I’m no economist, but I’d like this to happen. The twin development is all over the Internets – Google Adsense allowing Western Union payments, and PayPal enabling payments to PH accounts (and paying credit cards? how’s that, by crediting?)
So, more money flowing into the Philippines through the Internet Economy. I hope we don’t get [...]
A curious pair of stories coming from the same interview:
Singapore ‘poaching’ more Filipino software developers
RP software company eyes more acquisitions of foreign firms.
In the first article, Fermin Taruc wears his Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) hat and complains about an effect of globalization. There is job mobility for the Filipino programmers, who can move to [...]
I want to talk about the story of Philippine Internet interconnectivity. The Philippine Internet hasn’t achieved a fully local setup where traffic from one network to another can avoid passing abroad. This was a pressing concern of mine back in my previous career in Internet services.
I first wanted to document this when the Do we [...]
I upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.3 in a few minutes.
I used the Subversion installation method, since I have a Unix shell – this blog is on a Virtual Private Server. It also helps that I use svn for work so I am confident in using it.
All the plugins work.
Now with tags, I should be [...]
I’ve been saying – I’ll revive this blog. I’ll think of something to write. But nothing.
Many things to blame it on. Twitter – so easy to post one liners. Facebook – a lot of time goes in there now. Other blogs – it’s so easy to comment there instead. Work – there goes my concentration.
I’d [...]
