Google Adsense for Domains

Google Adsense is a sure way to make money from your websites. I have a couple of mine that is earning. Well for the company at least.

Now i have successfully entered my site for Google Adsense for Domains. This is the newest addition to the Google Adsense (groups).

Check out www.footballticketsonline.org. You will see that www.footballticketsonline.org, is just a simple parked domain. You design nothing, you just have to point the DNS (DNS pointing can be free if you look into the right websites), it gets approved, You EARN!

And some of my other sites that are waiting for Confirmation.

www.sportingticketsonline.org
www.bestloansshop.com
www.recruitmentonline.org
www.dubaitimeshare.org
www.dubaitimesharesales.net
www.bahrainpropertyspecialist.com

An Eye for An Eye

An eye for an eye leaves the world blind. A famous saying by Gandhi. I received an email from one of my mail groups today. It was about an article written by a Chinese in Hong Kong. And in the article he belittled the Filipinos. And called us "servants". I know we are in a Third World Country (even that phrase sounds demeaning to me), but surely he should not have said the things he did. He was talking about Spratly Islands, and how the Philippines is also claiming some part of.

I read the article, and replied to our mail group. I regret some words that I said there. I also made a racist remark towards the Chinese and those selling their flesh in particular.

I should not have said what I said, but unfornately I did.

Updating My Site

I have just updated my website http://www.vacationpadsauctions.com/ you might want to check it out.

It is supposedly a portal for vacation pads that are auctioned off

Search Engine Optimization

Last week I had a good chat with my friend Gino who is now working in Singapore. He used to do Search Engine Optimization from a company we both worked for in Cebu. I think he is pretty good at what he is doing, so I asked him for some advice.

I have been doing Search Engine Optimization for 3 years now (or even more), yet I never wrote down what I have learned. I only have a general idea that, Content is King.

Keywords, Metatags, Title, all that adds up.

I think SEO (for Google) is pretty basic. You just have to do the dirty work. And it is painfully slow. But it will pay off.

I will someday write down some of the stuff that I have learned. But not now. Im too lazy for that. I mean busy.

We Joined Earth Hour

MY girlfriend and I rode a bus home, from 7:30 or maybe a little past that, and we arrived home at around 8:35 because the stop is a good 10 minutes walk from our apartment.

When we opened our door we saw it was all dark, and we were greeted by the kid on the other door, saying "It's Earth Hour".

And so we remembered. I totally forgot about it. Even though Coldplay was playing a few miles from US. And Coldplay's concert was supposedly powered by Wind Turbines. How 'cool' is that! :)

I registered for the Earth Hour as well. My macbook pro was already turned off, so we just hurried to her macbook. Lit some candles, unplugged our electronics, turned off our A/C and opened our windows. We're glad it is not summer yet. The MidEast summer.

We are glad to be part of the event, though it looks as if most people in our area either did not know about it or did not care. Cos when we opened our windows, other people's apartments are well lit. Well.

It was a bit sad. We are just 5 people there. But looking at there advert reassured us, that even if it was just 5 of us doing our share, across the globe, little number added up to thousands of people, maybe even millions. :)

They had nice adverts too, which you can find in youtube.

Oh it is work day again. Are you going on a vacation? Looking for a holiday?

iPhone 3.0

my friends are now testing iphone 3.0, yet i am still going to upgrade my phone and my girlfriend's into 2.2.1...

i will try to. lol

we're so behind.. but what the hell my phone works for me. and im gladly listening to The Outfield now

i pwn

Rashies

Me, Matet and Arman.

I gained 20lbs with the fisheye lens. lol

What the Hail

SOME parts of the country experienced hail for 5-10minutes last night. I did not see it for myself but some people said so. I cannot grab a picture of it now. A friend of mine showed me one.

It is very unusual since we are in the middle east, and we used to boast '365 days of sunshine'

The earth must be ailing.

I urge you guys to join Earth Hour 2009. It is a specific time this March where people will turnoff there electricity for an hour.

We will what happens then :)

I also dont have the direct link now. But you can google "Earth Hour"

Bad news

There were two unfortunate stories that I learned today. One was from a local paper, a story about a 12 year old girl who was raped by her uncle. It is happening here as well. And it brings a bad name to us Filipinos. :(

The other one was about an Indian guy who committed suicide. I didnt read his story in the news, or maybe not yet. The story came from one of our ex officemates who just got removed from our office. The indian guy was their landlord.

:(

sad

A few of the sites im making..

i have not kept a good record of the websites that I have made. Either that or they have been replaced.

A few of those that are running today are

Self Catering Pads | Holiday Rental

Dubai Palm Vacations

Vacation Pads Auctions | Property Auction

Homes To Let

Coldplay is playing Green

I think that is exactly what the news heading was, but yes Coldplay is playing GREEN. They are going to perform in Abu Dhabi during the "Earth Hour" and that is "8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth. Saturday 28 March 2009" Oh yes I "googled" it.

It was said that they are hiring a New Zealand company to offset their carbon emission during the concert. Are they going to use windmills? That is the question. And it seems that they will.

I am not heading out to see them. They're a great band yes, and their song The Scientist got immortalized in my head when it was used at the "airport scene" in the movie Wicker Park. But I dont find them very catchy now. The tune for Viva La Vida is catchy. Did you here that Joe? Apparently it was a composition by some other artist. The collective 3 notes from that song at least. Some Artist?.. It was by Joe Satriani folks. And if you dont know him... you better surf with aliens!

Sandstorms again

I must have written about this before, but today, the sandstorm was fierce! It was rather dirty the cloud that shrouded the city. Still it was business as usual.

We have just received news that one of the Sheiks from the royal family here has died. Im still uncertain though how he is related to the Prime Minister. My condolences.

OH! it is now starting to get really hot outside. I had my lunch there, also yesterday. And I think I might not take it outside, as the "garden" in our villa is no longer a nice spot to lounge and take lunch. It is friggin hot, I had a nosebleed yesterday!

I am wondering what the whether is like in the Philippines now. While I was in the Philippines, by March I would have already gone to 4 beaches already. hehehe Well, I chose to be in a Middle Eastern country. And I don't have regrets. :)

I will see you soon Philippines!

Lazy Bird Hitching a Ride

Hey mister, where you headed?
Are you in a hurry?
I need a lift to happy hour
Say oh no.

Do you brake for distilled spirits?
I need a break as well
The well that inibriates the guilt.
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4

Cold turkey's getting stale
Tonight I'm eating crow
Fermented salmonella poison oak, no

There's a drought at the fountain of youth, and now I'm dehydrating
My tongue is swelling up, as say 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4

Troubled times, you know I can not lie
I'm off the wagon and I'm hitchin' a ride

There's a drought at the fountain of youth, and now I'm dehydrating
My tongue is swelling up, I say shit!

Troubled times, you know I can not lie
I'm off the wagon and I'm hitchin' a ride

I'm hitchin' a ride
I'm hitchin' a ride
I'm hitchin' a ride
I'm hitchin' a ride
I'm hitchin' a ride
I'm hitchin' a ride
I'm hitchin' a ride
I'm hitchin' a ride

No Time?

I was writing an entry for my journal here 2 days ago but it was not finished. the story would have been about a "Pinoy Worker", I think that was the planned title for the blog. I started it by talking about the "value for money" of a pinoy worker. Being that a kabayan is more often, doing well with his or her job.

However, in the afternoon while writing my entry, each one of us was called by our boss to his office. First was one of our accountants, second was from our reservations team,.. and so on. And by then we knew, that this was the day that they will start removing some staff again. They did this before, sometime October of 2008, then again on December of that year, now 3 months came and they... did it again.

MY hands were cold when I recieved an instant message from our accountant, she told me it is her last day. I did not know what to say. I am sure she is in full control of herself, and saying some cliche' would not help. Or is not needed.

The reservations staff that got removed however was different from the discreet accountant, who kept quiet. She (the res staff), proclaimed to everyone that we will all be removed and that only one will remain, the Brit from the group. I did not hear her when she said this, this is just like one of those.. "witnesses say".

I however heard her, well she was talking to me really, when she told me that of the four people in our IT, only one will remain. And it is not me. I was scared. During this time I was already on conversation with my girlfriend over googletalk. And we were both scared. Good thing that my girlfriend assured me, and told me to wait for the final word, and not to believe what that girl said.

It came my time to be in the office. I heard the same lines our boss used when the first "wave" of retrenchment came last year. He told me "as you noticed, some people are coming my office, and some of them will be removed"..

I did not look him in the eye, and I was almost teary eyed, I thought. Then I asked my boss.. "Will I be one of them?"

He assured me. "no.. no.. you will not be removed"

I was so relieved.

And then he told me something else. That there will be changes on how the company will operate. All that stuff. That if I tell you, I will then have to kill you kind of information. Lol. I am just kidding.

You can visit a holiday rental site to know what IT means. :)

thanks!

now I finally have time to write this entry. Congratulations to all pinoy workers.

Not Bad At All

It used to be that when we come in on Sunday, being the first work day, people ask "what did you do last weekend?". Now they dont ask. They dont care anymore maybe.

But to those who care to ask, I've done a lot last weekend, and went to the beach 2 weekends back also. Summer is coming. No doubt. Even if there are occasional cold spells and fogs on some mornings, it is still evident that summer is here.

I have my first Rashguard. lol. Bought a new pair of flipflops (Quicksilver).

And.. me and my girlfriend opted to start our pasalubong shopping early. So as not to burden us on the last moment. Whew. We have bought some good amount of gifts already :)

And we are excited. However, the job climate here is still ... sad.

But then again. Not Bad :)

iPods and iPhone banned on Gates household

Lol. Well, i think everyone knows someone who owns an iPhone or an iPod to say the least. (ME gots an iphone) But in the Gates estate in Washington these gadgets are offlimits.

Hehehe well it does make sense. Would Henry Ford want to see his sons drive a Mistubishi?


Taken from Yahoo Tech News.

"Bill Gates's sprawling Washington state compound is, as you might expect, packed to the gills with bleeding-edge gear, from the heated floors and 20-seat home theater to the X-ray machine (for screening the mail, of course) and miles of fiber-optic cabling. But here's what you definitely won't find at chez Gates: an iPhone.
In the latest issue of Vogue, Bill's wife, Melinda Gates, reveals that among the "very few things" on "the banned list in our household" are—you guessed it—iPods and iPhones.

Brutal, yes—especially for Bill and Melinda's three kids (two daughters and a son, aged 12, six, and nine, respectively), who'll just have to grin and bear it as their little pals make merry with the latest and greatest iPod.

And even Melinda herself admits to an occasional pang of Apple envy: "Every now and then I look at my friends and say, 'Ooh, I wouldn't mind having that iPhone.'" (Ouch!)"


Read more below. :)

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/40926

Blind Dates Are Harmful

I have always known this since the day I began liking the opposite gender. I used to frequent some chatrooms using MIRC when I was in college. And met some new friends and a group online. But never got to see them in person, or at least we almost did, but I stood them up on an EB. lol

Things didnt turn out nice for this 17year old boy in China who got so disappointed with his "blind date" that he apparently lost weight and committed suicide days after.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20070105-41820/Chinese-teen-kills-self-when-blind-date-turns-ugly----report

darn!