I took these ages ago but a buddy of mine asked for some action surf photos so here they are. All shots were taken with my Canon PowerShot S3 IS on March 18, 2009 from Blue Point Cliff in Uluwatu, Bali.

So you’re a boss, or a manager, or whatever. You want your peeps to work better. What do you do? Give them more money, right?

Wrong!

Google recently released a list of the 1000 most-visited sites on the web and I’m happy to announce that my sites are nowhere near the list. Ok here are the top 10 as of May 29, 2010.

1. facebook.com
2. yahoo.com
3. live.com
4. wikipedia.org
5. msn.com
6. microsoft.com
7. blogspot.com
8. baidu.com
9. qq.com
10. mozilla.com

Here’s the complete list if you’re curious, but don’t get any hopes up.

I’ve been running Thesis on my blogs for the last year or so. With the upgrade of Thesis 1.7 and its built-in SEO features, it’s due time to get rid of my all time favorite All-in-One-SEO WordPress plugin to reduce clutter and redundancy on my server.

Less clutter is good but at the same time it introduces a new problem. All my SEO-friendly meta tags are stuck in All-in-One-SEO-made fields in my database. To continue to use them I need to port the values to Thesis values.

Gladly, for every problem there’s a solution.

I hope you have access to your webserver’s control panel. From there fire up phpMyAdmin and select your WordPress database. Then hit the SQL tab and run the following SQL query on your database. Please don’t forget to first backup your database. I won’t be responsible for any loss.

PS: this is for All-in-One-SEO version 1.6 and up only.

insert wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value)
select post_id, concat('thesis_', substring(meta_key,10)), meta_value
from wp_postmeta where meta_key in ('_aioseop_title','_aioseop_description','_aioseop_keywords');

When you’re done, you can go to your WordPress Dashboard and disable All-in-One-SEO from your plugin list. You could also delete it if you like.

For those of you who don’t use Thesis, I strongly recommend keeping All-in-One-SEO because it really kicks ass. It’s just done its time in my case and I need to say good-bye.

A friend told me a couple of weeks ago “I don’t like to cook, I’m just a picky eater!” At the time I thought she was being exclusive, that nothing out there is good enough for her. But then I figured there are so many benefits to cooking yourself at home.

1. You save money.
2. You eat healthier foods (should you choose so).
3. You get that privacy of a one-on-one dinner with your loved one.
4. You don’t have to drive.

Ok so is was around dusk I got hungry. Normally Vie would be in the kitchen cooking but today she was napping. I opened the fridge and out of nowhere took out some chicken, tomatoes and butter. What to do? Hmpphh I’m not a cook. I looked at the spice rack and found some oregano, garlic powder, chili powder and olive oil.

So here we go. I cut the tomatoes into tiny little pieces and I beat it to a pulp. I put water in the pan, threw the chicken in with some oregano leaves and some weird looking chilies I found on the kitchen counter and let it boil for some time. When the chicken is cooked I took them out and put them aside. Took another pan, well.. a skillet, melted the butter in it and added some olive oil. When the two fats heated enough to make a weird looking mix I threw the chicken and the pulpy tomatoes in. Sprinkled more oregano on it, added salt, the chili powder and garlic powder and mixed them good. Took them out, put them on plates with some garlic bread I magically made with my other hand while I was cooking and Vie woke up. We had dinner and surprisingly none of us got sick.

I thought it was all right. Vie thought it was good. I think she was just loving me. Either way I need to perfect it for next time, so until then I’m labeling this little invention, Chigano.