In designing a website, it is important that you know how to mix and match the colors of your website’s components (graphics, background, font style, ads, widgets, etc.) It adds to your website’s overall appeal when the components blend well with each other.

When I was at the design stage of this site, one of the problems I encountered is that the default color of my different widgets and Google adsense ads don’t blend with my chosen WordPress theme. Shown below are examples. The default WHITE background of the Google adsense ads don’t blend well with my theme. They’re just plain ugly!

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After being invited to perform for the Ellen Degeneres Show on February 3, 2009, the original YouTube account of Erin and Roxanne who are popularly known as Rin on the Rox was taken down by YouTube.

Posted on their MySpace account was this unedited message:

Our YouTube has been PERMANENTLY DISABLED! We do not know exact details or the reason for the suspension of our account, but usually when accounts are terminated, it is due to copyright infringing. We weren’t even notified before the deletion of our videos and account. We do not understand why they have suspended OUR account because of terms of violation when a great percentage of YouTube users do not have copyright permission either. We are thinking that all of the fame we have gained from just singing on YouTube has forced them to act against us. We are deeply saddened by this whole situation, for YouTube is what started it all for us as far as music and singing goes and was also a way to communicate to our fans all over the world. Rin on the Rox will not end because YouTube is gone. We will have an original song up soon, and hopefully even a single. Our website is in the making and we will also be having more Rin on the Rox merchandise for sale soon. Please continue to support us throughout this whole ordeal. We are alive through you, our fans so please, please keep supporting.

-Rin on the Rox

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The organization where I work for has a program that provides assistance to schools in the ARMM and CAAM (conflict-affected areas of Mindanao) by providing them internet connection, computer units and computer-related trainings and seminars. I am one of the technical persons assigned in the field to oversee the operation. We render to the recipients our services like local area network (wired and wireless) installation and computer repairs. Hence, it is very important that we have all the things we need to perform our work more efficiently.

Last Monday, I was surprised when I arrived at the office to see a box enclosed in a wooden crate waiting for me. I immediately asked Jared for the hammer and when I opened it, I was happy to find out that inside are the NEW tools, gadgets and devices we have requested. It was good timing as my crimping tool was recently broken. Some of my OLD tools are already rusty and blunt.

These are my new tools of the trade:

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Time Magazine has already released the finalists for its annual list of 100 Most Influential People in the World. For this year’s list, 202 people (sometimes pairs or groups) are included in the online voting.

The Philippines’ very own Manny Pacquiao is included in the elite list. He is also the only boxer. Pacman’s inclusion in the list of finalists is ALREADY a great source of pride for us Filipinos but if he can make it to the Top 100, then that’s all the more reason that we’ll feel great honor. NO Filipino has ever been named to that list!

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In the NBA trading cards hobby, a player collection is incomplete without oddball and promo cards. These are cards not typically released mainstream by card companies. Some are produced by card companies who have no NBA license. Others are inserted into magazines. Various ones are released as promo giveaways along with  certain products like cereals, crackers and hotdogs (yes, you read that last one right). There are even which also double-up as phone cards.

I virtually collect all kinds of Shaquille O’Neal (the ORIGINAL Superman) trading cards. I have more than 1,000 DIFFERENT Shaq cards including the oddball and promo ones.  I also collect trading cards of Dwight Howard (the NEW Superman) but only his autographed ones, rookie cards and jersey/patch cards.

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We nearly met a fatal vehicular accident today.

We were on our way to Lebak, Sultan Kudarat to visit schools for possible inclusion into our assistance programs when at around 4:30 PM, as we were approaching a blind curve; a weapon-type cargo truck that was traveling very fast and out of its right way seemed to appear out of nowhere coming towards us head-on. Our driver Romeo quickly reacted by veering hard to our right side. A collision with the truck was prevented but our vehicle skidded along the graveled road until we hit the metal railing by the roadside.

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