After I discovered Google, I started using it to make my online searches. I found it far better than Yahoo!. Now, if you would like to save on energy, I guess you'd better switch search engines. Why don't you try using Blackle.

So okay. It's the green Google. Well, not actually green literally for it's black. Oh sheesh. I'm sounding confused here. Okay. Let me start. Blackle is black but it is green. It is black for it has a black background which, according to those behind it, helps us save on energy, thus making it green. (I hope I did not confuse you even more.)

It helps you save much IF you are using a CRT monitor. If you are using an LCD monitor, then experts are saying that Blackle would not work really well in it's aim at helping save energy. For a CRT monitor, you use up 74 watts if you use Google but if you use Blackle, you only use 59 watts. Now in the long run, that would mean huge numbers.

I'm having trouble using Blackle though. It's giving me quite a headache. Black? No thank you. And it does not have much to work with like image searches, news searches, and all those other things you find at Google.

But anyhow, if you're interested in more Blackle-like search engines, you may want to use these:


Darkoogle, Earthle, and Greenergle

Well, I went to the dentist to have my teeth assessed (if that is what you'd really call it). My dentist told me that it would take a year and a half to two years to have my teeth fixed. I have gone through several dentists already and they really are recommending that I have braces. Well, I can live with misaligned teeth. But I have become fearful because all of them told me that my gums are receding because of overcrowding. And also because of overcrowding, my teeth are very prone to cavities and plaque. Good Lord.

Also, I spent the rest of the morning and the afternoon with my son who was sick. He had asthma again but he's quite fine now. He still has colds but his condition is better now. He does not wheeze with each breath that he takes. And he's pretty perky and active unlike yesterday. But he still chooses to wear new clothes, his socks, and his shoes because he really wants to go out but he can't. I promise I'll take him out when he's all fine.

I do have a computer table now. Thank God. And thanks to Theon and Bem for they accompanied me to buy the table which had yet to be assembled. Leonel also for he accompanied me when I was out trying to find the computer table that would fit my small little room-slash-workspace. Thanks to Theon also who assembled the table yesterday afternoon.

After a long, long time, I cooked. This time, it was more of a complicated dish. I only knew how to make fried rice, polvoron and pastillas. And that I have done so long ago I just could not even recall when. So yesterday, while Theon was slaving away at my computer table, I was busy cooking carbonara, courtesy of Ate Pinky's lessons. Heehee! It was a success if I may say so. Yehey!

Theon, Ate Pinky, Annabelle, and I went to Quick 'N Hearty yesterday where I saw Peter, Mox, Moinks, and Wilbert - all high school classmates. I had tons of laughter with them for some minutes before I went back home. I think I need to organize a high school reunion now. Hmmm....

What else? Hmmm... I just could not recall what else I did. I am just pretty happy now with what I have accomplished. Oh yeah. I also learned something today and I guess I'm pretty happy. But the thing is, why should I be happy? There's nothing I can gain from that certain thing and I'm only going to be stupid again if I well... make 'patol'. Whatever.

One colleague sent me a link to another site with tons of really funny signs that you can find in China, I guess. Here are some of my favorites which has really made me guffaw in laughter. 

• cole slow
• Dying right here is strictly prohibited. (posted on some wall)
• May your satisfaction sincerely aroused by me. (posted somewhere in a shoe store)
• Meet Products (in the meat section of a supermarket)
• list of rules in the vicinity of the Great Wall (I think you better read the entire list)
• Notice: Please don't accept strangler's invitation so as not to be cheated
• Promised Land (a real sign on some street - now, at least, you know where the Promised Land lies)
• Be careful do not break it, it will be get a breakage.
• Please don't touch yourself. Let us help you to try out. Thanks.
• Loin King 3 (Disney's mistake... not.)
• Chamber of Ten Thousand Flowers (and then an arrow pointing to the toilet)
• testes to make your heart tinkle (sign on a bakery)
• No soiling of public areas by dogs sauce
• Cooking my dog (posted on the box of a microwave or oven toaster)
• Beware of safety
• Carefully slip and fall down
• Please no conversation, no saliva
• Lettuce in pain (ouch!)
• To abuse plastic bag, please pay money each 2 dollar.
• Be graceful. Be civil. (sign in a men's room)
• Please confirm your car is licked (a sign in a parking lot)
• Screw Taiwan (printed on a pack of screws)
• Complicated Cake (perhaps it's even hard to eat)
• Enterness (so dito nauso ang bitterness, workingness, smokingness, and all with -ness)
• Offer the seats to the old, weak, sick, crippie, and gravid (sign in a bus or tram)
• Don't touch me. I'm hurt. (sign on a patch of grass)
• Main Curse (on the menu)
• Rules in a shooting range (at least, you'll know how)
• Rice bugger (on a carton of food)

My stomach's hurting now. Much too much laughter. Your turn. More here.

Appetizer: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how polite are you?
8. I can be polite to all those people who do look polite enough. But I can be pretty rude to those people who deserve it.

Soup: What was the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
A group conference with colleagues.

Salad: Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Marvin the Martian.

Main Course: Tell about the funniest teacher you ever had.
The funniest teacher? Hmm... I guess that would be Sir Rondina. We don't hold classroom lessons. We would act out reports or do something different. And that would be our lessons. He was also full of wisdom, wit, and happiness and so we were all quite full of laughter when the class ends.

Dessert: Complete this sentence: I strongly believe that ______________________.
I strongly believe that true friends will always be there for you no matter how much you hurt them with the truth.

So I've had Adsense since... I dunno... the early part of last year, I guess. My Adsense is very much unlike those of the pros where in just one day, they can reap in hundreds of dollars.

My account is a mere collection of blogs that I own. These blogs used to be updated everyday. However, because of the change of tasks and change of responsibilities, I have been unable to update these blogs for quite some time now. In fact, the only blog that I can update is this one. 

Anyhow, I've had offers from some people - ex-colleagues, friends, orgmates, and online friends - asking me to put in my Adsense codes in their blogs. I put in my codes and if it earns, we'll split the amount. Of course, it's a very easy way to earn money. The owner of the blog does his/her own updating. You just give them the code and you just wait for it to earn.

But I chose not to. Not because it's something illegal. I guess it's not. It's just that I'd like to see just how long it takes me to earn such an amount over something that I'm happy working on. It's not actually about the money. It's a test of how much I have learned in this industry and just how much do I still need to learn. I believe that when I dabble in something that is not mine, I'm cheating on my goals and I'm cheating on myself. I also do believe that if I do such, the challenge would no longer be there for that blog I put my Adsense in ain't something I can control. So there.

Right now, I'm simply happy that I've earned my first cheque all on my own and no click frauds. I've also come to realize that after that first cheque, I'm well on my way to another one all with only one updated blog (the rest have become dormant *last update, January2007*).