Archive for November, 2008

Davao Delicious Turns One!

Who would have thought that Davao’s premier food blog, Davao Delicious, only turned one yesterday. With all the delicious writing, one would think that the blog is a long-timer in the niche of food blogs.

Awarded as one of the Emerging Influential Blogs for 2008, Davao Delicious definitely gives justice to its tagline — “Food the way it should be read

The write-ups are as delicious as the food that is being written about.

My warmest congratulations, Blogie! :-)

Khash Persian Kabab Resto Bar: A Taste of Persia in Davao City

When it comes to food, I am not really the adventurous-type. As such, the only mediterranean food that I have tried before are shawarma and kabab. So, when I joined Blogie, Brendel, Chattee, Andrew, and Jim for dinner at Khash Persian Kabab Resto Bar, I didn’t really know what to expect.

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Food Photography as Done by “PROS”

Ever wonder how “Pros” do food photography? Watch and learn!

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Apple Launches Online Store in the Philippines

Pinoy macheads are in high spirits right now following the e-mail announcement by Apple, Inc. that it is formally opening an online store in the Philippines.

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Compulsive Need to be Online Now Classified as an Illness

Attention plurkers, bloggers, and cybernuts. You might want to stay away from China for now lest you be the subject of an “addiction intervention.” Just recently, Chinese doctors have officially defined internet addiction as an illness.

Symptoms of this newly defined illness include being online for six or more hours everyday, poor sleeping habits, inability to concentrate, mental distress, irritability, and “yearning to be online.”

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Megan Fox as Wonder Woman

With the success of super hero movies, some even spawning a number of sequels, you’d wonder how an iconic superhero character like Wonder Woman hasn’t made it to the big screen yet.

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Secure Your Wordpress Blog with a Single Line of Code

Just this week, popular free classifieds site, sulit.com.ph, was hacked and was maliciously redirected to Sedo. As the security breach happened over the weekend, it took quite a while for the site admin to address the issue. For a heavily-trafficked site like Sulit, I think considerable financial losses were incurred as a result of the breach.

After learning about the incident, I googled about how secure Wordpress blogs are against malicious attacks considering that I just made the leap from blogger.

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Bariles Republic Celebrates 1st Year Blogoversary!

I’d like to take this space to congratulate a good friend and a dedicated blogger on his blog’s first year blogoversary. Exactly a year ago on this day, a blog about the Tuna Capital of the Philippines was born.

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Video and Transcript of Barack Obama’s Victory Speech

U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama makes history as America’s first black president. Watch or read Obama’s victory speech courtesy of the New York Times.

Hello Wordpress!

Finally, I am now on Wordpress!

Moving from BlogSpot to Wordpress is like moving to a new house. It’s exciting for the most part but not without obstacles and difficulties.

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