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Breaking News: Destructionatore will officially close by this date--February 11, 2012.

Destructionatore
February 22, 2008 - February 11, 2012

Unable to reach his fourth year at Webs, he feels that Webs is no longer good. I asked him if I should work on his site much longer, and he replied, "No. I HATE Webs every since you deleted my once-awesome site. So instead, just leave it or delete it." It is I that I have to blame. In the late period of 2008, I downgraded his site. He became mad, saying to me that "he can't work under these circumstances." But in other words, what will he be doing now?

He said that he wanted to make a collage Team Fortress 2 videos, but only to upload the playlist to YouTube. He has not been using his YouTube for a long period of time, only using it to watch adult content (well, not adult, adult content.) Destructionatore also said that since he is a premium Team Fortress 2 user, he will be trading and idling with others. At the same time, he said he will play for a real purpose, and at that--he will trade some his useless or already have weapons for other benefits.

To remember the times of Destructionatore, let me go back to the times when Destructionatore actually works on his site.

In February 15, 2008, Creepster opened his first and only site. I told Destructionatore, "See, what do you know? [He] made his own site, and you're the one left out."

"Let me try then," Rico said. He tried it and continued to work on it. But then on September 2008, he probably blew a fuse. When I confessed to him that I 'screwed with his site and made it HTML-only, Destructionatore placed his head down, only hoping this wouldn't happen. He made a new site, called Secretzs, and I ruined the project using member-stuff and all that crap. Then, by that case, Rico says, "Making sites is getting boring. Just delete it."

Rico decided quitting Webs, and came back to edit his old site on October 11, 2011. Nothing really new was typed, and he told me to delete it.

"Why don't you like to edit sites?" I asked him.
"Because it's gay," Rico answered.
"For real Rico," I told him. "Why? How is it gay?"
"It's not fun."

That really and truly explains everything here. Destructionatore ends his 3-year (or 4-year) career at Webs.

Today is Friday, February 10, 2012. I decided opening a calender of my events here in my website, also including documents that you can download. Why am I deciding to do this? Well, first off, you can check out my schedule, what I will be doing, when I'm available, and etc. Besides, I am updating at least twice a week, with my latest post being two days ago. Then, I will open a new document page, where I will give you new content such as custom templates and free tutorials on things. By the way my How-To Tutorial category will be updating for the first time about that. In conclusion, that's the news...

...Until as you notice I will work on my portfolio page, and by using CSS I will do such things. I think the portfolio page by far is the most unorganized of any of my pages, so it's one thing to fix. One thing I will have to know, to repeat, is CSS, and Javascript, because it will mainly become a list, if you get what I mean. That means I need to education and learn by myself new CSS tricks, from CSS tutorial websites.

Above as you can see is the new profile picture I will be using for the Extra Updates.

Anyways, I have been doing many things today. I have been trying hard to get new members for the community, for Shadow Infinite & Creepster's Lair. There are more news but I guess this is the main stuff. Here is what you can expect today.

Shadow Infinite did not get any members yet and Creepster's Lair gained 1 member last month. This is not progress. In fact, it is neither improving nor increasing. What we are trying to do to gain more traffic is by joining traffic-increasing sites. If we do this, the hypothesis of our visitors and members increasing will increase beyond the goal. The goal for Creepster's Lair is to get 5,000 visitors its entire overall life by the beginning of 2013. So far, Creepster's Lair has approximately 3,500 visitors, being above half of its goal. However, it only received a petite total of 6 members. Shadow Infinite just re-opened, and we placed Shadow Infinite into the spotlight twice. But that is all for this segment.

I will work on Destructionatore because it doesn't look very nice. We have decided adding Team Fortress 2 pages because of the rapid interest of the game.

Speaking of advertising and traffic, we hope to receive money only for visitors to, well, visit. This will give us benefits, like a free domain and unlimited pages. I hope I can get a premium, but I do not have any money as of now. Ending, it is one week until Creepster's Lair's 4th Year at Webs--yes, 4th year. We will not have a celebration because 1) we need to work on things, 2) we need to find more members, and 3) the 5th year is coming, and we want to make it even more special.

For the first blog entry to be in the Outside News category, well, this is about the Super Bowl XLVI. Now I am not very good at football and don't know anything about football, I just watch it--to cheer on my team and for fun. So here are some things to discuss about the Super Bowl yesterday.

I watched pretty much everything--except the commercials. I know the commercials or ads have to be big or something but I hate advertisement on TV. Websites... fine, but TV? Cable was regularly supposed to be ad-free. Weird.

I went to my cousin's house by walking. Ginger, a Jack Russell/Pit Bull mix walked with us. It was pretty long, being probably 53 minutes. The moment we got there Aceofshadows and Creepster left to do some "stuff," so it's basically us in the house. We watched the first quarter, seeing New York with 9 points, the Patriots with none.

At 7:00 we were picked up and went home knowing Kuya Alex was going to visit and eat with us, with Ate Nida at the Philippines for a week long. We continued watching the Super Bowl. Patriots came back later, with a 1-point lead, 9-10 New England.

Who did I thought was going to win and who did I root for? Again, I don't care who wins. It's should be a fun game to watch fan or not. However, I did think the Pats would win, but then again, I don't think they should. Rico completely supported the Giants, and wanted them to win. So did mom. Dad was at my side, as he didn't care who won and that he thought New England was going to win.

But because I had so much work to do on that Sunday, I kind of missed the Super Bowl. I didn't complain or whine or cry about it. What did I do instead?

I went to NBC Sport's website and watched it live there.

Okay, I only heard it while working, and mom said that New York was then 2-points behind the Patriots. I pretty much ignored her. If New York wants to win, they better make a touchdown, and they did.

And blah, blah, blah, we all knew New York won it 21-17. You know what was unbelievable to me is that New York came all this way to win. New England I would have to feel sad for. Lost against the Giants in Super Bowl XLII, becoming 18-1, now they lost this one. I decided looking for some comments at NFL.com and when it appeared, people were happy the Patriots lost, not happy that the Giants won. Even some guy said that. But anyways I give congrats to the New York Giants, they deserved it.

I'm only typing this because I want to talk to you about some problem that I will need you to give me advice with.

What I would like to delete was a website that I owned that had a premium service, with a domain. I can't delete this on Webs.com. I stopped using that website because it was boring, and then the next thing I knew Webs froze it due to the violation of terms--probably copyright. Look I contacted the Webs Support, and they didn't help me at all. In fact, all they told me was to stop premium services. The f*ck? What kind of help is that?

If anyone can solve this situation, thank you. Just contact me by clicking on the Contact page and tell me everything on how to delete premium websites. I'm going to do my part, and will contact the support for the third time.

Well, I accidentally deleted all of my progress for my Extra Update post #4, but nevermind, instead I will just talk about each one of them one at a time. One of the biggest priorities that I need to do is to edit, organize, publish, and upload videos.

The Isang Binhi Chorale Group asked me if I could upload the video for YouTube for everyone to see. Drinking a can of coke, I have things to do before I do their deeds.

1. Organize
   In which we have to organize and rename videos are very important. I do want to know what all of the videos are about, so I renamed them. Before the changing in names the videos were named 0001, 0002, and etc. In addition, I need to place them in folders. I disliked having them being clumped. I am a neat freak, but my room isn't all that pretty.
2. Edit
   I do not want to purposely change everything, but what I would like to do is to add color correction and sound changes. I do want to set my videos into a DVD, especially for those videos that have Stereo or Surround HD, it would sound even better. Secondly, I need color correcting because the videos are "kinda bland," and it doesn't look very realistic. One thing's for sure though: no images will be added. I added images once to make sure all videos belong to me, but the image was distracting and was blocking the view. I have to make sure not to do that again.
3. Render
   Also known as publish, I need to render to videos for the web's needs. Without rendering, the video's edits and changes will not apply.
4. Upload
   Now I can upload the videos to YouTube and my website. Not only that but I will be uploading the videos to Shadow Infinite, Creepster's Lair, and Megaworldz Unlimited. The only problem is: the videos in Webs.com will not be in HD. I don't know why, but all I know is that they better fix it or else.
   

When we calculate how many views are there for each video, well, it's not what it seems to be. I admiitingly transferred them to another channel, and that is, my brother's channel, Challenger90188. Before the videos were replaced the views for each video were around 500, and in Rico's channel, there was only approximately 30. Lame. Add those together and what do you get? An estimate of 530. Maybe that's not a lot of views to YouTube but I really hope we can attain more views or more publicity.

By the way, we will also be uploading TF2 videos, with my brother playing. Problem is, I have to do many things today, but I will tell my brother about this and that's for sure. Plus, I'm bringing back the Isang Binhi site, making sure all of their performances can be watched at their official website.

Isang Binhi's very first 2012 performance just begin, and this is my reflection in their singing at the Sterling Heights Cultural Center today. While there is some reception, there will be criticism as well, but this is only to improve the choir that I'm with.

RECEPTION/PROS
There are many improved parts of their songs that make their performance on these songs much better than last year. In my opinion nothing really changed, except their second song, This is the Moment. I mean this is definitely not their song, they're just singing it. I believed they messed up last year in August at the "dramatic" part of the song. This time, they did well, just not perfect, yet more perfect.

CRITICISM/CONS
I would have to say there's not many cons, but the reason why I would say there is one is because one of those problems might be the overpowering of the lead voice. The lead voice must stand out, but I think he stood out too much. That means I couldn't hear the other singers so that's one. Secondly, their formation isn't very good as I can't see the ladies' faces.

But overall, what do I have to say about the performance? It has been well done, with loud applause and more cheers. Before we actually started the singing, two girls from Iraq described how hard it is moving from their homeland to the US, especially in the time when bombings occured. It's kind of sad, we all know, and I don't know what to say about it.

Isang Binhi will now have their site revamped this year with a new video: about this one. It's one thing to know because if you are following isang binhi all day long, you might want to check out the upcoming domain:

REVAMPED WEBSITE & NEW VIDEO
http://www.isangbinhi.webs.com/ -- if I get the money I need to buy a premium for the site, then that will be good. The site domain might me: http://www.isangbinhi.org/ or http://www.isangbinhi.com/. Don't click on the links, they don't work at the moment.