iBlog5 Experience And The After Events

Last Friday, May 8, I flew to Manila so I could attend iBlog5: The 5th Philippine Blogging Summit which was on May 9 at UP Diliman. Thankfully, Bagyong Emong already went out in time for my flight. Kevin and I met in NAIA so we could together go to Vanjohnn’s whereabouts. We went to SM Megamall since Van is there with his friends. A long walk towards the condo after.

Eric fetched us (like kids) so we could go together to UP Diliman. We were there on time and we get to have their freebies. Weee. Cebu Bloggers Society‘s (including me) wearing of their official shirt (thanks Van for the shirt) attracted the organizers attention so we were first in introducing ourselves to the early crowd. We were followed by more interesting bloggers. Continue reading

The Wikipedia Scandal

BIG UPDATE: Wikipedia already cleaned up this mess. It is just a wrong timing for me to reach the article in such state. So, whoever messed it up must be grinning now. Well, if you want to know what happened prior to the cleaning, read this.

“What the hell” is all I could ever say. I have always believed in the dignity of Wikipedia even though some people are putting it down. Now, I have lost my respect.

While finding an article about Ultimate Frisbee which I was supposed to write about (and will write it later since I’m writing this one now), I stumbled to obviously, Wikipedia. True, yes, they have an article about Ultimate (sport) and it has everything from rules down to strategies and tournaments. Plus one thing, d*ck.

I guess someone must have messed up with Wikipedia that first and foremost, the pictures in the article were all severely unrelated to the sport. What did it show? I won’t show it here (blurred below), but if you want me to describe it instead of seeing it, it is pornography. Well of course I can pinpoint what is pornography from educational pieces so I am pretty sure the pictures are. Good thing they are just sketches and cartoons. HA-HA.

Photobucket

Let me quote the introduction in the article:

Ultimate (also called Ultimate Frisbee or Ultimate Dick) is a limited-contact team sport played with a 175 inch flying d*ck. The object of the sport is to score points by penetrating the d*ck into a player in the “end zone”. Players may not c*m while holding the d*ck.

Okay, see that? D*ck must be disc and c*m must be run. Who ever did that must be the Ultimate Pervert.

There’s more from the article itself. I guess you have to check them out yourself. There are lots lots more in the article that makes it very indecent. Take note that d*ck is disc.

So some may ask hey-whats-your-problem-were-all-grown-ups-here-anyways? Ooops. Wikipedia is the number one online source of knowledge (so they say) as shown by how it stands as the top result in almost all keyword searches. So how about those students, well minors specifically, searching the internet? They can’t just bump into that one. That article is sort of obscene for kids (not for us). I’m just concerned, that’s all. I don’t know who to blame, Wikipedia or the editor? I’d say both. Is Wikipedia not checking if their articles are being messed up?

My only concern is that of Wikipedia’s dignity and role in the world of knowledge. They may be passing on the wrong stuff to everyone without them knowing. All about frisbee and sex, no problem. They’re related in some ways as suggested by this article. But placing such obscenities in Wiki is well, a NO-NO. Wikipedia, take some action now!

New Blog Headers For My Blogs

Apparently, I easily get bored with things that is why I also get tired of seeing the same things on my blog over and over again.

Everything Online blog

Just yesterday, I whipped up in a flash a new blog header for my Everything Online blog. I got bored of the old Calibri-font style with a blue gradient on one word so I decided to make up a new one. What I made was quite small but it looks good.

Just a few zaps in Photoshop and a hard time looking for a suitable font (I just had my laptop reformatted a week ago), I came up with this black and dark blue themed design:

Do you like it? The Lady Programmer says it is cute.

What About Bryan blog

If you have noticed, there is only a small change in the header of this blog. I’m not using graphics for the header as I want simplicity in this blog — not much clutter. So I chose a handwriting style font for the header and added a small sub description below. Here it is:


Want something like that?

If you want me to create an ultra simple blog header for you, I will if I have the time. I am not a Photoshop expert but I do know how to use it. And I trust my creative instinct. :D

Well if you want to make your own headers, just don’t be afraid to explore Photoshop. For me, a simple header is fine. Too much complicated designs can be disturbing.

Like me on Facebook

Categories

Archives

Links

Personal - Top Blogs Philippines

Ad