Top 10 Shameless Blogging Mistakes I Made as a PreBlogger
10 – Blogging for Google Instead of Readers
Seriously, this is one of my biggest mistakes. When I started this blog, I tried to squeeze in as much keywords I could in a post to attract the crawlers. The ploy didn’t work out and I lost a lot of potential readers. I do agree that Search Engine Optimization is important, because it is! But let that be second priority. Write for the readers and not for Google.
Pink for October
The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month’s goal is to increase awareness about the importance of the early detection of breast cancer through a worldwide campaign. Through the pink ribbon, people honor survivors and loved ones, and support the progress towards defeating breast cancer.
The ribbon can be worn different ways – mostly by using it as a lapel pin. This website can also wear the pink ribbon and this can be done by listing up for the Pink for October. To support breast cancer awareness, blogs and websites will go pink for the whole month of october to get more people talking about breast cancer and just maybe raise money for cancer research.
How do you feel when you burn your money?
Earlier this year a lot of us received forwarded images of a Ferrari F430 on fire. It was later posted as a video by a guy who’s part of the Ferrari’s convoy:
While seeing a car burn to the ground is shocking enough for most people, a Ferrari F430 is worth a staggering 12 million pesos, sans excise tax, which goes at 100% the car’s value. If you’ve watched the video, you have just seen 24 million pesos burn to the ground.
How to compile an inventory of books
Let me dispel any notion that this post is about accounting, confined as it is to the sphere of debits and credits. Still, in a way this entry would have something to do with “bookkeeping.”
And by books, I suggest nothing else but hardbacks, novels, paperbacks, history books, nonfiction, thrillers, classics, and everything in between – especially those by Ursula LeGuin, Murakami, Frank Herbert, Coelho, Debray, John Irving, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Saramago, Marquez, Castañeda, and more. I have an appetite for books.
For some time, I have been thinking about how to account for all the books that came into my personal possession.
Appalled at the growing number of books that have gone missing (some other things have been missing too these days), I was driven by necessity to keep track of the books that I have, including those that I lent to some people, and the others that have simply become absent both from my memory and the physical realm.
All of a sudden, as I was in a bedridden state, I thought of something.
A MSI Made, X38 Equipped Mainboard
After Intel officially launched its high performance desktop X38 Ex chipsets for mainboards compatible with Intel made central processing units (CPU), Micro-Star International, better know as MSI, just announced the launch of a X38 equipped motherboard, the MSI X38 Diamond. As the new MSI Intel compatible mainboard is aimed at the gamer and computer enthusiast market segment, it comes with all the bells and whistles that are available to the X38 Express chipsets like the native support for DDR3 RAM modules and high frontside bus running clock speeds.
Mozilla Cooks the Mobile Flavor of Firefox
The famous Firefox developer Mozilla is now working on a mobile flavor of the web-browser which would be able to work on most of the handheld devices available on the market. If we analyze the decision a little bit, it is pretty obvious because the world is changing, the mobile industry evolving a lot in the recent period.
Most of the mobile consumers aim to access their email or other web services straight from their devices. Just look at the Internet giants Google and Yahoo which struggle to expand their offerings into the mobile market. Mozilla confirmed the mobile version of Firefox and sustained the building process will start soon.
Carambola
Did you know that carambola is a fruit native to Sri Lanka, India and parts of East Asia? I always assumed carambola was a term for something chaotic or something that had to do with lots of balls. LOL. I also thought carambola was a word we learned from our Spanish rulers from way back. I confirmed that even in Spain, carambola pertains to the five star fruit we locally know as “balimbing”
I am sticking to what I know – carambola to me is chaos. Like a group of people suddenly going in different directions. Or a bunch of colored balls thrown together all at once. Carambola also makes me crave for Cafe Bola’s balls (whew! what a tongue twister)
Tags, Murakami, telephone buttons and haiku
I’m not feeling well lately. (Again.)
So I’ve reset the sectioning system of Postcard Headlines to conform to WordPress’ new tags and categories interface. Now, now. Too bad I didn’t notice the category to tag converter in time, hahaha.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry: Anti-Gay or Pro-Gay?
Early this afternoon, with tons of things to do (review, clean up my room, write blog post for Blog Action Day, etcetera) but too lazy to do it, I decided to watch a movie that I’ve kept putting off for some time: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.
Running Time: 1 hr. 50 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude sexual content throughout, nudity, language and drug references
Distributors: Universal Pictures Distribution, Universal Pictures International
U.S. Box Office: $119,318,320
***Warning! Some spoilers ahead! Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you!
Awww…they look cute, don’t they?
I don’t know why I’ve been putting off watching this movie. I love Adam Sandler movies because he reminds me a lot of an ex-boyfriend. Haha.
The story is about two firefighters, notorious womanizer and all-around jerk bachelor, Chuck Levine (Adam Sandler) and father of two kids and widower, Larry Valentine (Kevin James), who are good friends. Larry asked for favor from Chuck, since he saved his life, to help him claim pension benefits for his kids by being his domestic partner, since he doesn’t want to look for a new wife. Thinking that it would be easy, Chuck agreed, after being initially reluctant. They went to get married at Niagara Falls and Chuck moved in with Larry and his unsuspecting kids. However, when a government bureaucrat becomes suspicious of their new arrangement, they had to orchestrate a charade to project domestic bliss, which includes stuffing their garbage cans with “gay stuff”. Things got complicated when Alex McDonough (Jessica Biel) entered the picture as their lawyer and Chuck fell in love with her enough to become less of a jerk and be more the sensitive and warm type of guy. Things get more confused until it ended up in a court room hearing (with a bunch of pro-gay and anti-gay movement around) and there, Chuck and Larry realized that building a family isn’t only about being a man and a woman, but rather sticking together through thick and thin.
Using contact lens
I cannot remember ever having clear vision. What I do remember is pretending I had clear vision such that it took years before I even bothered to have my eyes checked.
Now I find it funny as I recall waiting for the jeepney to stop in front of me so I will be able to read what route they will be going to. I would flag them down once I was sure I had the right ride which was most often seconds too late and they would be driving off.
I got my eyes checked when I was in my last year of college. My father was good enough to spend for expensive eyeglasses that made me look so…. round. At that time, there weren’t many choices for eyeglasses or I really was just clueless resulting in my buying the standard gold-rimmed ones. The lens and the frame were so heavy my already very small nose turned even smaller.
