Blog With No Name

I have been an inactive blogger lately. I just got burned out typing all these stories, but I just found this video of guys jumping in their pants. Actually it is jumping INTO their pants. They run around pantsless and do all sorts of almost Parkourish pants wear jumping routines.

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April 1 is fast approaching and let’s see if this is a joke of not. UK Webmaster World is giving away $1,000 to the competitor that ranking number 1 in Google for SEOContest2008. Below are our best bets for the contest:

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Good luck to these competitors! We support you all the way!

This dude is so good, no wonder they call him the SpinMaster! China is always a great contender in gymnastics.

As of this writing, I am mad; the description fuming just could not contain the emotion I was trying to relieve.
Most of you know the type of work I do, my day job, besides the occasional sculpting projects I enjoy. But for others who still haven’t got a clue, I was privileged to be hired as an online comics illustrator at one of the top outsourcing companies of the best web designers, developers, and artists here in the Philippines, bar none. We work according to Philippine laws, pay our taxes. Our company provides work to almost 400 talented Filipinos.

Now granted, some of our clients and some of our works deal with adult materials, but none of them illegal, based on the vague anti-pornography laws we have here. Just how vague? More is explained in this news clip: http://www.gmanews.tv/video/5636/Lack-of-law-hinders-fight-vs-cyberporn

Now, some unscrupulous people under the guise of Investigative Journalism are trying to destroy the business our good employers and we are trying very hard to establish by taking that vague law and twisting it to serve their selfish evil schemes.

I’m not going to beat around the bush and I’ll come right out: They are extorting money from our company and trying very hard to make our working conditions miserable by disrupting our work schedules, through intimidation and harassment by their paid goons or associates and threatening us through trial by publicity (why else would you have a camera crew in hand?).

Our employers have had enough of this and decided to stand up for it, knowing we are not doing anything illegal. You can read how we scored some points in this news article here: http://uw.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=73466

Now we’re guessing this is something their egos couldn’t take, so they are getting back at us, always some sort of unauthorized raid (no search or arrest warrants) is going on, treating us like we’re effing criminals, treating our female employees with disrespect, disrupting our outsourcing business and scaring off potential clients in the process. Like most of my peers, I’m fed up. I have to take action. What better way could I have done? Who can I turn to? Who can I trust? If some government agents are on the take, if journalists of high regard like the Tulfos can threaten anyone with trial by publicity if they are not happy with the amount of payola they receive, what other options are left at my disposal?

How about trial by exposé? I’m going to expose their wicked ways through blogs, the one media they could not control. To destroy what little credibility they have left, credibility they probably acquired through intimidation, threats and manhandling little folks like us.

So I’m humbly requesting those of you who’ve read this, especially Filipino artists among you, to please repost it in your blogs and other journals. Through this minor effort, I want to show them that not all of us can be intimidated and are willing to stand up to being bullied. If no one else’s going to stand up against these extortionist bullies now, who will? I do have a seething hatred for bullies, don’t you? I’m hopeful too, that this post may reach some of our still honest government agencies and maybe they could take action against these people.

The fate of 400 talented Filipinos, people that are only trying to earn an honest living in their own country, hangs in the balance. Please, we need your support.

Enough is enough. We’re taking the stand.

By an anonymous writer from iweb

I reposted this from another blog, I am not the author of this blog post, pero ito masasabi ko… if there is no law on pornography, then I see nothing wrong in what they do. Next thing na masasabi ko from an Internet marketing point of view, since target market naman nito, hindi naman mga taga Philippines, kadali lang ma-block ang Philippine-based IP addresses. So no one in the Philippines can see the site. So wala nang problem ‘di ba?

I actually do not know the main artist of this sketch I got from one of the images on this profile on Friendster.

And I decided to give it some color, just for Photoshop practice. And here’s the outcome, this was done in probably less than 30 minutes so if you scrutinize it, yeah, it’s not that clean. Just felt bored for a few minutes and decided to play around with the image.

Wel, that’s it, nothing else to say. I think I would like to have a bunch of no color image files and color them in Photoshop instead of buying a coloring book and using crayons. Although I can say that the foundation of my Photoshop coloring is still in a way, influenced how I color with crayons. It all starts with the coloring book.

Another week has passed since I started working on my globalwarming awareness2007 site.

• March 23- I was not in the top 100 entries.
• March 24-25 - worked mostly on onpage optimization. Site was seen in Google, Yahoo and MSN after a day but not within the top 100.
• March 26-31 - Worked on content and viral stuff to get normal IBLs and traffic. Worked well and so far rankings has climbed from the 80’s overall to 60’s and now in the 20 to 30’s.
• April 1-7 - Had brief periods of being on page 1 on Yahoo and MSN, but looks like they were just some hiccups as my rankings in Yahoo dropped once again below 100 and slowly climbed back up to the 60’s. I had a brief moment as number 9 on MSN but went back down to the 40’s and slowly climbed back up to the 10 to 20’s range. Google although I am playing in page 3, the rate of ranking increased has slowed down.

April 8 to 14, I will concentrate again on bringing the site up about 10 more notches in all search engines. Mostly on offpage optimization and other stuff.

Directory submissions are over. Let’s see what else I can do.

After being tired of SEO contest and busy with work, I barely have the time to work on my GlobalWarming Awareness2007 contest entry. And just yesterday I decided to fix up my site. SEO is actually not that simple and I have do spend quite some time just on my on-page optimization stuff and I am barely finished. But after working on the site, where the site was unknown and not in the top 100 in all Google, Yahoo and MSN, and today is the 2nd day for my optimization… Iam now indexed by all search engines and MSN puts me on Page 5. Now still along way to go, and the contest ends soon, hopefully there is still enough time.

I do not intend to make this a porn site at all. And this clip was actually shown on national TV so this video is office safe. But it is very unusual to see a story a like this. This is the story of a porn star named Sunny Lane who really does hard core stuff, but the unusual thing is her managers and probably biggest fans are actually her parents Mike and Shelby Lane.

Her parents were so proud of seeing their daughter get into Playboy TV, cheering like a little kid. And they seem to be very happy making money for themselves and in some way it sounds a bit “exploitatious” in a way, but they don’t seem to look at it that way. In fact the father really says with conviction that they are looking after their daughter against people that want to exploit her. And as Sunny Lane says it: “We were given these organs for a reason…” OMG, so far I cannot imagine this situation right now being a parent myself. Definitely I do not see this happening in my family. And I thought maybe she was just doing some sexy modeling, and maybe as a parent I might be able to accept something like that, but I then searched on Google: Sunny Lane, Mike, Shelby. And OMG, she’s hardcore. I don’t know… I don’t want to know… no, no, no.

I was into martial arts since 1990. First into Taekwondo, then Aikido and then Jeetkunedo. And very briefly, I tried out Muay Thai Kickboxing. I have been joining competitions in Taekwondo since 1994 to 1996 and stopped and just did a short competition again in 2004. Although I practice various martial arts and I love watching mixed martial arts (MMA) competitions like the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Price Fighting Championship, I will never join competitions like those, at least not now, and maybe not in the future as age is already coming up with me. Even if I like watching these, I am not joining because I believe the formula to win is the 4S: Skill, Strength, Speed and Stamina. If you are weak in one of them, you can lose. And my major weakness is stamina. My cardiovascular endurance is way low, I easily get tired. And considering that I have an elevated heart rate due to hyperthyroidism, a type of toxic goiter that hyperactivates the thyroid gland making the heart work more in pumping more blood thinking that the thyroid gland needs more blood flow in there.

Why you need the 4S:

• Skill: If you do not know how to fight, you lose. Deliver a punch effectively, deliver a kick effectively, and grapple effectively. And know how to defend in these attacks as well are all needed. A win could sometimes be a win just because the fighter was more knowledgeable of what to do in a fight.
• Strength: Let’s say someone is less skillful than you, but is very very powerful. That even if you see a kick coming, and is aware of the attack and you are able to block it, but is so powerful that the pain will go through the block. Or a fighter gives you a barrage of punches and you cover up your face, but they somehow still give a knockout feeling. Someone more powerful can will with the sheer power.
• Speed: Something that made Bruce Lee popular was mainly his speed. As you just begin to punch, he sees it and someone beats you at the punch and punches you first. And if someone with excellent speed can follow up with a flurry or attacks where opponents get overwhelmed and barely have the time to think loses just because they are slower.
• Stamina: Assuming both fighters have all skill, strength and speed, and is equally match where one cannot take much advantage on the other and the fight goes the distance. It will then boil down to stamina. If you don’t have the endurance to last long, and your opponent is can last for more hours than you. Then it’s dooms day for you as you cannot even move well when you are tired. So you cannot defend yourself well, nor can you attack effectively. This is my biggest weakness which I was aware of during my Taekwondo days so I joined an aerobics class that does aerobics three times a week to develop my stamina.

Today MMA fighters are so well rounded that you need to practice everything before entering competitions like those. This video below is not an MMA competition, but in this video you will see one fighter that is more skilled, has the speed, has lesser strength but has has stronger stamina and he wins because he takes advantage of his skill, speed and stamina. While the loser who was all about power, loses and gives up.

For me, banks are not the best financial tools to save the most amount of money in the shortest period of time. For me it is still business and investments that make money and investments are better than savings accounts. Although you add in more risk, the more calculated you risk is, the less riskier it gets. but definitely you still need a bank. Banks are all different so might as well get the most advantageous bank. But learning that alone sometimes takes some time. But there are sites dedicated to this that excludes all the business talk and financial terms in it. Compare online banking, find a savings account or checking account and earn more interest today with SavingsAccounts.com. Here there is not much confusing stuff to read. Just plain interest rate comparison, list of services offered by the bank and the website of the bank so you can start opening an account right away. And after seeing their site, I am happy to know that I bank the second highest paying interest bank list. Although I did not choose the highest paying one, my bank has a lot of promos and other online conveniences that I like. Have you chosen your bank well enough?