January 31st marks the 119th death anniversary of Saint John Bosco, the “Father and Teacher of Youth” and the founder of the Salesian Society otherwise known as the Salesians of Don Bosco.

This day is special to me primarily because of my being a Bosconian, and proud of it. I’ve been one for the greater part of my life. I’ve spent most of my formative and schooling years studying at Don Bosco schools, with a few other schools mixed in between levels. I finished my grade school and high school years at Don Bosco Academy, in Pampanga. And I took up computer engineering at Don Bosco Technical College in Mandaluyong City.

Come to think of it, most of my relatives are Bosconians (you never say one “was” a Bosconian, since once you get to be one, you always will be). The brothers four, (as me and my brothers are called), my uncles, cousins, and even Conne’s cousins, bear the same ‘mark’.

Having said that, you can bet all your marbles that my son CJ will probably end up being one too. Amen.

Since I’m still waiting for Conne to arrive from her WIG Session meeting, here are five interesting tooth-related facts about sharks.

Do you know that:

1. New teeth are constantly being formed in rows in a shark’s jaw. Shark’s teeth are normally replaced every eight days.

2. Some species of sharks can shed as many as 30,000 teeth in their lifetime.

3. Whale Sharks have approximately 300 rows of teeth, with hundreds of tiny teeth in each row.

4. A significant physical trait that separates a modern shark from an ancient shark is the protrusile jaw, which gives the modern shark more biting force.

5. A shark’s skin is embedded with dermal denticles, which resemble teeth.

If you want to verify if these bits of information are true, please be my guest, ask your friendly neighborhood shark and let me know how it goes. ;-p

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20 Shark Facts About Sharks

DWH will be expanding its operations and will therefore be relocating its Philippine office in a couple of weeks. We’ve kept our hands quite busy with the office relocation project. We’ve currently leased two floors (3rd and 4th) from a building across the street from our current office location. And a lot of renovation activities are currently ongoing as of this writing. You can see from the 3rd floor snapshots taken from the relocation site last December 2006 that there has been a lot of renovation and civil works done.

We’ll be going for a hybrid network this time. It’ll be a mix of Wireless (or WiFi) and traditional ‘wired’ networking (10/100/1000BaseT).

One challenge we faced was to design and provide a scalable, reliable, fast and secure, yet cost effective (yes, there always has to be a hitch), networking environment. And since we plan to have a wireless environment, there were a lot of performance-related issues and security concerns that we had to factor in with our design.

Barring any unforeseen delays, we hope to relocate everyone by the 2nd week of February. So this means we have to get the data center, network, telephony and security infrastructures up and running without a hitch. Oh boy.