Author: iAn L.

I spent the second day of my Ilocos tour in Vigan. I’ll soon share my entire experience and itinerary in the next few days. From Laoag, where my hotel is located, I rode an ordinary bus to Vigan. The bus left at 7AM and arrived in the heritage city passed 9:30AM. I got off along Quezon Avenue in Front of Vigan City Hall (a block just across Ilocos Sur Provincial Capitol). Father Burgos Museum wood carvings display Though not familiar with the place (since it was my first time in the city), I confidently walked to look for Calle Crisologo – where you can ... Read more

Receiving a pay of 13,000 to 14,000 a month for a 3 hours a day and 5 days a week of work is really enticing. I received an email a day ago from writers@platehead.com offering internet marketing assistants, virtual assistants, and web content writers/copywriters jobs with such rate. For an offer that is so good to be true, we have to check for fraud possibility. I tried to verify from the website regarding the email but what I saw in their homepage is the same copy of the email I got stating that it was an email scam. If you ... Read more

Are you in trouble collecting collecting email information and contact photos for your iDevice (iPod, iPhone, etc.) address book? Try syncing your contacts with your Facebook account. I am sure your friends will not let that profile photo field blank. Your iDevice will download Facebook profile photo thumbnail once a contact in your address book matches to a profile in your Facebook contacts. So make sure to use real names (which are mostly used in Facebook profiles) in your address book. To sync Facebook contacts, you must have a the official Facebook application installed in your iDevice. The app is ... Read more

Uploading WordPress files such as images in subfolders or root directory will increase your site loading performance. Well that is the observation of many web developers. Which is true because browsers need not to dig deep directories such as yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads or if you install it in root directory you have yourdomain.com/wp-content/upload as container of your images or files. Now here’s a way to simplify the media files directory. I will present two ways and make sure to read through before you’ll start the changes or setup. Method 1. Uploading Images in root directory or sub-folder You can upload all images ... Read more

FeedBurner is one of the best way to make your readers return to your blog. This is a service that notifies your readers (once they subscribed) about your new blog entries. This is fast, easy to use and of course free. One way to publicize your feeds using in FeedBurner is to use subscription form however the html code of this form that they provide is too simple and style-free. The code below is the generic html code provided by FeedBurner. <form style=”border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;” action=”http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify” method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=freedomwall/hJpT’, ‘popupwindow’, ‘scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520’);return true”><p>Enter your email address:</p><p><input type=”text” style=”width:140px” name=”email”/></p><input type=”hidden” value=”freedomwall/hJpT” name=”uri”/><input type=”hidden” ... Read more

Photography is one of the new niches that I got interested recently and I would like to share some of my photos using this blog. Unfortunately, my post column width is too small to show large images. The tendency is to re-size the image and fit it into the narrow post column, and link the images to its direct URL which shows its original sizes. By doing this, your blog visitor will have to leave the site just to see the original image size or if you use target=”_blank” html code, images are shown in new window once clicked – ... Read more

Early residents of the barangay mostly believed that Barangay Bonawon comes from the Visayan word Bugnawon, which means bugnaw nga panahon or cold yet comforting weather. On the other hand, the Parish Priest of Siaton, Rev. Father Joaquin Gonzales, states that Bugnawon means peaceful minds of the residents or locally, bugnaw ang huna-huna sa mga lumulupyo. But whatever historical beginnings you believe, there is only one thing that we are sure about, that whoever stays in the barangay will truly find comfort. Bonawon mangrove area The early populace of the barangay were primarily composed of refugees from Mindanao who tried to ... Read more

The once rumoured futuristic oceanographic marine vessel that will conquer world’s oceans has completed its industrial design phase and construction is set to commence this October. The brainchild of French architect Jacques Rougerie, the SeaOrbiter – part submarine, part research ship, would also be the world’s first vertical ship to stand at 58 meters. The ship will serve as a scientific, mobile laboratory that aims to study the world’s most abundant habitat, the oceans and will soon sail in 2013. The concept of SeaOrbiter has been discussed for 12 years and Rougerie’s inspirations in designing the vessel are ocean explorer ... Read more

Morgan Freeman, an actor who probably needs no introduction this time, joined the ranks of million dollar donors to fund President Obama’s reelection this November. Recently, Freeman made a donation of $1 million to super PAC (Priorities USA Action), a pro-President Obama political action committee. The actor’s contribution will be reported to the group’s federal disclosures on Friday. “President Obama has done a remarkable job in historically difficult circumstances. I am proud to lend my voice—and support—to those who defend him.” -Morgan Freeman The Democrat-friendly Priorities USA Action so far has raised $20.4 million but is still far behind Restore ... Read more