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A big congratulations to the administration?

The Philippines has made it to this year’s “Guinness Book of World Records” for having the most number of recorded murders based on United Nations data in 2004, an election year.

What’s the buzz?

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will launch in the first quarter of the year a project aimed at identifying the country’s poorest families and communities. Now, Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral said the DSWD would spend P1 billion this year for the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTSPR) program.

Chika ni Reyna

Mas tipid ako. From my house to Floodway? Lalakarin ko lang yun. Identified ko na ang mga mahihirap. Yong mga balay nila? Nakasabit sa gilid nang floodway. Malusog ang mga isda dun. Mura pa. Hehehe!


Read it here: Cost of identifying RP’s poorest: P1 B

I’m not kidding! They are really going bananas over the Philippine bananas! It’s the latest weight-loss craze sweeping fad-loving Japan and has made Japanese women go bananas over Philippine bananas.

It all started with the Morning Banana Diet. A diet which is… well… ahh about banana, every morning. Hahaha!

Followers of the Morning Banana Diet can eat as many bananas as they want and room temperature water for breakfast. Under this diet regimen, they can eat anything they want for lunch and dinner, which has to be eaten by 8 p.m. They also have to go to bed before midnight.

So, now, the Department of Tourism has disclosed that the Philippines is now the top exporter of bananas to Japan, providing 862,000 tons or 91.4 percent of the banana needs of the world’s second biggest economy.

Maintenance work on Reyna Elena

January 11th, 2009

No worries peeps! I’m just doing some maintenance work on Reyna Elena. I hope this won’t take too long.

Chuva Chienes (www.chuvachienes.com) had already told me about this problem awhile back. Here’s what he was experienced.

When he is writing a blog entry on his Wordpress, the screen would freeze because there is a script that’s running on the background searching for something. This has been going on for a while.

I spoke with another blogger and she told me the same thing.

Guess what, it’s also the very same problem I have.

Meanwhile, Chuva is now looking for another hosting company to transfer his website.

I’m curious if this problem is exclusive to my “associates” or friends.

Will I be next?

Can you imagine?! Sa mahal nang renta ko sa lecheng landlord ko? Basta na lang ipapadlak nang wala man lang abiso?! Taz sila nga tong pinagdududahan ko dun sa last na tikbalang na pinapasok nila! Taz pinagsarhan ang Reyna?! “HINDI BA NILA AKO KILALA?!

Puta! Kamahal mahal nang monthly period ko sa kanila! Sila den ang nagsabing ilipat ko sa multi-uber higher faster high CPU chorvalais dahil andami kong bisita. Lima sa dating apat. “Puta! GANITO BA ANG KALAKARAN DITO?!

Matagal na tong alitan namin. Nagsimula to nung piktapos nang lecheng REM.PHP leche leche! Sinisisi ko kasi sila na me pilit na pumapasok sa site ko at ginagawa akong tanungan nang mga lecheng nawawalang kalabaw re: query errors. Eto na naman kami sa batuhan. “That’s Wordpress! Call them” Ganun?! Ganun lang?! Lupet nang mga puta!

So, bear with me! Nag-huhubad lang ako. Pinapatanggal saken kung mga ano anong ka-artehan sa Reyna Elena and hopefully I should be back. Grrr!

US shuts down scareware sellers

December 15th, 2008

US shuts down scareware sellers

O’rite, raise your right legs, how many of you bought some protective softwares because the world will crack? Remember the Y2K? That must be the biggest scare in the world to hire battalion of programmers! No worries. Jehovas Witnesses do that in my neighborhood every Saturday with “Do you know that the end of the world is coming?” I mean, how many times will it come? So, savvy entrepreneurs used the same tactics and they have all this stupid anti-shit everything. Leche them! I bought one too, you know! Grrr!

Quezon folks rejected splitting the province

Now, here’s the fun part! RA 9495 was for the division of the province into Quezon del Sur and Quezon del Norte, in a plebiscite. Nantes was the main author of the law, along with Alcala, Representatives Lorenzo “Erin” Tanada III (4th District) and Danilo Suarez (3rd District) as co-authors until the measure was passed last year. Two of the lawmakers (Quezon Governor Rafael Nantes and Representative Proceso Alcala) who crafted Republic Act 9495 abandoned the very law that they created. Wasn’t that something?!

Asian giants agree on economic plan

That’s China, Japan and South Korea. Do you know how big they are? All three countries accounts for 75% of the region’s economy and two-thirds of its trade. So, it probably doesn’t mean anything to you, but it means a lot on what’s going on around you. What brought all of these enemies together? Well, China’s trade is slowing down. Japan needs China and must put aside past differences because it was trade between them that helped pull Japan out of its last prolonged recession during the 1990s. South Korea? I would assume it’s the “North Korea”.

Web Hosting Geeks

December 12th, 2008

Ok, so now that Reyna Elena dot com is back with its regular programming, I’m thinking that if once my rental agreement with my landlord on the internet expires in six months, maybe it’s time for me to move to another hosting location. It’s a bit of a decision call considering the so many hosting solutions available to choose from. Isn’t this interesting, I’ve been blogging for about three years now and I’m still at a loss where to start my search. So, yesterday, I thought I would look at Web Hosting Geeks.

I think it’s a pretty good site to start my search. They have this Top 10 list with the best web hosts of 2008, which obviously cuts out the search on my part. It’s easy to check the features, promotions and prices along with some helpful reviews of each of the ones that they’ve highlighted. They also have the best php hosting category, best multi-domain hosting, best unix hosting, etc. All of these offers the reader and web host researcher some valuable articles about web hosting, web development, web design, domain names, e-commerce and many more where he could base his buying decision.

Now, their site is user-friendly. It’s simple to navigate even for beginners. Anyone who is interested in finding out information, articles and reviews about web hosting companies, they have it. It’s a best to find what suites your budget as well as your web space and bandwidth requirements.

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This holiday season is a very challenging one, especially for a number of charity organizations that use to expect a big chunk of their donations coming in from the holidays. We’re now deep into our Christmas season and it’s very unfortunate that we are all experiencing this crunch brought about by the financial crisis. So much as we all desire to give and donate to some very special friends who were left out, it is also the more important that we all need to consider that these are indeed some very trying times. Yet, even in the most difficult time of the year, gift giving cannot be sidelined. There are still ways to gift. Consider stem cell research giving us some innovative stem cell solutions to better the lives of those people in need. That’s one very important research that not only save lives but it also impact on somebody else’s. The Cryo-Cell company leads in this research and Cryo-Cell’s Signature U-Cord® and C’elle® Gift Cards provide meaningful and affordable gifting options this holiday season. You could choose from any of the three. They have the U-Cord®, Cryo-Cell’s stem cell cord blood preservation service which is an ideal gift for family and friends who are expecting a baby. They have the C’elle® is a wonderful gift for women who are not pregnant. And they have the Protect Baby, Protect Mom® which is the ultimate combination of services offering the best of both U-Cord and C’elle to protect moms and their newborn baby.

This Christmas, give a meaningful gift. Here’s the Gifting Page: http://www.cryo-cell.com/gift/?utm_source=ppp&utm_medium=golb&utm_campaign=epr

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My reyna elena dot com website is now fully uploaded back to it’s site. We have not made it live yet though. Yet, I hope we were able to recapture and upload all of the mega entries I wrote since the beginning of mankind. While reloading all the plugins I need, I made sure to double check the php files just in case that bloody remv.php and the nasty codes are still in there. So far, so good.

One thing that’s nice about the new wordpress (2.6.3 or 5) is that, you are now able to automatically update the plugins from the plugin dashboard. It’s neat, isn’t it? You don’t have to jump in and out of your ftp window. Yet, the audit blood in me, I double check the link of the plugins if they are still breathing.

Guess what I discovered!

youtubebrackets

Do you have that plugin?

That’s a dead link. If you click the link, it goes to a weird site offering all sorts of bloody lists of stuff. Now, why would you do that?! Isn’t that plugin link a suspect?! I mean, it’s possible, right? I maybe wrong, but here’s the capture of the website.

Another lesson learned the hard way!

  1. Check your plugins for dead links. It might have been hijacked by another site and that could be a way for them to get into your website!
  2. Before you upload, open the PHP file and check for weird codes.
  3. Delete suspect plugins, capture the website so you’d have references in the future and to warn others.

Computer hackers, computer virus, they will always be with us for as long as there’s internet and blogs. We just have to be vigilant and come together and fight them as one.

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Smart shop this Christmas

December 4th, 2008

With subprime hitting almost every business around and the financial crisis giving us all a very bleak future, who knows what’s going to happen next. All we read are an ever increasing unemployment lines and lay-offs. It’s a very unfortunate time that this is a holiday season. You sure can’t get away with the kids. They are all expecting something from us this Christmas. After all, this season is actually for them pretty much. A season for family and friends and a season for giving, yet we all need to watch our budget. That is, if there still remains to budget for. Which is why, it is the more important that you should take a good look at online coupon codes to give you some savings. A small savings here and there could add up to something of course. One great site though to check out for online coupons is savings.com. From books to clothing to beauty products and more. It’s a great site to find some Christmas gift items as give-away. If there is anybody in the family who has a Tivo, there’s a Tivo promo code. Stay within your budget while enjoying the holidays. Smart shopping is the way to go in this time of financial crisis.

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I’m fine thank you!

December 4th, 2008

I know, I stole that line from Malen, hahaha! But, I have another set of announcements to make.

  1. My regular Blog Santacruzan will continue at Reyna Elena. Including the Political Santacruzan that I was doing.
  2. And so is my version of the 12 Day of Christmas. That happened by accident, when Malen sent me $300 because I was just too cute. So far, my kaldero is now at $355! Hahaha! Keep it coming! Remember, Reyna is unemployed! Hahaha!
  3. Banco de reyna will resume blogging about stuff about how I make $5 bawat poste na binebenta ko here. And I’m almost embarassed to say na tatadtadrin ko na po to nang mga kung ano anong pedeng ibenta sa kalye, considering that Reyna Elena is already up and running.

But of course, I am very thankful to ya’all who followed me here. This is my rest house when Reyna Elena gets way too wacky to handle. Maraming salamat again po!

I can’t wait for the Obama administration to address the problems in the housing market. There are reports that the Treasury Department is considering a plan to drive down mortgage rates as low as 4.5%. How? It would do this by purchasing mortgage-backed securities from the now essentially nationalized mortgage financing giants Fannie Mae (FNM, Fortune 500) and Freddie Mac (FRE, Fortune 500). Now, I’m not exactly sure how this would solve the problem. I don’t think lowering the mortgage rates would really make mortgage payments affordable and thus create some magic for people to start buying houses again. It does look like when you have a very low interest rate, of course your monthly payments comes down drastically. But what happens when you have low rates? People tend to borrow. Will the banks open their cash gates for borrowing? For one thing, I think the developers just simply over-built and there is quite an inventory glut in the market. Will this be solved by lowering the mortgage rates? Why can’t they just let the market play and tell the government to not intervene?