Shifting to BS BA/BAA in UP Diliman?
May 12, 2008
Last Friday, the UP College of Business Administration (CBA) released the official list of Accepted Shiftees/Transferees for the incoming academic year 2008-2009.
As member of the Admissions Committee which approved the list, I was tasked to send the congratulatory email to the 133 students we admitted into the College. These include 122 students from within UP Diliman, 10 shiftees from the regional units of UP, and 1 transferee from Ateneo de Manila University.
Notice of Stockholders’ Meeting of listed Philippine firms
May 11, 2008
Last month, we wrote about the schedule of the Stockholders’ Meeting of some of the Philippines’ publicly listed firms. Here are the information for some more companies.
Again, the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting is an opportunity for a company’s shareholders to listen to their executives talk about the firm’s performance during the past year and plans and projects for the upcoming year. Major issues related to the operations of the business are also tackled and several high-level decisions that need stockholders’ approval are discussed.
Are site traffic and pageviews directly related to income?
May 9, 2008
The formula, they say, to successfully make money from a website or blog is Quality Content + Traffic.
A lot of “make money online” experts — the true gurus and fakes alike — claim that fresh, unique, and high-quality content translates to traffic and traffic ultimately equals online income. By now, it probably is an accepted fact that a website with more visitors will earn more than another site with fewer visitors.
But how related exactly are site traffic and pageviews to the advertising income of a site?
(Video) ‘Deal or No Deal Around the World’ - Manila, Philippines
May 8, 2008
The top rated US game show Deal or No Deal and host Howie Mandel are going around the world as it showcases three countries in its Deal or No Deal Around the World special edition.
Mandel and the contestants stopped by the Philippines, Estonia, and South Africa and taped episodes of the highly rated US game show.
In the Philippines, Mandel’s counterpart Kris Aquino graced the show and exchanged banter with Mandel and the contestants. Here’s a video of the first part featuring Mandel welcoming American televiewers to the show taped in the Philippines and Aquino explaining the differences between the Filipino and American versions of Deal or No Deal.
Are your Adsense earnings lower than usual today?
May 7, 2008
And the page impressions and clicks statistics don’t seem to be updated?
Earlier today, PMT Forum member geeks noted the same thing. He wondered: Mukhang may problema sa adsense ngayon, hindi naga-update impresions ko. (Adsense seems to have a problem, my page impressions stats don’t appear to be updated.)
Don’t fret. Apparently, Google Adsense is aware that there is a problem.
Is Bidvertiser a good alternative to Google Adsense?
May 6, 2008
For the past 3 years, our online income came primarily from Google Adsense. But with so many not-so-good things going on with both Google and its Adsense program — PageRank penalties, new rules regarding ad units, and declining Adsense earnings, to name just a few — we thought now might be a good time to try other Adsense alternatives.
There are a lot of Adsense competitors around such as Yahoo! Publisher Network, AdBrite, and Bidvertiser. In our first attempt searching for a good Adsense alternative, we tried out Bidvertiser.
Seen this week: Car stuck in street hole
May 6, 2008
Today we start a brand-new section in the blog, the “Seen This Week” section where we share interesting, weird or funny things we’ve seen that we’d like you to see. Armed with our digital cameras and camera phones, we take snapshots of anything we think you ought to see.
For our first edition, here are two photos of a car stuck in a street hole.
12DailyPro update: Investor Web Portal currently closed
May 5, 2008
The Court-appointed receiver for the 12DailyPro (12DP) autosurf investment scam recently announced that the Investor Web Portal, the website where 12DP victims can file and monitor their refund claims, has been shut down for security reasons. Investors, however, can still contact the receiver, Thomas F. Lennon, using email or telephone.
Here’s a copy of the letter sent to investors currently waiting for their 12DP refunds.
More pics of the PBB Teen Edition Plus housemates
May 4, 2008
You asked for it, you got it.
Here’s for those who previously requested that we put more pictures of the 14 housemates of ABS-CBN’s reality show Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition Plus. Aside from adding more photos, we also updated each individual profile and it now contains a short bio of that housemate.
Click on the name of the PBB Teen housemate to see more of his or her photos!
WP bug solved: ‘WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now’
May 2, 2008
Earlier this week, I upgraded our blog to Wordpress 2.5.1, the latest version of the Wordpress blogging software. Although the upgrade was successful and complete, the Admin Dashboard still showed a strip saying “WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now.”
At first, I dismissed it as an annoying bug that will probably go away upon the next release. But after searching the net for more information, this may actually be a symptom of a Wordpress vulnerability and the site may have been hacked or SQL injected.
Fortunately, a few online sources have already detailed a solution. I tried it in our blog and after a few hours of 404 Not Found Errors and Database Connection Problems, the problem seems to have been solved.
