Water Conservation- A Necessity

With Cimate Change a common topic nowadays in every part of the world, every concerned citizen is encourage to take his or her part in helping to conserve environment and natural resources.

Take this very good practice in America and even in the United Kingdom: the people are into Rain Harvesting; an efficient way of conserving water by collecting water and storing them into Rain Barrels.

Rain barrels or Rain Water Barrels are installed in houses in order to collect rain water typically from the rooftops. The rains collected are later used for washing cars, flushing toilets, gardening, etc.

Why, other people even go as far as collecting water, filtrating them and use them for drinking!

By practicing rain harvesting, people actually get two very important benefits:

1. They help conserving water and do their part in man's quest to save mother earth.

2. They lessen their cost for their water utility bills.

All people need to do is look for Rain Barrels for Sale and let it be installed in their houses.


Together, we can help conserve the environment.

Be Careful With Asbestos

Asbestos, a mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks, are commonly used in building and construction materials like roofing, flooring, fire proofing and thermal insulation. This is primarily because asbestos is strong, fire-resistant, flexible and a good thermal insulator.

Later on, however, research studies proved that the use of asbestos can seriously affect peoples' health conditions. As a fact, Mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer, is known to have been caused by exposure on asbestos. The disease occurs when malignant cells spread in the mesothelium which is the protective lining that covers most of the body's internal organs.

Mesothelioma prognosis are often accompanied by chest wall pain, shortness of breath, fatigue or anemia, and even tumor. There are two typical types of this deadly cancer. The first one, which involves spread of malignant cells in the tissue that covers the abdominal area, is called the Peritonial Mesothelioma. The second one, which is Pleural Mesothelioma, occurs into the sac that covers the pleural cavity around the lungs.

While the mesothelioma is indeed a rare form of cancer, it is very important that people, especially those working in the construction industry where there are big possibilities of workers being exposed to asbestos, should take very careful precautions. If we take the case in the United States where there were many previous cases of patients with mesothelioma prognosis, people even go as far as hiring mesothelioma lawyers to represent them during asbestos or mesothelioma lawsuits.

There are certain cases where patients suffering from this disease survive and still live normal lives after their battle with cancer. But of course, it is always a priority to keep the disease from coming, rather than battling it out when it's in your body.

Beware of using asbestos-made products and materials.

-An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure-

Is Your Computer Secured?

People like me who consume at least six hours a day using the computer and browsing the internet always desire for maximum computer protection from virus.

I am always reminded of an incident that occured about 4 months ago, when I had a very important transaction to accomplish in the internet, my computer suddenly malfunctioned and I am notified by our systems operator that a trojan virus has invaded my desktop computer.

The systems operator did a quick diagnose and advised me that he will need to pull out my computer for virus removal and further check up in order to ensure that computer protection will be put in place so that such occurence will be minimized, if not stopped.

I was endorsed with a temporary workstation computer so I was able to complete my transaction at 10 minutes before the 6 pm deadline from the client. It's a good thing that my client, to whom I have already built a worthwhile business acument, is merciful enough to wait for the deadline period.

Lesson learned: always ensure that your computer has been installed a virus protection or anti virus software. Computer protection now becomes easier to manage because there are suppliers like ZSecurity which caters online service for your internet security protection.

In times when the use of internet technology matters much on our business transactions, it pays to be secured.

A Documentary-type Wedding Experience

My brother is to marry his long-time girlfriend of 5 years this 3rd week of December. Having been tasked with the role of finding an efficient (performance and cost-wise) Videography Supplier, I immersed myself into finding a wedding videographer who can give us fresh ideas for their wedding video.


I am able to browse thru Buddy Gancenia's unique wedding video services in the internet via his site Reality Wedding Video and I instantly fell in love with the services that he is offering in his website. Buddy's Reality Wedding Video takes pride in being the first and only documentary-reality wedding video producer in the Philippines.


Reality Wedding Video revolutionizes the future of wedding videography by offering this very unique documentary-type wedding coverage all couples would long for-after all, it's their day, and nothing beats like having a beautiful coverage.



Here's a wonderful sample of Buddy's Work:








You can click on the image below to check on what brides have to say about their services:

I will be coordinating soon with Buddy so I can discuss my brother's needs for December. I've checked their rates on their website and I find it reasonable enough. Hopefully, they'd be able to accomodate us in such a short span of notice, though.

Noynoy Aquino's Statement on September 9, 2009

I received an info today that Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III will be issuing his long-awaited Official Statement tomorrow at the Kalayaan Hall of Club Filipino at around 7:30 in the morning, September 9, 2009.

Noynoy is being asked by various groups to run for President in the 2010 elections. His name became popular right after her mother Cory's death earlier this August 2009.

Let's wait and see until tomorrow if he is up to the challenge.

The Power of e-commerce

Is there really money in e-commerce?

The answer is yes.

From now, i'll do on a series of posts on my continued quest for money in the internet. Right now I am still a newbie, as they say, in making money from the net, but I am confident enough that I will be able to make it. As the others have become successful, So will I be.

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I stumbled upon this article from the Inquirer about the 28-year old Filipino who made millions (and continues to make them) thru e-commerce.

It tells of a story about Ian Del Carmen, a college dropout, who, learned the trade of e-commerce and made his first Million at the age of 28.

Today at 30, Del Carmen is the CEO of Fireball Planet, a corporation that sells e-books, software, and music and instructional videos to the world via the Internet.

You've got to learn a lot from his story, so I encourage you to read the rest of the article and visit his site.

We might be the next millionaires, so we better get ready!

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related post: the e-commerce summit 2009

Disney Buys Marvel

Make way for the newest and coolest Superhero in Town:

Spidermouse!

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In a surprising move, The Walt Disney Company has finally acquired Comics Giant Marvel Entertainment Incorporated for about 4 Billion US Dollars.

The Walt Disney Company (which owns the famous Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, etc. characters) has further increased its portfolio with the purchase of Marvel (which brought to life Spiderman, Ironman, Captain America, X-Men, etc.).

In 2006, Disney has purchased another giant entertainment company, Pixar, which produces such movie hits as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and A Bug's Life.