Bernard Madoff guilty, gets 150-year prison term
June 30, 2009
Just less than an hour ago, a US federal judge gave the 71-year-old former NASDAQ chair Bernard Madoff the maximum sentence of 150 years in prison for an “extraordinary evil” fraud that demolished the life savings of individuals and investments of charities and pension funds.
In the court decision, District Judge Denny Chin described the unprecedented nature of the multibillion-dollar fraud as “extraordinarily evil and that this kind of irresponsible manipulation of the system is not merely a bloodless financial crime that takes place just on paper, but it is instead … one that takes a staggering human toll.”
How to find and go after scammers
June 30, 2009
You entrusted your money to a person you believed was trustworthy but, in the end, you were deceived and now that person is gone.
You have been scammed.
If you know where they are, you can report scammers to the authorities in the Philippines.
But if they cannot anymore be found, you can resort to creative means of finding them. Just like having a paid advertisement on newspapers.
Time Magazine Special Issue: Michael Jackson
June 29, 2009
Time Magazine is rushing today to release a special commemorative edition to remember the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who died on June 25 due to cardiac arrest.
This issue is surely going to be one of the few priceless Time collector’s editions. Here’s the cover of the magazine expected to hit the newsstands today, June 29.
Time of day with highest Adsense earnings
June 25, 2009
Question to Google Adsense publishers: Do you know what time of the day you earn the most Adsense income?
If not, then it’s time to use Google Analytics to find out.
How to decrease or change font size of Adsense ads
June 25, 2009
If you haven’t noticed it yet, the font sizes of Google Adsense ads have now gotten bigger. That’s because the default font size of the ads is now “medium.”
Starting last week, publishers were given the option to change the font sizes from small to medium or large. A sample of how each size looks like is shown below.
Swine Flu in the Philippines: 1 dead
June 22, 2009
The Philippines now has one confirmed death of a woman inflicted with the A(H1N1) virus or Swine Flu.
Where is the Marikina fault line?
June 22, 2009
There are currently many talks about big earthquakes in the Philippines, especially after a 7.0 quake hit Haiti and killed hundreds of thousands of people.
A primary concern to most is the Philippine Fault Zone or the Marikina Valley Fault Line, which supposedly traverses through major parts of Metro Manila, including Marikina, Quezon City, Pasig and Taguig.
Where exactly does the Marikina Fault Line pass through?
The maps below from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) and GMANews.tv show us.
Big earthquake in Marikina Valley fault line?
June 21, 2009
The United Nations is advising the Philippines to be ready for an upcoming big earthquake. A quake with a magnitude of 7 or higher on the Richter scale is sure to hit Metro Manila, they say, but the bigger question is when exactly this will happen.
The Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) report published in 2004 predicts that an earthquake with a high magnitude will surely occur because of the Philippine Fault Zone (also called the Marikina Valley Fault System), but experts cannot predict when this may happen.
WordPress 2.8 upgrade problem, downgrade possible?
June 16, 2009
Just like thousands of Wordpress (WP) users who saw on June 11 that a new version — Wordpress 2.8 — is already available, I clicked on the auto-upgrade link as soon as I saw it inside my blog’s Admin panel.
Wrong move! It crashed this blog and the site won’t load anymore!
Adsense ads gone = Banned Adsense account?
June 16, 2009
If you visited this site a few weeks ago, you probably noticed our Google Adsense ads have disappeared. What happened, you ask?
The simple answer: we were banned in Google Adsense — although temporarily.
