Category: news and society



The world’s first building in motion

Posted on: Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008

Dubai’s rotating skyscraper!
I could visualize the world like those in sci-fi movies with flying objects on the highway on the sky for “day to day” travels. Are we getting there?
Well nothing’s gonna stop Dubai’s amazing development. This time planned and ready for constuction is the Dynamic tower, world’s first building that rotates while people inside revolve [...]

Safer Internet for children

Posted on: Friday, Feb 29, 2008

Will the Internet be ever safe for children to browse? If there are the so-called growing “Chinese army of hackers”, in contrary, European Union is extending its net safety programme that has started four years ago, to prevent children from inappropriate content and cyber bullying.
The European Commission is spending 55m euros (£42m) on [...]

Here in America

Posted on: Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008

Microsoft’s warning on Vista update

Posted on: Saturday, Feb 23, 2008

Warning?! Seems like there’s a rough road ahead for windows vista users.
Microsoft needs a Vista success. As Service Packs are among the biggest updates Microsoft issues for its various operating systems, the software giant will be releasing the SP1 update for Windows Vista, for success in mid-March, although business customers are availing it in February. [...]

Challenges facing humanity

Posted on: Saturday, Feb 16, 2008

Do I see the Tower of Babel here?
These are the enumerated challenges facing humanity today:

Make solar energy affordable
Provide energy from fusion
Develop carbon sequestration
Manage the nitrogen cycle
Provide access to clean water
Reverse engineer the brain
Prevent nuclear terror
Secure cyberspace
Enhance virtual reality
Improve urban infrastructure
Advance health informatics
Engineer better medicines
Advance personalised learning
Explore natural frontiers

Dealing with an edgy CEO

Posted on: Monday, Feb 11, 2008

Yahoo! hotjobs’s article I read today is interesting: 4 Things You Should Never Say to the CEO. As some executives appreciate opinions and whatever honest things you can say, some are very serious and a “terror” to his subordinates that a single mistake or wrong remark might cost an employee his job. If your boss [...]

Laziness museum

Posted on: Sunday, Jan 6, 2008

Hey guys, if Amsterdam has Marijuana Museum, so has Bogota, Columbia Laziness Museum, to get people during the holiday season to think about laziness and its opposite, extreme work, and perhaps reach some balanced conclusion. Featured are sofas placed in front of televisions, hammocks or beds – anything associated with the avoidance of work. Visitors [...]

The weather

Posted on: Thursday, Nov 8, 2007

It has been getting colder when I left the US. All the sweats, it is so hot in here. Well, it has always been around this range, it is just a bit warmer this time. We got quick heavy downpour with tumultuous thunders. Just still thankful that we were not hit by the storm that [...]

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