Into the Digital Light

Yesterday, I posted a picture in Facebook of myself demonstrating the use of an interactive whiteboard to a group of teachers.  I was quite surprised that a number of my friends like the picture and the response that I got from it.  It reminded me of a totally different experience about 2 years back when I was working for a company that sells interactive whiteboard which totally freaked me out. As part of our marketing campaign for our product, we had invited a number of school administrators for a training seminar on the new technologies that could be used for the K to 12  program that was to be implemented by the Department of Education.  At the end of the presentation a school administrator asked “Why should we use that considering that a blackboard could also create the same result?”  I really could not remember what I answered back, it could have been in the line of “you are an old ignoramus that's why you are not appreciating this” that she was really...

Its been quite a while since I used a Linux operating system. I've been working for a computer hardware company for several years and mostly we are using Windows in our daily operations. Every now and then I've installed an Ubuntu system just to try it out but after Lucid Lynx it seems that they are coming out with some weird stuff that it totally turned me off in using it.

The other day I was assigned to do a presentation to a group of graduating college students in one of the big colleges in Manila. The resource speaker ahead of me is working for a company that publishes resumes online . He was there to encourage the participants to create their free account and start uploading their personal details to their personalize d website. Employers would have access to these websites and hopefully they would be called for a job int e rview. Our presentations should last only an hour but he extended his presentation for another 30 minutes showing the participants every detail on how to upload their information in their personalized page. I really don't mind the inconvenience of waiting for another 30 minutes for him to finish his presentation for it gave me time to think if th is kind of service is still relevant in today's digital workplace.