Category: Blogging

In fact, the local officials during the Katrina was saying that they did not get any warning but wunderground.com has been predicting it already. … As early as Monday, I told Ivan that we will cancel it because wunderground.com is predicting that Super Typhoon Durian (locally called Reming) will hit Manila on Thursday afternoon. … Ivan kept on asking me when I can confirm it and I just said to him that I’ll keep on tracking the typhoon via this online service.

The Eyeball Menu Bruschetti: (I love these specially the portabella ones) Portabella mushroom with truffle oil Eggplant and basil with balsamic vinegar Asparagus and soft boiled quail egg in brown butter vinaigrette Stuffed squash blossoms Pizza (made in their pugon/pizza oven): (I was surprised that they have pugon/ wood fire pizzas served here) Pizza Neapolitan Pizza Pizza Margherita Meat: Pugon Roasted Porkloin with ricotta, thyme and sundried tomatoes Pasta: Dried pasta – Penne with italian fennel sausage Fresh pasta – fettuccine with mushrooms and garlic Salad: Mixed greens with prosciutto crudo, melons, and lemon mustard vinaigrette (I wished that it was a sit down event so that we can enjoy the food a little better… … (Marketman- not sure how many was the official count for that EB) It was a showcase of desserts and the bouquet of roses created by Marketman added to the dessert seduction. … According to Marketman, the budbud kabog recipe came from a lady in Cebu who has been making it for 30+ years, If you don’t know why these suman souvenirs were controversial, check out these related MM posts: >> Gi Bogbog ko sa Kabog!!!

They are currently running the beta blog-to-book service for 600+ typepad blog users and I got one of the invites 🙂 I’ve been dreaming already of converting my blog (just the Awesome Pilipinas category) to a book in its raw blog form. … This is the main reason I started my blog and if you look at my first month’s posts, it is about the birth of my son, Aidan 🙂 Secondly, I’m thinking of selling it to people who would want to travel to the Philippines and who would need an offline version of my blog.
…But don’t take our word for it – here’s what a couple bloggers had to say about Blurb recently: A-G Spot: Hard Memories Eoin Purcell’s Blog: Blurb.com upgrades, gets commented on in Wired.com and generally attracts attention If you need any help along the way, just email us at blog2bookbeta@blurb.com and we’ll get back to you pronto.

Pinoy Blogs in Dining and Living (Newsbreak, October. 9, 2006) by Jet Damazo “Slice of Manila’s Hidden Places. … IT manager by day and blogger by night, Anton Diaz, has been sharing all these to thousands of readers for a year-and-a half now to, he says, “showcase the Philippines as a tropical paradise and hopefully inspire people to appreciate our country a little bit more.” … Go to Myron’ s by lori (May 31, 2006) – Myron’s at Rockwell by Marketman (June 16, 2006) – Myron’s Blogging Buzz by anton (June 19, 2006) Other Features Index: ClickTheCity.com: Bah Bah Blog Feature , October 6, 2006 Pinoy Big Blogger: Online Food Critics , July 21, 2006 Anton’s Awesome Planet — BLOG-O-RAMAed 🙂 , October 17, 2005

“Finally, Our Awesome Planet, a blog maintained by Anton Diaz (who, like his peers, balances blogging with a day job) offers a little more diversity in its entries. … Plus you get to see pictures of his cute kid, which is part of Anton’s plan to ‘redesign’ his blog to include families as his main target audience.” … We love each other (even if we haven’t seen one another) and you wouldn’t find us competing negatively with each other.

Congratulations to Gio (Guy in red shirt) for winning the first ever Philippines SEO Contest for the term “Isulong seoPH”! … Thanks also to lakeside technologies founder, Boris for supporting the event and for the free food during the awarding night in Pier 1 last Saturday.
… And the winner is… 1st Prize – Gio of sulongseophil.com “Magaling lang talaga akong spammer… ” — 1st Prize winner, Gio of sulongseophil.com 2nd Prize – Whin Clores of bicolbusinessdirectory.com/isulong-seoph 3rd Prize – Rostum Hernandez of isulongseoph.org 4th Prize – Zaldy Dalisay of kontrapelo.com 5th Prize – J.