For quite some time now, I'm outsourcing making backups of my blog to Blogger since the feature is not available for Classic Blogger, it's only for New Blgger (previously called Bl0gger Beta).
When I explored again Blogger in Draft, I found a simple way to backup my Classic Blogger-based blog by these simple steps:
Login to Blogger in Draft: http:draft.blogger.com
Click Basic tab
Click Export Blog
Click Export Blog button
Select the place to for Blogger to store your blog in XML format
Just in case you need to revert to your old blog, you can restore it using your backup by just using the Import Blog link instead of the Export Blog feature.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Barack Obama: The First Black American President?
As of posting time, John McCain conceded defeat and congratulated his rival, Barack Obama, as the 44th president of the United States of America.
I see Obama's election as a breath of fresh air. I hope to see positive developments in world politics as well as the end of American occupation of Iraq and Afganistan.
I also want a policy shift in the US as well as better treatment of other races in the giant multi-racial country not only African-Americans and Latinos but also Asians like Filipinos.
Regarding the question Who's the first black president of the USA? It's not Barack Obama, but it's Morgan Freeman. He's been US president for so many terms already.
:P
I see Obama's election as a breath of fresh air. I hope to see positive developments in world politics as well as the end of American occupation of Iraq and Afganistan.
I also want a policy shift in the US as well as better treatment of other races in the giant multi-racial country not only African-Americans and Latinos but also Asians like Filipinos.
Regarding the question Who's the first black president of the USA? It's not Barack Obama, but it's Morgan Freeman. He's been US president for so many terms already.
:P
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Blogger Comment Form Embedded Below Post Error
My blogs acting weird lately for I noticed I haven't been getting comments here and in my main blog. When I tried to reply to the comments, the drop down menu of the user name on the comment form does not work
It's not isolated to Firefox for it's the same using Internet Explorer. What I did was to temporarily revert to the pop up window when users like to post a comment.
I'm using classic blogger and maybe that's where the problem is, I don't know if it's the same for New Blogger.
Will have to check again and revert to the old comment form when the problem's solved by Google or I find the cause and solution.
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How to embed comment form below post?
login to Draft Blogger at http://draft.blogger.com
Click Settings Tab
Select Comments
on the Comment Placement Form, check the Embedded Below Post
Click Save Settings.
It's not isolated to Firefox for it's the same using Internet Explorer. What I did was to temporarily revert to the pop up window when users like to post a comment.
I'm using classic blogger and maybe that's where the problem is, I don't know if it's the same for New Blogger.
Will have to check again and revert to the old comment form when the problem's solved by Google or I find the cause and solution.
---
How to embed comment form below post?
login to Draft Blogger at http://draft.blogger.com
Click Settings Tab
Select Comments
on the Comment Placement Form, check the Embedded Below Post
Click Save Settings.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Wrong TIN Inquiry from BIR
What would you do if you discovered one day that you're paying your taxes and yet the TIN (tax identification number) you're using is incorrect? Past income tax forms 1902, 1905 and 2316 were already lost.
A friend of mine found this out the hard way. His company has been remitting income tax returns for years and when he got married, he needed to update his TIN from single to married in order to avail of the increase in personal exemptions and thus lower taxes. Problem is that the online TIN inquiry of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is not working and calling individual BIR offices, called RDO, is a pain in the ass when most government employees are a pain in the ass to talk to when it comes to inquiries from "lowly" citizens of the Philippines that they're supposed to serve.
It's a good thing that an officemate of mine had a good day and called one of the four RDOs in Makati by giving the invalid TIN and the full name of my officemate and chanced upon a rare good mood of the BIR employee. It's great the RDO she called up was the one where my officemate registered more than ten years ago...
Case solved!
to BIR: why on earth can't you detect income tax returns with invalid TIN? SSS can detect remitances with SSS number and name mismatch. No wonder you can't run after tax cheats. Your former commissioner also had that stupid and backward policy of shifting back BIR corporate payments from online to over the counter, undoing the hard work of Parayno. Think twice!
A friend of mine found this out the hard way. His company has been remitting income tax returns for years and when he got married, he needed to update his TIN from single to married in order to avail of the increase in personal exemptions and thus lower taxes. Problem is that the online TIN inquiry of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is not working and calling individual BIR offices, called RDO, is a pain in the ass when most government employees are a pain in the ass to talk to when it comes to inquiries from "lowly" citizens of the Philippines that they're supposed to serve.
It's a good thing that an officemate of mine had a good day and called one of the four RDOs in Makati by giving the invalid TIN and the full name of my officemate and chanced upon a rare good mood of the BIR employee. It's great the RDO she called up was the one where my officemate registered more than ten years ago...
Case solved!
to BIR: why on earth can't you detect income tax returns with invalid TIN? SSS can detect remitances with SSS number and name mismatch. No wonder you can't run after tax cheats. Your former commissioner also had that stupid and backward policy of shifting back BIR corporate payments from online to over the counter, undoing the hard work of Parayno. Think twice!
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