Dear XXXXX XXXXXXX,

Below is some information regarding your matched.co.uk account.
Please read this information carefully and, if necessary, carry out any action that is requested.

MATCHED HAS CLOSED
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It is with much regret that we announce that Matched.co.uk has closed.

Matched has been running as a beta experiment for some time and, after much careful consideration, it has been decided not to progress the project to the next stage.

As a result, Matched will not be accepting new sign-ups and will no longer be assigning adverts to its current publisher base.

If you completed your last payment run before November 19th 2008, you will still be paid, but please note that no future payments will be made after this. Therefore, we recommend that you remove any Matched ads from your websites.

Thank you very much for being part of the Matched.co.uk experience and we wish you the best of luck for the future success of your websites.

Thanks,
Matched.co.uk
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As what I’ve heard from online buddies, they earned a decent amount of money from Matched. Now, that they have closed, publishers will now have to look for other avenues to earn residual income from.

Though I did not earn anything from Matched, it was still a nice experience to have worked with them. Time to look for other income-generating sidelines for the Holidays. ^_^

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And as confirmed by ALANA-G, the username THE_REAL_SHAQ is indeed the real Diesel. The real Big Cactus. The real Big Aristotle. The real Shaquille O’neal.

Nothing beats that. So if you don’t have a Twitter account, signup now and follow what “The Real Shaq” is writing/doing everyday. I guess I have to signup for an account too.

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The soft launching of Defcon Philippines (DefconPH) on December 20, 2008 will bring together IT Security Professionals and Hackers to discuss their solutions, exploits and experiences in this complicated and critical field of IT Security arena. Attending this launching puts you one step ahead in preserving your company’s reputation, keeping your company solvent, and showing your value to your employer. DefconPH is a registered Defcon Group International as DC6332.

This half-day power packed event will cover the latest topics in IT security, hacking and protection. Learn how to avoid embarrassing and expensive data breaches, protect valuable information, and many more. DefconPH stands firm on “No InfoCommercial and No Product Endorsement.” Launching of this organization will commence in Handuraw, 460 Gorordo Avenue, Cebu City from 1PM to 6PM.

Early Bird Rate:

P500 (One Handuraw Sliced Pizza, 2 Bottles of Beer, DefconPH Official Tshirt)
(Pay on or before December 6, 2008)

Regular Rate:

P800 (One Handuraw Sliced Pizza, 2 Bottles of Beer, DefconPH Official Tshirt)
(Starting December 8, 2008)

Proceeds of the soft launching of DefconPH will be used for SEC registration and web maintenance.

More information about the gathering here.

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Here are the reasons that I think are valid enough:

• I have not received my payout and I don’t know which part of their administration page to set the payment details (if any of you knows, please help!)

• Their emails/newsletters are not professional-looking and even has typos and grammatical errors in it

• Their emails/newsletters, contain affiliate links masked with tiny url (suspicious)

• Some link on their newly updated site, does not work. It is not as if they just updated the site days ago, they have updated it like 1 month ago?

• I CAN’T LOGIN! It does not give any trap error. It’s just that I cant LOGIN!

Anybody out there who agrees with me and my rants? Please make your own post and let’s start a revolution. Make your own post about AsiaCentury and post a comment here so that I can add you in the list of those having problems with them, and please don’t forget to add my URL in the list and everybody on the list.

Updated List

1. d’MusicBox | Is AsiaCenturyPH for real?
2. Opposition : Earn PHP through Asia Century Affiliate Program
3. How’s Asiacenturyph doing? — (nnd)
4. Busby SEO Test | AsiaCenturyPH a scam?
5. ASIACENTURYPH : How are you?

Now, make your own posts and don’t forget the lists of those having the same problems.

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I was feverish yesterday so I had to lie in bed the whole day, in my sister’s bedroom. So, on the bedside were books (my sister is a Grade School Teacher), books, books and more books. Of all the books in the stand, small book with “Mitch Albom” largely printed on the cover caught my attention. It was because, I thought it was a story about a person named “Mitch Albom” (how stupid of me). I am not a book lover, because I have this feeling that books create false pretenses that may be/will be the basis of our future judgement, but there is something with this book that had urged me to open that front page and read the lines after that.

The book is, Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom (author of Tuesdays With Morrie; I don’t know that book and haven’t read it). The book started with an ending. Yes, you read it right, it began with an end, an end to the main character’s life, Eddie. I really suck at doing book reviews, I swear, because my whole life, the only “legit” book (with that I mean a “book” book, not a “school book”.. LOL) was HAMLET by William Shakespear. I was forced to read it for a book review project in High School.

So there I was, in bed, reading every word Mitch Albom wrote in the book. It was as if I was part of the story because one way or another, I had the same questions about time, life and love. Questions such as “Why am I here?” “Why did he do that?” “If I die, will somebody even cry?”. It’s as if the book was really made to answer some questions that I have long asked my self. And reading on, it mentioned two of my greatest fears in life, (1)growing old, sickly, grumpy and useless and (2) losing a loved one. The book was not overly sentimental yet I can feel that it can elicit emotions from the readers.

I won’t give any justice to the book if I make a book review. All you have to do is grab a copy and read the book. I would be glad to know what you think of it too.

Life has to end, love doesn’t.

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I was able to pay the $140 charge for the excess bandwidth using the earning I earned with paid posts and others. The other $31 dollar invoice was paid using money from a donation of John because he liked the GreyMonger Wordpress Theme that I created (check out John’s page to see his artworks).

As a conclusion, QUEST FAILED! But I did learn new lessons during that span of time that will, in the future, help me earn more online. From Google’s PR to SEO and to lame-ass hotlinking (that was the main culprit of the excess bandwidth). So we have to move on and find better ways to make money online.

P.S.
Happy 21st Birthday to me. This is by far my best birthday so far, in 4 years, as I spent if with people that are really special to me. (OMG! that sounded so mushy!)

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So let’s cut all the crap and start on with the show. I did the intro part “dMusicBox | blaring through your monitors and speakers” voice over and I need every comment on how I can improve the voice over. It was recorded using the default Windows Sound Recorder (yup! I’m on windows) and edited using Virtual DJ 5.2 Pro.

For this first episode, the tracks and artists featured are as follows:

• Selector - Skindred
• Phoebe Cates - FenixTX
• Stupid Kid - Alkaline Trio
• No It Isn’t - Plus 44
• Shinobi Vs. Dragon Ninja - The Lostprophets

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Congratulations, your new theme GreyMonger Theme is now available to the public at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/greymonger-theme

DOWNLOAD | PREVIEW

I’m still planning to make the 3-column version [still planning! LOL]. As of now, enjoy this theme.

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4 were killed and 2 were injured in a plane crash that happened in Columbia Metropolitan Airport . Those killed in the crash were identified as the pilot and co-pilot, as well as Barker’s assistant Chris Baker and secutiy guard Charles Still. The Lear Jet 60 came to rest on an embankment along Highway 302, along the outskirts of the Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008, and caught fire.

Travis Barker, who was the drummer for the band Blink-182, was one of the two people hurt when the Learjet 60 crashed in Columbia, S.C. DJ AM (Adam Goldstein), the popular disc jockey, was also critically injured in the South Carolina plane crash that took the lives of four people.

Reports have indicated that both Travis and DJ AM are now in stable condition. Let’s just hope them well and our condolences to the family of those who died.

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I know this like a month old news, but that does not stop me from writing about it as I grew up listening to the master rapper. As I was searching through old collection of cassette tapes that I had when I was kid, I found my “The Best of Francis M” Vol. 27 cassette tape. I think my mother brought this when I was still Grade 1, so that’s year 1993. I think i lost the other cassette tapes part of this collection.

Here are the pictures of the cassette tape, Side A (LOL):

The son of local matinee idol Pancho Magalona and actress Tita Duran, Francis created his own mark in the entertainment industry as a rapper-performer when he released his debut album, Yo! back in 1990. The said record spawned the massive nationalistic rap hit song “Mga Kababayan,” which in effect introduced Pinoy style rap music in the mainstream.

The ‘90s band explosion failed to deter Francis’s popularity and significance in the music scene as proven by the number of hit albums and good singles he churned out since Yo! He even collaborated with other artists and most of the time experimented with various sounds and genres so as not to remain stale before the listening public >>>.

Get well soon, MASTER RAPPER!

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My first blog existed in Friendster but I have to leave it cause I had difficulties with the platform they are using. The platform was just too lame, I had to let my dog do the “friendster blogging” for me. Friendster was using Typepad as their blog platform before, and honestly, I should say that Typepad Sucks big time! You don’t have to agree with me or anything but I just simply hate the platform. So now that friendster has switched to Worpress, it’s a good news for us who has come to love Wordpress and its power (LMAO).

The main problem now is with the Friendster Bloggers who has come to love Typepad and its lameness. If any of you have any problem with the new Wordpress Friendster platform, you can alwaays drop a line here, I will be glad to help you with any problems.

For the past years, this has been the best move of Friendster so far, having WORDPRESS as the Friendster blog platform! Friendster Blog 2.0 powered by Wordpress.

P.S. I think I stayed in a cave for some time as when I checked Google SERPS for the news about Wordpress on Friendster, everybody has been talking about it. ;(

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The biggest question now is, HOW WILL I PAY MY DUES! I will not be able to pay $140. There are two options that I am weighing right now, 1.) Pay the dues 2.) Not pay the dues and wait for this account to be cancelled. Which is which? I badly need this site. If anybody can offer their help I would gladly accept it. You can spare me some of your loose change by donating though the Paypal button on the right sidebar.

 NOTE: I think I found the culprit on the sudden Bandwidth outburst. I think it is the Michael Phelps is Evil Gif that generated that much traffic. I’m not sure how browsers or web hosts treats GIF files.  It could be they load the size per frame. Will still have to investigate that one. If the traffic doesn’t change in the next 2 days, I think I’ll be forced to take down the site for the mean time.

 Again, I badly need your help, citizens and non-citizens of the blogosphere! A $1-$5 donation will be a big help. I’m on my knees begging you. PLEASE!

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Now, back to work! xD

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This fight was one of the match up I personally staged in Fight Night 2 [a Playstion video game], including Arturo Gatti vs. Holyfield, Jose Luis Castillo vs. Ali and many more mismatches that I created in the Fight Night Video game. Well, that was a video game, so I could match anybody I want, I was the matchmaker in all sorts, but, Pacquiao vs, Dela Hoya on December 6? In a business standpoint, this could make sense, this could really make a lot of $en$e. Dela Hoya, the sports’ most bankable star, against the Pound-for-Pound King, or to rephrase it, the Pay-Per-View King vs. Pound-for-Pound King. But for legacy’s sake, this bout does not make sense at all! Oscar wants his last fight to be a bang, but does defeating a shorter fighter like Pacquiao cements his name in the boxing books? NOT! If Oscar wanted to go out with a bang, he should have fought Margarito, Pavlik, Calzaghe, Williams or anybody on top of the division with his size, but he chose the easy way out, challenging Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao isn’t in a bad situation here. He gets his biggest purse. If he loses, as is generally expected, he will lose no prestige whatsoever, but an upset win will send Pacquiao’s earning power and all-time status soaring into the stratosphere. It’s a win-win situation for Pacquiao, but on Oscar’s side, he only wins money-wise. He does not prove anything if he will defeat Pacquiao.

I really don’t have any problem with the match, it’s just that, not every hardcore boxing fans want to see this fight. Every hardcore boxing fan wants to see Oscar fight and Pacquiao fight, but they don’t want to see both fighters agains each other because it’s just wrong. Another thing to point out, Mayorga, Mosley, Trinidad, Vargas and others were not able to KO Dela Hoya, if Pacquiao thinks he can KO Dela Hoya, then he must be kidding. Oscar is not David Diaz that he can outclass and knock out, maybe he can outrun and out box Dela Hoya, but he can’t KO Dela Hoya.

It remains to be seen how the fight will turn out. I am favoring Dela Hoya to win this by KO. I am a Filipino and I should support Pacquiao, but not now, I can’t be biased and tell everybody that the Pacman can KO the Golden Boy, even if there is a chance, it is just so slim. For now, let the hype begin.

Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao vs. Oscar “the Golden Boy” Dela Hoya on December 6, 2008.

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Your new theme, GreyMonger Theme, has been added to the directory and is pending a review. Once your theme has been reviewed and approved it will be available for download from the directory. You will receive an email notifying you when this happens.

As of now, I am just waiting for the confirmation mail that the theme is already available for the public. Before Wordpress will make it available to the public they will be taking it for a test drive and I will just get another email from them after that.

UPDATE:

I just received an email from Wordpress containing some of the fixes needed. Here are the 2 most important fixes needed:

- Shows post categories, but not post tags
- Doesn’t support Gravatars

Have to work again, I’ll be updating later. If you want to check out the theme, here’s the link to it: BUSBY SEO CHALLENGE

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Michael Fred Phelps (born June 30, 1985) is an American swimmer. He is a14-time Olympic gold medalist (the most by any Olympian) and he currently holds seven world records in swimming.

Phelps holds the record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics with the eight golds he won at the 2008 Olympic Games. With this record, he surpassed Mark Spitz, who was also a swimmer and had held the previous gold medal total with the seven that he won at the 1972 Olympic Games.

Michael Phelps is EVIL! [of course the animated pic is edited.] I have to give kudos to whoever made this GIF, really EPIC!

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I will be posting the link once I finalize the design and test everything before uploading to wordpress. Hope everything will go smoothly as planned [and I hope I will not be able to overwrite my existing stylesheet.. LOL].

Stay tuned amigos!

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Swimmers don’t usually get that much attention and they are not even household names. Swimming is not something that you watch on primetime TV, you only get to watch this on sporting events such as the Olympics which only happens every 4 years. Phelp’s has change the way everybody looks at the game and he has raised the bar not just for swimmers but for every athletes.

Now there are even more rumors of Phelps and Spitz to appear in joint appearances and endorsement deals (and this is a biggie). For now, all that Michael Phelps has to do is to savor everything while it lasts. One thing is sure though, Michael Phelps is leaving Beijing as a sports icon.

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1. Put Yo Hood Up (Lil John) - Set Your Goals
2. Got Your Money (Ol’ Dirty Bastard) - Say Anything
3. I Wish (Skee-Lo) - The Secret Handshake
4. Men in Black (Will Smith) - Forever the Sickest Kids
5. California Love (2PAC) - My American Heart
6. I Wanna Love You (Akon) - The Maine
7. Kryptonite (Purple Ribbon All-Stars) - Emanuel
8. The Seed (The Roots) - Person L
9. Still Fly (Big Tymers) -The Devil Wears Prada
10. Umbrella (Rihanna) - All Time Low
11. Notorious Thugs (Notorious BIG) - Scary Kids Scaring Kids
12. Nothin’ But A “G” Thang (Dr. Dre) - The Escape Frame
13. Gin and Juice (Snoop Dogg) - Hot Rod Circuit
14. Hey Ya! (OutKast) - Lorene Drive
15. Tennessee (Arrested Development) - New Found Glory

I have not really had the chance to listen to all the tracks, specially tracks 12,13,14 and 15, cause I’m always tempted to switch my playlist to Skindred. I would give The Maine’s version of Akon’s song two thumbs up and 4 thumbs up to The Secret Handshake’s version of I Wish. One notable thing about the album though is that most of the bands featured could either be considered Powerpop/Pop Punk. One last thing, I honestly think that Vanilla Sky’s version of Umbrella(plus a kickass video) is far better that All Time Low’s version. Though they had different approach on how to cover the song, I still think that Vanilla Sky gave the “Punk” side to it, while All Time Low’s versions was “Powerpop”. Whether or not you are a punk fan (or a part of the herd of girls screaming their lungs out if they see every band’s “cute” member), the album is still worth wasting time listening to and do yourself a favor, grab a copy of it, illegally or legally.

I wonder what the next Punk Goes album will be. Punk Goes Bob perhaps? xD

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