On Yahoo! News too!

It’s not everyday you can do a vanity search on Google News. This one’s definitely a milestone worth screencapping.

UPDATE: Unconfirmed TV reports say at least 50 survivors have been rescued from the buried school house in Brgy. Guinsaugon, St. Bernard, Southern Leyte (7:50 PM, 02/20/2006).

A moment of silence for those affected by the Leyte landslide. St. Bernard, the area hit by the tragedy is on the southern tip of Leyte, a hundred or so kilometers from my hometown. Prayers for those who died and help for those who survived would be much appreciated.

More information here:

• National Disaster Coordinating Council official report
• Google News
• Yahoo! News
• Technorati

To help, please get in touch with the following agencies:

• Philippine National Red Cross

UPDATE: More pictures here.

Boracay photo from Seaplane-Philippines.com.

I’m off to this island paradise for a short 4-day hiatus from SEO, blogging, Bloglines and Yahoo! Messenger. This Boracay vacation is reward for a job well done. It also may well be the last 4 free days I’ll have until April. When I get back to civilization on Monday, it’s going to be all business.

For now, let me enjoy the sun, the beach and the babes! :) I need to check out if the Boracay SEO retirement plan can work or nott.

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No use closing myself to the possibility. It may come to that, and with Connie, Yuga and now J leading the way, I love the fact that I won’t be alone. But while problogging intrigues me, it would probably be my last option. Like Markku, I don’t see myself quitting my job any time soon to blog full time. What I really want to move into is consultancy. I’ve tried the corporate ladder route; I’ve been steadfast in that direction for the past 5 years and by most people’s standards, I’ve achieved much for myself and for the companies I’ve been associated with. It may be time that I work the same magic, this time for third parties.

Let me tell you why problogging isn’t for me, for now.
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Yey, new year. New chance to redeem oneself from last year’s fuck ups. Here are my wishes for 2006.
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I was doing a few vanity searches on Technorati and was pleasantly surprised (arghh who am I kidding!? I was jumping up and down with glee!) to see that Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny would actually consider the Paid Link Soap Opera post worthy of link love :)
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If you haven’t read my Recycling Old Domains post, you can read it at ahem, Threadwatch ;)

The October 8 meetup went fairly well, except for the vicious downpour in the afternoon. PTBers like Abe, Migs and Rain were present. So was PTBer Clair and Markku who I met for the first time.
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Dan Brown’s best selling novel The Da Vinci Code came to me at a time when I had fallen out of love with books. Sterling reviews about this 2003 bestseller or news of a Ron Howard-adaptation didn’t thrill me enough to want to buy the book. Being the ever lazy bloke, I was convinced I wasn’t going to find the time to go out, buy then read the book. Work and the Internet, my mistresses, were two distractions that ate up almost all of my waking hours. But as fate would have it, it was the book that was going to find me, not the other way around. About a month ago, a friend of my brother leaves a copy of the Special Illustrated Edition of The Da Vinci Code at home. Two days later, I’m hooked.
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British web designer Alfie Dennan put We are not afraid.com up to serve as a forum for Brits to share their views on the terrorist attacks in London. Yesterday the website registered four million hits, coupled with about 3,500 photo submissions all containing the “We are not afraid” message.
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