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Christmas Speedlinks 25 December 2006

Adel posts a Nuit de Noel graphic and greets everyone for the holidays

Yuga greets everyone a Merry Christmas in several languages.

Rico talks about the use of mouthwash and then greets everyone a Merry Christmas!

Markku writes his Christmas greeting early and posts photos of UP Diliman during Christmas

Noemi shares the Blessing Box gift to us

Mike Abundo says Christmas is a time to parteh

Merry Christmas to my readers! If you want to ask my take on Christmas, I go by the traditional Christian perspective. The Jesuits used to give out gifts during Christmas – the child Jesus lying on a Cross. In all its religious symbolism, there is a much simpler message – from the day the Child was born , His mission on earth was clear – to die for all men for their sins.

May we look at this example as an inspiration to find what our personal missions are and hasten to put them to effect. Merry Christmas and .. I’m out!

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Don’t forget your camera this Christmas!

One of the things I love about the holidays is taking photos of people you haven’t seen in a long time. Call me a schmuck for telling you this – but if you were going to buy a camera, last week would have been the best time to buy it so you could use it now.

In lieu of this, I direct you to Darren Rowse’s 16 Digital Photography Tips for the Christmas Holidays:

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Speaking of not seeing people in a long time, congratulations to newlyweds Asia (my good friend’s “little sister”) and Ken who married last week at the Villa Escudero!

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Ornusa Cadness Photo Shows Why You Should Have Girls on the Front Cover of Tech Magazines

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Several months ago I wrote a post that explored the statement “sex sells” in commercial print publications. Though it may be true that “sex does sell” I also clarified that “so does other things.” Here is an excerpt:

So when is it okay to put a “sexy” lady on the front cover? The guideline we live by, at least here where I work, is that everything should be in context. Phoem is wearing a sexy (but elegant) swimsuit because it’s summer. She’s holding an Olympus mju series camera, known to be an all-weather resistant model. Hence, she took it out to the beach.

I will now add that a Google-friendly babe on the front cover will no doubt increase your traffic by a lot. People searching for her over the Internet will no doubt be led towards your site at one point in their search results.

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Comments are now working!

This is a short but happy note that comments are now working again. We encountered a small DB problem which has now been resolved.

It’s a few more days till Christmas so I hope you get your last minute shopping done!

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Ala Paredes on Blogging and Technology

Several months ago I interviewed Ala Paredes for the Mobile Philippines‘ “Fashionably Geek” section. Here is an excerpt from this article which was written by our assistant editor Eva Gubat (link withheld!) as I interviewed her at the Hotel Philippine Plaza. Note that this article was written a few days before she migrated to Australia, so this was one of the last interviews she did for local media before leaving. Take it away, Eva:

Ala shares that she might rename her blog to “Island Girl in Narnia,” or something of that sort. She religiously updates her blog every four or five days, and thinks that the frequency will be higher once she’s in Sydney. “I’ll probably be updating it more since I’ll be so lonely and depressed.” That’s why her theme for her blog is the jeepney with the tag, Manila-Sydney. Very apt for her sojourn in Australia with her family, a sort of crazy-slash-sensible family adventure. “Isang huling sakay,” she muses.

It’s her musing, raves and rants that keep the readers of her blog coming back for more trips on her jeepney blog. Sometimes, she’s top 2, sometimes 4. “I used to think it was such a loser thing to do. Like, ‘Yuck. Why would you want to post your thoughts online?’ And then I stumbled upon this one blog by two American girls and their blog was just funny and entertaining. Maybe I’ll try this kind of blog, I thought.”

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