Undersea Earthquake in Taiwan crippled Internet Access in the Philippines

Posted on December 30th, 2006 | Subscribe in a Reader | Subscribe by Email

(This is my second attempt posting this topic on my blog as the first one failed to connect and waisted my 20 minutes writing this. So I’ll just get to the point and point you to the source sites)

News from CNN.com

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Nearly all Asia’s earthquake-disrupted Internet service and 80 percent of its phone service should be restored by noon (0400 GMT) Thursday, a Taiwanese official said following one of the largest telecommunications outages in years to hit Asia.

Lin Jen-hung, vice-general manager of Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom also said that four ships with crews to repair the two undersea data transmission cables ruptured during Tuesday’s powerful earthquake in Taiwan will arrive in the affected area on January 2.

The 6.7-magnitude earthquake and aftershocks on Tuesday night and Wednesday caused disruptions for major telecommunications operators from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Singapore and South Korea — with ripple effects spreading beyond Asia.

Mathematics on Women, Time, Money and Problems

Posted on December 17th, 2006 | Subscribe in a Reader | Subscribe by Email

Interesting…

Mathematics on Women, Money and Problems

What do you think?

Photoshop TV

Posted on December 14th, 2006 | Subscribe in a Reader | Subscribe by Email

I was reading previous articles in PhilWeavers Open Forum and one guy provided links to archived Video Tutorials on intermediate and advanced Photoshop techniques, all from Photoshop TV .

So far I have downloaded over 30 hours of Photoshop lessons (Video archives from December 2005 to November 2006) and I plan to spend part of my time this Christmas week (December 25-31) or longer to learn advanced PS techniques. I hope to learn new techniques and improve my web and print design skills.

Photoshop TV

For me, video lessons are better than reading books. Based on experience, I am better at learning new skills by using the software and doing it right away rather than reading tutorials for hours and hours without actual practice. Soon I’ll start learning Flash and Actionscripting, probably by early January of next year.

Update: You may also check out their YouTube videos here.

Jejomar Binay - 4th Place at World Mayor 2006, The Year’s Most Outstanding Mayors

Posted on December 8th, 2006 | Subscribe in a Reader | Subscribe by Email

Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay has shot to prominence as one of the most divisive yet popular figures in Philippine politics, possibly the embodiment of a city leader who can inspire the masses and irk the national political establishment. As well as a hard-earned reputation for sound city management, he can point to a leading role in restoring democracy to the Philippines after two decades of dictatorship. In 2006 he was included among the top ten mayors in the annual World Mayor project.

All mayors in the top ten of World Mayor 2006 received more than 2,500 votes, with those ranked from one to five all collecting in excess of 6,000 votes each. Melbourne Mayor John So, the 2006 winner, was supported by more than 16,000 individual voters, while Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen, the runner up, received 11,000 votes. Third-placed Stephen Reed, Mayor of Harrisburg, was supported by more than 7,000 voters.

Even after the recent suspension attempt by the Arroyo administration, he still made it to the final list and was awarded the Fourth Most Outstanding Mayor in the World of 2006.

Here is the list of Top 10 World Mayors of 2006

World Mayor 2006

Rank	Mayor	City	Country
1	John So	Melbourne	Australia
2	Job Cohen	Amsterdam	Netherlands
3	Stephen Reed	Harrisburg	USA
4	Jejomar Binay	Makati City	Philippines
5	Michel Thiollière	St Etienne	France
6	Paul Wengert	Augsburg	Germany
7	Francisco Cabrera Santos	Valencia	Venezuela
8	Dubravka Suica	Dubrovnik	Croatia
9	John Hickenlooper	Denver	USA
10	Patrick Ramiaramanana	Antananarivo	Madagascar

This is something every people in Makati and whole Philippines should be very proud of. Let’s see if President GMA will recognize Mayor Binay for this award the way she recognized Manny Pacquiao (and she awarded him with the Order of Sikatuna) for winning boxing fights.

If he every plans to run for Senate (if 2007 elections will ever happen), I will surely vote for him. Kudos Mayor Binay!

How to effectively build backlinks for your site

Posted on December 6th, 2006 | Subscribe in a Reader | Subscribe by Email

This is perhaps one of the best search engine optimization tips you will need when you are planning to build backlinks for your site. I got this info from Pantaleon’s Blog.

Using your favorite search engine, copy paste these phrases on the search bar. Don’t forget to replace the “web design” to your desired category, for example, “weblogs”.

“Suggest link” “web design”
“Suggest a link” “web design”
“Suggest site” “web design”
“Suggest a site” “web design”
“Suggest URL” “web design”
“Suggest a URL” “web design”
“Suggest an URL” “web design”
“Add link” “web design”
“Add a link” “web design”
“Add site” “web design”
“Add a site” “web design”
“Add URL” “web design”
“Add a URL” “web design”
“Add an URL” “web design”
“Submit link” “web design”
“Submit a link” “web design”
“Submit site” “web design”
“Submit a site” “web design”
“Submit URL” “web design”
“Submit a URL” “web design”
“Submit an URL” “web design”

“favorite links” “web design”
“recommended links” “web design”
“cool sites” “web design”
“cool places” “web design”
“reciprocal” “web design”
“directory” “web design”
“directorys” “web design”
“directories” “web design”
“exchange” “web design”
“exchanges” “web design”
“resources” “web design”
“resource” “web design”
“links” “web design”

“philippines” “add url”
“philippines” “suggest a site”
“philippines” “submit site”
“philippines” “links”
“philippines” “reciprocal links”
“philippines” “directory”

“friends” “web design”
“partners” “web design”

“add your url” “web design”
“submit your url” “web design”
“submit your site” “web design”
“add your url” “web design”
“add your link” “web design”

“add url” “web designs”
“add site” “web designs”
“add link” “web designs”
“add a url” “web designs”
“add a site” “web designs”
“add a link” “web designs”
“submit url” “web designs”
“submit site” “web designs”
“submit link” “web designs”
“submit a url” “web designs”
“submit a site” “web designs”
“submit a link” “web designs”

“recomended sites” “web design”
“links” “web design”
“link exchange” “web design”
“link exchanges” “web design”
“link request” “web design”
“link partner” “web design”
“recip link” “web design”
“link” “web design”

“addurl.html” “web design”
“addsite.html” “web design”
“addlink.html” “web design”
“addaurl.html” “web design”
“addasite.html” “web design”
“addalink.html” “web design”
“submiturl.html” “web design”
“submitsite.html” “web design”
“submitlink.html” “web design”
“submitaurl.html” “web design”
“submitasite.html” “web design”
“submitalink” “web design”

“add-url.html” “web design”
“add-site.html” “web design”
“add-link.html” “web design”
“add-a-url.html” “web design”
“add-a-site.html” “web design”
“add-a-link.html” “web design”
“submit-url.html” “web design”
“submit-site.html” “web design”
“submit-link.html” “web design”
“submit-a-url.html” “web design”
“submit-a-site.html” “web design”
“submit-a-link.html” “web design”

“add_url.html” “web design”
“add_site.html” “web design”
“add_link.html” “web design”
“add_a_url.html” “web design”
“add_a_site.html” “web design”
“add_a_link.html” “web design”
“submit_url.html” “web design”
“submit_site.html” “web design”
“submit_link.html” “web design”
“submit_a_url.html” “web design”
“submit_a_site.html” “web design”
“submit_a_link.html” “web design”

“add-url.htm” “web design”
“add-site.htm” “web design”
“add-link.htm” “web design”
“add-a-url.htm” “web design”
“add-a-site.htm” “web design”
“add-a-link.htm” “web design”
“submit-url.htm” “web design”
“submit-site.htm” “web design”
“submit-link.htm” “web design”
“submit-a-url.htm” “web design”
“submit-a-site.htm” “web design”
“submit-a-link.htm” “web design”

“add_url.htm” “web design”
“add_site.htm” “web design”
“add_link.htm” “web design”
“add_a_url.htm” “web design”
“add_a_site.htm” “web design”
“add_a_link.htm” “web design”
“submit_url.htm” “web design”
“submit_site.htm” “web design”
“submit_link.htm” “web design”
“submit_a_url.htm” “web design”
“submit_a_site.htm” “web design”
“submit_a_link.htm” “web design”
“submitlink.htm” “web design”
“submitsite.htm” “web design”

“add-url.php” “web design”
“add-site.php” “web design”
“add-link.php” “web design”
“add-a-url.php” “web design”
“add-a-site.php” “web design”
“add-a-link.php” “web design”
“submit-url.php” “web design”
“submit-site.php” “web design”
“submit-link.php” “web design”
“submit-a-url.php” “web design”
“submit-a-site.php” “web design”
“submit-a-link.php” “web design”

“add_url.php” “web design”
“add_site.php” “web design”
“add_link.php” “web design”
“add_a_url.php” “web design”
“add_a_site.php” “web design”
“add_a_link.php” “web design”
“submit_url.php” “web design”
“submit_site.php” “web design”
“submit_link.php” “web design”
“submit_a_url.php” “web design”
“submit_a_site.php” “web design”
“submit_a_link.php” “web design”
“submitlink.php” “web design”
“submitsite.php” “web design”

“add-url.shtml” “web design”
“add-site.shtml” “web design”
“add-link.shtml” “web design”
“add-a-url.shtml” “web design”
“add-a-site.shtml” “web design”
“add-a-link.shtml” “web design”
“submit-url.shtml” “web design”
“submit-site.shtml” “web design”
“submit-link.shtml” “web design”
“submit-a-url.shtml” “web design”
“submit-a-site.shtml” “web design”
“submit-a-link.shtml” “web design”
“submitlink.shtml” “web design”
“submitsite.shtml” “web design”

“add_url.shtml” “web design”
“add_site.shtml” “web design”
“add_link.shtml” “web design”
“add_a_url.shtml” “web design”
“add_a_site.shtml” “web design”
“add_a_link.shtml” “web design”
“submit_url.shtml” “web design”
“submit_site.shtml” “web design”
“submit_link.shtml” “web design”
“submit_a_url.shtml” “web design”
“submit_a_site.shtml” “web design”
“submit_a_link.shtml” “web design”

“add-url.cfm” “web design”
“add-site.cfm” “web design”
“add-link.cfm” “web design”
“add-a-url.cfm” “web design”
“add-a-site.cfm” “web design”
“add-a-link.cfm” “web design”
“submit-url.cfm” “web design”
“submit-site.cfm” “web design”
“submit-link.cfm” “web design”
“submit-a-url.cfm” “web design”
“submit-a-site.cfm” “web design”
“submit-a-link.cfm” “web design”
“submitlink.cfm” “web design”
“submitsite.cfm” “web design”

“add_url.cfm” “web design”
“add_site.cfm” “web design”
“add_link.cfm” “web design”
“add_a_url.cfm” “web design”
“add_a_site.cfm” “web design”
“add_a_link.cfm” “web design”
“submit_url.cfm” “web design”
“submit_site.cfm” “web design”
“submit_link.cfm” “web design”
“submit_a_url.cfm” “web design”
“submit_a_site.cfm” “web design”
“submit_a_link.cfm” “web design”

“add your link” + “web design”
“add link” + “web design”
“add your site” + “web design”
“link exchange” + “web design”
“add your URL” + “web design”
“submit your link” + “web design”
“add links” + “web design”
“submit your site” + “web design”
“exchange links” + “web design”
“add new link” + “web design”
“add URL” + “web design”
“add site” + “web design”
“add a link” + “web design”
“add your website” + “web design”
“submit your website” + “web design”
“add a new link” + “web design”
“submit URL” + “web design”
“submit link” + “web design”
“request a link” + “web design”
“exchanging links” + “web design”
“submit a link” + “web design”
“trade links” + “web design”
“submit website” + “web design”
“link requests” + “web design”
“website listed here” + “web design”
“link swap” + “web design”
“add a site” + “web design”