I have a Ph.D. degree. I love to travel, visit museums, national parks, and places few people know. I share my travel stories and more on this blog.
Read moreLately, one of my blogs has been badgered by this error message “Error establishing a database connection.” Experience tells me that each time I get an errors regarding my blog platform, the WordPress forum is the way to go. However, this time, WordPress forums served all useless. I have read…
Read moreFor people who stammer, there might be some lessons you will learn by watching the movie “The King’s Speech“, the lead role played by actor Colin Firth. The film is about King George VI who was helped by a speech therapist to overcome his stuttering, a speech disorder. In the…
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The start of the New Year means the start of a new semester. The past days, I bumped into a number of new international students who moved aimlessly around the residential hall and the GIS department where I work, sporting the one unique appearance you’d never doubt for something else.
Read moreSo will you ever leave messages or videos on your blog or website before you die? Will you let people know your plan days before you commit a senseless act of violence? In a recent tragic incident, a 22-year-old shooter named Jared Lee Loughner attempted to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords….
Read moreFranzine Cole Salas is my niece. We call her Zee. Everyone in the family knows Zee could sing when we saw her tapping the table while watching a variety show on TV. That was when she was still 2. She is now 6 years old and has been singing in…
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Wageningen University is one of the best agricultural universities in the world, and for the 11th consecutive year, it has been ranked as the best university in The Netherlands. And I was lucky enough to have studied in Wageningen University and obtained my Masters Degree in Geoinformation. For two years…
Read moreI am watching right now an episode on the Travel Channel entitled “Dining with Death: Plants and Nuts.” It features poisonous plants and nuts being consumed in countries like Japan, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. The part about the Philippines was shot in Batangas where the deadly hyacinth bean…
Read moreHave you ever thought how many web domains there are in the world? According to the recent report from VeriSign, the third quarter of 2010 closed with a base of more than 201.8 million domain name registrations! The largest Top Level Domains (TLDs) in terms of base size are, in…
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