After several months of negotiations, I have finally agreed to sell the Pinoy Top Blogs project. It’s a decision that was very hard to make but I figured that the future of the project will be more secured with the new owners.Oh!!! I've been into this system 2 years now... I think I registered on this blogging community few months since this system started and now it will be handed to another person. Anyway, this is for the good continuation of the project that Abe needs to hand it over to a new owner and I think we are in good hands. So, more power to Pinoy Top Blogs Bloggers.Several thins prompted me to move into making this decision and I’d like to share that with all bloggers who are involved and been part of the project in the last 2 years.
- I have encountered, on numerous occasion, problems with the server. It was mostly a scaling issue as more and more bloggers join the site, server capacity is also affected. I’ve also indefinitely suspended the service in the past due to this recurring problem.
- I could no longer manage the site and have found less time to review submissions, monitor violating sites and suspending them as well as checking for daily spam comments. I’m way too far behind the backlogs.
- The software I used to run the site (evoTopsites) has not been updated for about 2 years now.
- I’ve been spending a considerable amount of my personal money to continue running the project. The site has been bleeding close to $200 per month for a year now and has not generated any revenue at all (well, if you can call a few dollars from AdSense enough revenue).
It also made it easier for me because the new owners, Enthropia Philippines, was also the sister company of the developers behind evoTopSites, BlogFlux and iBegin. They know the system very well and can fast-track it’s re-development. I am confident that they’d be able to continue running the system in top shape. They were also the ones who donated the current domain/s to me after I transferred it from this site to its own domain.
For the existing users, rest assured that all private information stored in the system will be guarded by the new owners. An email will be sent to everyone to inform them of this change and will allow them ample time to opt out of this if they want to.
On a personal note, this is my very first sale of an online real estate and I really didn’t know how to go about it. The sale price is still undisclosed unless Enthropia is willing to disclose it.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Pinoy Top Blogs is Changing Hands
Sister locked up and forgotten
A WOMAN was locked up and “lost” for 70 years after being wrongly accused of stealing 13p.
Jean Gambell, 85, was “certified” indefinitely in 1937 over claims she had taken the cash while cleaning at a doctor’s surgery.
The money was found — but Jean still spent 70 years in a maze of care institutions.
She was “found” when brothers Alan, 66, and David, 63 — who thought she was dead — read a letter sent by a care home to their mother, who died 25 years ago.
David said: “I was about to throw it in the bin when I saw a name in the corner — Jean Gambell. I rang and they said our sister was there.”
The two brothers travelled from their homes in Liverpool to see Jean at the home in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Staff warned them she was deaf and may not remember them.
David said: “We were very nervous. We wrote on a piece of card ‘Hello Jean, we’re your brothers’. But she took one look at us and said, ‘Hello Alan, hello David’ — and flung her arms around us.”
He added: “Nowadays there are appeals — but back then a doctor could sign away a life with the stroke of a pen.
“They basically locked her up and threw away the key and she was stuck in the system.
“She just got moved from one institution to another.
“What a waste of a poor, innocent girl’s life.”
Jean had a stroke after meeting her brothers, believed to have been sparked by the shock of the reunion. She is said to be recovering.
Jean Gambell, 85, was “certified” indefinitely in 1937 over claims she had taken the cash while cleaning at a doctor’s surgery.
The money was found — but Jean still spent 70 years in a maze of care institutions.
She was “found” when brothers Alan, 66, and David, 63 — who thought she was dead — read a letter sent by a care home to their mother, who died 25 years ago.
David said: “I was about to throw it in the bin when I saw a name in the corner — Jean Gambell. I rang and they said our sister was there.”
The two brothers travelled from their homes in Liverpool to see Jean at the home in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Staff warned them she was deaf and may not remember them.
David said: “We were very nervous. We wrote on a piece of card ‘Hello Jean, we’re your brothers’. But she took one look at us and said, ‘Hello Alan, hello David’ — and flung her arms around us.”
He added: “Nowadays there are appeals — but back then a doctor could sign away a life with the stroke of a pen.
“They basically locked her up and threw away the key and she was stuck in the system.
“She just got moved from one institution to another.
“What a waste of a poor, innocent girl’s life.”
Jean had a stroke after meeting her brothers, believed to have been sparked by the shock of the reunion. She is said to be recovering.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
The Newly Furnished Office... Ahhhh... Soothing...
After months of setting up, everything is fully furnished now... The new office is somehow a soothing place to work... the color of the walls, furnitures and cabinets were chosen carefully in order for us to work in our comfort zone.
Now, I don't think this is gonna be a place where OGRE live because I am sure FIONA the OGRE version will never gonna be in this office, ever. Her swampy beauty will never gonna suit on this simply luxurious atmosphere. Now FIONA back OFF!!!
Now, I don't think this is gonna be a place where OGRE live because I am sure FIONA the OGRE version will never gonna be in this office, ever. Her swampy beauty will never gonna suit on this simply luxurious atmosphere. Now FIONA back OFF!!!
Ten Things About Aparador ni Lisa and the ZTE
1. Sec. Romulo Neri is making waves without rocking the boat at all! After all the suspense and drum-beating about being "ready to lose his job" on account of appearing before the Senate to testify on the NBN ZTE contract, it was quite lame of him to remain tight-lipped on Gloria Arroyo's involvement in the deal. Sure, Neri dropped a big, stinky pooper right smack on Abalos' head. But he flew away from the heat he created afterwards, singing to the tune of "executive privilege". Not quite the hero. No wonder he still has his job intact!
2. Fleeting thought: Sen. Miriam has no business diverting the issue with theatrics and rascist remarks on how the "Chinese invented corruption". Especially when some Filipinos are developing it to such an appallingly sophisticated degree.
3. It's nice to see how the NBN ZTE controversy has generated a lot of inspired and lively blog entries. I has so much fun reading Ina's blow-by-blow account of the Senate hearings yesterday and Pangkulitan's not-so-flattering comparisons between past and present Presidential spouses. After a brief hiatus from blogging, the husband writes about how the Philippines needs a national information network, not corrupt deals such as ZTE nor profit-hungry schemes. But the best thing I've read so far is Kapirasong Kritika's 'Mga Placard ng Panahon ng ZTE" (wala ka talagang kupas, Teo!).
4. Let your protests register on cyberspace! Sign the online petition by the Computer Professionals Union (CPU) to scrap the ZTE NBN contract.
5. I'm getting the last song syndrome (LSS) from hearing the ZTE ringtone by Txtpower. Husband and several other people I know have it on their cellphones, and every now I find myself accidentally humming to the ABC-ZTE-FG jingle.
For the last 5 continue here>>>
2. Fleeting thought: Sen. Miriam has no business diverting the issue with theatrics and rascist remarks on how the "Chinese invented corruption". Especially when some Filipinos are developing it to such an appallingly sophisticated degree.
3. It's nice to see how the NBN ZTE controversy has generated a lot of inspired and lively blog entries. I has so much fun reading Ina's blow-by-blow account of the Senate hearings yesterday and Pangkulitan's not-so-flattering comparisons between past and present Presidential spouses. After a brief hiatus from blogging, the husband writes about how the Philippines needs a national information network, not corrupt deals such as ZTE nor profit-hungry schemes. But the best thing I've read so far is Kapirasong Kritika's 'Mga Placard ng Panahon ng ZTE" (wala ka talagang kupas, Teo!).
4. Let your protests register on cyberspace! Sign the online petition by the Computer Professionals Union (CPU) to scrap the ZTE NBN contract.
5. I'm getting the last song syndrome (LSS) from hearing the ZTE ringtone by Txtpower. Husband and several other people I know have it on their cellphones, and every now I find myself accidentally humming to the ABC-ZTE-FG jingle.
For the last 5 continue here>>>
Deep-Voiced Men Have More Kids | LiveScience
If you want to have lots of kids, look for a Barry White instead of a Justin Timberlake. Men with a deep voices have more offspring, a new study suggests.
Previous studies conducted by David Feinberg of McMaster University in Canada have shown that women are more attracted to men with deeper voices, judging them to be older, healthier and more masculine than their higher-pitched rivals.
Men, on the other hand, go for women with higher pitched voices because they find them more attractive, subordinate, feminine, healthier and younger-sounding.
Previous studies conducted by David Feinberg of McMaster University in Canada have shown that women are more attracted to men with deeper voices, judging them to be older, healthier and more masculine than their higher-pitched rivals.
Men, on the other hand, go for women with higher pitched voices because they find them more attractive, subordinate, feminine, healthier and younger-sounding.
Ducati Desmosedici RR: The duke of hazard - Telegraph
The hype, the doubts, the cynicism, all are blown away the moment you press the starter.
Price/availability: £42,000 on the road; six-month waiting list.
Engine/transmission: 989cc, V-four-cylinder four-stroke with 16 valves; 197bhp at 13,800rpm, 85lb ft of torque at 10,500rpm. Six-speed gearbox, chain final drive.
Performance: estimated top speed 195mph, average fuel consumption N/A.
We like: Engine, looks, handling, feel, sound.
13 Great Slow Sync Flash Images
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Amazing Roads, Bridges and Tunnels
Take a look at these amazing man-made structures. They're one of a kind... amazing, isn't it?
Abuser! keep away from them...
Abuser! Well I think every child is vulnerable to any abuse, sexual, verbal, emotional, physical, name it a child is prone to that. I was once a child and I still can remember how our nieghbor sexually abused me. It really hunts me until this very day and everytime I think about it, I feel like I am very dirty and that is why I wanted to kill that person who did that to me but where can I find this person who sexually abuse me 20 years ago? He is nowhere to find and this trauma still hunts me until I am not satisfied that this person is suffering or die. My parents/family didn't know about this because I never told them, maybe if they read my blog then they will know.
I think we should be watchful for our children, our love ones, so that they will not lead astray into the hands of evil/abuser. We can't be sure who they are... it can be your parents, your partners, your neighbors, your teachers, your boss... any person can be your abuser and be careful for they can strike anytime. I just don't want any other person suffer the way I do because it will break your life and even lead you to something not good like you too become an abuser, a killer or sometimes you tend to commit suicide when you cannot take it. So don't let anybody take advantage of you, live free and Stop Abuse!
The drug abuse statistics in the U.S are astounding and devastating. America's war on drugs has failed to hinder the ubiquitous nature of most street drugs. Learn how to recognize the warning signs of drug or alcohol abuse in yourself or loved ones.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Web Urbanist » 7 Extreme Urban Sports Videos: From Biking and Blading to Building Jumping
It is one thing to watch amazing tricks or stunts performed in a closed venue for a captive audience. It is quite another to see unusual sports practiced in a busy and unpredictable urban setting. Here are some extreme city sports you aren’t likely to see in a sports stadium, starting with an incredible urban parachute landing under a bridge to a Paris city street-surfer in a full body suit covered in 31 roller wheels.
Extreme Urban Parachuting: the initial camera shots are a little disorienting, but once this parachuter swoops under a bridge at a high landing speed the scene becomes frighteningly clear. And to prove it’s not a fake: watch for the follow-up shot from a above trailing his progress on the way down.
Wow!!! that's breathtakingly stupid... He seems like attempting to have suicide...
Extreme Street Rollerblading: watch as Paris resident Jean-Yves Blondeau takes on the streets, sidewalks and tunnels of Paris. Armed with 31 rollerballs and an armored body suit, Blondeau flips between riding on his feet, back and front as he passs shocked pedestrians and cruises at speeds up to 50 miles per hour.
Extreme City Cycling: check out this guy as he sneaks his way into the incredibly packed Holland Tunnel in New York City. He not only evades detection and passes cars in the tunnel, but he even manages to flaunt his success at the end by asking a cop a question as he exits.
Extreme Bike Tricking: every object in the urban environment seems to be an obstacle-in-waiting for these industrious bikers. Their ability to trick and balance is almost as impressive as the variety of benches, stairs and other street furniture they adapt to their own purposes.
It seems like their bike's wheel are hands that can grip on those tricks...
Extreme Building Jumping: this best-of video features parkour and free running experts and novices from around the world, doing tricks and jumps off of everything imaginable. Of course, they make these incredible tricks look a great deal easier than they are.
I like this one... they don't respect gravity...
Extreme Freestyle Motorcycling: Julian Dupont seems to feel comfortable biking up, down and around just about anything. Impressive as his work is on a predefined stunt course, it is all the more amazing when seen in the city streets and on high-flying bridge supports hundreds of feet in the air.
Mass City Skateboarding: it would have been too easy to include another skateboard tricking video. Instead, take an inside look as hordes of skateboards take to the streets on Go Skateboarding Day in New York City. As you can see, the police aren’t entirely pleased.
Extreme Urban Parachuting: the initial camera shots are a little disorienting, but once this parachuter swoops under a bridge at a high landing speed the scene becomes frighteningly clear. And to prove it’s not a fake: watch for the follow-up shot from a above trailing his progress on the way down.
Wow!!! that's breathtakingly stupid... He seems like attempting to have suicide...
Extreme Street Rollerblading: watch as Paris resident Jean-Yves Blondeau takes on the streets, sidewalks and tunnels of Paris. Armed with 31 rollerballs and an armored body suit, Blondeau flips between riding on his feet, back and front as he passs shocked pedestrians and cruises at speeds up to 50 miles per hour.
Extreme City Cycling: check out this guy as he sneaks his way into the incredibly packed Holland Tunnel in New York City. He not only evades detection and passes cars in the tunnel, but he even manages to flaunt his success at the end by asking a cop a question as he exits.
Extreme Bike Tricking: every object in the urban environment seems to be an obstacle-in-waiting for these industrious bikers. Their ability to trick and balance is almost as impressive as the variety of benches, stairs and other street furniture they adapt to their own purposes.
It seems like their bike's wheel are hands that can grip on those tricks...
Extreme Building Jumping: this best-of video features parkour and free running experts and novices from around the world, doing tricks and jumps off of everything imaginable. Of course, they make these incredible tricks look a great deal easier than they are.
I like this one... they don't respect gravity...
Extreme Freestyle Motorcycling: Julian Dupont seems to feel comfortable biking up, down and around just about anything. Impressive as his work is on a predefined stunt course, it is all the more amazing when seen in the city streets and on high-flying bridge supports hundreds of feet in the air.
Mass City Skateboarding: it would have been too easy to include another skateboard tricking video. Instead, take an inside look as hordes of skateboards take to the streets on Go Skateboarding Day in New York City. As you can see, the police aren’t entirely pleased.
Getting Back on Track: My Journey to Fitness
A few years ago, I committed to intermittent fasting, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the world on lockdown, working from ho...
