Posted on August 17th, 2008 by Calvin
If you want a huge burst of traffic on your blog, posting about the 2008 Olympics is a great way to do it. This works well on personal blogs since you can write just about anything. Post about interesting topics or news about the Olympics. Hot topics would be the US Basketball team or the [...]
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Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Calvin
I can’t believe I missed this piece of news last Wednesday. If you also didn’t know, 24-year-old Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai suffered a horrible injury during the 77kg men’s weightlifting event. The first time Olympian dislocated his right elbow as he was trying to snatch 148kg in his third lift. No longer able to support [...]
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Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Calvin
I finally did it! I spent some of my blog money to buy my very own domain name. I looked it up at Go Daddy and just bought it with my Paypal. Using a Go Daddy coupon code: CJC695DOM I found here, I was able to save $3 per year off my purchase which brings [...]
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Posted on August 15th, 2008 by Calvin
UPDATE: USA and Spain meets again in the Finals (Click for the schedule) Wow. The US men’s basketball team was impressive against the silver medalist of 2006 FIBA World Championship, Greece. A bit of payback for beating them on the semifinal round of that tournament. This win means that they are ready and have a [...]
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Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Calvin
Just taking a break from writing Olympic related posts. To all the pizza lovers out there or the people who just loves to feast on food, the Pizza All You Can promo from Greenwich is back. From August 11 to 28, Mondays to Thursdays excluding holidays, 11AM to 2PM, you can avail of unlimited pizza [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Calvin
If you haven’t seen the USA vs Angola game, you should try to catch it on replay. It was full of highlight moves as Angola just can’t keep up with the Americans. Although there’s this Angolan guard, Carlos Morais, who was just spectacular in the 4th quarter against Team USA’s bench. In one play, the [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Calvin
There’s this ad in the Spanish-language newspaper La Marca prior to the Games that recently surfaced where Spain’s Olympic basketball team appears to be slanting their eyes. Check it out. What’s weird is that nobody from the team or the newspaper considered that the ad would be a bit offensive to the Olympic’s host country. [...]
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