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Dabawenyo.com

Finally — after 3 years!! — I got dabawenyo.com for myself. When I moved my I-love-Davao from Blogger to WordPress in February 2007, I wanted a good domain name for the new Web presence. Of course, all the names with just “davao” in it were already taken (including davao.net, which I used to own but [...]

09-09-09

9th of September 2009, a day of no particular significance other than its nifty abbreviation: 09-09-09. Come to think of it, this kind of date contraction comes only once every hundred years. To celebrate 09-09-09, I did 9 noteworthy things today: (1) I started a major online project; (2) bought a new domain that I [...]

Hectic schedules

Been über-busy these past couple of weeks (WordCamp, MBS3, etc.) that I haven’t been blogging at all… My food blog has a backlog now, and my Davao blog‘s hardly getting updated anymore. Sheesh. Hopefully I can get back on track soon!

“Oh, WordPress.”

Several Davao bloggers and I had the privilege to meet in person the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, Kristie Kenney, this morning at the Ateneo de Davao University college library. At one point, we were talking about traveling across Mindanao, so I mentioned to her about Matt‘s visit to Davao in September 2008. Me: “Matt [...]

WP now on UTC

If you set your blog’s timezone in WordPress (e.g., GMT +8) before WP2.8.1, make sure to go back to your dashboard’s general options and update this setting. I don’t know why, but WP has now junked GMT in favor of UTC. When I checked, my blogs’ timezone setting had become UTC +8 (which does not [...]

Japanese blog redesigned

I got a comment yesterday from one of my Japanese-blog readers, and I translate: “I’m waiting for your next article!” And my last post before today was dated 25 January 2008. So, to inspire myself to go back to updating 真ん丸空間, I changed WordPress themes, as I am wont to do. Since Maru’s Space is [...]

WordPress plugin for Events

Need to publish events on your WordPress-powered blog? Here’s a great plugin for just that:   Events. It’s what I use for my Upcoming Events section on AngDabawenyo.com. See it in action There are, however, a few things that I’d like to see added to this plugin’s features. My wish list: Image uploader and corresponding [...]

Useful plugin for code

Do you blog about geeky stuff like coding how-to’s? Do you publish visible code on your blog posts? Here’s a nifty plugin for that: FV Code Highlighter. See how it works here and here. It displays your code in its own space, and there’s even syntax highlighting! The plugin author’s site doesn’t say so, but [...]

WordPress 2.8 rocks!

This newest edition of WordPress is simply awesome! WP2.8 boasts of an automatic theme installer / uploader, color-coded template editor, more intuitive widget management, and plenty more! Not on WordPress yet? Transfer now!!

Link-love to commenters

To the lovely readers who leave comments on my blog, I give you back link-love! (That is, if you provide a site URL along with your comment.) Take a look at the left-hand sidebar, below “Latest Posts”: commenters’ names are linked to their own sites, without the rel=’nofollow’ attribute.