05 Oct
Posted by Alex as Behavior and Ethics, Sex and Relationships, Society
No matter how careful you are, there is always one point in your life when you’ll be the topic of rumors. Just in case it happens, here are some pointers on how to deal with it with class.
20 Oct
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Behavior and Ethics, Sex and Relationships, Society
Everyone goes through peer pressure at some point in their life. It’s inevitable that some of our friends will influence our lifestyle, and our opinions. And although the influence we can get can be both good and bad, peer pressure is usually seen as negative because it tends to sway us into what would otherwise [...]
09 Sep
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Behavior and Ethics, Productivity, Society, Work and Career
In our world today, all hard-working people who are aiming for success knows that the best way to achieve goals is to be self-serving – making sure that you know your needs and that you meet it and you work overtime to have more than you what you need at the moment. And sometimes we [...]
The most ambitious people live in the city. In your opinion, how true is this statement? The city offers a fast-paced life. This is why people prefer to live here, and yet, this is also exactly why people choose living in a small town. If you’re living in the city and is now considering to [...]
27 Jul
Posted by Alex as Behavior and Ethics, Politics and Society, Society
It’s hard to sort out individual differences because at the onset, differences naturally result in conflicts. But today’s setup requires you to be more flexible and accepting of other people regardless of background, culture, and history.
It’s the neighbors from hell! Seriously, one can really have the worst misfortune of living next door to the most disagreeable people you’ll ever meet. And whereas the rest of the neighborhood just avoids them, you don’t have a choice but to deal with them every waking day of your life. Before declaring an all-out [...]
What do you do when someone tells you a secret? Do you share it with everyone else or are you like a select few, who really knows the value of keeping a secret? Being a tattletale is a disease, and for some people, keeping a juicy gossip is harder than it seems. So here’s help [...]
22 Apr
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Behavior and Ethics, Fashion and Grooming, Food for Thought, Society
With the advent of botox, liposuction, nose job and some other nip tucks one might think that women’s perception on what’s beautiful has really taken a dangerous curve. Women go to great heights to make some alterations on their features. It makes me wonder, when women look at the mirror, do they only see their [...]
25 Mar
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Behavior and Ethics, Society, Work and Career
There is absolutely no excuse for one person to be aloof. You may think you have a good reason from isolating yourself from the rest of the crowd ( like you refuse to talk to people who don’t speak Klingon or that sort of thing) but you don’t. Whether or not you think yourself as [...]
Look out your window and what do you see? You see school buses filled with kids, lovers taking an afternoon stroll, and old people doing tai chi on the local park. This is your community. Ever took the time to appreciate how you like living in your village, all your friendly neighbors? Good communities arise [...]
Let’s face it, a lot of people in the world have not even used a computer. However, for those places where computers are king, this issue may just be relevant Amit of Digital Inspiration points out that handwritten documents are an endangered species.
I was cleaning some of the old files in my computer and found this little picture I used for one of my reports in an anthropology class back in college. It’s a report on whether our perception of good and bad and what’s safe and not are all constructs.
In any case, what I have here [...]
14 Mar
Posted by Alex as Food for Thought, News, Society, The Web
In so many words, this is where commercialization clashes with Web 2.0.
Viacom, the mother company of TV networks such as MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon, has filed a lawsuit amounting to $1B against Google, the now mother company of video website, YouTube with grounds of copyright infringement.
05 Mar
Posted by Alex as Behavior and Ethics, Communication, Computers, Sex and Relationships, Society
Since I’m in the topic of security in my previous post, I’m moving on to what I call insecure security. I know that we all should respect privacy and all. But the growing rate of web related mishaps have prompted us to be just a bit more paranoid about how secure our PC defenses [...]
19 Jan
Posted by Alex as Behavior and Ethics, Business, Money and Finance, Rants, Society, The Web
It’s nearing a year since National Federation of the Blind filed a class action lawsuit against Target. The latest development is that the case will continue despite Target’s argument that websites are not covered by the American with Disabilities Act. But has the lawsuit triggered any reaction from online businesses to start designing for accessibility? [...]