Life Hacks for Polymaths

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Welcome polymaths !

Ever get the feeling that you seem to don't know what to do with your life because there are just so many things that you want to do ? I know, I've been there, so welcome to the club.

My name is Zigfred Diaz and I am a polymath. After more than 6 years of bloging about almost anything under the sun and having sort of a "blogging identity crisis." I've finally embraced who I am and decided to turn my main blog into some sort of guide for people with so much interest. Feel free to poke around.

Kindle vs. iPad which is a better deal ?

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I've owned an Amazon Kindle for 6 months now and I am very satisfied with it's performance. There's only one thing I regret about the Amazon Kindle and I've shared with you what it's about in my post entitled "My regrets with the Amazon Kindle 2." People had been asking me on whether they should get a Kindle or not. I can't blame them. With a plethora of reading devices to choose from, it would be very hard to make the best decision. Among the reading devices, the battle for supremacy has never been tougher between the Amazon Kindle versus Apple's ipad. True, both devices are different in a lot of ways. Unlike the Kindle, the ipad is not just an ebook reader, but is classified as a full pledge PC. However since both devices are also utilized as ebook readers then the comparison is appropriate. I'm not going to give you any pros and cons or any tables comparing the advantages of owning a Kindle over an ipad. While it is true that I would pick a Kindle over an ipad, I agree that … [Read more...]

What is hotlink and how to disable hotlinking in order to prevent bandwidth theft

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Last Sunday I just disable hot linking for this blog. I found out that somebody was stealing bandwidth space from me. For those the sake of the uninformed “Hotlinking” or “hotlink” works like this. Most blogs or websites often feature pictures and images. The picture or images can be addressed in your website or blog through a unique url address. For example in my case one of my image url address is at https://www.zdiaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Kindle-1.jpg Now somebody comes along and finds this picture that I have uploaded. Instead of asking my permission to use my image, downloading it to their computer or netbooks and uploading it to their server, they just use the image link (The url above) in their site and viola ! My image is already featured in their site. This is called “hotlinking.” Aside from the fact that they are using images that I personally took without permission when these people “hotlink” to my site they also steal bandwidth. What do I mean when I say that … [Read more...]

Congressman Manny Pacquiao delivers his first privilege speech in Congress

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Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao or more popularly known as Manny Pacquiao is probably the most sensational figure to emerge this last decade not only in Philippine history but worldwide. His fame and fortune has been primarily derived from boxing. Pacquiao has accomplished so much in the world of boxing, Aside from being a seven-division world champion, he is the first boxer in history to win nine world titles in seven different weight division. Further he is the first boxer in history to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. Being just in his 30s, Pacquiao has truly accomplished so much what most people couldn’t even accomplish in their entire lifetime. Nevertheless despite having becoming so rich and having accomplished so much in boxing, Pacquiao continues to make himself useful to society by investing his money in businesses giving the good people of General Santos and the province of Sarangani job opportunities. His recent foray into politics has … [Read more...]

Guerilla blogger joins Batangas Today

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Marhgil Macuha the prince of Philippine SEO and co-author of our ebook “Guerilla blogger’s strategy and tactics on how to make cash online” has asked me to join him in his latest blogging project, a news site www.batangastoday.com Batangas Today is a news site that provides the latest news happenings in Batangas and around the world. Currently we have 14 bloggers including the editors who are working round the clock to bring the latest happenings around the globe. Batangas Today does not only focus on news from Batangas. As Marhgil Macuha explains just as the New York Times does not focus one New York alone or the Manila Times does not focus on Manila alone so does Batangas Today which will not feature news from batangas alone. News from all over the world will be featured here. I just posted my first news article today entitled “Philippine Stocks exchange breaches the 4,000 mark and is at its all time high!” Although I am not limited by the editor as to what to write on, I have … [Read more...]

What went wrong in the Quirino grand stand hostage taking crisis ?

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Last Monday, August 23, 2010 was such a sad day. Twenty one Chinese tourists from Hong Kong and four Filipinos were held hostage in a bus. The 12 hours standoff ended in blood. 8 hostages were killed. The hostage taker was Rolando Mendoza a disgruntled former police senior inspector who was fired from his job. Mendoza demanded to be reinstated and that his case is reviewed. So what went wrong in the Quirino Grand stand hostage taking crisis ? Why did end up in such a mess? The mishandling of the hostage crisis has really put the Philippines in a bad standing with the international community. Before I begin this post, let me bluntly say that I am no expert on this. I have not taken any courses on public safety, criminology, negotiating or anything else relating to hostage taking. Nor do I have the experience. I am no expert when it comes to this matter. However despite this, it is very obvious that there are just plain and obvious things that should have been done last Monday that … [Read more...]