Archive for March, 2007

2nd day of working on GlobalWarming Awareness2007

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.

Parents support hardcore porn star daughter as managers and biggest fans

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.

Winning in Fighting - the 4S: Skill, Strength, Speed and Stamina

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.


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Choosing the right bank

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?

Piracy destroying the pirates

Piracy is the enemy of many people mainly software companies and people from the music industry and movie industry. They earn money from selling their music, selling the movies, selling their software on digital storage media, CDs, DVDs, or sometimes online downloadable goods. And it is very well known in many countries, that some people even manufacture pirated CDs and DVDs and sell them at a very cheap price, way lower than the current market value. Even if they may be lower in quality, to the consumer, nothing beats a real cheap price. And there are companies that have been profitable in this illegal business that has greatly affected the movie industry, music industry and software industry.

But with the current trend of P2P softwares coming out, from Kazaa, Morpheus, Limewire, Ares, BitTorrent and all these other P2P softwares which most were inspired by the old Napster, one of the first music file sharing software. With these softwares which have always been the enemies of the RIAA and MPAA, are not only ruining the music industry, movie industry and software industry, but they are also actually affecting the CD and DVD piracy duplicators. Since why do you need to pay if you can get them for free? Oh well, I guess P2P will not stop and if I were in these industries, I guess I would evolve into try and make new revenue streams from this system. I really do not know how yet, but there should be a way.

When I get a house…

I live in San Diego, they say real estate is way expensive here and it’s not going down. But I believe it is still going to go down sometime 2008 or 2009 based on my conversations with people that are in good touch with the real estate industry. But can I afford it? My wife is far away, but will be with me soon and our combined income will make it easier to buy property and move out of our apartment.

And this time it is the issue with fixing up the house, dressing it up and putting everything inside. I guess this is one thing I enjoy doing with my wife. We don’t hire much help in fixing things up and we both share the joy of shopping for furniture,do painting and repairs ourselves. I personally go for the modern look. But my wife says she likes the wood beds of Great Priced Furniture. And my wife is very particular with the look and feel the house will make and I trust her decision on that. I like her choice of furniture stores as well since our daughters would also have a good selection of choices with the children furniture.

Now before we all go to dreamland, we have to plan out that mortgage stuff first and where will we actually buy. But thinking about it whenever seeing the furniture, makes her even excited to buy a house already.

What will I do to win GlobalWarming Awareness2007?

Ok, this blog is all about various things. But where did this all start off with? Isulong SEOph. How well did this site do? Hmm not so good. My other site did better. Vorgemilten, I won that fake contest. Too bad it was a fake. Ituloy AngSulong, just number 10 on Google on the final day. So now GlobalWarming Awareness2007 comes. So what am I going to do?

First is, I cannot use this website. *LOL* Domains should be a new domain not registered on the day before the contest.  And mostly every keyword rich domain was already taken. I don’t know what’s else left to use. But I still got 1 domain and let’s see how that goes.

Now I just installed wordpress basically for the ease of use. I started making the theme for the site as well and will concentrate on onpage stuff site,  and domain canonicalization issues and avoiding duplicate content issues and lets see how it goes. I will devote this week to onpage optimization. I can’t do this full time since I have a full time job too as well as a full time sideline job. But fortunately all jobs are still all SEO related. Next week after seeing the effects of onpage optimization, I will probably work on developing content, and then link building then.

Fixing the redirect madness

Since the Ituloy AngSulong SEO Contest is over, and the Ituloy AngSulong Winners were declared already. I need to clean up my blogs. As in a real big backend clean up. So many sites I modified I cannot even remember what I have been doing to every site. All these bot and ip detections and redirects left and right. I got to take them out right now before big brother G. finds out and kicks me in the butt. So it’s clean up time one site at a time, one by one. SEO contest are damn tiring.