Archive for December, 2007

Wish List for 2008

Laoag City, Philippines. All is getting ready for the New Year celebration. The tables are set. The food and drinks are being prepared. Family members start to gather around while some start to go out with friends. The firecrackers are tested before finally firing them all up at midnight. […]

The Savant Syndrome: House Episode

Yesterday was the replay schedule of House, MD’s episode about a savant who’s a genius in music. It was aired on AXN (Philippines). My wife told me to watch since I am doing a couple of write-ups in Psychiatric Nursing as of late (which is outside blogging). It so happens I posted […]

The Savant Syndrome

If you have seen people afflicted with Down’s Syndrome, a.k.a. mongoloids, (thanks, Marlene) and other special children, you might want to read this before jumping to a conclusion that they are pityful in their present state of mind.
Dr. Treffert, a Wisconsin psychiatrist, is the author of Extraordinary People. It was the first work to comprehensively […]

Blogging Behaviors, Blog Reactions and Blogger Personalities Part 2: Setting Limits in Blogging

When was the time you have set limits on something? Blogging, for example. First off, limits in this discussion will be operationally defined as the minimum, maximum or allowable range of abstract concepts that can be represented in numbers or verbal descriptions within comprehensible terms and overall statements.

Blogging Behaviors, Blog Reactions and Blogger Personalities Part I

I have posted a few days ago something about Entrecard titled “Entrecard is the New Trend to Get Traffic to Your Website“. The article was in essence for the education of the very few readers who may have stumbled upon this blog somewhere or friends just passing by.
The post gained different views from commentators […]

The Google Your Mom Didn’t Tell You About

Please don’t be shocked… This is for educational purpose ONLY. This video has no commercial value to the author and no malice is intentionally associated with the video’s inclusion in this blog.

Entrecard is the New Trend to Get Traffic to Your Website

I just joined Entrecard yesterday and in less than 24 hours, I have gained a fair amount of extra unique visitors for this blog.
Every website needs traffic, especially blogs. I guess joining this is one way to improve a site’s traffic. However, as a mathematician, I have seen some drawbacks in the system.

Bloggerwave Errors and Other Problems

For some of you out there who are familiar with Bloggerwave, this post may not come as a shocker.
After all the hype Bloggerwave has made on the net this year and their controversial payment issues, I have found out myself how unstable their system is when they sent me 58 emails saying my job […]

Lending Personality to a Website

There are currently over a hundred million websites on the internet competing for the eyeballs of visitors. How do you make your site stand out above the rest? The SEO and internet marketing gurus will repeat the old “content is king” mantra and will tell you to come up with something unique and original.
Fair enough. […]

When Widget Servers Are Down, Loading Time of Blogs Go Down

I’m back to blogging after a “day-off”. Whew! What a day without checking stats.
This post’s title says it all. When widgets load terribly slow, the loading time of a blog slows down too.
Today, the auto Linker found in this site and a couple of hundred more sites using it suffered a downtime […]

Blog Holiday

Are you a blogger? I hope so. If not, this page may not be for you.
As a blogger, when was the last time you thought of something important other than page rank, Google Adsense, affiliate marketing, page hits and traffic? For some, the answer is no longer clear.
After catching the “blog bug”, a […]

My First Opportunities at Bloggerwave

Fellow bloggers, do you have a blog and want to make some extra money? Then bloggerwave gives you the opportunity. It is aiming to be Europe’s biggest advertising media on blogs and you can help the company grow so more and more jobs will come.
The company is actually based in Denmark but caters to […]

Blog Changes: Wordpress Plugins and Widgets

Today, I have made a few changes to this blog which consumed so much of my time (again). And goodness gracious, I had a terrible headache (again).

One of the changes that frequent visitors will notice is the Blogroll. I have installed a dropdown blogroll plugin (5 times, 5 different WordPress plugins) to minimize […]

This Blog Has DoFollow Attributes

Good news readers! This blog has been using DoFollow attributes for a couple of days now. Why good news? This gives all of you the chance to use and abuse me all you want. Lol!

For starters, let me introduce to you the concept of Nofollow (the opposite of DoFollow) attributes in the simplest way […]

Viewing Some Blogs Using Internet Explorer is Not Visually Appealing

I recently found out that when this blog is viewed using Internet Explorer (IE), the third column (sidebar) swings like a dancer. This is one dangling column that really ruined my days. I have also observed this with other blogs that I visit.

At first I thought I did something wrong like adding a […]

Who’s Afraid of Google?

Sfgate.com has the following article that really kept me reading from start to finish.

For a company that pledged to not be evil, Google makes a lot of enemies.

From Madison Avenue to Hollywood, some of industry’s most powerful entities are marshaling their forces to combat a company that has risen to the top of the business […]

Changing Themes in WordPress is a Pain in the…

As a new blogger, one may be tempted to experiment on different themes for his/her blog. Try this and that, as a blogger may say.

However, since my blogs are self-hosted in WordPress (being one of the favorite blog publishing systems in the blogosphere today), I found out myself a couple of times its lack […]