Tech Matters
Blog makeover
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Today was blog cleanup day for me. Actually I started mucking about late last night with this Structure theme by Justin Tadlock. I’ve seen it on other blogs and I thought it simplified the layout and presentation of a blog.
But one thing I have learned in the past few hours is NEVER to update my [...]
Hotel reservation online
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Hotel Reservation is necessary when you are seeking the right place to stay. Whether you are seeking a place to hold a business conference or are simply passing through town, you need to have the very safest and most comfortable place to rest your head. You can easily find the hotel that you need. Enjoy [...]
Untraceable
Saturday, May 17th, 2008There are movies that restore your faith in human nature, even as they show how little faith other people may have. Films like The Green Mile, Syriana, Munich show the evil that men do, and what good men have done to counter it.
But when evil does not have a face, or too many faces [...]
Joomla! Day Philippines - June 14, 2008
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Finally! After having heard of Joomla! days all over Europe and the American continents, Joomla! Day is finally here.
Details on preparations can be found on the Google Groups Filipino Joomla Community. Our dev team is going, we’ve been working on Joomla! sites for more than a year now and it would be good to interact [...]
Google Adwords email scam
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008I got this in my office email today, which made me raise an eyebrow. As head of web development for the company I work for I have subscribed to almost every feature that google has offered EXCEPT for adwords. But in my senility I thought maybe I did sign up for one sometime ago so [...]
Add an RSS Feed on your Wordpress Sidebar
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Convenience is one of the general features of the new WordPress 2.+ versions. Adding stuff to your sidebar has never been easier. Stuff that had been handled by external plugins in the earlier versions of WordPress are now built-in. They can also be added into your sidebar through drag and drop.
One of these built-in [...]
Server backup in the third world
Monday, May 5th, 2008One of the services that the company I work for provides is a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Program (BCDRP) that is tailor-made for offices based in various parts of the Philippines.
Practically speaking, in the Philippines there is no such thing as 100% uptime for any office, unless it has generators that automatically kick [...]
Entrecard for Noobs
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008If you are one of the bloggers who have recently joined the Entrecard network and are now displaying that nifty widget (preferably above the fold) on your blog’s sidebar, congratulations. You have just opened your blog to a new universe of visitors.
There have been claims that entrecard dropping can be addictive. I think that [...]
Million Blog List
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008I’m # 905
and Press this Button is #906.
I’ve joined up at the Million Blog List, which states:
It is said that there are over 70,000,000 blogs in existence. This is an experiment to see how long it will take to get 1,000,000 blogs to list themselves on our site.
Since the project started only on the 8th [...]
Stuff for when you’re on the go
Saturday, April 19th, 2008One of the niftier things I’ve encountered recently is the Retractable USB Charge Cable, which has versions for the more popular brands of mobile phones and handsets. That’s the one you see on the left in the picture above. That’s my tried and tested (meaning old) Sony Ericsson P910i in the middle, and its accompanying [...]
WordPress 2.5 peeves petted
Saturday, April 19th, 2008A week ago I updated this WordPress installation to the latest version 2.5. This I easily did through webhost’s Fantastico software update facility, where all I had to do was click on a couple of buttons and the server did everything for me. That’s how I updated my WordPress no sweat, even in this sweltering [...]
The Omnipotent, The Omniscient –
Saturday, April 12th, 2008So it is true, what has been said about a certain blog ads network and Google, and what you need to do to get your Google Page Rank (aka PR) back.
Sam’s blog was at PR4 (yep, 1 higher than this blog) until I signed him up for a blog advertising scheme which will be nameless [...]
iContact Simplifies Communication
Saturday, April 12th, 2008One of the best ways to present a service to potential customers is through email marketing. You can put up a website, but unless people know how to get there no one would go. Targeted email marketing puts your services in front of the right audience, tapping a captured market of potential customers.
Until recently most [...]
The Taxman Cometh
Saturday, April 12th, 2008It’s the lovely month of April when all above-minimum income wage earners are required to fill out the long blue forms and the short white forms and make the necessary (no to mention confusing, at least to me) computations of the amount of money the government takes from us to spend for the betterment of [...]
A new browser to press buttons with
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Have just discovered the web browser called Flock, and my initial opinions about this really useful browser (really fast too, faster than Opera on this machine) are on the revitalized Kusangpalo website.
On Press this Button I learned that Intel will soon be following Levis’ footsteps as it downgrades, or “ramps down” its operations in the [...]
Captcha for a Cause
Thursday, March 20th, 2008You (yes very) precious few visitors to this blog may notice that I have implemented a captcha form on my comments area. CAPTCHA means (and I discovered this only today) “Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart.”
I did this not because I think there are robots among my very precious few [...]
PC vs Mac, South Park Style
Saturday, March 8th, 2008One of the best things about an extended weekend when you’re not expecting it is having the time to walk lazily around the Internet and finding really funny and cool stuff. Like the video above. Personally I can consider myself detached since I’m on an Ubuntu machine most weekends. But then again we use Windoze [...]
It’s all coming back to me now
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008All these blogs I started because I was trying out the various options available to bloggers back in 2004/05. Sam and I ran blogs in blogspot in 2004 before getting our own domain and host early in 2005. I tried Wordpress.com late in 2005 as well as other free wordpress hosts just to find [...]
Something for newbie bloggers
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008How many times have you tried to set up a blog at a free blogging service, but have found the process either too complicated or restrictive that you’ve given it up? If you intend to blog for an immediate audience but have not yet decided which blogging platform to use, or want something that is [...]
DIY Branding can be Fun!
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008One of the most difficult aspects of marketing your business is branding. Some startup companies do it the simple (read: cheap) way with a word processor and built in graphics. But logo design is not just jazzing up a wingding on a photo editing program. Designing companies know this, and will charge you an arm [...]
Get Smorty
Thursday, February 7th, 2008A year ago I wouldn’t have thought it was possible to get paid for blogging. Then my friend Norman told me how he was blogging professionally for a notebook company (the paper kind, not the electronic kind), and I got some ideas myself. I scoured the internet for possibilities and found a few. I did [...]
One for the DeMolays (DeMolay vs. Mossimo)
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Being the wife of a Senior DeMolay and PMC I felt obliged to do what I can for the Mossimo controversy—the sale in malls and stores in the Philippines of a t-shirt design sporting a defaced DeMolay emblem on the upper left side.
First I filled up the feedback form available on the Australian Mossimo [...]
Domain Registration, No Sweat!
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Have you ever tried to register domain and realized that it’s going to cost you an arm and a leg? Some registrars charge as much as US$35 a year for a .com domain, and there are sites that offer premium domains at skyscraper prices. For example, the domain “nobody.com” is for sale at US$100,000, while [...]