This is an old post that got deleted. Originally posted last January 18, 2007.

Hooray! I passed the Google Advertising Professional Exam. I’ve been putting off studying for it for many many weeks now because of work and bogged down Internet connections during the holidays.

Special thanks to to Aileen Apolo, Philippine Country Consultant of Google, who gave away vouchers for the GAP exam and for giving me many deadline extensions.

While I’m still feeling the “warmth & fuzziness” from passing the exam, let me share some of my tips for anyone who’s planning to take it.
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My friend, the Yamster and I recently started out a new blog called Lifestrips. We don’t post anything ourselves. It’s all about inspiring tales of everyday people leading fascinating lives by pursuing their passions in life.

As Jenny Lewis song goes, “You Are What You Love,” it’s seducting to read and you learn a thing or two from people who despite challenges are pursuing and living their dreams.

Head over to Lifestrips and if you want to be featured, send an email to lifestrips [at] stripopotamus [dot] com.

Dave my brother, thought of uniting all Quitoriano’s the Wordpress way. If you’re a Quitoriano, you are entitled to a free blog using whatever_blog_name.quitoriano.org. Just log in here. It’s powered by the beautiful Wordpress MU CMS.

And here’s another wonderful bonus. Get a free email account using whatever_name@quitoriano.org too. It’s powered by GMail.

Get in touch by leaving a comment here.

Finally, after a little more than a month, Bamtastic! is up again. We joined the migrating flock of bloggers, designers, and developers to media temple’s grid server. Is it any better? I have no idea. Some say it’s all hype. The 1-click application installation of wordpress proved to be useless though. It’s installing an old version of wordpress for crying out loud.

After kicking myself several times, I mustered up some determination and shook off some lazy dust to install it the old-fashioned manual way. I’m one of those people who don’t delight in such tasks.

Overall, it seems pretty stable. If you are a paranoid hosting client, you get to check media temple’s heartbeat in a flash. From the info I gathered it’s scalable and it’s geared towards making your life easier if you’re maintaining and hosting a roster of websites. They say it’s RoR friendly. Might be the reason why my brother’s dev team went for it.

Anyway, I have no intention in turning this post into a review of media temple. Here’s a guy who does it a lot better. All I’m saying is that all systems are go for Bamtastic!

Hey technorati, I am hereby claiming this blog.