Category Archives: real-world

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

By Jed | Published: February 29, 2012

I was always in awe with spaceflight way back when my brother and I got an old National Geographic magazine featuring Neil Armstrong on the cover. It had all the pictures and diagrams that concerned that particular flight – the rocket, command module, lunar lander, etc. Our parents also got us a set of encyclopedias [...]

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Looking for good espionage TV series

By Jed | Published: January 11, 2012

Something in the line of Le Carre novels. Leverage and Burn Notice have high IMDB ratings (well above 6) but when I tried watching Leverage, it’s pure Hollywood, relying on hi-tech gadgets, improbable timing and chance, combat expertise… and too gullible a target. It sucks. I’m getting Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy right now, both the [...]

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How to compute mutual fund earnings

By Jed | Published: July 19, 2011

http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/value-mutual-fund-investment/

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LTO Registration Schedule Guide

By Jed | Published: May 31, 2011

The last digit identifies the month i.e. 1 January 2 february 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 0 October The second to the last digit points to the week where you need to have it renewed at the Land Transportation Office: 1, 2, 3: first week of [...]

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my thoughts about earth hour

By Jed | Published: March 22, 2011

I don’t disagree with the purpose of earth hour — which is essentially to decrease energy consumption for an hour. However, here are things I have some small issues about: It’s not sustainable. If the purpose is to cut consumption of (mostly) fossil fuel based energy, then they’d have to do more than just an [...]

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Philippine Earthquake Updates

By Jed | Published: March 21, 2011

PHIVOCS maintains a list of the most recent earthquakes in the Philippines, it’s magnitude, date/time and coordinates. http://volcano.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/update_SOEPD/EQLatest.html

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On NTC allowing Telcos to cap their broadband service…

By Jed | Published: January 5, 2011

Nice article on NTC allowing ISPs to cap their bandwidth: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusop.htm?f=2011/january/4/chinwong.isx&d=2011/january/4 I was downloading the new Slackware release about a month ago via Globe Tattoo and after a while got an SMS message via their app that goes something like — fair usage policy is imposed. 800 mb is the limit. I was using their [...]

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