Web­site: Rags to Riches
URL: http://​www​.rags2riches​.ph/

This is the web­site of Rags to Riches which I have writ­ten about before. Rags to Riches gets first dibs at Ang Pere­grino Rec­om­mends because 1) I really believe in the project–I think it is worth­while and it can really make a dif­fer­ence in the lives of the women of Pay­atas, 2) The project is a good model for social entre­pre­neur­ship, and 3) I know the peo­ple who are involved there.
What helps make my job eas­ier is that their web­site is cool. I like its use …

Start­ing tomor­row, I will not be post­ing any­thing over the week­end. This is for sev­eral rea­sons:
1) I have found that I get very few hits on week­ends. Most of the blog read­ers here read my Sat­ur­day and Sun­day posts on Mon­day. If they have the time to read it. That’s just too many posts to be read in a sin­gle day. So I’ve decided to just do away with week­end posts alto­gether.
2) I can actu­ally make much bet­ter use of my time on week­ends by going around the net and …

Just some things I picked up here and there…For the nerd in all of us. :-)

* A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh cham­pagne will bounce up and down con­tin­u­ously from the bot­tom of the glass to the top.* A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.* Almonds are mem­bers of the peach fam­ily.* Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark’s stom­ach from under­neath, caus­ing the shark to explode.* Babies are born with­out knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2–6 years of …

With updates below.
This was sent to me by my good friend TJ Agulto. He’s now bro­ker­ing prop­er­ties below mar­ket value. Basi­cally, his group wants to help peo­ple find liv­ing spaces that are com­fort­able, peace­ful and afford­able.
TJ was the for­mer Pres­i­dent (the tech­ni­cal term was OAC–Over All Coor­di­na­tor) of an org I was han­dling in the Ate­neo. When he grad­u­ated, he got the Most Out­stand­ing Indi­vid­ual Award for his work with the Chris­t­ian Life Com­mu­nity, Socially Ori­ented Activ­i­ties (SOA), and most spe­cially with the group called Alay ni Ignacio, …

I didn’t know Spelling Bee’s could be so excit­ing. Around two weeks ago, the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee was shown on ESPN and I was glued to the TV set with my dad.

The win­ner is Evan O’Dorney who lists Spelling as a dis­tant third in the things he loves after Music and Math. A Fil-American named Joseph Henares tied for third and pro­vided a bit of humor and fresh air in an oth­er­wise seri­ous com­pe­ti­tion. When he was given his word: “punaise”, he exclaimed “Oh, my God!” to …