2009 October

Today’s Google Doodle: Halloween Candy Treat

Category: Computers

Since today is Halloween, Google is celebrating the holiday with a special doodle with their logo changed to one with a candy which looks like a jack-o-lantern.

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Instead of the traditional “trick or treat”, Google has devised its own “click or treat” as upon clicking the logo, more candies appear.

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Google PageRank Update October 2009

Category: Personal

I checked this site today and noticed that the Google toolbar installed in my browser displays a thicker green bar. My suspicion was confirmed when I hover my mouse over it and it says 3/10.

Yippee! This is now a PR 3 website.

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Google’s last PageRank update was last June 2009 and I was at PR 2. So after 4 more months, my PR increased by 1.

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Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 Episode 2

Category: Boxing

Pacquiao Cotto 24 7 Episode 2

At the start of the premier episode of HBO’s Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 , we saw Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto at the Yankee Stadium promoting their fight.

Then cut to the typhoon that devastated the Philippines prompting the Pacman to train by swimming in the pool in which he is not good by the way; but he is very good at basketball.

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Introducing: Arkin Wade Hilario

Category: Personal

Our boy was supposed to see the light of the world this November 5. But he surprised us last October 24 when at 8:00 PM, clear fluid was slowly trickling from my wife every 5 minutes; sign that her amniotic fluid was about to burst. Meaning, she was about to give birth within 24 hours.

With my in-laws, we immediately ferried her to the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center here in Cotabato City. Unfortunately, her ob-gyne Dr. Yap is out of town so it was Dr. Lao who attended to my wife. Wendy’s health condition would not allow her a normal delivery so we immediately arranged for cesarean section (CS) operation.

Just 13 minutes after the operation started, our baby boy was scooped out of Wendy’s womb at 11:33 PM.

Here he is. I’m proud to introduce to the world my son, our first child, Arkin Wade Hilario!

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The 2009 LA Lakers Championship Ring

Category: Basketball

NBA players surely are a pampered breed. They get million-dollar contracts, are very popular and living the high life. And when they do bag the ultimate goal which is to win a championship, they are given a bling-bling which makes us drool.

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The Los Angeles Lakers opened the 2009-10 NBA Season with a pregame ceremony to receive their championship rings from NBA Commissioner David Stern prior to their first game of the season against crosstown rival Los Angeles Clippers. They earned their blings by defeating Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic in the 2009 NBA Finals. And what a bling it is!

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Rampage Jackson vs Door

Category: MMA

In his stint as coach for Team Rampage of The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson has been widely criticized.

His poor coaching skills as well as failure to enter the ring to support his fighters after a defeat drew him the ire of many.

He might think he is being funny but is definitely not in verbally abusing Team Rashad fighter Darrill Schoonover by calling him “titties”. He even calls coach Rashad Evans “Gayshad” and commissioned a funny caricature of the coach and his fighters.

These acts led to his team still winless after seven matches.

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