The best site to find graduate scholarships online
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Studies
When I was browsing the net for sites that contain info about scholarships abroad, I stumbled upon one site that became very valuable for my search for PhD scholarships. This site is Scholarship-Positions.com. The site is easy to navigate and the scholarships are sorted in so many ways (e.g. by country, by subject, by academic [...]
Tags: MS, PhD, scholarships
Sync your WordPress blog with your Facebook profile
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Technology
Facebook is the most blogger-friendly social networking site I have ever known, specially if your blogging platform is Wordpress. For a hosted Wordpress blog, like mine, there are many ways to let your blog and your Facebook profile synchronize and interact.
Tags: blogging, facebook, wordpress
Unzip compressed file formats with 7-Zip
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Technology
When you download huge files from the internet, specially those from file sharing sites, these usually are in compressed file formats with .zip, .rar, .tar.gz, .gzip, .bzip, .7z and other file extensions. These are also called archive files. Windows XP and higher versions of Windows can easily pack and unpack .zip files but not the [...]
Tags: 7-zip, compressed files
Reflections on truth, knowledge, the philosophy of science, God and religion
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Philosophy
A few days ago, a close friend asked me several very abstract questions. I thought of this myself even before that very interesting conversation. In fact, I have been in a lifetime struggle to answer these great questions and to find meaning in this existence, if there’s any. Brace yourself…because this is going to be heavily nerdy. I am speaking to myself here. This is more of a self reflection on how I tackle the greatest and age-old philosophical questions.
Tags: empiricism, knowledge, rationalism, science, truth
Seven ways to earn money online
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Business
If you are spending lots of hours surfing the net or if you have an internet connection, you can earn from it. There are lots of ways to generate an extra income or make a living online. These are just some of the things that I know and have tried. 1. Build a blog or [...]
Tags: Adsense, blogging, google, online business, paypal