Two thousand and six was a tough year for Filipinos. It was a test of courage (to face life after a storm), hospitality and unity. We have had bouts of catastrophes, which caused lost of lives and properties, and somehow crushed the hopes of most Filipinos – the Ultra incident which turned hope into bereavement; the wrath of Milenyo, Seniang and several other super typhoons, killing hundreds of people and destroying millions of properties; the irresolvable political rift brought about by selfish intentions by some; the political killings due to voracity for power; and many other incidents which have changed the lives of the Filipinos.
But despite these upheavals, most Filipinos still find hope for the coming year. In a recent survey by Social Weather Stations (SWS), 91% of Filipinos will face 2007 with hope rather than with fear.
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Current Events, Life ABS-CBN-Foundation, Bicol, Current Events, Life, Philippines, Relief-Operations, Super-Typhoon-Durian
Previously, I was talking about how to completely block spam in your WordPress blog. Although, I am using 3 anti-spam plugins – Bad Behavior, Akismet and Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam, I am still receiving few spam comments. So I arrived at a conclusion that no single plugin (or if there is, I have yet to find out) can prevent your blog from spam comments. Bad Behavior was effective enough because it has prevented automated spam bots from accessing this web site, although some can still make it.
Before, I only receive spam comments such as “Nice day, best. I have the same topic in my site. Check it out (then a link to a Viagra site is provided).” or “Thanks for this great information!” then provides a link to site which intends to sell products or worse, to porn sites. These comment spams are usually three-liners. But recently, I received a comment spam disguised by its lengthy content.
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Ph-Host.com was originally designed to provide free web hosting to Filipinos using the 10 GB reseller account from AhPlace.com was acquired by me for free. However, AhPlace had troubles in their server, which deleted all the members’ accounts, including my reseller account. Good thing that there were no members hosted by Ph-Host before AhPlace servers crashed down. More about Ph-Host.
I have decided to just convert the site to a guide for free hosting and domains. I will feature free hosts and domain providers in each entry. You can suggest your own host or other’s. This site is just starting out, though but I am aiming to expand it more, if time permits. You can suggest blog, image, web, multimedia, file or any type of host. You can also suggest a free domain provider.
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Internet, Webmasters Tools Free Domains, Free Hosting, Webmasters Tools
A newly invented gas stove by 2 Filipino engineers will make Philippines LPG-free someday that is, we will be free of the hazards of LPG. Further, the new innovation will also cut off the demand for firewoods; our remaining forests can be saved.
This new product utilizes agricultural wastes like rice hull or ipa as fuel, thus, this could resolve or lessen our problem with agricultural wastes. The stove is environment-friendly, smokeless, economical and efficient. It costs about P500 (if made of GI sheet) and P1,000 (stainless material). This would mean again that it will save the environment from the overgrowing pollution and Filipino households from wasting a lot of money from refilling LPG tanks. Currently, 1 LPG tank (11 kg) costs about P500 and you need to refill it after 3 months depending on the frequency of use. In contrast to the high-priced LPG, the fuel is for free, all one has to do is go to the field and scoop mounds of rice hull left in the open or just burned by farmers. Well, not unless farmers see this as an income opportunity and sell rice hull instead of burning it! But even so, a sack of rice hull may not cost as much as a tank of LPG.
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Recently, I’m getting hooked to Pinoy music. Before, I thought OPM will going to be vanished few years back with the birth of Pinoy “novelty” songs which killed the sales of a lot of good artists. Now, I am glad that the Pinoy music scene has revived from that nightmare, thanks to the spurting of good bands and artists and good songs.
My recent favorite is the latest song from Nina called “Someday.” It’s a sad song but I like it’s melody. It serves a good lullaby. :-p
I searched the lyrics in the web but all of the lyrics available are incomplete and there were some mistakes on some portions. So here’s the complete and accurate lyrics of the song.
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Music, Personal Lyrics, Lyrics-Search, Music, Personal
Yesterday night, a local TV news program was reporting about three different fires which happened at separate regions of the country. The first report was about a shopping center in Ormoc City which killed 24 people. The fire was said to start from firecracker piles; the death was caused by negligence as reported. It was said that the fire exit was locked (I think this kind of “stupidity” can likely make it to the Pinoy Stupid Blog). A fire also hit Marikina last Tuesday burning down 20 houses and injuring 4 people. Investigation also shows that the blaze came from firecracker explosion. A while ago, two fireworks factories in Negros Occidental were burned down. Over the past days, there have been numerous reports of fires resulting to lost of lives, homes and properties – most of them rooted from one cause, firecracker. In the coming few days before New Year’s Eve, we should expect news about numerous cases of disabilities caused by firecrackers.
These disasters could have been prevented if only people use firecrackers or fireworks responsibly; if only people were unbeaten by ignorance about the proper use of fireworks; if only people were not stubborn enough.
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