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Happy people are better able to think logically

“Furthermore, studies suggest that certain people’s ability to see life through rose-colored glasses links to a heightened left-sided brain function. A scrutiny of brain activity indicates that individuals with natural positive dispositions have trumped up activity in the left prefrontal cortex compared with their more negative counterparts. “
Kathy Sierra: “In other words, happy people […]

Goodbye ‘Nay

Tell Kuya Gerald how cute and makukulit Budoy, Gabo and Dax are. Also tell him that Grace has grown very fat (but she is now on a diet, temporarily) and that Tatay is now bald.

Vivian O. Moreno
May 2, 1955 - April 10, 2006
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Six Tips for Happiness

by Harvard professor Tal Ben-Shahar

Give yourself permission to be human.
Happiness lies at the intersection between pleasure and meaning.
Keep in mind that happiness is mostly dependent on our state of mind, not on our status or the state of our bank account.
Simplify!
Remember the mind-body connection.
Express gratitude, whenever possible.

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Need a template for your resignation letter?

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Good vs. Evil

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Life inside Google

A nice photo essay on life inside Google.

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Schoolhouse Philippines

My friends and I started Schoolhouse Philippines about a year ago. The original plan was to get the views and opinions of parents, teachers, and academicians on topics concerning students. Back then, we only wanted to publish essays: lots of them. By middle of the year, we got stalled.
We are reviving Schoolhouse Philippines but this […]

Blog bug. Needs help

I still haven’t figured out why the ‘Home’ link in the top navigation overlaps with the green horizontal dotted lines when I’m in the homepage, but works find in other pages.

I can’t find any difference in the PHP code between the homepage and other pages. Even in the CSS code that formats the top […]

Global Technology / Internet Trends

Here is a very interesting presentation on technology and Internet (PDF, 1.1 MB) by Mary Meeker at the Stanford Graduate School of Business last November 15.
The presentation includes growth chart on games, VoIP, open-source, and user-generated contents.
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1 Billion Internet users

Asia Pacific
36%

Europe
24%

N. America
23%

S. America
5%

Rest of the World
12%

Source: Morgan Stanley.
The Internet is not anymore the playground of geeks. It has become the domain of ordinary people. As more people use the Internet, more people will produce products and build services over the web. I hope website owners will realize the importance of making their websites […]