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Wow, after so much days not blogging, a wierd and somewhat controvesial note on some SEO (Search Engine Optimization) site is what going to stir me back on writing something. Just a quick word if you're not into the latest trend about the big G and its exploits, check out your PR!

Anyway, if your wondering why on earth am I asking you to check your page rank. The answer is rather quite simple after you had checked your own rank. (Edit: Don't check my page rank, cause this domain is just a month old even if I started blogging rather a few months ago.) Everyone knows that it was mid-October this year, 2007, that the lastest page rank update happened; some blogs had increased their page ranks while other's stooped and slide down the ranking system. This is what everyone else knows about a typical ranking system, some lose ranks while others gain. However, last November 15, if I wasn't mistaken, selective webmasters ended up losing their page ranks, not just a -1 or a -2 from the said ranking system owned by G, but all of their page ranks started to start back to zero. For what reason?

Everyone knows that Google uses Adsense and Adwords as it's predominant investment key to gain billions of dollars across and over the internet using publishers and advertisers alike. However what if you don't belong to their publishers' network or their advertising network but instead you are doing business as a freelance writer over the internet, or your finding good and qualified writers to help you out to promote your business? This was the major question that instantanouesly popped-out my mind. What if the webmaster doesn't belong to Google's advertising firm, would that mean breaching some contract or guidelines, which was purportedly the reason why some bloggers lost their page rank? Read story here or here

Apart from what I know, page rank was in fact made to determine the website's quality content, the links associated to it, the website's traffic and so on and so forth, which in fact is too categorical and at the same time confusing. (Just head out to Wikipedia in order to know what page rank is all about.) Every website owners knows that page rank is being utilized by a lot advertising firms in order to promote their products over the vast market of the internet; and with page rank being under Google's subsidy, advertisers tend to be so sure that their products could get a decent exposure. But what if these advertisers wanted more than what Google's advertising firm can provide? What if the advertisers hired decent freelance writers and asked them to critic their products? Would that mean selling links across the internet?

I just don't understand why most of the time Google tends to be so manipulative over the course and trend of online marketers and freelancers alike. If they see that a freelancers' writing job over the internet is causing them to lose money from their contextualized ads then I think it might had made them to use page rank as a means of trying to get even from their competitors. Well at the end of the day an online publisher doesn't want to be stuck at a page rank zero you know, and no one seems to care even if a lot of people will boycott big G or not. Read More......

Congressman Wahab Akbar, a representative from Basilan had died from the explosion that had happened in the Philippine Congress at around 8:00 p.m. GMT. The said congressman was sent to the Far Eastern University Hospital for sufficient medication however, due to the sustaining wounds, cuts and fractures that he acquired from the said explosion he didn't survived. According to ABS-CBN News the driver of the said congressman who had survived states that the said explosion happened not in the congressman's car but instead on the lobby of the South Wing of the Batasan Pambansa. He states that if it the explosion occurred in the congressman's car he shouldn't have been there to testify what had happened.

The congressman's death was announced by a family friend, Sandra Cam, whom she was speaking to on the phone prior the said explosion. She states that she had heard the explsion and rushed over to the hospital where the said congressman was rushed to.

Apart from these, another congressman's driver had died on the spot due to the said explosion, while other staffs of the congressmen who were injured were rushed to the hospitals for medical treatment, with which one of the victims was still on a critical condition, while another staff of Congressman Akbar will have his left leg amputated due to the severity of the damage done by the explosion.

Up to now it's still uncertain whether the said explosion was related to the Glorietta 2 Explosion, or the said explosion was done due divert attention to the revised impeachment complaint against the incumbent president, or it was due to terroristic acts, more so whether the said explosion was only directed towards the said congressman who had passed away. However, one thing is for certain that if the center of power of the Philippines in not safe, every place in the said country more so is not safe.

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Breaking news today. According to ABS-CBN News, an explosion happened in the Philippine Congress sending about more than 8 individuals, inclusive of which were 3 congressmen, to the nearest hospital (Malvar Hospital). The said explosion, according to the news, happened around 8:00 p.m. GMT.

Initial reports says that the explosion is still under investigation, and that the National Police hadn't released yet their official statement for the said incident. However, reports claims that Rep. Luz Ilagan of party-list group Gabriela was one of the casualties of the said incident. The said representative according to the breaking news might had suffered shrapnel injuries in the legs, while Congressman Ilagan's driver Marcial Talbo, died in the said blast.

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Among the 88 princesses who vied for the title Miss Earth, only one stood tall and out-shined the rest. She's no other than the 22 years old Canadian representative Jessica Nicole Trisko, a half-Canadian, half-Filipino descent. The new queen of the said pageant will succeed her predecessor Ms. Chile, Hil Hernandez, as the bearer of environmental awareness throughout the world. Ms. Canada, was a Ph.D. political science student of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The results for judging the new queen of the said pageant was stiff, since both Ms. Canada and her runner-up, Ms. India had the same brilliant answer on how will they tell the blind child the beauty of mother nature. But Ms. Canada's poetic and profound answer hailed her to the crown against the three other finalist namely, Ms. India, Ms. Venezuela, and Ms. Spain.

The competition itself was difficult since from 88 ladies competing, only the top 16 were chosen to proceed further. The following 16 semi-finalist were as follows: Jessica Nicole Trisko (Ms. Canada); Eva Čerešňáková (Ms. Czech Republic); Themys Febriel (Ms. Dominican Republic); Nanka Mamasakhlisi (Ms. Georgia); Pooja Chitgopekar (Ms. India); Amale Al-Khoder (Ms. Lebanon); Elodie Delor (Ms. Martinique); Stacey Garvey (Ms. Nigeria); Odilia Pineda (Ms. Peru); Alina Gheorge (Ms. Romania); Bokang Montjane (Ms. South Africa); Angela Gomez Duran (Ms. Spain); Ivana Gagula (Ms. Sweden); Stefanie Gossweiler (Ms. Switzerland); Jiraporn Sing-ieam (Ms. Thailand); and Silvana Santaella (Ms. Venezuela).

From 16 semi-finalist, only 8 of them survived to grace the stage of the University of the Philippines theater, with their Filipiniana inspired clothes. The 8 remaining contestants' wit on environmental awareness were also tested on a question and answer portion with which questions where picked from different individuals who promote environmental awareness in the different fields. From the remaining 8 only 4 contestants were picked to represent the titles Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, hence hailing Ms. Canada as the new queen of the said competition.

(Photo Courtesy of Nhan Dan)

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Looking for a house to own this day is very difficult, more so it's a demanding task since you needed to find the best deal available over the market. However, finding the best deal requires the buyer to find a mortgage loan that would support the kind of purchase he or she might be needing for the house he or she wished to acquire. Nonetheless if he or she doesn't want a mortgage loan, he or she can spend his or her own savings which of course is not advisable to those who had a meager budget.

But looking for the best deal also entails the worst of it. A person can search the best mortgage deal to the extent of stressing himself or herself for paying the dues that would come on a monthly basis. In addition to this, some mortgage sector in different countries now a days are on the verge of collapse, hence instead of paying for the normal value of what the person had borrowed, it might just end up being tripled which causes so much stress on the part of the buyer.

However there is still hope in finding a house a person can call home, with or without a mortgage loan. If he or she is the United States, or in Florida state to be exact, he or she can avail what the banks called foreclosure houses in Florida, where prices of houses ranges from the least expensive to the medium expensive house, which of course, is way below the real market value of the property being foreclosed; around 20 to 30 percent off. Read More......

So what's with Harry Potter?

Quite a catchy question right? Apparently Harry Potter mania, and its fever had never ceased up until now even after the Deathly Hallows. And so much to my surprise that the author of the book per se, J.K. Rowling, had filed again another copyright or intellectual property right case against a publisher who intends to make a book out of the internet based Lexicon, Harry Potter Encyclopedia, that holds information about the characters she had fictitiously created. The case according to BBC News entails the publication of the contents of the internet based Lexicon to a book to be sold out to public.

J.K. Rowling had filed the said case in order to protect her rights against the publication of the said encyclopedia, since she stresses that much of its contents rely heavily on her work. More so, the said book might spoil her own planned encyclopedia that she intends to make and release in the future. Read More......

Britney Spears' latest album Blackout was definitely not the usual of what we normally hear of her; the provocative and sensual type. Her latest comeback album somehow incorporates her feelings, though in a poor sense, since we all know she doesn't wrote much of her songs. No one truly knows whether the said compositions reflect Britney's true emotions or not, but one thing is for sure about the album; Blackout surely is not even comparable to the previously released albums of Britney Spears that her fans had come to love. Blackout lacks the sensuality of the "I'm a Slave 4 U" or the provocativeness of "Toxic", and it also lacks the classy pop style of "Oops... I did it Again", more so, the album is deficient of the dance-able rhythms exemplified by "Me Against the Music" and others songs that had hailed her to her position in the music industry

Whether or not Blackout reflects her emotional roller coaster, the album shouldn't had been released early not until resolving all the negative criticisms and publicity hailed at her. Her management and record label, shouldn't had took the risk of releasing the said album just to combat online piracy, more so as a follow up for the success of the carrier single "Gimme More". They should had test the waters first, by releasing another single from the said album, and check it comparatively with the success brought about by "Gimme More".

So far, upon listening to the entire album, I can assert that the album is fairly good, but really not that good enough to stir my attention to re-listen to the entire album itself again.

Here is the complete retail track list available plus some bonus tracks courtesy of Wikipedia:

Retail or Standard CD:

1. "Gimme More" (Nate Hills, James Washington, Keri Hilson, Marcella Araica) – 4:13 *
2. "Piece of Me" (Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Klas Ahlund) – 3:32 *
3. "Radar" (Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Henrik Jonback, Balewa Muhammad, Candice Nelson, Ezekiel "Zeke" Lewis, Patrick J. Que Smith) – 3:49
4. "Break the Ice" (Nate Hills, James Washington, Keri Hilson, Marcella Araica) – 3:16 *
5. "Heaven on Earth" (Michael McGroarty, Nick Huntington, Nicole Morier,) – 4:53
6. "Get Naked (I Got a Plan)" (Corte Ellis, Nate Hills, Marcella Araica) – 4:45
7. "Freakshow" (Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Henrik Jonback, Ezekiel "Zeke" Lewis, Patrick "J.Que" Smith, Britney Spears) – 2:55
8. "Toy Soldier" (Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Magnus Wallbert, Sean Garrett) – 3:22
9. "Hot as Ice" (T-Pain, Nate Hills, Marcella Araica) – 3:17 *
10. "Ooh Ooh Baby" (Kara DioGuardi, Farid Nassar, Erick Coomes, Britney Spears) – 3:28 *
11. "Perfect Lover" (Nate Hills, James Washington, Keri Hilson, Marcella Araica) – 3:03 *
12. "Why Should I Be Sad" (Pharrell Williams) – 3:10 *

Bonus Tracks:

• "Outta This World" (Japan Bonus Track)[19] – 3:33
• "Everybody" (iTunes and Japan Bonus Track)[20][19] – 3:18
• "Get Back" (iTunes and Japan Bonus Track)[20][19] – 3:51
• "Gimme More" (Paul Oakenfold Remix) (Japan Bonus Track)[19] – 6:08
• "Gimme More" (Junkie XL Dub) (iTunes International Bonus Track)[21] – 4:59
• "Gimme More" (Stonebridge Dub Mix) (iTunes Switzerland Bonus Track)[22] – 7:23

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BBC News reported in their site that the remains of Egypt's young ruler, Pharoah Tutankhamun was removed from its sarcophagus to be displayed for viewing public.

Archaeologists took the mummy from its stone sarcophagus and placed it in a climate-controlled case inside his tomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings.

To be honest, I really don't understand why most archaeologists try to unearth a remain just for others to view it. Yes, we all know it's their work to uncover what had happened previously, report and publish them for the public to know as well, but aren't they crossing over the lines? Didn't they know how to respect the remains of someone who passed away? More so, the remains that they bastardized was no other than the remain of a Pharaoh, a ruler of Egypt. Besides, we all know that Egyptians' sarcophagus have curses and magics enveloped on it so as not to be disturbed by others.

So if you were given the chance, would you fly towards Egypt just to view the digital reconstructed face of a 19 year old Pharaoh who passed away long ago?

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I had received this meme from Marie and since it's long overdue, now I'm trying it out. I'll be truthful as possible, so if my answers tend to deviate from you're own opinion, just please respect it.

Here goes the meme entitled: Which do you prefer?

1. Smart or Globe: - I think I'm more fond of using Globe rather Smart. However I had used both networks already.
   
2. ABS-CBN or GMA: - As I previously state in my post entitled National TV ratings that I really don't watch any programs on GMA, hence I'm a loyal and avid viewer of ABS-CBN.
   
3. Penshoppe or Bench: - Any will do, actually, as long as the clothes they're selling are comfortable.
4. Avon or Personal Collection: - I really do have my own personal collection of cosmetic products, (e.g. facial wash, toner, facial scrubs, perfumes) but none of them so far has been under the brand of Avon.
5. Sony Ericsson or Nokia cellphone: Well, I do prefer Nokia, but any will do as long as it's user-friendly.
   
6. Tweety Bird or Hello Kitty: - To be honest, none of these characters suits my tastes. I prefer animes rather cartoons.
   
7. Sony or JVC TV: - Sony, but if given the opportunity to try out other products why not.
   
8. Lee or Guess Jeans: - Both, I think.
   
9. Sketchers or Merell Shoes: - Sketchers.
10. Swatch or Rolex watch: - Well, to be honest, I don't wear a watch, so I don't know the difference between the two. However, as I recalled I had used a Swatch watch before.
    

Now, I'm going to tag the following people:

• Blogkadahan
• kamskee

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