Tag: blogging

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

    I 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…

  • Epixtar must be a fun place to work

    The 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.

  • Now Blogging – The U.P. Portia Sorority!

    The 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…

  • I.Want.My.Themed.Google.Ads

    Google’s Adsense explains themed ad units as such:

  • of failed backups and stressed sassy lawyers

    According 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…

  • Abante apologizes to Jill

    Followers 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,…

  • pam’s appeal for the children of payatas

    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…

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

    First of all, hey I got one of those Arrovo bills everyone’s been talking about. Now would you look at that. more…

  • Posted a weird permalinks error on WP forums..

    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,…