The fol­low­ing arti­cle is the abridged ver­sion of the orig­i­nal arti­cle. The prob­lem is that I no longer know where the arti­cle came from. I copied and pasted it in my email and I unfor­tu­nately for­got to include the name of the author. So I apol­o­gize for the writer. And if it’s your work, please con­tact me so I can credit you for it.

Study­ing for exams, free­lance con­tracts or work­ing on big­ger projects can mean free­dom with your sched­ule. But it can also mean pro­cras­ti­na­tion, stress from dead­lines and an orga­niz­ing night­mare. Work­ing on your own sched­ule can be eas­ier. How­ever, there are more ways to waste your time if you aren’t being paid by the hour.

If you look at my side bar, you may have noticed this nifty lit­tle logo that says: “This blog serves Nuff­nang ads.”

Well, the other day, I was pass­ing by EDSA on the way to work when the video board along the high­way showed a Nuff​nang​.Com​.Ph ad. It said BLOGGERS OF THE WORLD UNITE or some­thing like that, and I remem­ber tak­ing a men­tal note of the url, and going to the site when I arrived in the office.

I got this from Guy Kawasaki’s blog. These are the win­ners of the World’s Best Pre­sen­ta­tion Con­test. The one on top is the Sec­ond Prize Win­ner called FOOTNOTES. The one below is enti­tled THIRST and won 1^st Prize.

I hope I can start mak­ing my keynotes as beau­ti­ful as this. Pre­sen­ta­tion Zen has a great post on Mak­ing Slide Designs which would be really great to study in deeper detail.

When I saw this speech for the first time, a thought came to me: this is his­tory being made right before my eyes.

This is one part of Bar­rack Obama’s accep­tance speech at the Demo­c­ra­tic nom­i­na­tion for Pres­i­dent. This is clas­sic Obama: clear, strong, hope­ful, aspi­ra­tional. It builds in crescendo and tugs at your guts. Yes, it is more sym­phony than speech as David Ger­gen said on CNN.

Wise Bread is a com­mu­nity of blog­gers who have banded together to help its read­ers live large on a small bud­get. And because I am in a quest to bud­get my money, this site has been quite help­ful to me ever since I sub­scribed to it.

Wisebread’s Mis­sion

Wise­bread believes that peo­ple on a bud­get can still enjoy fab­u­lous and fun lives. It’s mis­sion then, is to share tips that will help peo­ple live large with­out sac­ri­fic­ing their finan­cial inde­pen­dence. What does it mean to “live large” on a small bud­get? Essen­tially it means you can have fun while you save. From Wise­bread: “Too many finan­cial experts focus on the neg­a­tive aspects of money man­age­ment. They freely throw around words like “sac­ri­fice” and “respon­si­bil­ity” like there was a fire sale at the Bor­ing Store.”