This is sad. She fell sick a few hours before work. She gets to go home and I wouldn�t get to be with her the whole day anymore. She deserves the rest anyhow.

Anyhow. New updates for the blog. Bumped into Eric James on YM yesterday, and thank god for the luck as well, but I was informed that he’s going public now–being, he’s going to unleash his site with a dotcom. It should have been since he was still in college, which, if I may point, wasn’t really a long time ago. But anyway, it seems that when he finally took that job in Convergys, he acted on getting his website hitched on a better dotcom address.

So basically, when he gloated about his site being active, aside from the slightly snide comment (okay, maybe I goy a little too playful with the remarks) that he doesn’t really update his site, of course I had to probe, all for my curiosity and for my own commercialism as well, where exactly in hell he got a credit card to pay for his website–which, I suspect, was from yet another commercialized american site which hosts porn.

Apparently, it was Philippine Peso, cold cash transfer.

And so, he introduces Marvinsweb.com. The provider, which is Philipine based, supposedly caters to a whole lot of fanbased websites and other corporate thingamajiggers, and according to our very own philippine blog awards winner George, the service seems excellent. Initially thought that this was their pet project back a year and a half ago when 5 of them decided to share payment for a 100mb database which has free sub urls, but according to James, Marvinsweb actually BOUGHT that server they were planning to enlist in. Oooh, scary.

So obviously, it was a very tempting distraction. And come to think of it, it’s not really that bad. The rate is relatively better than that of Freeservers, which offers a dollar and so every month for you to be able to get extra mbs and should also keep out the banners. I hate them for adding the banners. They used to have them which you can configure to just pop up, then lately they’ve been populating the whole page with mindless aquarium banners. Add boobs and a few dick implants and you’ve got yourself a perfect site. Anyhow, Starting plan costs roughly PHP800+ annually for Marvinsweb guarantees 0 banners, 50mb of space, unlimited email addresses, management access, plus, dig this—php and other linux type accesses, which would actually allow you to host your own blogger type server if you have the tool. Hah! Hello, Marvinsweb, fuck you compactvision (just for the story, I used to have my blog hosted on that server. Suddenly they deleted all the files without permission after demanding for a fee for the service to continue. Fuckers. And I don’t have any backup.). And for you to be able to get a dotcom, it’s just additional PHP550 annually!

Problem now is, it’s a tad bit overwhelming. It’s good, I mean, a thousand bucks per year is okay with me, but right now, my main concern is that I wanted to retain the name blackmoon because it has been with me for some years now, but blackmoon.com/.net/.org is unavailable. Why not move on and do a name change? Of course if it’s a self created trademark then it must have been something I�ve affiliated myself to. I don’t want to move on and lose my trademark. Besides, a lot of people remember that address. It’s almost like giving out your new phone number again. And for safety purposes, if I lose my website, at least I can always go back to my sucky blackmoon.8m.com url.

So right now, I’m lining up names I could use. Myblackmoon.com? Blackmoondiaries.com? freecallcenterporn.com?

Help me please. This is the biggest dilemma I’ve recently encountered with the website aside from having to look up a fake credit card to pay for my daily shows. Think me up a name. pleeeeeaaaase?

On the news:

1) Gays and Lesbians want a representative on the senate, thus, a party-list for such groups was made.

Hah. Let’s see the moralists attack this one.

2) Barbie Almalbis weds Honasan’s boy–secret wedding for the two.

I see she’s over me. Maybe it’s time to move on.

3) (and thanks to JP for the info)

http://beta.inq7.net/metro/index.php?index=1&story_id=79173

Police deny abduction stories in Muntinlupa - according to the news, an email circulating about 3 women abducted (they make it seem like it’s an alien invation) inside the compound of Northgate Cyberzone, home of the three biggest call centers in Filinvest : Convergys, Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and All-state Promotional Advertising Company - Customer Services, also known as APAC, my home when caffeine lacks the surge. Only one of them we really know true, as what the news indicates, one of the girls was from our company. The rumors just started spreading around like wildfire, that a girl from the first floor of our office was walking alone on the main street when a van pulled up; and opened up for three or so men in frot of her, then she suddenly got kidnapped, was forced to drink beer, then got raped. Reports didn’t include that nasty little detail.

Of course, it’s a rather huge impact. I barely walk that street going to work because the van I ride every night drops us a block away from the bldg, but it does scare me still. You always think it never happens to you, but it does. Suddenly, it just does.

And this doesn’t include my parent’s reactions as well. I don’t think I’d want to tell them.

Honestly, I guess the security did not come prepared. They always has this team of enlisted tricycle drivers who are allowed to go inside the compound, so that at least only these TODA (or tricycle drivers’ association) people would be monitored; and police security monitor the area frequently. But of course, vans and cars, they can’t always check.

So when the mayor tells press that they’re going to shape up the security, you wonder EXACTLY what they mean by it. Because it just won’t that well, I think.