MIT Open
Courseware is a broad spectrum offering of actual MIT courses to
the public.
Countries France
The Opengroup Conference in
Cannes. The Opengroup is the result of a merger of the Open
Software Foundation and X/Open resulting in a overall standards body.
Investing in RP
using Sun Life of Canada and RP Rural Banks as examples.
Arriving at Manila in 2004.
Charles' first trip to RP was a stop over on the way to Japan and
China
to drum up business
for IISC. He fell in love with the
people and came back a month later
to find
a house. Three months later he met Ashley and 8 months after that they
married.
Sinulog Novena 2006Sinulog
Parade 2007 The Sinulog celebration in Cebu is renowned around
the
world. BTW: The very short woman receiving communion in the Novena is
President Gloria.
Skip's Resort at
Daanbantayan is where we spent a quiet enjoyable weekend. Skip
himself is quite
interesting, having studied under Bruce Lee for a decade or so and
having a log cabin business. If
you get
a chance, ask to see the photos of his house in the Pacific Northwest.
Moving Servers with a
crane! Sometimes here in RP we apply different problem solving
techniques.
Ask me
about using 20
students to inspect 25 floors of workstations for AV S/W and to put
security
tape
over the
ethernet ports of the WinVista systems.
Information Links
Gawad Kalinga is a
charitable organization that builds houses for poor people. While at
Lexmark
Charles was priveleged to make a small contibution toward that project.
ClicktheCity is a site for all
kinds of RP shopping, movies, and other info. We use it regularly for
plotting which cinema to go to, restaurant to pick, etc.
This
Bisaya, Cebuano Reference contains various Peace Corp courses, word
lists, linguistic texts
and
links to dictionaries useful for translating individual words.
The Philippine
Living Island Paradise group/list members and resources are of
great help both for
visitors and for permanent residents.
United States
NH Intl. Speedway
is where Charles was invited to race motorcycles and had the sense
not to.
Boston
& Cebu Sushi Society was founded back in 1994 as the
"Boston Sushi Society" by the
long
lost "Beakman" but from 1996 - 2005 the mailing list was maintained by
Charles Richmond
who
also added web pages. We are rejuvenating this now and will welcome
persons wishing info
or wishing
to submit restaurant reviews. The new 'Society' is more
international than before but
needs to
grow.