The best way to improve your weblog is to improve your writing. No amount of search engine optimization and membership in blog rings can make people regularly read your site if the articles are poorly written. A newspaper editor once said: “the easiest thing for the reader to do is to quit reading.” Some people [...]

I stumbled upon a link to www.protopage.com in del.icio.us. The description and the fact that a lot of people had bookmarked it intrigued me. Protopage is an online, personal start page powered by Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). With protopage, you can have an online list of the sites that you frequent as well as [...]

Cebu 2nd district Rep. Antonio Cuenco has asked the House of Representatives to suspend action on the proposals to create Cebu del Sur, Cebu del Norte and Cebu Occidental. Cuenco said proponents of the plans to create new provinces out of Cebu failed to follow instructions in the implementing rules for the creation of new [...]

Someone got into my site by looking for “meaning totoy” in Yahoo UK search. The entry in the traffic logs intrigued me and I tried searching for the phrase in Yahoo UK. I was partly amused and embarrassed to see that my entry on headline disasters was the top result in Yahoo UK’s search for [...]

Serversidewiki and ZiddlyWiki have been upgraded. Serversidewiki now sports a new theme (blue) that you can change in the settings of your account. ZiddlyWiki now uses the Kubrick theme as default. I use both applications for my notes. ZiddlyWiki is a very good TiddlyWiki adaptation but it runs on Zope – a system I am [...]

This week’s holding of the 1st Bohol Internet and Net Security conference marked the island-province�s move to take part in the information and communications technology (ICT) world. The initiative is led by the private sector — with some support from the government sector. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) appears to be the initiative’s [...]