I stumbled across this post recently and I think it helps prove its title – that Manila isn’t as ugly as we probably think it is.  Thanks to the emergence of bike messengers (see the poster on the right), is now a little bit greener.  Yes, the air is still filled with smoke, but at [...]

Thanks to Discovery Channel, this song is now stuck in my head.

The links manager of WP 2.5 is killing me.

Jason de Villa, a professor at my alma mater, recently wrote that “the best way to learn how to write is, well, to write.” My immediate thought: the second best way is to read.
I don’t mean to brag (ok, maybe a little), but my teachers (both in high school and in college) recognized that [...]

I know it’s a few months old already, but this made me smile today.

Don’t let the image fool you, I’m not talking about UFC catsup (or ketchup, if you prefer that spelling). That UFC has been in the Philippines for quite some time. The UFC I’m talking about is the Ultimate Fighting Championship® (yes, complete with the registration mark).
Part of the way through a post on [...]

Tibor Radványi a.k.a. Photonovice wants to know where your visitors are from. He’s asking this as part of a three-part project on site statistics. The first chunk covered search terms that lead to your site while the second highlighted the most popular posts. By the way, both parts are done now so [...]

If you (and I’m assuming you’re a blogger) were interviewed for a feature in a magazine, you would want to blog about it, right (Rico and Sasha both come to mind)? You’d probably want to post a photo of the publication, and you would definitely want to link to the online edition of the [...]

Janette Toral of Influential Blogger has a project: she wants to highlight The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2008. She did this last year with considerable success, and that’s why it’s back this year, and hopefully, bigger and better.
Before I get to my picks for this year’s top 10 blogs, let me share [...]