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We recently upgraded the MySql installation in our emanilapoetry website which is using WordPress 2.8+ install. The upgrade somehow caused a mismatch in the character sets between WordPress and the database tables, the former using a default character set “utf8″ and the latter using “latin1.”
When our technical people tried using WordPress’ default character set in [...]

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Dear fellow Filpress-ers
I would like to extend my personal invitation to everyone to join us in our community blogs site at http://blogs.thefilipinoaustralian.com
The community blogs site aims to be your mass medium to share your thoughts on any topics in your areas of interest. You may also use it “to vent your anger over an atrocity [...]

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Happy birthday, emanilapoetry!

by Romy on June 22, 2009

in emanila sites

Did you know that emanilagroup’s poetry site, emanilapoetry, turned last Friday?
We officially launched the site on 19 June 2005 using a news publishing script which allowed members to post their works using their own password-protected username. In February 2006, we released our first anthology of poems selected from our poetry site. There were 101 poems [...]

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Thanks to all those who responded to our mailout for “What is wrong with this report?”
I trust you had fun as I have in reading your responses.
Did any of the responses correctly identify what was wrong in the report? The answer is yes and no. Yes, because others have identified errors outside and behind [...]

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Yesterday I received an email from a friend with a copy of a news reports obviously written from a World Health Organization media release. Part of the news report follows:
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WHO confirms 148 swine flu cases in nine countries
A total of 148 laboratory-confirmed human cases of swine flu A/H1N1 infection have been officially reported to the [...]

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The correct use of ng and nang

by Romy on March 16, 2009

in emanila sites

A blog on the correct use of ‘ng’ and ‘nang’ is something I have been planning to do for sometime. But other things got on the way which relegated this idea on the background.
Given the increasing popularity of Tagalog / Filipino not only in the blogosphere but even in real community life, I think we [...]

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Poetry editing and punctuation

by Romy on March 9, 2009

in emanila sites

Poetry is a great form of self-expression. It is a special form of writing which allows you, the writer, to say or write practically anything with short lines, long lines, rhymes or in whatever style you want.
Although I don’t want to use the word “licence”, still I would say that poetry may also be considered [...]

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