in retrospect… » the Internet, sex, and money
what is it with the Internet that its main purpose for some people is either to get smut or offer sex for a fee?? in today’s Jessica Soho Reports, one episode tackled how, in remote provinces in the Philippines [Cebu, for example], there were Internet cafe’s operating 24 hours which have private rooms… and what were they used for?? so that some Internet users can hold private shows for some of their foreign parukyanos…
this way of earning money is not limited to just teenagers or gays only, though…public school teachers also offer cybersex shows to foreigners for a minimum of $100 per!! one was a 24 year old, and the other one was [wait, you’d better be sitting down for this] a 66-year old!! goodness!!
Junior UK Doctors Found Themselves Jobless And In Debt
Good thing I didn’t apply for a specialty training in the United Kingdom. Poor fellas. This can really be shattering to one’s budding career, considering that each and everyone must have invested thousands of dollars just to be able to be medical practitioners.
Here’s a snippet of the article:
Thousands of young doctors have been left without jobs because a new NHS training system has gone “disastrously wrong”, it was disclosed yesterday.
As much as £2 billion has been spent on the training of up to 8,000 doctors who find themselves without a new job under a Government initiative. Such is the fury at the scheme, called Modernising Medical Careers (MMC), that doctors have renamed it “Massive Medical Cull”.
My Adsense Check Has Been Stolen
I’ve first heard the horror stories about these lost AdSense checks from Marc’s blog last year. During that time, I already received my first AdSense check but I haven’t deposited it yet. And when I finally decided to open a dollar account with Banco De Oro, I was required to submit several IDs, Billing Statements, and other documents supporting my identity.
I thought that it was safe for me to choose regular postal mail since the checks are in US Dollars. Depositing and en cashing dollar checks are more difficult than checks in peso, and so I thought it was. I was wrong.
What I did to get a higher ranking at Technorati?
I’ve been blogging at Culture Shiok! for more than a month now. It’s only been a month and yet I can no longer remember where I learned about Technorati and how I started to get links. I do remember quite vividly that I reviewed John Chow’s blog to get a link in return. I think that got me addicted to increasing my ranking. I started getting some ranking buttons from Philippine blog listings: Top Pinoy Blogs, Pinoy Top Blogs, Pinoy Blogs, Pinoy Top 100 and Blog Junkie. I also solicited links from other bloggers. I got listed in several blog directories (they don’t give links though). I signed up for Philippine blog aggregators PinoyBlog: The Philippines According to Blogs and Pinoy Blogosphere. I also joined Promote Your Site and bla.st. From 2.6 millionth when I started, now I’m ranked 83,319th by Technorati. Not so bad for a starter like me. What do you think? Read more
in retrospect… » philippine blog awards now has a home!!
we weren’t supposed to blog about this as yet, but since it is now all over the blogosphere thanks to Yuga and Jayvee, the Philippine Blog Awards 2007 has now a place where we can do the awards night on March 31, 2007… yep, you heard it right, on March 31, bloggers from all over [from the metro, at least…] will all troop to the RCBC Plaza Auditorium in Ayala Avenue, which will start at 5pm…
