Look For Aung San Suu Kyi

Manila – Do you wish peace for Burma? I don’t. Peace is an impossible dream.
What I wish for the Burmese people is non-violence. I wish for us Filipinos the same. Now, today, September 30, I realize that non-violence has two beautiful & deadly senses. The historical one, that it [...]

Forget Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis

Last night, continuing my research for a book, I happened to surf to icrisat.org, and while I was reading ‘ICRISAT’s Vision and Strategy to 2015,’ I realized, albeit slowly, that the first chapter was showing me – in between declarations of intentions – affirmations of complexities, headaches, quodlibets. No matter; I’ve [...]

Understanding VASAT, The Illiterate’s Internet

‘@LóRiLi?¿?[xqsVN]??sV;?’ He said.

I don’t speak the language either. It’s Telugu, Sahiti tells me so (sahiti.org). If I could write Telugu, Sahiti will translate me into English instantly, and it’s free.
No, I didn’t find Telugu a trickery; I found it a treasure once I started thinking Marshall McLuhan who understood media like [...]

Globally Yours, William Dar

Today Danumán, tomorrow the world!? Today, the drylands.
It’s the water. There is pleasant irony in the fact that William Dollente Dar comes from a village called Danumán West in the lowlands of Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, Philippines while he was ensconced as the Chair of the Committee on Science & Technology (CST) [...]

Was I Born Again, And Again?

It’s 0520 hours 2007 September 17 in Manila and I can hear rain pattering on the roof, but who’s complaining? I bought a new Intel Core 2 Duo PC system 2 months ago, complete with a 5-in-1 Epson CX2900 color printer – I sold the old one and got 2 [...]

Being On Theory & Practice In Desktop Publishing

Claudia Lopes tells me it was Jose Marti, Cuban national hero, who said, ‘There are three things that a man must do before he dies: Plant a tree, write a book, (sire) a son’ (utenvironment.org). I’m 67; I’ve done all those but I’m not stopping at writing a [...]

My friend, you told me the father was generous and abrasive. You’re wrong. The father was nice, the son was abrasive.
I, who have been writing for 32 years at least on many a subject technical and popular, got a lecture on popular writing this noon, 2007 August 31, at the Blue Danube [...]