, I always bought EA Sports titles. Over the years, EA Sports games had their ups and downs whether they be on...

Quit frontin’ wid dat call center voice

I do not quite know how to take a position on the quality of English language speakers here in the Philippines. One of my professors have always posed that question during and after classes. He has this observation that Filipino English speakers nowadays have better...

Bouncing off cubicle walls

Jumping beans. A simple amusement of kids ages three and up. I remember myself being amazed as a kid, seeing those colorful little plastic capsules standing on its end, rolling, tumbling as if they had lives of their own. It was only when I dissected one of them...