Friday, June 23, 2006

I spoke with Paul Chan, my elementary/high school mate, over the phone.

We talked about the forthcoming JJLHS Alumni first general assembly on July 9, 10 a.m. at the Judge Juan Luna grounds. It will be hosted by JJLHS batch 1992 but, the 1978 batch should also attend the said assembly.

Then, we discussed about my personal website. He didn't liked the idea that I posted my personal life online. Instead, he suggested that I blog something that will invite people to visit my blog. He even cited an example of a young teenage girl who created a website and posted her interests and favorite things to do. Until she gets popular and her website gets a million hits per day. She then added advertisements in every page of her site that help her generates income. That's incredible, I had between 500-750 visits per day and cost me over 900 PHP a month to maintain this site! I added google in my side bar menu but it does not get enough clicks to give me handsome profits.

Paul suggested that I switch from personal to general and add interesting stuffs like food I eat, places I visited, politics, etc. He even asked me why do I post my daily personal life online? And I said, I blog because friends want to know something about me. It's very tiring to type answers everytime someone asks "How are you" or "What's up" questions everyday. I want people to know the real me without any pretentions nor hidden drama in life. Besides, I had been forgetful lately. Blogging them reminds me about it. Sometimes, I sound stupid, sometimes depressed but, the most important thing is, I enjoy blogging...

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Few days ago, Paul Denise and I were talking about his remedial class when he noticed the red spots in clustrmaps.com while I was checking my total stats. When I told him that it's the location of my blog's visitors, my son couldn't believe there are people visiting my site!

Today, I received email from ClustrMaps Support Team asking me to adjust daily updates to weekly:

"The current number of displayed visits to your site is 10948 which exceeds our internally applied database limit of 10000 for daily updates with yearly archives. We have therefore amended the frequency of your map updates to: weekly."

The ClustrMaps Support Team also mentioned:

"Please visit http://clustrmaps.com/admin/ to change frequency of updates and archives, and be sure to check the FAQ page for further explanations."

As I logged in to my ClustrMaps Admin page, I have noticed that they are offering contest and giving away a free ClustrMaps+ upgrade. Well, I find it fun and challenging if I will submit an entry to be featured as ClustrMaps User Of The Month, so I could get more attention from those ClustrMaps users who didn't know I exist here on cyberspace...

I have rewritten my entry due to power failure. The first one was better than this but, I was upset they disappeared as I logged back online!

ClustrMaps is best displayed at the bottom of my blog's SEARCH field to show off locations of readers visiting it. When there is something new in the blogosphere, I made sure I had an account with them to boost my blog's presence. If you didn't see one type of blogging tools displayed in my site, chances are, I didn't like the quality and type of their service!

Most of my site visitors get new ideas from me. And I will appreciate if you could award us referral points just like what blogexplosion.com provide. Also, sitemeter displays IP addresses when I mouse over the location of site visitor. Do you think you can provide the same? When I first saw your clustrmaps image, I had an impression that you're somehow related to sitemeter due to similarities of map display.

Many thanks and more power to all people behind Clustrmaps! I don't mind if you will make me famous by quoting my URL, nick name, and story.

As I emailed my entry to feedback @ clustrmaps.com, I remembered when my son came closer to the monitor and asked out of curiosity why dots are bigger than others. I told him it indicates more people are visiting my blog in that particular location. Half convinced, he asked me, "What do they want from your site?" I just smiled and told him, "They love to make red dots in ClustrMaps bigger!

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Today is the Ides of March and I'd like to take this opportunity to inform the regular readers of this blog that my online game buddy and best friend, Randy, is my man and soul mate too!

Randy and I met each other on March 1st 2004 in an unusual dispute over stocks in BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market. This kind-hearted man impressed me with his gaming strategies until we played as a team not only in BlogShares but, also in Neopets! We've done many things together as a team like being the top 5 BlogShares Richest players in 2005, held successful eBay auctions, supported Save-A-Child charity, made some million neopoints from Neopets' World Challenge games, NeoStocks, Neoquests, Plushie Tycoon and Black Pawkeet slots. Lately, when his wife filed a divorce in August 2005, he slowed down from playing our favorite games and even was hospitalized last year from overdose. That time, I was preparing myself to work abroad and renewed my passport. When his wife decided to spend the Christmas somewhere else, we decided to meet in person to celebrate 2005 Christmas before I leave the country for work! And that's how we turned as lovers and prefer to go further as soul mates now that he's a free man from his previous marriage. He didn't like me to work abroad and he wanted instead to correct the mess in my life from previous relationships. While it's amazing that married women in the USA profited from their divorces by getting half of their men's networth, the women in my country normally get nothing but misery and burden of supporting kids. Anyway, Randy is my best friend and hopefully, the best man in my life, too!

And since we met in BlogShares, we held a mission to express our appreciation to BlogShares Community and we want this to be a very remarkable day in BlogShares history by awarding these BS Mission #788's prizes to:

• Peach
• Joe White
• Joe Elam

Thank you for your BS Mission #788 participation and looking forward to future missions Randy and I will offer. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any suggestions.

Congratulations to the winners! And, more power to Island Dave for supporting this mission!

Today I had a brief History Quiz on Beware The Ides Of March! The answers are here but, you won't see them if you don't look very closely...

1. Today is commonly known as the the Ides of March. Who first warned us about this day? Answer: William Shakespeare
2. What important event used to take place in the U.S. on March 15th? Answer: Income Tax Deadline
3. Traditionally, residents of Hinckley, Ohio always know when it's March 15th because these birds return: Answer: Buzzards
4. In 44 B.C., this Roman emperor had an attempt made on his life: Answer: Julius Caesar
5. In 1945, "Billboard" began listing the #1 album on its charts. What artist got the first top ranking? Answer: Nat King Cole
6. In 1937, the first of these was established, in Chicago. Answer: Blood bank

Your final score is 6 out of 6 questions!

From dictionary.com newsletter: Word of the Day for Wednesday March 15, 2006: Ides \YDZ\, plural noun: In the ancient Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. Ides comes from Latin idus, probably from an Etruscan word meaning "division" of a month.

Sunday, January 01, 2006

It's a pleasure to update you all with what I achieved from my 2005 New Year's resolution. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that falling in love is my greatest achievement last year!

The rest of what I didn't achieve last year is still in effect for this year. My 2006 New Year's Resolution are:

1. Be more faithful to God and attend Sunday mass regularly.
2. Exchange of vows with my soulmate after annulment of my previous marriage.
3. Provide my kids a complete family and support whatever deams they want to be.
4. Make my loved ones happy. Be busy in the real world away from online games.
5. Spend time and money wisely. Save money. Invest. Buy property.
6. Stay away from Fast Foods. Lose weight, get back my 27" waistline, and keep it for good.
7. Be wiser. Prettier. Happier.

My potential soulmate doesn't like me to work abroad so I will be here waiting for him to be with him again soon...

Make your own 2006 New Year's Resolution, too, and tag 2006resolutions.

Monday, August 15, 2005

Hey! I'm still very much online although I'm quiet inactive in the blogging world.

Since the beginning of this month, I had been alone at home from morning until afternoon while kids are in school. Doing household chores is fun while playing Plushie Tycoon game.

Sometimes, I was amused watching ANC when there were politicians debating over Gloria Tape and Jueteng scandal. But, knowing the majority are Gloria's allies, I feel sorry for the opposition's efforts in bringing out the alleged truth about the issues. The administration is becoming known for soft touching up families of witnesses and the next thing we know, witnesses apologyzed to the president!

I have some negative feelings lately and I prefer not to blog about it. Thanks to God, life with us is great in general. Perhaps, I'm just loveless and I missed the usual caring I do with my man...

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Are you a web addict?

If you believe you want to get a life, I'll recommend that you read this article posted by Raven, 12 Step Recovery Plan For Web Addicts.

Raven's post reminds me of Afonso...

Sunday, March 20, 2005

I have read this morning Erwin Lemuel Oliva's INFOTECH article that Google Adsense now supports RP currency.

Inquirer.net:
Online advertisers currently pay Google and Yahoo to have their ads appear next to Web search results. What Google AdSense allows advertisers is to extend their reach beyond the home page of Google. The search engine firm now pays each Web publisher a commission in exchange for allowing ads to appear on their sites.

According to its website, Google AdSense will convert a website's earnings from US dollars into a local currency that the service supports.

By allowing Google to put ad links to a certain website, one can earn money. Reports from the industry indicate that people have earned from a few hundred dollars a month to 50,000 dollars or more a year. [read more]

I'm pondering though, if I will add Google in here, that would make the appearance of my blog ugly...

Saturday, March 19, 2005

A certain Matt Thornton e-mailed me early this morning and claimed copyright on difficult answers on Da Vince code Web Quest which I posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004.

Well, in fairness, I did lots of research, too, to get those answers and honestly speaking, if he wrote the answers himself, how come I didn't came across his site when I was looking for any answers to the Da Vince code last year?

Anyway, I hope no one would claim ownership on my Ticke's IQ test result but, since I respect people's work and wish to make everything peaceful, I added a link to his site.

It doesn't cost me a cent and a pride...

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

What would you feel when you discovered that your blog's layout and contents had been copied and been posted by someone else in his/her own blog? I was shocked when I browsed and read the article, Someone stole my blog! while surfing via Blog Expolosion. As I followed the link leading to the culprit's blog, I realized mai was right. I even viewed the page source and the html tags were exactly the same.

Now that someone else did this, aren't you alarmed your precious blog about your work, life, and experiences might be stolen, too? What can be done to avoid this?

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

To all my online friends who were expecting me to make it to the Philippine Blog Awards Finals, I'm very sorry to tell you that I didn't make it.

Anyway, I know that my blog is too personal in content but, I am wishing good luck to the lucky fellow bloggers who fortunately made it to the Finals:

FINALISTS FOR THE BEST BLOG SITE OF THE YEAR
ironwulf.net
kutitots.com
greencapsule.org
avlack.com
dalityapi.tripod.com
houseonahill.net
sedricke.blogspot.com
munimuni.stockstam.com
lunachix.diaryland.com
clever-mind.net
koolbirks.com
secretsigh.zambovinta.com
quezon.ph*

FINALISTS FOR THE BEST BLOGGER OF THE YEAR
brassbuddha.blogspot.com
quietrivers.com
soloflite.blogspot.com
thirdcharm.blogspot.com
metal_ears.blogspot.com
kwentongtambay.nicanordavid.com
blobbetslife.blogspot.com
bachoy.blogspot.com
taglish.blog-city.com
light-overload.net/shugo
dizzy.kuwaderno.net
myarthurdelrosario.ph
areyouinthemoodforsomedude.blogspot.com
lockload.com
thiskid.blogspot.com
inababes.neominds.net
payb-pifty.blogspot.com
ivan-ulrich.blogspot.com

FINALISTS FOR THE MOST INFORMATIVE BLOG SITE OF THE YEAR
houseonahill.net
sedricke.blogspot.com
twofourth.com/wordpress
jdavies.blogspot.com
manofmars.blog-city.com
therocketboychronicles.blogspot.com
technobiography.blogspot.com
quezon.ph*
hazelmarie.blogspot.com
salitablog.blogspot.com
emeritus.blogspot.com
myparadigm.tk

*I have nominated quezon.ph and glad he made it to the finals... I'm expecting him to win due to historical content he writes in his blog.

Monday, November 01, 2004

Blog Explosion was generous enough today for the random 100 mystery credits which I have won, the very first since I joined the site on October 6th. Blog Explosion is a traffic exchange which a member visits other member's blogs and in return other people view your blog. By visiting a few other interesting blogs you yourself are generating traffic to your own blog at the same time. To surf member's blogs, you should follow what numbers to click located at the upper left portion of the page. Some members didn't know about this. They had thought all they have to do is register their blog and that's it. If you haven't sign up yet, allow me to refer you to BlogExplosion...

Looks like it is my lucky day today as I have won another 50 mystery credits!

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Afonso invited me again in Orkut, and I added him once again in my friend's list. I also invited and added Farzad E., to join Orkut. Farzad, 15, is a fellow player in BlogShares whom I complained earlier for moderating industry votes indiscriminately. My complaint was only noticed after a month when many players were affected by his actions. Farzad, on the other hand, never speaks bad against me nor take me personally. Instead, he sought my assistance on how to contact Jay to get his Tag-Board premium membership raffle prize winning. Anyway, since then, he has been added in my Yahoo! and ICQ contact lists. And, oh! Before I forget, to add me in Orkut, click here.

After Farzad's registration, he then referred me to BlogExplosion, for my blog's traffic. Farzad was the one also who invited me to try GMail! In case you want to create your own directory in BlogExplosion, please allow me to provide you this link:

Believe me, there are so many nice blogs listed there, you won't regret it...

Thursday, September 30, 2004

My sincere appreciation goes to Arvind Satyanarayan, the wizard kid of BlogShares, for the nomination of ladylaila.net/blog/ as Phillipine Blog entry into Annual Philippine Blog Awards and this blog made it to the Semi-Finals.

There were 365 interesting entries nominated and 142 Blog Sites were selected as Semi-Finalists. After a month they will present the finalists for this year Philippine Blog Awards.

Whether I will make it to the Finals or not, let's keep our fingers crossed!

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

For those who are looking for JJLHS contact details, here it is:

Thursday, August 12, 2004

While voting blogs for categorization purposes to be listed under BlogShares industries, I surfed across one site entitled: The DaVinci Code: Uncover The Code Contest

Of course, I don't know the answers but, after I did some googling, I found the answers one by one to the questions. They are here but, you won't see them if you don't look very closely...

1. What is the more common name of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting
   "La Giaconda"? Answer: The Mona Lisa
2. In what city does The Mona Lisa reside? Answer: Paris
3. To what secret society did Jacques Saunière belong? Answer: The Priory of Sion
4. What enigmatic sculpture stands one degree North of the location indicated
   in the code? Answer: Kryptos
5. According to Kryptos, what are the initials of the person who "knows the
   exact location"? Answer: WW
6. The cover flap describes the novel's plot,
   But simple words can often hide a lot.
   Within those paragraphs (and shrouded fast),
   Resides a mystic phrase from ages past.
   To make your quest... abandon any fears,
   If you are bold, the font of truth appears. Answer: Is there no help for the widow's son
7. For which ancient brotherhood (still active today) does this phrase have
   special meaning? Answer: Freemasons
8. What famous phrase is printed around the seal? e pluribus unum
9. The eyes of Mona Lisa launched this quest.
   And now her knowing gaze lays it to rest.
   The French would say her "OEIL DROIT" holds the key
   Just point and click on it (referring to the image)
   -- and you're home free! Answer: Oeil droit = right eye (Click HER right eye!)

If you wish to uncover the code yourself, visit The DaVinci Code: Uncover The Code Contest. If you cannot find the answer, you may come back here again and locate the answer to complete the game or visit Matt Thornton site, who claimed copyright on difficult answers...

Related Site For Reading:
Breaking The Da Vinci Code By Collin Hansen
Leonardo da Vinci
Matt Thornton

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs (and aggregation sites) are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).

Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate -- the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.

The GUID for this experiment is:

as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst

The above GUID enables anyone to easily search Google or other search engines for all blogs that participate in this experiment, once they have indexed the sites that participate, which may take several days or weeks. To locate the full data set, just search for any sites that contain this GUID.

Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post (see URL above). (Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.)

INSTRUCTIONS

To add your blog to this experiment, copy this entire posting to your blog, and then answer the questions below, substituting your own information, below, where appropriate. Other than answering the questions below, please do not alter the information, layout or format of this post in order to preserve the integrity of the data in this experiment (this will make it easier for searchers and automated bots to find and analyze the results later).

REQUIRED FIELDS (Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)

(1) I found this experiment at URL:
http://www.thegreatseparation.com/newsfront/2004/08/testing_meme_pr.html

(2) I found it via "Newsreader Software" or "Browsing the Web" or "Searching the Web" or "An E-Mail Message": Browsing the Web

(3) I posted this experiment at URL: www.ladylaila.net/blog/

(4) I posted this on date (day/month/year): 11/08/04

(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 18:07:04

(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): Metro Manila, Philippines

OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS:

(7) My blog is hosted by: PlogHost

(8) My age is:

(9) My gender is: Female

(10) My occupation is: retired

(11) I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: FeedReader

(12) I use the following software to post to my blog: MT v 2.661

(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 26 April 2003

(14) My web browser is: Mozilla 1.6

(15) My operating systems are: Windows 98 SE and XP