Archive for December, 2008

Chocolates for the Holiday Season and Other Occasions

The Holiday Season heightens many people’s love for chocolate. I’m not really sure why but the festivities involved in Christmas New Year seems to trigger the need to be happy. Having said that, what better way is there to celebrate the season than with loved ones and some food (like chocolates) on the table? [...]

Random Winners of $50 (Voters)

Here is the complete list of voters in the contest discussed in the preceding “Winners of Free Web Hosting for One Year Plus Cash“. However, only the first five (5) in the list have won $10 each. The random selection of five winners was done using Random.org’s list randomizer engine.
Congratulations to the following:

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Winners of Free Web Hosting for One Year Plus Cash

After going through the votes/links/requirements several times for both the contestants and voters of the “Win a Free Web Hosting for Your Wordpress Blog” contest (whose updates have been posted in this site and in the sponsor site, Technology Talks), I have come up with the final tabulation of valid scores. This is not yet [...]

Incidence of Firecracker Accidents in the Philippines During New Year Celebration

Filipinos are fond of playing with firecrackers on New Year’s eve as part of our celebration here in the Philippines. Lighting up fire crackers is a culture we have inherited from the Chinese. Incidence Firecracker accidents in the Philippines during New Year celebration has always been high despite the efforts of the government and private [...]

Health Risks of Uranium Radiation Exposure

In the Philippines, people who suffer from diseases caused by uranium radiation exposure are left unprotected – no protection from the law to run after companies who employed them. As of this writing, this author knows no law that has been enacted here regarding the protection of workers who have been detailed in nuclear power [...]

Christmas in the Philippines: What is Christmas to Some Filipinos?

Some say they don’t believe in Christmas. Others prepare for Christmas festivities and events as early as October.  A distinctive few do not even know what Christmas is or have never heard of the word “Christmas”. For me, I still believe in Christmas. This belief has nothing to do with my religious affiliations or political [...]

How to Deal With Wordpress 2.7 Problems and Errors

Have you encountered problems and errors in Wordpress 2.7? if yes, you’re not the first one and you’re definitely not the only one. Wordpress 2.7 problems and errors so far identified can be classified into two broad types: plugin incompatibilities and theme incompatibilities.
For Plugin Incompatibilities in Wordress 2.7
First off, back up your plugins locally [...]

Apprehensive to Upgrade to Wordpress 2.7

Wordpress 2.7 upgrade has been available to self-hosted blogs since December 10. Wordpress 2.7 offers great features making the dashboard more flexible than its predecessors. I have by the way Wordpress 2.6.5 installed (just upgraded before the release of Wordpress 2.7).
Now, let me tell you why I am apprehensive to upgrade to Wordpress 2.7. I [...]

Widgetbucks Sucks So Do NOT Use It

I have complained one time in an article about Widgetbucks that it once redirected my sites to their partner sites driving people to sites that do not open properly (my Page Rank was penalized because of this).
It caused me a lot of problem serving Widgetbucks ads before. I will not enumerate the number of cases [...]

Make Money With Pepperjam Mobile Marketing Services

Pepperjam has been around for some time now and it is one of the most successful affiliate companies on the internet. I even do some affiliate marketing in this site and other sites I know but I have never tried making money online using mobile services. For those who are into mobile affilaite marketing, this [...]

Telling Stories With Pictures/Photos: The Week That Was

I have been very busy this past week designing 3 online stores using different opensource softwares. I am also testing 2 commercial softwares in order to put the online stores together. One store is for a supplier of computers and parts while the other two are designed for Wordpress themes and other stuff.
My client-friend, Kathy [...]

Partial List of Contestants, Voters and Sponsors

The following list consists of verified contestants and voters of the Free Web Hosting I am holding this month as part of my Christmas celebration online. Please visit these sites because they’re worth your reading time. Some of these site are blogs I follow and you should really visit them everyday
Here is the [...]