Crimson Crux

If you haven’t tried out iJigg yet, do so now. As you might readily deduce from the name, it’s like Digg for music (but sleeker and much more worth the time, IMHO).

Ripping off the site’s description:

What’s iJigg?
Artists from around the world can post their music on iJigg. As listeners, you can vote or “Jigg” music that you like and directly influence the music that becomes popular!

What I find great about iJigg is 1) the quality of music just waiting to be discovered, and 2) the uncluttered, easy-on-the-eyes manner in which these music files are presented to the user. A cool name that sticks like gum to your mind doesn’t hurt, too. (Maybe Ia of Qwerky can write a longer post on iJigg’s Web 2.0 qualities, hehe!)

Before you go and open an account with iJigg, let me share with you a trifecta of newfound ear-pleasers (including a Dragon Ball Z rap!):

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It’s been nearly three months since I’ve posted anything about my moleskine, so just in case you’re wondering what I’ve been doing with it lately:

First, I’ve put up a Moleskine page on my lit blog (or is it a mini-shrine?). Needless to say, writing on the notebook has been a real treat. In the coming weeks I’ll be posting more of my made on moleskine works on Slip of the Pen.

Second, one of my poems has been featured on the popular Moleskinerie.com (thanks to sir Armand Frasco!). (more…)

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted an update here (no thanks to my recent bout with asthma). I should really stock up on emergency blog posts!

Anyway, for those out of the loop, the second Philippine search engine optimization contest, nicknamed “Ituloy AngSulong” concluded last Friday, February 23. While we lost steam in the last month or so (almost nil link-building), our team (Ia, J Angelo) still managed to grab three minor prizes (with equally minor cash), namely:

• #9 in Yahoo! for our Vox entry
• Google Bonus Prize (#11) for our Go-Ogle! Philippines entry
• Google Bonus Prize (#39) for our Vox entry

Our performance is a far cry from our Isulong SEOPH experience, where we placed a strong fifth. Again, almost zero link-building in the last month or so (the time when most SEOs would’ve been playing their aces) killed us. The beauty of too much work! Hehe.

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While writing some posts for a Dungeons and Dragons Online site a few weeks back, I chanced upon a highly entertaining webcomics by the name of DDO1Liners. Highly entertaining, that is, if you:

• Are a fantasy geek,
• Have played D&D or any similar RPG systems,
• Have played the DDO MMORPG or any similar online games, or
• Have a sibling whose endless ‘dice rolls’ and ‘dungeon delvings’ with his/her friends at your house have somehow ingrained the terminology and lingo into your otherwise innocent brain.

Needless to say, those items can overlap! Anyway, I found myself going through every strip in their archives, which I don’t usually do with other webcomics. (more…)

The pics and the title say it all.

Some of you might have encountered these before. I was introduced to these pests through comment spam, which unfortunately wasn’t blocked by Wordpress’ Akismet. Luckily I’ve always enabled comment moderation for all my blogs. Curiously, only my main site has received this kind of spam.

Had similar experiences, anyone?

Update: I’ve found a similar post with the same title by David Kirk, and he thinks this has something to do with PR and SEO.

A non-Filipino reader will probably be taken aback that there is such a thing as a profitable, thriving, and sickening dog meat trade, but unfortunately, it exists here in the Philippines.

Being a lifelong animal lover (especially dogs — we presently live with five crazy ones!), I’ve long railed against the Pinoy culture of eating dog meat (I bet almost all of my uncles, as well my dad, have tasted asucena at one point in their lives, probably during beerfests); I touched on it on an old animal rights essay titled Dead Cats.

Whether or not you’re an animal lover, I enjoin you to sign this online petition and support the crusade for more stringent animal rights measures in the country. The petition seeks to place global pressure on the Filipino government
to pass House Bill 2991 in May 2007 to stop the dog meat trade.

Learn more about the petition, and please sign it, here.

Say yes to dog insurance. If you wonder about the value of pet insurance visit our site where you can compare pet insurance and read the 10 things you should know before buying pet insurance. Take a minute to protect your pet, get a quote at PetsBest.com. 

“War. War never changes.”

Remember the classic PC role-playing games Fallout 1 and 2? That iconic phrase comes from the introduction cutscenes of both games. If you didn’t know already, the next installment in the venerable franchise is being developed by Bethesda, and I can’t frigging wait to see the new face of one of my all-time favorite games.

From a recent CVG article:

[Bethesda's] Pete Hines has been speaking about the sequel in an interview with Gamasutra and, while beans weren’t exactly spilled, we were interested to hear that Bethesda is “already several years into the project.”…Hines explained that the developer won’t do the grand reveal until there’s something there to really get our teeth into.

Make no mistake about it — when Fallout 3 launches, I’ll be losing half my waking hours again.

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