Optimizing websites or blogs has been a tricky & continuous process. In fact, it’s one of the sought after expertise for companies who has been putting up businesses online. For marketing & sales reason companies have been spending thousands on SEO/SEM efforts just to leverage visibility.

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Here’s a summary of Senator Mar Roxas‘ privilege speech on the GRP-MILF Memorandum of Agreement provided by the Senator’s office.

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Manila seems to be not so far away. Lately, a lot of foreign bands and artists are coming over to Manila for a concert unlike before. Now, who else do you want to come here? Who else do you wanna see do a concert in the Philippines?

Go ahead! Voice out and tell us who you want to come to Manila for a concert–whether new or old bands/ artists. Who knows, they might hear all of our pleads. Come on and TAKE THE SURVEY NOW!

One lucky respondent can have the chance to WIN four CDs in the raffle!

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You read that right, Linux is coming to an iCafe near you. (1) Ubuntu iCafe is now being offered by at least 1 iCafe group to new entrepreneurs; (2) FREE Linux Distros CD Distribution is available in Market! Market!; (3) the best of FLOSS (Free/Libre Open-Source Software) applications compiled in one CD for Windows users.

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The mystery man’s been revealed… now it can told. John Lloyd Cruz is Armando.

It not a surprise that John Lloyd is Armando in the Philippine franchise of Betty La Fea, “I Love Betty La Fea”. He is really the best guy for the role… and for many reasons.

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Having been influenced by friends and work mates in their advocacy to photography and music, I am forced to buy my own digital camera (Canon IXUS 860IS) though I used my K810i cameraphone to take photos for my blogs. This Canon IXUS 860IS is known in North America as PowerShot SD870 IS Digital Elph. It’s an 8 Megapixel compact with a 3.8x optically-stabilised zoom lens and a large 3in screen. I might now be serious into photography. I’m a month-old food blogger and I definitely need a digicam! I was also amazed with the ZoomBrowser EX software as one of its Canon Utilities where I can customize my photos. Love it! Pls. click here for the cam’s specs.

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When the Swede wrestler protested his defeat and refused his bronze medal at the podium last Thursday, his anger was directed at the “bunch of fatsos” at the judges table.

Perhaps unknown to him, however, it that the medal is not just bronze, or gold and silver. The Chinese hosts have incorporated jade in the reverse side of the medals, thus, making the medals an unprecedented piece of jewelry. And to host China and to many Asian countries, jade represents “honor and virtue.” My own necklace and ring are both made of this “stone of heaven.”

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Everyone who makes video blogs should read this, IMHO.

Being responsible bloggers, in as much as possible, we choose to only publish works that are truly our own. We try to be conscious about copyright and practice necessary attribution whenever we publish materials painstakingly made/created by another IF at all we use works done by other people. A text inquiry from a fellow blogger made me plurk about the concern she brought up regarding the not-so-free use of FreeplayMusic mp3s in vlogs. Surprised, I decided to find the truth out myself by sending an email to FreeplayMusic directly (disclosing who I am and my URL in the process).

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So six years of married life, all of those spent in Cambodia, and heaps and heaps of stuff, both junk and precious (mostly junk), managed to sprout out like mushrooms. And now that it’s time to go back to the Philippines, like turtles, we have to carry our entire home on our backs. So comes the impossible task of decluttering.

Yes, I’ve finally got off my lazy butt and for an entire month, we’ve spent hours and hours sorting and arguing about what to keep, what to throw away, what to store in our parents’ house (the junk, mostly), what to store in the warehouse (while the our new home is not yet ready), what to leave behind in Cambodia with Honey who will stay there for a month after I leave, and what to bring to our spanking-new condo, where my dreams of minimilastic living are rapidly disintegrating. We’ve got boxes and boxes of books, clothes, bags, shoes… I mean, we only go shopping once a year… where did all this stuff come from anyway?

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I’ve received letters from a businessman on a business trip, a future teacher, and a future expat in Cambodia. Here’s one from a future tourist:

Dear Toe,

Hi! I found your blog via Kristene’s blog and I think you’re one of the best writers in the blogosphere (hindi kita binobola!).

I live in Dallas, Texas (originally from Bacolod), and was hoping that you could help me with some travel tips for Angkor Wat. My husband and I are going home for a visit to the Philippines in December and we’re hoping that we could make a sidetrip to another country in Asia during this time. I’d really like to see Angkor Wat if we can work it out.

If you have some time to help out, these are the questions I have:

1. What airline would you recommend for the Philippines to Cambodia trip? Any good deals on fares (how much is a round-trip ticket)? Is there a straight flight from Manila (or Clark) to Siem Reap? Also, what ballpark price would you consider a “good deal” on the fares? How many hours of travel time is this?
2. Any hotel recommendations? For hotels, around $100 would be our budget. We’re not picky on hotels as long as they’re clean and safe.
3. Is December a good time to go to Cambodia? Are there any December dates/holidays that we should steer clear of (i.e. too many crowds at Angkor Wat? Or is it closed for the holiday?)
4. Any recommendations on how many days to plan for Angkor Wat? Would three days be enough or would it be bitin (this would include arrival day + touring + departure day). We don’t really want to spend too many days away from the Philippines but would really like to do this sidetrip if time/resources permit.
5. Do we need visas (our citizenship is Filipino so we still travel with our green passports)?

Thanks so much in advance! Hope you and your Honey are doing well!

Johanna

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Now I’m back! I’m really happy that my site is back and can’t wait to blog on what’s new and hot these days. Well for the past few days I’ve been experiencing heavy downtimes and the last was a total chaos wherein I can’t see my site. Anyway, everything is up and running and hopefully I’m good to go. Back-up is ready now and I only need my creative juices to leak for me to start banging my keyboards.

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It’s been quite a while since we heard from my Inner Child, haven’t we? I honestly don’t know what to do with this next Inner Child Therapy session since I haven’t been emo and shit lately. I know, I know, the reason you return to this blog is that you wanna read up on my failures and now that I don’t carry a shitful of emo around my blog is extremely pointless to read.

Just to prove my point, here’s my traffic lately:

See the downward slope? That’s you people, telling me that my blog is useless without me documenting my many failures in life.

You guys suck.

Anyway, here’s me and my Inner Child, going at each other’s throats as usual. I swear, If he wasn’t all imaginary and subconscious-y, I’d have beaten him up a long time ago.

INNER CHILD: Oh crap, don’t tell me you wanna talk to me again.
ME: Oh yes I do. You see, I totally need you this time.
INNER CHILD: You always need me. But where the fuck are you whenever I need help?
ME: Look, when did you ever ask me for-
INNER CHILD: That’s not the point. The thing is you’re never there when I need help because-
ME: Again: you have never asked me for help. Not once.
INNER CHILD: Again: that is not the fucking point.
ME: …
INNER CHILD: What?
ME: What the fuck is your point, then?
INNER CHILD: My point is that you whack off way too much at your extensive collection of Maria Ozawa videos.

ME: That just did not make any sense.
INNER CHILD: Of course it doesn’t. More »

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Tickets for The August 30 “One Night Only – Eraserheads Reunion Concert” at the Fort Bonifacio Global City will ONLY be available to you for FREE if you satisfy all of the following [full text at fritzified.com]

The lighting of the Olympic Torch during the 1992 Barcelona Olympics was probably the most dramatic in the history of the Games. Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo lit his arrow from a burning torch, fired it into the night sky and set the Olympic Flame alight when it landed on the cauldron. Or did it?

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Here’s an invitation to visit the Philippine National Museum…

The Senate Joint Resolution No. 10 is about making the Philippines into a Federal Republic. If you don’t like reading such documents or you just want a short and direct information about it, then this is for you. Read: SJR#10 in a Nutshell.

If you remember my post last year, Check Point gave away a free ZoneAlarm Anti-spyware kit. And this time you can get their ZoneAlarm ForceField for FREE.

This security application provides a protective layer around your browser, shielding you from drive-by downloads, browser exploits, phishing attempts, spyware and keyloggers. So your passwords, your confidential information, and your financial data remain protected.

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I have never been successful at getting my hubby to watch chick flicks with me. If we do watch movies, it would have to be either comedy, epic, kung fu, sci-fi, or action-filled. I do not mind really as I do watch anything as long as I can be entertained. So it was surprising that he downloaded Made of Honor so we could watch it. More baffling is the fact that he actually liked it. Nothing more romantic than watching a chick flick with your man so into it.

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How did fritzified.com win, again? <—Insert Plurk emoticon (s_unsure) here —> More importantly, WHY? The citations fritzified.com got from those who nominated the site might shed some light to this paradox (and I hope they won’t mind me reproducing their kind words here to further my gloating, tee hee)

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