I met Yugatech in the 2nd session of TrendLabs BlogCon. I was really inspired by his success in blogging and as a sign of my gratitude to him for that wonderful Blogcon session, I am giving some link love and shout-out post for his holiday contest. Yuga is really big time! He is giving tons […]

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Yehey!!! My blog turned 1-year old this week. The first post was the Hello World done December 2, 2008; the same day when I registered menardconnect.com domain and set up the hosted WordPress platform. The second one (and I believe a more formal and complete article) was the Eraserheads Reunion Concert CD Review posted on […]

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Congratulations to WordPress for winning the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. I first heard of the new from a twit from Beau Lebens which I RT’d and then read about it in the WordPress blog post by Matt. WordPress is popularly known as a blog platform but […]

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JP of Jaypeeonline.net is giving away some cool prizes for the Thanksgiving 2009. I mentioned in a previous post, I will do my best to interact more with the blogging community and this post is my little way of helping him out spread the word about his contest. JP writes about blogging, WordPress, tech and […]

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Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao won over Miguel Cotto today. Pacman knocked out Cotto twice in the early rounds and the later rounds shifted from a boxing match to a cycling/running game. The referee stopped the contest on the 12th round (it can be heard in the Cotto corner that they have been contemplating about throwing the […]

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I would like to congratulate Jeffrey Zapanta for winning the TrendLabs Blogcon Blog This Event contest!!! His blogcon post at http://mapanuri.blog.com/ won the hearts of the speakers/judges. Keep on blogging dude! The organizers want to convey their thanks to those who joined the contest! See their tweet here.

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After Menardconnect PageRank 1 update last April and PageRank 2 update on the end of May 2009, this blog’s Google Page Rank dropped to PR1 last week. What is Pagerank by the way? PageRank is Google’s proprietary method of calculating a website or web page’s relevance and importance via some complicated link analysis algorithm. It […]

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Yesterday my blog responded with a Bandwidth Limit Exceeded message. I have tweeted about it here. Menardconnect: waaaaah!!! Bandwidth Limit Exceeded!!! Fixing this now 1:19 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck I am very thankful that my web hosting company was very helpful and they have helped me fix this issue right away. What is Bandwidth […]

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I recently added a Facebook Fan Page for Menardconnect.com. I think its a good way to reach out to more readers. Some of my posts discusses popular Facebook apps (Cafe World, Mafia Wars and Farm Town) so I guess this is really a win-win move. If you like my posts kindly support me and my […]

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Today is Blog Action Day on Climate Change. I promised here that I will do another post on the exact date so here it is. I am not a climatology or meteorology expert so I will keep my post short and simple. As we all know the Philippines was badly hit by two typhoons recently. […]

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