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Oftentimes, I am left wondering to what extent the real lives of people are superimposed in the virtual worlds. It is already a foregone conclusion for me that virtual attitudes, and the culture that incubates it, is just an amplification of reality.

The fundamentals of the data center change about every 10 years. The industry is in the midst of a transformation largely brought on by the opportunity created by cloud computing.

To succumb to the pressure of the modernist is to betray scholasticism and the traditions that come that go along with it, which is the very foundation of learning for any university of their nature.

This was supposed to be a piece for Valentine’s Day, but I decided to postpone it just to continue my personal tradition of not riding on the trend of the moment. I wasn’t even supposed to write about this, but I bumped into a friend of mine whose love story just got hit by a computer virus.

A former Ateneo literature professor once imparted words to me that I will never forget. He said that the difference between rape and bad education policy is scale. The former violently screws an individual. The latter violently screws a whole generation. Most often, though, the former goes to jail. The latter goes to Malacanang.

Llamas’ woes are a cause for concern for those of us who share his radical goals: his predicament raises the age-old questions about the possibilities and the perils facing all those who refuse to just criticize from the outside and actually try to “reform” government from within

There I was doing a virtual version of a “prone” position. My peripheral vision was clear and I was moving slowly so the ruffled grass and leaves won’t give my position.

Baguio is no different from Oregon. Except for the occasional snow in winter time for the latter, the former is blessed with basically with the same characteristics. Baguio could have been the Philippines’ silicon forest.