In 2005, I made a conscious decision to move to the Philippines permanently. It wasn't until after I arrived in April of 2006 that I decided to make Olongapo City my home. Many factors led up to both decisions, some of which are too personal to write about. Here's a little history for you.

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I'm going to answer the question that "Barack Obama" (not the real one, of course) left as a comment on my article about Backlink Building with DoFollow Blogs and the CommentLuv WordPress Plugin, "So how does allowing dofollow backlinks help your blog?", by referencing other articles and comments.

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Working with images in WordPress isn't difficult, but I've found better ways to include them in blog posts than what's provided by the WordPress admin options alone. To your left is a picture of Matt from the "About Matt" page at Nomadic Matt's Travel Site. I'm using it as an example since I was messing with the image on my PC just a short time ago and because I think he's more photogenic than I am.

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Back in January of 2007, I wrote about how Lance Corporal Daniel Smith was convicted of rape here in the Philippines. A few days later I wrote "Daniel Smith Versus the Attorneys of Suzette Nicolas". Daniel Smith is serving with the United States Marine Corps, the branch of the military I retired from.

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If certain words concerning the female anatomy bother you, please leave now. You have been warned.

While I was looking through my stats, I came across "jingle jugs" as a search term. Since I'd never written either words on this blog (and I checked to be sure), the search engines must think the words "jugs" and "boobs" are synonymous. Yes, I've used "boobs" once or twice.

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