I Am Buraot

One good thing about being new is you will never run out of “firsts”.

After a recent Meme Award, this site was recently voted the Filipino Blog of the Week conducted by and at the site of The Composed Gentleman. Continue Reading…

I got this site’s very first Meme Award, an Honest Scrap meme award from Pin(k)oy.

And according to this meme, I had to divulge, honestly, 10 facts about me. On some other blogs, I think I had these things covered. But for the purpose of this meme and this new site, I’ll put some… Continue Reading…

My friend Woobie has her Annual Blog Event birthday giveaway that is about to end March 13th.

Entries are also qualified to win the raffle with a $50 cash prize and (this is what I love) a whooping 100,000 entrecard credits. That blew me off. Wow! Continue Reading…

There is no doubt that when it comes to web publishing, the wordpress platform is the way to go. In fact when they did the recent upgrade, it became more user-friendly and less geeky. I can navigate with it’s dashboard a lot better now.

The thing is, even with better navigating capability, I had no darn idea how php works. It’s a good thing I met a few bloggers who were very supportive to geek wannabes and technologically-challenged like me.

Do I have any idea how the new system works? Nada. Zip. Zero. But I know I am in good hands, I have Dmitri….

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Over the past year, there had been lots of arguments over at the blogosphere. Arguments made by and against bloggers and commenters. Bloggers against bloggers. From issues as lame as a grammatical error to as grand as cleaning up the entire blogosphere.

Personally, I always believe in the constructive nature of arguments. It’s like adding salt and pepper to get that bland flavor a little more taste. It’s a simple science experiment where you let your thesis clash with an anti-thesis to get your synthesis. After all, at the end of an argument lies a more solid foundation for a new and better idea.

At least that was the supposed initial output. Continue Reading…