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.

Jun Lozada

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Jun Lozada – Hero or Hypocrite? In my Business and economic forecast for 2008, I initially predicted that there will be no huge political mudslinging that will have an impact in the economy. I was wrong. The Philippines is at it again! Calls for the President to step down have once again gained momentum on charges of alleged corruption as a result of the ZTE-NBN broadband deal. However in my opinion I don’t think this will succeed for several reasons. I will tackle that in another post. Since the start of the ZTE-NBN broadband deal controversy the name “Jun Lozada” has become so popular. In fact most webmasters and bloggers, would probably start exploiting the key word “Jun Lozada” right now considering that it is a high-trend, low-dense keyword. For those of you who do not know what a “high-trend but low-dense keyword,” by high trend we mean that a search for a certain keyword has been searched by a lot of people. You can know this if you go to google.com/trends. Type the … [Read more...]

Abalos burjer

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Former Commission on Elections (Philippines) chairman Benjamin Abalos has been criticized by Filipinos worldwide for mispronouncing the word "hamburger." Instead of pronouncing the "g" as in go, goat, or goal, he pronounced it as "j" as in jar, jam, jug. In short he said "hamburjer." The video of  Abalos mispronouncing the word "hamburger" is uploaded at yotube, yutube, utube, youtobe, youtube and has gained a certain degree of popularity, that I think Abalos should think about making it a tag line in his campaign and have the word "Abalos Hamburjer for _" printed in t-shirts,  and other campaign materials. This way perhaps people will be quickly remember him:-) This reminds me of the movie Pink Panther, where Steve Martin played a French police inspector, Inspector Clouseau. In this short youtube video clip, Steve Martin was trying to pronounce the sentence "I would like to buy a hamburger." If you haven't seen the movie, watch the clip and you will find yourself laughing … [Read more...]