Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Have you seen Pia's new phone?


This is my long awaited gift to my wife. Will be released by Apple on June 2007 at US, and 2008 at Asia.

Hot but Cool.
Check it out:

iPhone Official Site
iPhone Commercial
Apple CEO product intro

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

3 word promotional by-lines

Have you noticed promotional or marketing by-lines these days? Whether its a product, a service, or a project, 3-word by-lines is in!

Here are some samples:

SourceForge: Create. Participate. Evaluate.
Picasa: Find, Organize, Share.
YouTube: Watch, Upload, Share.
Mercury Drug: Call. Order. Pickup.
Blogger: Write. Share. Post.

So we created and decided:
Herdin Neon: Connect. Share. Collaborate.

NeON@sourceforge

Recently, I also created a project @sourceforge, the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet. We opened our application called herdinneon (network-of-networks) to the open-source development community.

SourceFORGEnet

Participate and evaluate, create a SF.net account and join the neon development community and help improve it.

Check it out. Download.

HERDIN@wikipedia

Weeks ago, I created an article about HERDIN (Health Research & Development Information Network) @ wikipedia, the most popular and mostly used free open-content online encyclopedia in the web.

Here, I experienced the technicality of posting, their codes, standards, policies, and be criticized and supported by wikipedia editors.

Thanks to other community members for updating, supporting, and attributing additional source.

DOST@google_earth


Last August 15, 06, I created a place mark of DOST (Department of Science & Technology, Main building at Bicutan, Taguig, where I work) @ google earth for distinction.

You need to be a google earth community member to make placemarks, be specific of the place, create a kmz file and upload it at keyhole, not direct on google earth application.

Check it out.


Monday, March 19, 2007

PCHRD@25 - Pres. GMA delivers message

President Arroyo signs the pchrd@25 mosaic collage
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo delivered the Keynote Address for the 25th anniversary of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development(PCHRD) before a multisectoral gathering of health researchers, healthworkers and educators last March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Galleria.

The Philippine Council for Health Research and Development, which wasestablished in 1982, is one of twenty agencies under the Department ofScience and Technology and has been at the helm in charting the directionsthat health researches should take to best address the issues and problems afflicting the Philippine health scenario.

PCHRD's priorities when it comes to supporting programs and projects have evolved through the years. One program, however, which has been consistently in the Council's priorities and which supports the administrations current 8 for 08 mantra is the herbal research program. The Council's venture into pharmaceutical research, especially in herbal medicine, has to date resulted toproduction technologies for the lagundi tablet and syrup (anti-cough andanti-asthma), sambong tablet (diuretic), akapulko lotion (anti-fungal), and ampalaya tablet (for Type II Diabetes Mellitus).

PCHRD is currently highly involved in marshalling support for the passage of the Philippine National Health Research System Act, which will consolidate and streamline all research activities in the country as well as secure sustainable resources for priority health researches. PCHRD and its partners, the Department of Health, the Commission on Higher Education, and the University of the Philippines Manila, are in fact moving to have the Bill certified as urgent to enable the country torespond satisfactorily to health emergencies, such as environmental disasters, the social and economic costs of new and old diseases, and the continuing exodus from the country of skilled health researchers andworkers.