Philippines Blood Registry is a website that provides free service for those who wants to donate blood in the Philippines. It is an online portal for both donors and persons who seek for fresh blood to use for their loved ones. Usually when we are involved in serious situations (like accidents, emergency conditions) that requires immediate free blood donors, people usually make a series of calls and text messages to local friends and acquaintances to find for appropriate blood donors. If they will succeed with their search through this method they will immediately save the life of their loved ones but if not the patient may die needlessly. This is where the website can help you find quickly the blood donor you are looking for.

This web-based national Philippines Blood Registry can help everyone to find blood donors with a computer mouse click. Visit the website at www.PhilippinesBloodRegistry.com and consider signing-up today as a blood-donor, you might save a life. The more individuals who register, the greater the possibility of providing a match when it is needed quickly.

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Nokia N79, N85 vs iPhone 3G

Nokia today reveal the new high-end multimedia cellphones, Nokia N79 and N85. This two new models of Nokia units will be battling against Apple’s iPhone 3G. The prize of the Nokia N79 is about $515 (Php23,000+-) while Nokia N85 is about $662 (Php30,000+-). We already know the features of iPhone 3G (click the link if you want to read about the iPhone 3G features) so I will just compare the other two new Nokia units.

Let us start with Nokia N79. N79 is a monoblock multimedia cellphone that weighs about 97g. Its maximum memory capacity is about 4G micro SD card and uses S60 3rd edition as its software platform. It has a 50MB internal user memory. It has a 5 megapixel camera and it can be changed with different available Xpress-on smart covers. Nokia N85 on the other hand is a two way slide unit that weighs about 128g. Its maximum memory capacity is 80G micro SD. Same as N79, N85 has a 5 megapixel camera but with 20x zoom capacity. These are both available by October in other countries but it is not yet available in the Philippines as this time. Both of this high-end phones are still using keypads to operate with the exception of N85 that aside from keypad, it uses Navi wheels for its navigation.

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Today, my Cebu Seo Contest entry on this blog vanished again in thin air. It is deleted in index by Google. It shows on page two yesterday and the other day, but today its gone already. It seems that nothing happens with the effort I invested for the said post. That’s why I am giving it up and will stop from optimizing it. It will be a waste of effort for me to continue to increase the chance of that Cebu Seo Contest post. I am just hoping that my other entries will not fail me and I wish that it will not obliterate in results as what happens to my previous Cebu Seo Contest entry.

What I am doing right now is I am trying to focus to other things such as the upcoming open chess tournament to be spearheaded by Capiz Chess Association, Inc. and my MSCS studies. I will try to practice for the said chess tournament because lately I’ve been busy with my work and SEO activities so I was not able to open chess books and play with chess engines for a couple of months. I want to be prepared this time because my last tournament game was the worst game of my chess career. I did tried to play last week and my moves are becoming rusty. I should “lubricate” my chess skills a little to calibrate my playing style. Actually, I decided to play chess again because I was inspired by the quotes I have read written on the wall of the garage chess club of my friend. It is a quote from Benjamin Franklink and I actually made a post for it on one of my Cebu Seo Contest entry. Read this post with the title, Foresight, Circumspection and Caution here.

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When I started blogging, the first ever problem I encountered was the “copy and paste gang”. I called them Copy & Paste gang” because of what they have done with my entries. They create their new blogs and since they don’t have anything to write about it they went to my blog then select all the text and images in it then press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V combo to copy every single letter of the post even the punctuation marks and indention of the entry. What I don’t like about it is that the “culprit” (sorry the word is exaggeration) does not  give any credits to your ideas. It seems that they are claiming that your own post is their own idea. This hurt me both by search engine ranking, web traffic and feelings. Imagine you did the brain storming for a single blog post then somebody just get into your blog then copy everything you have done and no simple “TY” or “Thanks” or even a link in return. I admit that I am not really a good writer but my ideas that I’ve been posting in my blogs are my own. Sometimes I copy from other sources but I always make sure that I give back the credits to them and I only quote some part not paste them all at once.

Now, how did I deal with this “plagiarist”? At first I did not do anything about it but every time I think about this incident I can’t stop from uttering “bad words”. So I promised to myself that I will do anything to let them pay about this. How can you determine if your a victim of this copy & paste group? You can make use of the website Copyscape.com to search for articles, posts or websites who copied your content. Copyscape also features a comprehensive advice and suggestion on how to deal with this copy-paste people. If you want automatic prevention of copy-paste, there’s a website that accepts a minimal fee for their service. It is also found on the said website.

Here are some of the suggestions that I use to deal with this kind of problem (which I based on Copyscape’s advice):

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Yup that’s right, I am still using Visual Foxpro right now despite it is announced by Microsoft almost a year ago that they will stop developing the next version for this programming language. I just can’t get rid of this VFP on my system because the coding system and semantics of this tool is still running in my blood. I am teaching right now Visual Basic.Net 2008 but my system refuses to use this one for developing information systems that I need to build. Now, I am studying my MSCS and I need to decide which tool that I should use for the development. Is it Visual Foxpro that I am fond of using and really have a “sentimental” value for me or is it Visual Basic.NET because that is the future right now?

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