Tag Archives: blogging

I’ll Make You A Free Blog. For Free. Yeah.

Posted on January 20, 2006 by Gabriel

Ill Make You A Free Blog. For Free. YeahI just gotta say I'm really proud of how the U.P. Portia blog has been doing. According to our site stats, it gets its fair share of hits, totalling 918 so far since January 7.

Truth is, we had no idea a blog format would've done ok for our purpose. The initial sample I made was mostly static with a link to a forum. Also, I kept insisting we get them a proper .org domain, but again that didn't work out, mostly because of a measure of unsurety of authority (it's pro bono work by Jill), and its maintenance after she graduates. As a matter of fact that question is still up in the air, but someone should be able to take up the cudgels by that time.
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Epixtar must be a fun place to work

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Gabriel

migs pisses epixtar offThe chief recently pointed out a post he made recently wherein he seemed to have ruffled a few callcenter feathers.

Upon learning of Epixtar Corp.'s ongoing Chapter 11 registration both in Miami US and locally, the chief wondered aloud whether a callcenter career in Epixtar House Eastwood would still count as a viable career. Continue reading →

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Now Blogging – The U.P. Portia Sorority!

Posted on January 7, 2006 by Gabriel

portia sorority launchThe University of the Philippine's Portia Sorority has been around for 72 years, counting such luminaries as Justice Cecilia Munoz Palma and Haydee Yorac as sisters, and so it's just righteous that they find a suitable place on the web.

Henceforth - the Portia Blog! Rising in all its blue and white (yes blue and white. gasp.) glory, from the efforts of Jill, and myself. Continue reading →

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oh wow hey my themed google ads suddenly showed up!

Posted on December 22, 2005 by Gabriel

themed google adsRight here... Continue reading →

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I.Want.My.Themed.Google.Ads

Posted on December 20, 2005 by Gabriel

google themed adsGoogle's Adsense explains themed ad units as such: Continue reading →

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of failed backups and stressed sassy lawyers

Posted on December 20, 2005 by Gabriel

sassylawyer backup woesAccording to the movie Pushing Tin airline traffic controllers have some of the most stressful jobs there is. While I fully agree the idea of controlling the fate of hundreds of lives can weigh quite heavily on anyone, I'm sure a sys admin's work (in varying degrees), can rank amongst those as well.

Yuga of Yugatech.com blogged about Sassylawyer's ongoing backup woes recently, and Ms. Connie has written about it as well (that link is bound to change as her blog isn't fully online yet and she put up a static page for the moment). Continue reading →

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Abante apologizes to Jill

Posted on December 13, 2005 by Gabriel

gringo plagiarized jillFollowers of my girlfriend Jill's blog would be familiar with her recent Abante episode, where she was plagiarized, plain and simple, via a unauthorized reposting of her post about an ongoing scam at NAIA.

Apparently certain enterprising officials would plant damning evidence in traveler's baggage for the purpose of extortion. In the case mentioned above, a bullet was placed inside a 75 year old lady's bag for which she had to spend a night in one of Pasay City's no doubt pleasant and well-appointed jail cells. Continue reading →

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pam’s appeal for the children of payatas

Posted on December 11, 2005 by Gabriel

I'm posting here a letter from my shimmering editor, Pam Pastor, Chief of Correspondents for 2bu!, Inquirer's Lifestyle Section.

The first thing I really thought of was to ask her to make doubly sure it was really from who it came from, however she's apparently already done her homework and they're visiting the Payatas Soup Kitchens on December 21. Here it is in full: Continue reading →

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I got one! (Plus hello again after a blogging hiatus)

Posted on December 6, 2005 by Gabriel

First of all, hey I got one of those Arrovo bills everyone's been talking about.

Now would you look at that.

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Posted a weird permalinks error on WP forums..

Posted on November 24, 2005 by Gabriel

Just posted on wordpress support forums.

When I create a htaccess file using options/permalinks, a message says the htaccess file is not writable, so I have to cut and paste the code, save it as a file and upload. I do that by saving it as a.htaccess as a text file, upload, rename to .htaccess, then chmod to 666. It then worked ok.

I used it for a couple of days no problem. Then a few hours ago I was clicking around the options area (looking for the spam options actually). I clicked on the Permalink page, DID NOT DO ANYTHING, tried to go out of it then it returned a "INTERNAL SERVER ERROR 500", etc.

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