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I've told you sooner or later I will find out what the cause of this "Operation Aborted" error in Internet Explorer, and I have! It's the Kontera Blog It! Blogger Widget. Now I've temporarily removed the codes associated to it, and this site now loads almost as smoothly as before in Internet Explorer. Hopefully, it's fixed.

I know, I know, I should have changed browsers, and I've already done that several years ago. I had actually disregarded using Internet Explorer and switched with Firefox browser (see notice at the left). However, since a lot of people still uses that crap-of-browser called Microsoft Internet Explorer, I couldn't disregard possible visitors to this site, hence I tried my best to find the faulty script that caused this pop-up message to appear.

Now I'm going to check out Kontera Ads and will ask them if ever their blogger widget code can be fixed without causing too much troble to blogger users.

Next problem for me to look into: Blogger Layout Page Element loading problem. Read More......

Damn it! Arghhh.... I thought I had already solved every single problem that arose in editing this piece of a template, but after loading this site to Microsoft Internet Explorer, I got a pop-up stating that "Operation Aborted", then afterwards it doesn't load anymore claiming that the site is either down or that the page doesn't load properly. I need to refresh the page several times before being able to see the entire contents of this site. I hate Internet Explorer!

Anyway, how in the world this "Operation Aborted" happened? The answers to that according to the sites that I had surfed were vague enough for a computer programming illiterate to understand. Either they say:

1. You can't append to the BODY Element from a script that isn't a direct child to the BODY Element.

What duh? I really didn't understand this phrase properly, and most bloggers don't as well.

2. Either you can work around in solving the operation aborted by adding the defer tag on the faulty script itself.

Yeah, right! I really don't even know what script had caused it. More so, when I tried to place the defer tag on all of the javascripts that I have, only those scripts deferred loads disregarding the entire site at all. Who would like to view your javascript sidebar anyway in Internet Explorer?

3. Either you place a certain .on-window-load-something on the script which will likely to have any effect at all.


4. Either you reinstall Internet Explorer or Upgrade your Internet Explorer

Yeah, like I can convince the entire universe to upgrade their internet explorers! Forget it! No one will ever dare upgrade or reinstall their browsers at the expense of a single site!

5. Either you change browsers. Use Firefox, Opera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera

Like all people will change to those browsers?!

6. Either you remove the code inside the table element; and lastly,


7. You put all your javascript codes below or after the BODY Element.

Hello programming literates to the world! Like you can pull down all of blogger widgets after the BODY element. Gosh, this is so fu*king insane.

Anyway are there any viable and easily understandable solutions to fix this Bill Gates' Problem? But if none then most likely, I'm going to find out what had happened on this site then remove that faulty code sooner or later. Read More......

Blogger template customization had been keeping me busy over the past days, and I must admit, it seemed rather difficult for a beginner, like me, to edit XML. Like most blogger users, I myself, wanted my blog or site to look stylish and functional. But since, I'm a blogger hosted blog, I can only do little to make it look good as compared to those who have self-hosted wordpress blogs.

I must admit, I had the initial inkling that I wanted to leave blogger and to become a wordpress user; given the fact that if I find a stable, reliable, good and free web host that doesn't have forced advertisement on it, I'll migrate my blog over to it. But since, I haven't found any of this initial criterion yet, I'm sticking with the free hosted blogger site, and endure the pain of editing the XML manually.

Since, XML is a pain in the a**, and that minor changes can lead to template "not being parsed correctly"; I had difficult time editing the core template to incorporate the changes that I found necessary for my site to become functional, yet still stylish. In order for me to manage editing my site, I created a dummy site to edit the template there itself, so as not to ruin the current template that I had been used to.

The first change that I did, on this template was to embed the comment form of blogger into every post pages. Yes, blogger has now have that feature of placing the comment form just directly below each of the post that a certain site contain. But the draw back is, only a few blogger site can change their comment form structure; those who had a customized blogger template, like this one, will just end up being frustrated on not having to implement that new feature. If you wanted to know how to place the same comment form directly below your site, just check out Blogger Buster's site for information that could help you do it. For those who had edited their template but still cannot make the new changes to work, after following Amanda's instructions, then I suggest you find the word CommentMsg on your template, and from there start modifying the codes that comes before it.

The second change that I did was of course the footer section. I haven't finished placing the widgets to it yet, but my footer now is like a wordpress footer with 3 columns in it. Thanks again to Amanda of the Blogger Buster site for her wonderful tutorial to it.

Third thing that I really wanted to do was to have a menu bar just below the header image, and now I have it. Still, it's not perfect, but I have to admit, I like how I manage to find a suitable code to edit that portion.

Last on the changes list was of course placing different advertisements inside the post pages itself. This one really took most of my time, since placing different codes, be it javascript or html, inside the post pages could definitely ruin your progress in editing your template and could lead you to the not parsed error.

Anyway, I'll share more of what I had done in this template next time, and I'll be more specific into how I manage to edit it. I'm just too tired now to put every thing into words since my thoughts are too disorganized as of the moment. I'm so sorry for my poor post structure today. :(
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I and my mother had ended our "friendly bickering" as soon as the winners of the Philippine Edition of the Dream Academy were announced. And guess what? I had won over her, and that my vote for Laarni wasn't wasted, unlike her who had almost smothered and threatened us, her children, into voting her bet, Bugoy, so as to support her fellow Bicolandia resident into winning the coveted title of the Grand Star Dreamer.

Imagine your mom tearing your scalp and forcing you to type the syntax code for Bugoy to support him. That was what I had been through yesterday before the the voting officially closed at around noon; with which, I never did as she told, since I felt that somebody else will win that said title instead of her bet, which definitely came true.

Yes, both my parents are so fond of Bugoy, since he originated from the region they both had came from, and that he had a unique vocal quality, but of course I think otherwise. I know, Bugoy, had a God given talent that can reach him into different places, but I still had my vote for Laarni who as well, as him, had been blessed so much with vocal quality and prowess, despite her mood swings and her untamed emotions.

I just hope that the career of this season's winners would flourish to a certain extent and not end up as just one hit wonder, which had happened to a certain winner after which he isn't visible on any television program nor his songs aren't being played in radio stations. :( Read More......

OMG! This is a stunner for me today. I was really shocked to receive this post card message from a certain settlement agency from Oregon, for reasons I really don't understand (that is until I finished reading the terms in the settlement website). But from what it contains, I am certainly sure that I am not the one being sued but instead Commission Junction.

So what did really Commission Junction do to end up being sued by people? Well, this would be a very poor guess from me, but I think they had committed "something" leaving its publishers penniless and advertisers bankrupt without even getting any return from what they had advertised on the said affiliate network or that there was a certain problem blown out of proportion by someone or some group hence this post card to arrive in mail indicating that there will be a trial against CJ.

As an international publishers from CJ, I had had tireless hours of promoting their advertisers, ensuing that every month I deliver them quality traffic and click-through but I get nothing in return. I never did thought that I might be being duped by the system since a lot of publishers end up just the same as me, hence I shrugged it off. But now this post card came over by mail and I don't really know what is going on or what am I going to do with it. As I read through this thread, most publishers don't opt to be excluded in the settlement but instead suggests that other publishers leave it as is and never take action, which makes me more confused than ever. But one thing is for sure that this issue will not be resolved until the CJ network takes drastic actions on improving their system.

Now, I think I'm back to reading the long terms of the settlement, and I need to consult some lawyers on what am I going to do, that is, if I will be able to contact a lawyer, but for now, I will not do anything that would waive any of my rights. Read More......

The annual UAAP cheering competition had finally been concluded and again University of the Philippines ended up as the champion for this year's cheer dance competition, bringing home 195,000 Philippine Pesos cash prize and an mp3 player each. As expected, they again reclaimed the top spot after they had snatched it last year from the University of Santo Tomas.

I would be lying here if I say I didn't wished and hoped that my alma mater, University of Santo Tomas, to win. However, as I had viewed their performance in this year's competition, I was quite dismayed with it. As most people claim over on you tube, the UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe now lack the ability to create and formulate new routines that would put them back on track to their once 4 times champion glory. If you would re-watch the videos of the Salinggawi Dance Troupe including this year's competition, you would agree with me that most of the routines including the liftings and acrobatics within their cheer dance were recycled from their previous routines.

I felt so ashamed, not just for my alma mater, but for those poor dancers who had strove hard for their dance yet fell short on the ability to brainstorm for new dance moves that they should have incorporated within their routines.

Now I am guessing, are these dancers rookies? If so, they needed guidance, and motivation to do better next time. And I really hope that next time, no more sugar-coated introductions should be delivered if there aren't any new acrobatics and routines that would be included in their dance.

But anyway, congratulations still for bringing home the second spot after UP. Try harder next time though, and please stop repeating previous routines. Watchers knows if they were recycled. Read More......

I hadn't seen this one on the news yesterday, hence I started scouring it over Youtube, and lucky for me to see it. But honestly, I really don't know whether I would laugh or not regarding this kind of issue because everyone had their own fair share of slipping moment. More so, what had happened doesn't even appear to be humiliating since like most of the models slipped as well.

The main question is: Who ever made that runway anyway, since it appeared to be so slippery? Read More......