You say the things you don’t need to say.
Because it hurts when you don’t say them.
via I Wrote This For You: The Whispering At The Back.
rePost:Couple VS Single:
Abigail Garner, 37, whose blog, Families Like Mine and 2004 book of the same title addressed the voices of children from same-sex families, is also wary. “If we are seeing marriage as a way to access health care, where does that leave people who are currently unemployed or who are single?” she asked. “We need to look at things marriage gives people and ask why that is conditional on being a couple.”
via Children Take the Stage in Same-Sex Marriage Push – NYTimes.com.
Why?
rePost::Children Take the Stage in Same-Sex Marriage Push – NYTimes.com
LAST month, advocates and opponents of same-sex marriage packed the New Jersey State House in Trenton, supporters in blue, opponents in red. Near the end of the day, Kasey Nicholson-McFadden took the microphone. “It doesn’t bother me to tell kids my parents are gay,” he said in a clear voice. “It does bother me to say they aren’t married. It makes me feel that our family is less than their family.”
via Children Take the Stage in Same-Sex Marriage Push – NYTimes.com.
In a way that is what same-sex marriage is about. Acknowledging that people have the right to choose their partners. That people are equal under the law. Of course this doesn’t remove the right of any religious organization to expel/excommunicate them, but what we are talking about is legal, and I believe this prohibition is archaic and should be revised.
rePost::I Wrote This For You
I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn’t get it. They may think they get it, but they don’t. This is the sign you’ve been looking for. You were meant to read these words.
via I Wrote This For You.
The above is the tag line of a blog I discovered while trying to read through mail I sent myself.
I found this :
All persons entering a heart do so at their own risk. Management can and will be held responsible for any loss, love, theft, ambition or personal injury. Please take care of your belongings. Please take care of the way you look at me. No roller skating, kissing, smoking, fingers through hair, 3am phone calls, stained letters, littering, unfeeling feelings, a smell left on a pillow, doors slammed, lyrics whispered, or loitering. Thank you.
also from the same blog here:
http://pleasefindthis.blogspot.com/2009/08/rules-of-engagement.html
rePost::The Real Reason Outsourcing Continues To Fail | Lessons of Failure
India, Mexico and China I can Understand but Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, our country is doing something wrong , or is not doing enough of the right things.
Here is a list of the top 10 Outsource Providing countries in 2009, and their PDI scores.
1. India (77)
2. Thailand (64)
3. Mexico (81)
4. China (80)
5. Indonesia (78)
6. Malaysia (104)
7. Philippines (94)
8. Jordan (no data)
9. Egypt (80)
10. Bulgaria (no data)
via The Real Reason Outsourcing Continues To Fail | Lessons of Failure.
rePost::The Real Reason Outsourcing Continues To Fail | Lessons of Failure
The Real Issue with Outsourcing is Power Difference
If you have a buyer from a lower PDI country and a provider from a higher PDI country, there are already implicit consequences to your interaction that neither party will know about without prior outsourcing experience or natural cultural awareness(1). And even with that experience, it’s not a given that they will understand the reasons behind the challenges of outsourcing. Let me create an example from my own personal experience:
Suppose you had an American company (Buyer) and an Indian company (Provider). The American company contracts with the Indian one to provide offshore outsourced software development at a fixed price per developer. Certain key performance indicators are agreed upon by both parties and the game is afoot. Let’s also assume the Indians agree to a six month project to write a content management system for the Americans.
A typical scenario of engagement might follow like this:(2)
* The first month, everyone hammers out the requirements documents and in a great ball of fury, declares them sound and ready for implementation. The American company at this point would typically reduce the daily oversight on the project to something more reasonable, like weekly updates.
* The second, third and maybe even fourth months pass with little fanfare. The Indian developers are quietly building the specified software and the Americans are receiving updates about it that are all positive and sound great.
* At some point, the American company asks for a demo of the progress to date. The Indians put together something after a bit of negotiation (since the Americans neglected to mention the demo as a deliverable before the end). The Americans see the actual software and fly off the handle. Performance is awful, the screens don’t look anything like what they want, and the software appears to be behind schedule.
* Further code reviews by American developers indicate that the code quality is fairly poor, lacking in comments, unit tests, and filled with copy-paste blocks of duplicate code. The Americans immediately demand the project be put under different management.
* The project falls off of the rails somewhere after this. It will either be canceled, brought back in house, or will be delivered extremely late after extensive modification to the original requirements.
There’s lots to pick on here on both sides of the table. I would like to point out that the fact that I picked on Americans and Indians is actually irrelevant here. You could easily substitute “British” for Americans (3), and “Filipinos” for Indians with the same results. But why are they so interchangeable in this fashion? It’s because of PDI and the inherent cultural communication issues that come with it.
via The Real Reason Outsourcing Continues To Fail | Lessons of Failure.
Based on working as a software developer for the past almost 2 years communication seems to be the number one problem. The second would be that we Filipinos or at least the people I work with (including me) have a tendency to as the article said act as high PDI countries act. Nice article, don’t agree with a lot of what he wrote but it’s still worth reading.
rePost::Pirate Bay’s Ipredator VPN Opens To The Public | TorrentFreak
Pirate Bay’s Ipredator VPN Opens To The PublicWritten by Ernesto on January 20, 2010 After months of waiting, the Ipredator anonymity service from the founders of The Pirate Bay has finally opened its doors to the public. For 5 euros a month users can now hide all their Internet traffic, including torrent downloads, from third party outfits who might want to spy on their downloading habits.ipredatorIn the last year, pressure from the entertainment industries on ISPs and governments to crack down on copyright infringers has steadily increased, resulting in ISPs sending out mass copyright warnings. This, of course, is coupled with the looming specter of three-strikes legislation aimed at disconnecting copyright infringers.
via Pirate Bay’s Ipredator VPN Opens To The Public | TorrentFreak.
If they have UK IP addresses I’d probably get this service for BBC stuff.
rePost::Messaging, the media, and Haiti – Chris Blattman
Is robbery so endemic? One of my wife’s colleagues, a veteran of dozens of catastrophes and crises, is amazed by the (relative) calm and absence of looting. She reports storefront windows broken, but the goods behind intact. She’s seldom seen a crisis so under control.
Most journalists I know are keenly aware of the impact of their work on public opinion and policy. Donations and immigration relief have happened so quickly and so generously in part because of the quick and impassioned reporting on the ground. But looters and thugs on the front page only bolsters impressions that Haitians are ungovernable. This is a tragedy if untrue.
via Messaging, the media, and Haiti – Chris Blattman.
It’s important to have a good filter to determine what the media is and is not reporting. This helps us get a more accurate view of what is happening.
rePost::Ban them – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Got this from vince. I believe that a gun less society or at least a society where guns are locked up at the police station or the police are at constant alert and anybody else with a gun outside of designated areas are automatically criminal can be enforced. Imagine how cool that would be, people still medieval enough to have blood feuds have to fight with swords and other like weapons.
Nandy Pacheco was the first to have the eyes to see the one thing that is there but should not be there. At least he was the first to try to do something about it with his dream of a Gunless Society. I don’t know if that dream is entirely realizable, but I know that we can, and should, stop the sheer flood of arms tumbling like “Ondoy” into these shores. The only thing worse than a country not being able to feed its population is a country not being able to feed its population while being able to arm it.
The notion that guns do not kill, people do, is idiotic. If Ivler had only his fists with him when he met Ebarle, Ebarle would still be alive. The most sober citizen is prone to road rage, among many other rages he is prone to in this country, and far better that he unburdens himself with curses than with bullets. Guns addle the brain worse than drugs. With drugs you can only harm yourself, not others. Might as well say shabu doesn’t kill, people do. Power does corrupt and absolute power absolutely, and nowhere does power reside more absolutely than in the hand with the gun. A proliferation of guns, with its attendant culture, swagger and fetish, warps a society as surely as the proliferation of cancer cells does a body. We need books, not guns.
Buy the book, ban the gun.
via Ban them – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.
rePost::15. Inside Terry Gilliam’s head | JessicarulestheUniverse
On the fence whether I was going to watch this. Now, I probably will.
Imaginarium is the film Heath Ledger was doing at the time of his death, and it takes three fine actors to fill the vacancy: Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell. Having four actors play the same role usually leads to confusion, but in this case it actually makes sense—the character’s appearance depends on the person who’s looking at him. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus feels like a big, fantastic pop-up book: the spectacle overwhelms the story, but do you really care?
via 15. Inside Terry Gilliam’s head | JessicarulestheUniverse.