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I haven’t been posting much lately, but I promise I’ve been working hard on the tools mentioned in the previous post. Life is about to really change for me now. I can’t go into much details at this moment, but trust me when I say its drastic. I’m excited, scared, nervous, and anxious, all at the same time.I’m gonna start blogging a lot more when things settle a lit bit more.

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To get ‘viral’ aka spread around like a disease on the net (meaning lots of traffic), you gotta come up with something people are interested in and provides some value. This value can be in the form of entertainment, the form of something free, something informative, anything really. The key is that its interesting or useful. I will be pumping out some ‘viral’ tools / products shortly, but don’t want to spoil the suprise before I do. It’s really about experimentation and finding a formula that works. After my experiment, I will post a follow up and let you know the exact details of what I did, and what kind of traffic it generated. Stay tuned!

I’ve been super sick since sunday, but I managed to post a butt load of music I’ve made over the years onto the music page (right hand link). A lot of it is still incomplete, and none of it is in any particular order. I just seperated the beats from the other stuff. The beats are on the bottom half and start with ‘beat – ‘. I’m not proud of all of it, but I posted it anyways. I still have a lot of stuff which isn’t up yet too. Have a gander, and post some feedback.

Whenever I listen to Bloc Party it really brings back memories and feelings of a certain time in my life. I was first introduced to them 3 or 4 years ago during the autumn season, and listening the brand new album ‘Intimacy’ them now, on October 31, really brings me back. I remember riding the bmx around in the cold crisp air, with the brown leaves starting to fall, gray skies, wearing a warm scarf, and grande vanila americano with a smooth leon jimenez cigar. How poetic, I know. Laugh all you want, but I do miss this indeed, and right now wish I could be home to rekindle that. On the subject of bloc party, the new album intimacy (released oct 28, 2008) is pretty damn good. I did an ‘index of’ search and found the full download of bloc party – intimacy album here. Leave a comment if this link breaks.

Here in the Philippines, it is not a common practice to use toilet paper. Instead, most of the locals use the ladel to clean the black hole of doom after defecating. In a recent event, one of the filipinos that works on the same floor as me decided it would be funny to break the lids off the toilet seats, so you now have no where to put your ass. Thanks a lot dick wad! I’m really glad I consistently do squats at the gym, as staying perched in the frog position gets rather tiresome. Thankfully I pack my own supply of toilet paper around so I don’t have to resort to getting my hand stinky.

I always preach that the most important part of your body to train is your core. You should really train your core every single day. A huge part of gaining core strength is to always be thinking about good posture, especially for those of you who have desk jobs. Good posture at the desk can be difficult because most of us don’t have a proper ergonomic setup. With a little creativity however, you can do things to FORCE you to sit properly at your desk. Read The Rest

It’s hard to come home after a days work and go back to work, especially when you don’t have any guarantee that what your doing is going to pay off. It feels like ‘why should I even bother?’, especially when the web is so saturated in every topic. Well, yes it’s over saturated, but that definitely does mean that you can’t make money at it.

Below I have listed four key subjects that keep me motivated and continually slaving away even when I’d rather relax and watch TV.

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Roughly 90% of guys that hit the gym focus on two body parts: chest and arms. They hit a plateau because they don’t work all muscles of the body, which is key to continually gaining strength and proper muscle development. The most import thing to focus on is your core. If you don’t have a solid core, then you will come to a peak, and fast. Here are 10 exercises you must do to see fast results in your work outs. Read The Rest

A few months ago I read an article by ReadWriteWeb about the future of blogging. I never noticed this trend until it was pointed out by them. To quickly summarize the article, it’s about how personal blogs have been shifting to horizontal updates, in a manner similar to how you post Twitter updates. I really like how information is presented to users in this fashion, and decided to design a few concept ‘LifeStreaming’ wordpress themes. I hope to have these ready for download within the next few weeks. The design is nearly done, it just needs to be sliced and coded. Subscribe to my feed if you wish to be notified of when they are available.

Note: The white lifestream wordpress theme is now available for download.

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As designers, we often become frustrated with the endless search of the “perfect font” for whatever the project may be. There are so many awesome fonts put out by Adobe and other companies but they come with a big price tag. I’m going to give a bit of information showing you how to use google to find pretty much any font you want, for free. However, I am not liable for your actions or what you choose do with this information. When you steal these fonts, your stealing from the designer who made them. BUY IT IF YOU LIKE IT!

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