I was trying to install the del.icio.us Firefox extension, but it turned out my version of Firefox was too old so I checked the Mozilla website for updates. Turns out Firefox 1.5 was released on the 29th.

According to the Firefox website, Fx1.5 “has an intuitive interface and blocks viruses, spyware, and popup ads. It delivers web pages faster than ever.” I checked the rest of the page and it seems there aren’t really any new features — all the existing ones are just supposed to work better than before.
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Here’s one for the math books.

A Filipino has won the Paul Erdos Award for 2006, an honor bestowed by the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions. Read more

The good news is, you can book flights online any time of the day at Cebu Pacific’s web site. The bad news is, they’re likely to offer you a discount even when there aren’t any available.

It was all terribly misleading. Although my sister had offered to pay for my plane ticket to the province, I thought I’d save her a few bucks by looking around for discounted tickets. So I went online and booked a round-trip flight with Cebu Pacific, and was pleased to see they had a promo that let you get a ticket for nearly half the regular price. The site even had a nifty pop-up page where you could compute how much your ticket would cost.
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In my entry about creating a podcast with WordPress, I said I’d talk about how to make a podcast with Blogger in a later entry. However, I realized that Peter of [blog.forret.com] already wrote a really good entry on that topic, so I give you the link to that article.

The guys behind what I suppose is that Nigerian e-mail scam everyone knows and loves have finally gone to jail. They were found guilty of defrauding a Brazilian bank of $242 million (gah), and have agreed to return $121.5 million in assets to their victims.

This is good news, I guess. I wonder how well the international community is doing to stop all other internet scams. Really, the best way is for people to be more vigilant, and less gullible and, well, greedy. If an offer is too good to be true (for instance, if someone is offering you thousands of dollars to help them move money), it probably is.

Finally, Microwarehouse came up with a feed for their podcasts. No, I didn’t find the URL on the directory page (are they ever going to publish the feed url, or do they just enjoy playing hard-to-get?), but on the m|ph blog. (Thanks for the link, Gabriel!)

There, that’s much better. Happy listening, folks.

You can blame sloppy research on the part of the INQ7.net people for the mistakes in this news item: Google bombing on Arroyo and officials backfire.

According to the article, the ploy to have presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye’s official profile appear at the top of the Google search result for “sinungaling” has backfired, since clicking on the link from said search result will instead direct you to the blog of Young Radicals, the group which devised the ploy.

What actually happens when you click on that link is that you are directed by Google to the correct page (Bunye’s profile), however that page, once it senses that you were referred by the Google search of “sinungaling”, redirects you to the YR blog. The news item implies that it’s Google (and not the Bunye page) that sends you to the YR blog, which isn’t technically true (I’m not a Google expert, so I confirmed this with the SEO pros over at the SEO-PH mailing list. ). So technically, the bomb didn’t backfire — the webmasters of the Office of the President website just fought back.
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Earlier, I said I’d update you on the new locally-based podcasts, so I hereby direct you to the Microwarehouse directory page.

It’s obviously an unfinished site, as none of the menu links work — in fact, they’re just buttons labeled “New Products”, “Events”, etc. that aren’t links at all. Which would not be weird if the other sections aren’t up yet, however, the index page is up and in fact, has a direct link to the podcast page. But I digress.

On the directory page, each item on the list has a link to the zipped audio file and a link to a popup that plays the audio file (mp3). Which makes me wonder: where are the feeds?
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Every year, hundreds of web designers take their own lives rather than continue the hopeless struggle of making their websites IE compatible. Is that what you really want?? Dead web designers????? Cause that’s what you’re going to get!!!!!! See if I care!!!!!!!!!!
– Kill Bill’s Browser

I’m a Firefox user, have been for years. The thing I like most about it is the tab feature, which lets me have multiple sites loaded on a single browser window, thereby allowing me to indulge my ADD without cluttering up my taskbar. When I have to test my sites on different browsers, I do that with Netscape Browser, which has a feature which lets you choose between displaying the site like IE or Firefox.

As you all probably know, there’s currently a massive campaign to make people switch from Microsoft Internet Explorer to Firefox. It’s about time, I think. Even Google has gotten on board and wants to pay $1 for each new Firefox user you convert. One site I found amusing was the Kill Bill’s Browser site, which has a list of good reasons you should switch to Firefox.
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It had been a while since I last checked into my domain manager account at dotPH. So I logged in a few days ago, and found everything almost the same as when I last logged in more than a year ago. I also logged into my affiliate account (Why isn’t there a clear link to this on the main page?) because I wanted to set up referral ads on my web sites.

First of all, the HTML code for the banners is wrong. I remember it’s supposed to include the affiliate’s e-mail address in the link to dotPH, which it doesn’t anymore. Which means that if you use that link, you’re just creating a link to dotPH, but you won’t be credited for the referral.
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