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Philippine Science High School First Screening Results 2008

The first screening was held last November 15, 2008. As of writing, the results are still not out but when I grab hold of them, be sure to check back to see if you passed.

-Post Park- hihi

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Dela Pazes | Pangandamans | Valley Golf Brawl

Last week, I posted the account of the daughter who got her father and brother beat up by a politician. By spreading the news, I hope that people will become aware of issues such as this.

I also would like to know what happens next and I’m glad to announce that Inquirer has made a special section in their news for this issue only. You can visit the link here.

The Valley Golf Brawl

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When I read the accounts of both parties, it is very different from each other. The Pangandamans would say that the Dela Pazes started the fight and the Dela Pazes would say that the Pangandamans started to fight. Now who would you believe? Can we simply ask their bodies especially if they have bruises to say who did the first hit?

Also, I’m sure both will have witnesses (be it truthful witnesses or witnesses who got paid to be one). Based on the account of Bambee, the people in the golf club wouldn’t even help. I’m not so sure if they can be used as witnesses because they are scared. So if the Dela Pazes would ask them to be witnesses, it might backfire against them due to fear.

Even if they are under oath, they can still lie. Who would know you are lieing? Unless that person knows you very well that they can see some difference in your movements when you lieing or not.

One thing I’m also wondering about, the Dela Pazes are filing child abuse due to the beating up of Bino (14yr old). If he is mentioned in all the stories, he was there so no doubt about it. How about the counter file of the Pangandamans, filing child abuse against the Dela Pazes claiming that they nearly hit their 8 year old in the golf course while hitting shots without shouting fore?

Another thing I would like to know is who’s account is telling the truth for the start of the brawl?

For the Pangandamans, Dela Paz thrusted an umbrella at them which Nasser Jr blocked and then while his coke was spilling, he countered with a punch! Then the both 14yr old kid and 18 yr old daughter rushed in to attack too. Then the fight was broke up by golf club personel.

For the Dela Paz, Nasser hits the father Dela Paz and then the other companions rush to beat him up some more. The children of Dela paz rushed into the scene to try to pacify and stop the fight. However, the 14yr old kid got a knuckle sandwich for his efforts. The fight was broken up.. however, according to the Dela Paz there was a round two in the clubhouse (not mentioned in the Pangandaman’s account).

I still find it hard to believe on how can a 56yr old man and a 14yr old boy manage to find against adult men? If it was a 2 on 2, they could not win, but there was more than two adult men.

I really hope the truth will come out and justice will prevail.

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Ever since I started using wordpress, I’ve been pretty amazed on the number of plugins it currently has and the numerous features that you can gain if you use those. I would like to share with you my personal list of Essential Wordpress Plugins that you should have.

I’ve broken them down into five (5) different parts:

1. For your blog’s visitors - This is to enhance the experience of the visitors in your blog. Make them happy and surely they will return to your blog.
2. For your blog’s protection - With numerous people getting hacked lately, you need all the protection that you need.
3. For search engines - In order to gain organic traffic (search engine traffic), you should make your blog look good in search engines.
4. For your blog’s functionality - Although wordpress already offers a lot of features, there are still some that we crave to have.
5. For your blog’s feeds -Not all your visitors read your blog by visiting the website itself. Sometimes, they just subscribe through your feeds and read them there. So you should also make your feeds presentable. Why don’t you subscribe to my feeds too?

Just a quick note: Most of the plugins mentioned in this post are just upload and activate. I will be telling you if you need to do something to make it work. I have personally tested and used each of these plugins. They work with the latest version of wordpress.

Update: (January 2009)

• Replaced Brian’s Threaded Comments, Comment Email Responder and Subscribe to comments with Wordpress Thread Comment (Republished for 2009)

Wordpress Plugins for your blog’s visitors

1. Wordpress Thread Comment - I love this plug-in! It has enough features to replace three of the plug-ins I’m currently using. Wordpress thread comment plug-in is able to thread your comments, allows subcribing to comments and send email notifications when their comment has a reply. Very nice. Very nice. ^_^
2. In Series - Sometimes you would want to write a series of post so you can give your readers something to look forward too and avoid boring them to death with a 10, 000 word article. This plugin will do the trick. Installation and usage is easy. Just activate the plugin and when writing a post, you can specify what series name that post will go into. Do take note that when updating this plugin, you have to deactivate it first, update then reactivate. If you don’t you will get database errors.
   
3. Live Comment Preview - From the name itself you would already know what this plugin does. Basically, it gives your commentators a preview of what they are writing. You can see it in action in this blog.
4. Lucia’s Link Love - There had been talks on blogs that are do-follow and those who are no-do-follow. This blog is a do-follow blog but you have to make three comments first before getting followed. Just don’t spam me. Btw, how do I know that you have made 3 comments? Well, by installing this plugin I get to know that you have made 3 comments and it will automatically make your links do follow.
5. Popularity Contest - A plugin that calculates which post is popular based on views. It’s something that you can easily show to your visitors which posts are must-reads because they are popular. It will also give you an idea which posts are bringing in traffic to your blog. To display the “most popular” posts, you need to add something in your sidebar template or sidebar widgets. The read me of the plugin provide examples and guides on how to do it.
   
6. Show Top Commentators - This simple plugin will make your commentators happy. This will to recognize those who comment a lot in your blog by featuring them in your sidebar. Btw, make sure to add this to your sidebar template either manually or through a widget or this plugin is useless. Also, to edit its options requires you to edit the php file manually.
   
7. Subscribe to Comments - This plugin allows you to subscribe to comments. Whenever a new comment is posted on a post, you will get an email notification.
8. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin - There are many wordpress plugins that offers the related posts feature. One of the most famous plugin is called, wasabi related posts. This plugin is a descendant of that since it has been based their. I’ve been testing this for a while and it really does well. You have to add this in your template to make this work, <?php if (function_exists('related_posts')) {related_posts();}?>
   

Wordpress Plugins for your blog’s protection

1. Akismet - It has been said that 90% of the comments you receive are spam. So would you like to wade through these comments to find the legitimate ones or would you like it if someone will do it for you? Akismet is a plugin made to detect and quarantine spam so they won’t show up in your blog. The mere fact that it’s included in every wordpress installation makes it a worthy spam blocking plugin.
2. Login Lockdown - This plugin is the answer to the brute-force attack on your log-in screen. What it does is to ban or deny access to someone who has made numerous failed log-in attempts on your blog. You can set the limits in its option pages.
3. Spam Karma 2 - I was already satisfied with akismet but I also added Spam Karma 2 because of its interface. What makes Spam Karma 2 different is that I don’t have to wade through numerous spam comments just to see if something got marked as spam by mistake. Let us see it in this way, in Akismet, there’s heaven (accepted comment) and hell (spam comment), Spam Karma just added a purgatory (you judge their fate).
4. WP-DB-Backup - What would you do if suddenly your blog gets erased from the World Wide Web or internet? Would your cry or would you search for a backup? This handy dandy plugin will backup your wordpress database. For more details about the usage of this plugin, please read this guide.
   

Wordpress Plugins for Search Engines

1. All in One SEO Pack - Need to optimize your blog for search engines? All in One SEO pack is the only plugin you need. It enables you to provide a Meta description and keywords for your blog. It will also rewrite your titles so that the title comes first before the blog name. For more details about this plugin, please read my posts about it. Guide to All in One SEO Plugin and the effects of this plugin in my blog.
2. Google XML Sitemaps - The sitemaps in a blog is similar to a table of contents in a book. The search engines looks at your sitemap to see if they have indexed all your pages. This plugin will automatically create a sitemap for you every time you publish a post or save a post. It creates two types of sitemaps, an xml sitemap and the compressed version of that xml sitemap.
   

Wordpress Plugins for your blog’s functionality

1. Dagon Design SiteMap Generator - This plugin was suggested by Todd. It basically adds a user friendly sitemap to your blog. Don’t confuse this with the Google XML sitemaps mentioned above which was built for search engines. It You can see this in action in my archives page.
   
2. Exec-PHP - Allows you to add php codes in your blog. The php code starts with <?php and ends with ?>. Just a little bit of warning, if you want to add php codes in your post, do not use the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor but instead use the code editor.
   
3. Maintenance Mode - I don’t know if you have encountered this page before in my blog but the content of that page tells you that Silkenhut’s World is currently undergoing maintenance. This is the time where I am trying out or experimenting with new themes or plugins and I don’t my users to see any bloopers I might have made. This plugin will simply add a splash page to notify your visitors that the blog is currently under maintenance. It’s better to see this than see to errors right?
   
4. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer - Whenever you publish a new post or save an already published post, wordpress automatically pings websites such as technorati and ping-o-matic telling them that you have new content or updates. If you edit your post regularly, you might be sending unnecessary pings to these services and they can ban your blog for over pinging. What this plug-in does it to change the way pinging works. It will only ping the service once and that is when you publish your post.
5. Redirection - Thinking of changing your permalinks or your blog location and afraid of broken links? Then this plugin is for you. You can set temporary redirects or permanent redirects using this plugin. You will also get to see a list of 404 errors that happened in your blog so that can fix them ASAP.
6. Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form - Provide your blog with an easy to use Contact Form. You may see it in action in my contact me page.
   
7. Sociable - Allows your users to submit your post to different bookmarking websites. If you think that this post was ok for you, please submit it too. Thanks. ^_^
   
8. SRG Clean Archives - Provides your blog with a simple and clean archive. It divides the post by month and each month can be clicked to expand. You can see it in action in my archives page.
   
9. WP-Page Navi - One of the ways to navigate your blog is to click on the “previous entries” found on the bottom part of your blog. However, with this, you can only move one page at a time. What if you want to go to the 500th page? Would you want to click on “previous entries“, 499 times or would you rather install this plug-in? Instead of seeing, Previous entries and Next Entries, you can show them page numbers instead. To use, add this in your template, <?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?>.
   
10. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade - You don’t have to go through the tedious process of upgrading your wordpress everytime a new version comes out. With this plug-in, you can upgrade your installation in just one click and it will be finished in just a few seconds. Super duper helpful! Read more about it my experience with the wordpress automatic upgrade here.

Wordpress Plugins for your blog’s feeds

1. Feedburner Feed Smith - Redirects your feeds so that it is being handled by Feedburner. There’s a problem with this if you use it with the CommentLuv plug-in. Read more about it here, feedsmith and commentluv.
   
2. Feed Footer - Adds a customized message to your feeds. You can use this to add a copyright against scrapers, monetize your feeds or just write a secret message that only your feed readers will see.
3. Full Text Feed - Do you use the <!–more–> feature in wordpress? Did you know that if you use that, your feeds will be cut off when being read in a feed reader such as Google Reader? If you are just like me and you don’t want to provide half-baked feeds to your readers, you should use this plugin.

Plug-ins that have been replaced.

1. WP AJAX Edit Comments - Sometimes your readers make mistakes in their comments and there’s no way for them to edit it. Either they post another comment telling you that they made a mistake or they just leave it that way. Now with this plugin, you give them the power to edit their comments after they have written it. Very helpful!
2. Brian’s Threaded Comments - Think of this situation, what if there are 20 comments in a post and I want to reply to what comment # 3 said? Well, this plugin will make it possible for you to reply to that comment. This plugin will make it easier for you and your readers to have a flow of conversation. I used this in my previous blog theme but I did not install this in the new theme. The only drawback is that you have to replace your theme’s comments.php file with the one included in the plugin.
3. Comment Email Responder - I learned about this plugin from Jaypee. Basically, this plugin allows you to reply on a comment and it will automatically send an email to the commentator that you have replied to his/her comment. This is very useful to gain returning visitors as they will get informed that you have replied to them.

Conclusion

There are literally hundreds of wordpress plugins currently available today and more are being created each day. I hope that this list has helped you decided what plugins you may want to use in your blog.

If you want to suggest a plug-in that I can include in this list, just drop me a comment.

Thanks for reading and don’t forget to subscribe to my feeds.

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I and this blog, would like to greet everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR this 2009.

May we all have more success this 2009 after all that we have done for 2008 (that goes for me too). Let us keep moving forward and conquer any trials that may be set upon us. Let us simply enjoy!

Enjoy blogging! ^_^

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Earlier today, I was just browsing through the recent stuff in my multiply account I read about this. A politician and his body guards beat up (ganged up) a 56 yr old father and his pleading 14yr old son in a golf course.

Here’s the story… copied from the daughter of the mawled man’s blog…

My brother and I were playing golf at the South Course of Valley. We were on the 3rd hole, and we see two golf carts going past us, overtaking our flight, and setting up to tee off on the next hole. My dad goes up to them and asks them why they would do that, why they would overtake us without even asking for our permission. Golf etiquette 101. One of the guys says that they’re with the flight in front of us. (So what? That doesn’t give them the right to just pass us WITHOUT asking.) So, we go to the 5th hole. The flight behind us catches up with us, and asks us what caused the hold up. We said that this flight just slipped in front of our flight. So we complained to the marshall. We play the 5th hole and walk towards the next hole, where there is a teehouse, and both the flights in front of us were there, talking with the marshall. The mayor of Masiu City, Lanao del Sur talks with my dad. Things get heated up. Voices were raised. But never, in my wildest dreams, did I ever imagine that someone would pull out a punch. Apparently not. He attacks my father. His flightmates, maybe 2 or 3 of them, rush to his aid and beat up my father. My 56-year-old father. My younger brother and I could not just watch. We rushed to break the fight. My younger brother pleads to the mayor to please stop it. To not hurt my dad. To just stop. His words still ring through my head…“Sorry na po, sorry na po…tama na…tama na po…(we are sorry, we are sorry, that’s enough…that’s enough) ” With his hands in front of his chest in a praying position. PLEADING. The mayor socks him in the face. My brother defended himself. My dad is still on the ground getting clobbered. My brother is the same way. I try to stop the fight, but all I can do is stop one person. There were 4 or 5 of them attacking now.

Someone breaks up the fight. I thought it was all over. The mayor shouts to his caddy: “Hindi nila kami kilala! Sabihin mo nga sa kanila kung sino ako! (They don’t know who I am! Tell them who I am!)” And believe me, I had no idea who this person was. But now I know. He’s the person who, with 4 other men, beat up my 56-year-old father and my 14-year-old brother. He’s the person who sacks a pleading 14-year-old kid in the face. He’s a person who, I am sure, is gonna rot in hell.

I lash out, but my dad held me back. I was screaming my lungs out, shouting to this mayor, telling him about what he had done. I said: “Nakakahiya kayo. Singkwenta’y sais anyos ang tatay ko. And kapatid ko kakatorse anyos. Anong ilalaban nila sayo? (You are shameless! My Dad is 56 years old and my brother is 14 years old! What can they do against you?)”

The mayor looks at my brother, point to his face, and says, “Tatandaan kita! (I’ll remember you!) ” And he tells me that my brother has a bad attitude and that I need to watch him. WHAT THE HELL?! So, my brother’s bad for defending his father?!

We leave. We walk to the clubhouse to file a complaint. My brother asks for a doctor. My dad could barely walk. Their group comes to the clubhouse, sees my brother. Once again my brother pleads, says sorry, and is crying. He was CRYING, for crissakes. But no. The relentless mayor still punches him in the face, and then sees my dad and goes after my dad again. Him and his friend pull my dad to the ground, pulls at his feet, and steps on him like he’s dirt. I run to him and try to hold him back, holding him back by his shirt, while this other guy and this girl tries to stop me. She tells me to just stop it. I scream in her face “they’re beating my father up and you want me to stop?!” I pull at his shirt–I don’t let go. All I can see was my dad being trampled on. I didn’t even see my brother getting beat up.

People pull them away. I get my dad, and I saw my brother. His right ear was bleeding. I freaked out. I told the receptionists to bring my brother to the clinic. I pull my dad away. People were separating us.

My mom and my older brother come. I tell her Bino’s right ear is bleeding. They both look like they could kill. My dad holds my brother off, I hold off my mom. When I finally got my mom under control, my older brother gets away and I hold him off. Two of the mayor’s bodyguards pull out guns. I embraced my brother from the back, just holding him back, crying. The receptionists came to us, crying, hugging me, my dad, and my mom, whispering to us to just leave. “Maam, umalis na po kayo, may mga baril sila…Maam…umalis na po kayo please… (Ma’am, please leave, they have guns,… Ma’am, please keave)”

Source –> http://vicissitude-decidido.blogspot.com/2008/12/world-is-fucked-up.html

Abuse of Power!

After reading this story, I thought, wow, talk about abuse of power. Does this mean that if you are a politician in the Philippines you have the right to beat up people and then act as if nothing has happened? Even the authorities of that golf club were afraid and act as if they did not see someone getting beat up in front of them.

Well, I did some more research and found that this was included in the news. Here are some articles. ^_^

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/141418/DAR-chiefs-son-5-bodyguards-face-charges-for-alleged-mauling-of-2-golfers
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/141550/DAR-chief-apologizes-for-sons-involvement-in-Antipolo-brawl
http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20081229-180426/Golf-club-suspends-DAR-chief-over-brawl

I really hope justice prevails. So far, the family has filed charges but the politician also filed counter charges with their own story to tell. Who would you want to believe? I think I will believe the one with injuries to tell.

Please spread to everyone about this incident that happened just a day after Christmas.

Other bloggers who have blogged about this (Google search power! )

• Dine Racoma
• BA Racoma

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Hmm I’m curious to know about your experiences… What have you done this Christmas vacation?

As for me, I can summarize it into a few actions, eat, play, sleep and *sigh* work.

Eating like a pig

Well, I have been eating a lot ever since I arrived in my hometown last Sunday (Dec 21). We have daily dine outs. This is because our grandfather went home here earlier than usual (he usually comes home at around Dec 30 or so but he was here on December 23). So to celebrate that, his children (my uncles and aunts) take turns treating the whole clan out daily until December 31. Simply saying, I can’t blame myself in indulging in good food so I just eat as much as I can and complain to myself that my stomach is starting to bulge. ^_^

So far, based on the weighing scale, I have gained 6 pounds in one week!!!

Playing like there’s no tomorrow

I play my psp a lot. I play a few computer games here and there. And, I play basketball here since its the only time I can play for all I want and its free here. I even bought a new slipper that I just use to play basketball. Well, I broke it after 1 day of playing. I only hope that all this energy I spend will counter my calory intake else I’ll be a blob when I return after vacation.

Sleep

Yes, I miss my bed. ^^

Work

Everything would be ok, except for this. Since I was a good soul (LoL), I accepted that I’ll be working this week as holiday support. Well, I can’t complain as we will be compensated but I sure hope nothing important comes up. It would be disturbing my eat, play and sleep combo if ever it happens.

hmm what about blogging? Well, time will come. hihihi

So what about you ? What have you done this Christmas vacation or what are you doing?

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Wordpress 2.7 has been released last December 11, 2008 but I have just managed to upgrade mine today.

WOW!

That was the first thing I said when the upgrade finished. The interface has been revamp and it looks “cooler” or something. Although I am still getting used to how to move around the new interface, I think it is easy enough since it has been labelled correctly. I like it!

Another thing that I like on the new interface is that the menu options, (that was in the top portion before) has been moved to the right. Now it simply looks like the sidebar of a blog. Another good job!

Upgrading to wordpress 2.7 is easy. Just use the instant upgrade plug-in and in a matter of seconds, you are done! If you need help using it, just leave a message but I’m sure you will manage… now I shall go back into tinkering with wordpress 2.7 and see what are the other new features. I’m impressed! ^_^

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Hi everyone,

Despite of my hiatus again, I would like to take time off and greet everyone a Merry Christmas! Thanks for visiting and keeping this blog alive.

Allen

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Man Tries to Pay bill with spider drawing

Since I’m bed ridden due to sickness, all I can do is either sleep or use my laptop. I want to share with you this funny story about a guy. As far as I’ve read, this is a true story. (Link after the jump)

Man Tries to pay bill with spider drawing

but that is not all,

the alleged spider drawing got sold on Ebay for 15k US Dollars!

I hope you will get a good laugh out of this. ^_^

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Upgrade to Wordpress 2.6.5

I’ve been looking at the change log of wordpress 2.6.5 and it seems to be a security fix, so updating your installation is a must. ^_^

Just to quote from the wordpress blog,

The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package.

2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The first prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a revision. The second prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types. The third adds some user ID sanitization during bulk delete requests.

Now, for those who want to update their wordpress manually,

Here’s the list of files to replace in your installation.

• /wp-includes/post.php
• /wp-includes/version.php
• /wp-includes/feed.php
• /xmlrpc.php
• /wp-admin/users.php

As for me, I’m be doing the wordpress automatic upgrade style. Much faster.

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