And that is how the newest food blog in town is born.

Please welcome the Food Blog for Hungry Bachelors! Join them in their culinary adventures and food trips, as they search for the best siopao or betamax in the metro. Share your own quick-and-easy recipes, comment on their food reviews, and simply enjoy the guys’ gastronomic blog posts.

Filipino Voices is composed of the following bloggers from diverse (and usually diverging) fields and political spectrum:

* Butch Dado - The Warrior-Lawyer
* Dean Jorge Bocobo - Philippine Commentary
* Cocoy - Big Mango
* J - The Nutbox
* The Jester-in-Exile - The Journal of the Jester-in-Exile
* Lester Cavestany - LesterCavestany.com
* Manuel Buencamino - Uniffors: Life in Gloria’s Enchanted Kingdom
* Nick - Tingog.com
* Patricio Mangubat - The New Philippine Revolution
* Rom Sedona - Smoke
* Schumey - The Philippine Experience

As you can see, things can get exciting once a topic is chosen and a debate ensues. This blog will surely be full of contrary opinions, allowing for a hopefully diverse (and comprehensive) view on public issues.

While I am a part of Filipino Voices, I am still unsure on what to contribute and my posting schedule. Currently, I am set on tackling street scenes (you know, all of those billboards, both commercial and political). As a daily commuter taking ordinary buses on the way home, I am blasted with all the colors and fake messages being conveyed by these billboards. Yes, they are my current pet peeves; they distract me from what is playing on my iPod.

And the blog has a writing project (with prizes!). Go see the mechanics here.

You can read the privacy policy here.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions regarding the policy, please leave a comment.

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The problem was traced to a seemingly wayward WordPress plugin that has inserted rows upon rows of data into the database. Once the plugin code is executed, these rows of data are loaded into memory, severely stressing the server into submission (ie., crash). The offending plugin has been removed and will never be used again.
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Apologies to the faithful readers. If you, dear readers, encounter more problems, please leave a message at the chat box at the side bar. Thank you.

At home, I use Smart 3G as my Internet connection. This past weekend, I wasn’t able to access this site at all. As in, all I got from Firefox was “page reset” yada yada. I had confirmed with a friend that the site was inaccessible, but another friend had no problems viewing the site. Weird.

Then, yesterday. I was maintaining a deathwatch for Jose de Venecia’s speakership when I couldn’t access this site at 3PM (I was not using Smart 3G). Another friend sent me text message telling me that my site was goners. I went out of the office at quarter to six in the evening, and I still couldn’t access it. At the bus, via YM on mobile, I asked another friend to check it out. It was around 6:30 PM, and the site was still inaccessible.

At 8PM, at home, I couldn’t access the site using Smart 3G, but two of my friends using PLDT myDSL reported that they could access it.

Now, I can access it here at work. But we’ll see at around 3PM.

Now, may I ask for your help? When you attempt to access this site and seen nothing, please send an email to awb[at]awbholdings.com, detailing the time and day when you attempted to access this site. Please send an email for every failed attempt. I will document this situation and hopefully forward them to my Web host. I will appreciate it very much.

Yes, I had opened a support ticket last Sunday; as of this moment (9:24 AM, 2/5/2008), the ticket is unacted upon.

PS: Please visit my LiveJournal in case this site is goners.

TechWatch and The Lonely Vampire Chronicles will be updated next weekend.

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