Archive for June, 2008

I Survived the Great Wordpress Upgrade!

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Whew! Spent the whole morning upgrading from my arcane wordpress 1.5 version to the latest Wordpress version 2.5.1 (as of June 7). Migrated my main blog, Technobiography. But have yet to migrate mobiletulay and purposeful. another hour needed for that. Whew! Next project: * Update technobiography theme. I want a 3-column theme, ...

Want Gas? Get Prepaid! SEAOIL’s Pricelock gas promo

Friday, June 6th, 2008

[See article update, July 3: 2nd wave of SEAOIL's Pricelock gas promo] Ayos 'to, ah. Pre-paid na ang Gasolina! With the price of Gasoline going up up up, I sure could use some way to cushion the impact on my gasoline expense. Below, you'll find the full article about the SEOIL Prepaid ...

My First PayPal Purchase

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Yey! I did my first PayPal Purchase today. Yeah yeah, call me a late-bloomer. I've been using direct credit card purchases for the past 5 or so years and it's only now that I activated my Philippine PayPal account. Today, I bought some tickets to Avenue Q through Anton's website. Natuwa naman ...

Globe AutoloadMax Vending Machine

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

In 2006, I wrote about the iLoad Vending Machine that uses a touch-screen monitor and sells airtime load for many telcos. There's another airtime load vending machine. It's a Globe Autoload Max Vending Machine, called: "iAmax Prepaid Automated Loading Machine".  

Apple Mac Book Air - Super Thin, as in!

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

My friend T came to the restaurant for the birthday celebration. She had a shoulder bag with her. She decided to do some work, so she opened her shoulder bag and brought out what looked like a thin, sleek, silver .... folder! I saw the apple logo on top and exclaimed: "Is ...

SEO Question: Are Hardlinks to Google Ads allowed?

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Hello SEO friends. Care to answer an SEO question from an SEO ignoramus? a.) Are hardlinks to Google Advertisements allowable? For example, there's a Google Ad that reads "Text Philippines" and leads to ipipi.com . Am I allowed to create a hyperlink like this "Text Philippines" using the Google Ad hyperlink? (There! I did ...

Cellphone Charger Vending Machine

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

"Lo bat n b u?" Hahaha! Isn't it so catchy! :-) There's this bright yellow gadget the size of a mailbox in selected Ministop convenience stores. It's a cellphone charger vending machine. It accepts P5 coins and will charge most any cellphone for 10 minutes. It can also charge PSP's and ...