The Cost of University Education Around the World

All night long news has been blaring on CNN and BBC about the massive student protest going on near the Parliament in London with university students protesting the 300% hike in their tuition fees. I know I'm supposed to be doing research (which I am, actually, chapter by chapter) right now, but I'm verily tempted to look at how much a university education actually costs in other parts of the world. (all calculations are for undergraduate tuition fees alone and does not cover other expenses; calculated for one year) The Annual Cost of University Tuition in the Philippines:  between PhP 700 (Polytechnic University of the Philippines)...

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Getting This Blog Indexed...At Least Initially

I've noticed there's a couple of posts here already, so I guess this blog's decent (or, at least has some content) enough to merit being indexed in a search engine. No, I'm not talking about page rank and SEO and what have you...at least not yet. I'm talking about getting your blog indexed in the major search engines so that their creepy crawlers can start to trawl this site for content. Submitting the Blog to Google Okay...so there are actually 2 ways you can submit your blog to Google. First is through the "submit your site" option. This is how the page looks here: It's pretty straightforward, actually. Just add the URL of your blog's...

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Made It to the Factoidz Article Spotlight!

An article I recently just made it to the Article Spotlight feature of the Factoidz site! The article is about the different endangered species and subspecies of bears in the world. You can read the entire article here. I'm meaning to write a decent writeup/review of Factoidz. I'll post one as soon as I reach the one-month-old mark at the site ...

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How to Boost Your Cell Phone Signal - Quick and Easy

I used to live in an apartment where the cell phone signal was just horrible. I missed a lot of calls, didn't get important texts, and had to go out to the other side of the street to get a signal. It got to the point where some friends thought that I was ignoring their texts on purpose. The problem got solved when a more tech-savvy (okay, and yeah, rich) neighbor got a repeater for their unit - and voila! signal problem fixed. Not everyone has the same luck though, so here's something you might want to try: 5 Quick Ways to Boost Cellphone Signal Reception No, I'm not in any way related or connected to the person who wrote this piece. I just...

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Fabulous Twin Names

Okay, so I was playing the Sims 2 while doing research for an article I'm writing (yeah Sims is one of my fave no-brainer games...more on that later) and the mommy sim I was playing gave birth to twins! And a boy-girl pair at that! The appearance of the twins made me think about twin boy-girl names like Samson and Delilah, Pebbles and Bambam etc... turns out I'm not the only one who's nutty about naming twins! A site I looked into has nifty twin names, my fave among these: Anna and The King Asterix and Obelix Bo and Peep Chili and Pepper Virgil and Dante Domino and Dominique Ginger and Nutmeg Harlequin and Pierrot ...and the list goes on. Here's...

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Organizing Links in Blogger

I should be writing articles for this week's deadline...but I can't help tweaking this blog a little bit more. Now that the blog is up, I've made up my mind to fix the labels first before a-posting. I miss the 'categories' in old blogger, especially since the default label system has only one directory level. Turns out there is a tweak to making two-level directories for categorizing labels. Here's how I did mine: [Read mor...

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Leftover Pork Binagoongan (Pork with Shrimp Paste) Recipe

My aunt's coming over later, and I want to cook something special for her. I only have a half-full jar of bagoong I bought a few months ago, a piece of leftover breaded pork from last night, a few veggies (eggplant, sitaw or string beans, a lone tomato), and week-old frozen gata (coconut milk). The solution? Pork binagoongan. I've never really tried cooking this particular dish before, but it's one of those viands I often buy when I'm eating carinderia (small food stall full of the sweet goodness of home cooking)-style. Here's how I made mine: 1. Add about a teaspoon cooking oil in a heated shallow pan. Add chopped onions (1 medium sized)...

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Welcome to my Blog!

Welcome to my brand-new blog. Like the template? I had a blast (and spent a few hours) going through free CSS templates courtesy of BloggerStyles, BloggerTemplatesFree, BTemplates and FreeCSSTemplates.org. Shoutouts to BloggerStyles for this beautiful layo...

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