Blogger vs Spammers… round 1

Category : Web Thingy Posted by : hoop
Posted on August 21, 2005 | Viewed 242 times

After Mark Cuban’s rant on Blogger being the worst offender for the propogation of splogs. Google came up a countermeasure by introducing Word Verification and Flag as questionable

Taken from Slashdot

That’s good, considering that it gets irritating most times when I keep getting victimized by splogs when I do my searching.

Noise Barrage…

Category : General Posted by : hoop
Posted on August 21, 2005 | Viewed 237 times

I’ve been blasted by the marketing machine of ABS-CBN with their incessant plugging of their new show… Pinoy Big Brother…

All I can say is… it better be good…

IceRocket’s Link Tracker…

Category : Web Thingy Posted by : hoop
Posted on August 21, 2005 | Viewed 122 times

Wanna know how many people are linking to your post?

Try Icerocket’s Link Tracker

Taken from Mark Cuban’s blog

Shrine of the Holy Infant Jesus of Prague

Category : Davao Posted by : hoop
Posted on August 21, 2005 | Viewed 216 times

Aside from the San Pedro Church, one of the most famous churches in Davao City is the Shrine of the Holy Infant Jesus of Prague. Nestled on top of the Matina Hill is this quaint and serene place of worship. Surrounded by rolling grass and spots of century mango’s, makes this an ideal place to meditate and commune with the Lord. One other unique feature of this Church is that it has no four walls bounding it, but rather is a collection of different open air Chapels.

In order to reach this place, one can take a tricycle from the base of the Matina Hill or if one has a car, can either enter via the base or by the Diversion Rd. exit. During the Holy Week the route up the hill is usually clogged by devotees doing the “martyr”-ous stations of the cross which are systematically placed along the path to the church.



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