It should matter to me too

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May/10
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I’ve been in disconnection for a long time about things outside my door. There are things that never ran into my thoughts as a child that I only care about now. One being.. politics.

 

It never occurred to be because it wasn’t in relation to something I could imagine and realize.

 

I’ve been working professionally for a year now and just like anyone new to this world I’m always wondering what it would be like to have a matured career. To lead the same people in my position. I guess like any other thing that ages, you tend to care less about the ideas that you started off only in a dream. My dream’s always going to be leading my own computer company.

 

With that, comes my realization of becoming that same leader someday. I had my day dreams of doing my own developer conferences and being the face of a cult too. Eventually you slow down at some point and look on to other things. That’s a sure reason that as children, we were pure and made of innocence being that of looking at things a lot simpler than they seem to us now. We’ve seem to have stopped at some point that killed our passion for really wanting it; that dream. The day has broken into both the harsh and not so harsh reality of life, all depending how you interpret it:

 

The reality that of which is that.. if you really want something.. it can be done..but all in time.

 

So as someone in the IT industry, if I could and have imagined to lead the same people I work with, maybe I could have applied the thought to our local government. I never saw the government in the way of an organization, but only of scattered entities and only of some should I worry about. I never saw it as the same as the very system I was in.

 

I’ve always wondered why people in the government are often referred to as highly. Had I not realized the possible responsibilities it takes to run a company, I would have never accepted even the soundest of reasons. To run a company distinguishes the most competent of brewed, refined and soiled minds of institution; what more a whole country?

 

The church will always want for its say in the land. Business ethics don’t entirely appeal to the pious and therefore will do their best into pursuing government approval for only their own interest. Although, as someone who is God fearing and business minded, I do not believe in a separation of state and church, but rather a harmony of the two. Whether there’s little church to go around as long as the democracy of those happy with the way things should be are followed, the idea is fine by me.

 

So in grand entrance, I’ve realized my share in the organization of the Philippines. As a citizen, as a taxpayer and as a future businessman. It should matter to me that my business, from personal to financial  is in priority. Having not pursued a career in the government, I have to leave it to honest men and women that make up and enforce the business bylaws of the land, that I live in; also that of which some I own. That organization is called the Philippines and I am a representative.

 

I should have registered to vote and maybe then I would have been looking for people that believe in the same thing I do. Then the world all seems more right for me. I didn’t know I would eventually care about the same things I used to take for granted. When life finally mattered to me; when the world did, everything was fine.

 

I’ve been in disconnection.

 

I should have been an astronaut.

Facebook to Outlook synchronization

23
Aug/09
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Today while I was browsing Facebook mobile I remembered that it had a Phonebook feature which lists numbers of my friends who filled that detail out in their profile. Additionally, whenever I would browse on the phone I would occassionally get a top story of <someone> changed his/her phone number, it has been added to your phonebook., so immediately I thought to myself if there existed software that could synchronize my Facebook contacts’ phone numbers to Outlook. This is extreme handy as nearly everyone in the Philippines is on a prepaid number so people tend to change numbers often and I’m assuming that when they do, they also update their Facebook contact information.

 

I was… not exactly in luck.. there’s an application called Fonebookhttp://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2442338999&b&ref=pd that lets you transfer photos, web addresses and birthdays, but due to Facebook “privacy restrictions”, I don’t think they support phone numbers in the developer API. Further research told me there existed programs that used to export phone numbers (unfortunately not sync them to Outlook) and were eventually blocked by Facebook.

 

Sad, but I wasn’t left empty handed. Fonebook still came in very handy, I have a Nokia phone that syncs with Outlook which downloaded the pictures and other information Fonebook retrieved.

 

Fonebook is about 5MB in size, there’s another program called OutSync that only synchronizes photos, you can download it at http://www.melsam.com/outsync/default.aspx.

 

If you know any program that does my original intention, please leave a comment!