Join the Koday $110 Visa Gift Card Giveaway

The list is instructive on how promote a new product (in this case Kodak's new printer) on the web.

Got this via MelindaJoy926:

"HOW TO ENTER:
1) Follow Kodak on Twitter @KodakSave110 and comment with your twitter handle
2) Visit http://www.printandprosper.com/ and comment with something you learned about Kodak
printers and cost-savings
3) Follow @melindajoy926 and tweet this giveaway and leave me the twitter comment link
"$110 Visa GC Giveaway @melindajoy926 + "Link"
4) Follow my blog (google reader, blogger, facebook), and leave a comment telling me you did so
5) Email 5 friends about this giveaway and let me know you did this
6) Subscribe to my blog via email, and leave a comment with your subscribed emai laddress
7) Grab my button and leave me a link to your page
8) Blog about this giveaway and leave me the link to the post"

Glogster

Google Chrome OS: It's not about Microsoft, it's about Search (Speed)!

Remember this:

"“We’re continually testing new interfaces and features to enhance the user experience. We are currently experimenting with a javascript enhanced result page because we believe that it may ultimately provide a faster experience for our users. At this time only a small percentage of users will see this experiment. It is not our intention to disrupt referrer tracking, and we are continuing to iterate on this project. For more information on the experiments that we run on Google search, please see: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-test-this-is-only-test.html.”

and

this:

"Currently AJAX results are just a test on Google. At this time only a small percentage of users will see this experiment. It is not our intention to disrupt referrer tracking, and we are continuing to iterate on this project and are actively working towards a solution. As we continue experiments, we hope that this test may ultimately provide an easier solution for our customers and a faster experience for our users. For more information on the experiments that we run on Google search, please see http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-test-this-is-only-test.html"

the press release on Google Chrome OS is very telling on Google's desire to improve search speed:

"We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet."

I think it's not about Microsoft really. Microsoft's OS just happens to be in the way of Google for them to have more people search - having a clunky OS just delays people from searching not by the milliseconds but by the minute (sometimes by the hour! okay half-an-hour!)

12 Fruits select WaTunes to release SOUNDWAVE by June 25!

Fresh from the WaTunes Blog and from WaTunes CEO, Kevin Rivers himself:

"Hey guys,We are very happy to say that 12 Fruits as chosen WaTunes to release their latest compilation: SoundWave. This compilation will featured 14 bands and 2 bonus tracks. This compilation will be available on iTunes on June 25th, 2009. Great bands including: The Sophmore Beats, Select Start, I Am Empire, Another Option, and more! Be sure to pick up your copy from these amazing bands and spread the word to your fellow community. Here at WaTunes, we're all about opportunities!"

Check out the SOUNDWAVE promo video here.

You can also check out the SOUNDWAVE announcement on their page:

"The CD will be hitting all tour dates as mentioned before, so don't be worried because we will get to your area!If the tour is not hitting your area, you will be missing out not only on our CD but an awesome show! The CD will officially release online (itunes and Shockhound) on June 1st! We will also be selling real copies online through bigcartel.More information will be posted as in which Hot Topics the CD will hit and where else the CD will be sold! We will be updating this page as much as we can for you."

Here are the bands on the CD:Another OptionRookie of the YearSelect StartI Am EmpireVega Under FireThe Sophomore BeatThe Last Place You LookRender Me SpeechlessMy So Called LifeMr Fyner and the Tech Ed RoomBackdropAlmost ThereA Love Not LostBe sure to download the SOUNDWAVE album on iTunes and ShockHound on June 25!

The Michael for Berklee PayPal donate button is up!

This is repost from Teacher Chelo's Blog:

"The Michael for Berklee (michaelgemina.com) PayPal donate button is here!And in the spirit of 1,000 "True" Fans - we invite you to participate in this project - it's not everyday that you get an opportunity to send a 20 year-old Filipino drummer to go to Berklee! We'd like to believe that there are 500 true fans out there who would each be willing to donate at least 1,000 pesos (approx 21 USD) or 1,000 true fans who would each be willing to donate 500 pesos (approx 11 USD) to help Michael's Berklee dream come true! If you are already one of Michael's micropatrons, please indicate to us if we can put your name on the micropatron page in michaelgemina.com. We're also forming the michaelgemina.com street team since we've already crossed the 500 fans mark last week! Thanks for the support!"

and oh yeah. Add yourself as a fan okay? :) We're trying to hit 1,000 TRUE fans, you know? :P

CHICK COREA in Manila on 13 February 2009!

Make it happen! Jazz Fanatics of the Philippines and Southeast Asia UNITE!

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with
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One of the most HISTORICAL MUSICAL COLLABORATIONS of OUR TIME

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JAZZ IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT.

SweetSpot@Saguijo January 2009

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Originally uploaded by Red Rivera

The FIRST SweetSpot of 2009! :)

Be A WebDev Hero! Learn Heroku!

De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde Information Systems student Arjay "JayThree03" Orcasitas demontrates to his fellow 3rd year classmates how to deploy Spree, an online commerce Ruby on Rails app, over Heroku. Check the workshop out on Wednesday, 3 December 2008 at CL8, De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde Main Campus from 1030Am - 230pm (two sessions). This VERTSOL (Vertical Market Solutions for the Retail Market) workshop is bought to you by the student org, AIM - Association of Information Management

Falling by Nityalila

Jump for joy.

Jump for joy.
Originally uploaded by Andi Manzano

I know how hard it is to do this - there's nothing like a great jump shot!

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Auld Lang Syne

Something to listen to when the NEW YEAR comes a-KNOCKINg! :)

"Ngunit Bakit Nga Ba?" (But Why?) Live@The Room Upstairs by Lana J

I usually post music-related stuff on my Last.fm journal but I'll try to update this blog after I saw Ida's twitter message. I'll try to see if I can embed Google videos here :P

talentsinC Arts & Media Summit: 30 January 2007 ENLI Bldg

If you're from Every Nation and you're somewhere in the Philippines on 30 January then make sure that you're part of the FIRST EVER talentsinc Arts & Media Summit. For more information visit the talentsinC website:

"What? The talents inC Summit is a whole day convergence of ALL professionals and students from Victory Christian Fellowship engaged in Arts and Media. With the purpose of getting them to CONNECT, COLLABORATE and CAPTIVATE Arts and Media for God! At the same time equipping them through Prophetic Preachings and Testimonies, empowering them as they engage their industries."



See you there!

She said "No"

For those of you who noticed that I haven't been blogging in a while, I just want to say I'm back. I just got a phone call from the lady that I was trying to court and in so many words she said "No".

She said that she wasn't open at this time. There are other details but I will leave it out to protect her privacy. She was very very gentle and decent about it and we are still friends. I've know her for around two years here in Afghanistan and she's the first woman that I've really tried to be vulnerable with. So my friend Anthony is wrong - I'm not really robotic or an android. I do have feelings. ha-ha or maybe an emotion chip? I love the C.S. Lewis quote that I found on Jenny Caspe's blog:

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.

If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.

But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. . .

The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love is Hell."

--The Four Loves

Man, I didn't know this was going to hurt this much, but I would rather that my heart be wrung and be broken than it become unbreakable, impenetrable and irredeemable. And as my friend Jane Chang put it "You won't know if you don't go". I haven't told a lot of people that she told me "No" but if you're reading this blog then now you know. My friend Holly had this encouragement that when I do meet that special person she will be overwhelmed when she meets me. Well I certainly was overwhelmed when I met her, too bad it wasn't mutual.

It was a nice few days as I was able to tell her what's in my mind in five languages. Yes, she speaks five languages - Japanese, Spanish, French, Afghan Farsi and English. I told her tonigh that I knew she would really enjoy reading that and there's very few people who would really appreciate that gesture. I even started sending some French poetry and I have an unsent card that has this Renée Vivien poem on it. I'll still send it because I know it goes very well with the pink roses that Dan is going to arrange. Here's how it goes:

Roses du soir

Des roses sur la mer, des roses dans le soir,
Et toi qui viens de loin, les mains lourdes de roses !
J'aspire ta beauté. Le couchant fait pleuvoir
Ses fines cendres d'or et ses poussières roses...

Des roses sur la mer, des roses dans le soir.

Un songe évocateur tient mes paupières closes.
J'attends, ne sachant trop ce que j'attends en vain,
Devant la mer pareille aux boucliers d'airain,
Et te voici venue en m'apportant des roses...

Ô roses dans le ciel et le soir ! Ô mes roses !

I was thinking about her this morning and wanted to write to her about the 50 things I love about her. Well, I just sent it but that was after I got the phone call. I've never blogged while I have tears in my eyes but there's always a first time. I have a feeling that I will keep bumping into her as the circle that we move around in is just a very small circle. I told her that it was my honor and my privilege to even know her and even consider her. I still love the fact the fact that she is one of my very good friends in Afghanistan. I have found love and I found heartbreak in Afghanistan. I am excited on what I'm going to find here next.