So, Wordpress released another update and, as always, I immediately upgraded all my wordpress blogs to it. One main reason why you should upgrade is that it keeps your wordpress blog updated with all the latest security fixes. Additional features and enhancements, at least for me, are second only to security.

Upgrading from Wordpress 2.5.1 to 2.6 is very easy. In fact, it is so easy that I don’t do back-ups anymore when upgrading. I know, I should back-up my database before upgrading. Today, the worst thing happened. I upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.6 and what it did was, it corrupted my database and since I have no back-up I was stuck with it. (Read Full Blog Entry …)

Recently, I received a series of comments, four actually, which supposedly came from different people BUT what intrigued me was that all of those comments came from the same IP address. The comments were in response to my post titled “My Homepage Text Copied By A Fellow Filipino Designer“.

It’s quite obvious that this site (www.ROMELO.com) is powered by Wordpress which is a blogging software and because it’s basically a blog, the comment form or commenting is enabled by default (which is also how I want it). You see, my comment form is open to everyone which means that you don’t need to register in order to post a comment but you are required to enter a Name and an E-mail address (as well as your comment or message). (Read Full Blog Entry …)

Today, while I was blog hopping, I read an article about protecting your website’s content specially written content from being copied and used by someone other than yourself. The article has a link to Copyscape which is a website that provides services to protect your own website from online plagiarism and content theft.

While I was there, I decided to try it. I used their search to look for copies of my website’s content and, unfortunately, I did find one. (Read Full Blog Entry …)

Today, I removed a few items from my portfolio. A former client requested that they be removed and so I did with no questions asked.

Former? Yeah, I decided to drop the client after learning that I was working at a rate of less than $20 per job on my last jobs for them and that includes web and print work like websites, brochures, posters, etc. I conferred my decision to my wife (she scolded me bad when I told her about the rate) and a few friends and they were right, even with my shortcomings, a rate of less than $20 for a website is hitting the ground bad specially with today’s peso-dollar exchange rate of P39 to a dollar ($20 would only be less than P800). (Read Full Blog Entry …)

As a freelancer, I do all my personal marketing. From writing articles, free designs, forum postings, classified advertising, guestbook and blog hopping, social bookmarking, tagging, pinging, web directory submissions and anything I can think of to promote and market myself and my service. The latest one is starting a small shop in Second Life.Second Life? Second Life or SL is a virtual world created by Linden Labs. It is very much like the real world where people can interact with each like sell goods and services, hold events, collaborate on projects, etc. It is also like the internet but instead of 2D webpages you see everything in 3D. (Read Full Blog Entry …)