A commitment of much significance that must never be made in front of a barrel of a shotgun, under the influence of alcohol, or on top of a long but tedious engagement.

I was googling my previous company Portum, when I encountered a feature article with my name misspelt.

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I was googling my previous company Portum, when I encountered a feature article with my name misspelt.

http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-40.aspx

The Supremeness by which all things beyond the realm of human logic can be explained.

An equal (or near equal) whose intentions and manifest behaviours and actions run diametrically opposite to one’s own.

The past week or so, whatever time off work I had left was spent on watching The West Wing on DVD. In one of the episodes, the Special Prosecutor on the Josh Bartlet MS inquiry recited the names in the list of individuals that will be subpoenaed in the investigation. It hit me as odd that all ten (10) people on the list had three names - two first names and a surname.

Then something occurred to me. In this day and age when there are nearly 6 billion people on the planet, there is a need to increase the ‘uniqueness’ of names of people for identification purposes. George Washington would not have been easily confused with someone else because there are probably just one or two George Washingtons in his time. However, these days who knows many Ariel Sagums are in the world- or worse John Smiths?

The issue can be remedied by using uncommon names It is not probably a bad idea that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes named their daughter Suri or that Brad and Angelina named theirs Shiloh.

Another way to make names unique is to increase the number of elements in it (i.e. lengthen the name). I’m sure my future sons and daughters would have more difficulty writing their names in 1st grade but it is a price to worth paying. Think Millenium Bug.

On the banks of Doniford Bay, south-west of England. Over the course of several hundred million years, the American continent separated from the rest of Europe.

The rocks on the shore contain ammonites–fossils from long ago.

Five (5) songs as of July 2008

Dilemma
Kalayaan Ng Pagiisa
MyExIsAPsycho
May Isang Ibon
Pangarap Ng OFW

Al Gore was telling something about the globe getting warmer and warmer.

I certainly can’t feel that–not today at least. The barometer reads 2.5 deg and I can’t get out of the house without feeling my nubbins stand in attention.

Summer 2001. Competed in the Jones La Salle Dragon Boat Festival in Frankfurt with 15 colleagues from Portum. With each row, we shouted ‘Sheisse’ at the top of our lungs.