Travel And Work Overseas. Remote working for the perpetual traveler.

I don’t know what has got into me. Maybe it’s my beautiful daughter and GF. But life is good. Business is good. We’re all healthly. Another classic for you fans out there. Don’t stress…..Be Happy……………

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Feel like this sometimes? Watch this and realise what other people have to deal with.

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This as you know a classic. I’ve had a few challenges up here last 4 months getting our new office open in Makati (the CBD of Manila) but like the prior post never give up.

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Our beautiful child was born on 25th November healthy, happy and all OK. Here she is…

Angel Lorraine Cantoba Healy

So tiny

Rowena, Angel and me

Angel’s Angel Nurses. They don’t muck around here

The proud Tatai (Dad in Tagalog)

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Got back last week from Oz on a perfect holiday (and some family, work, other matters) into a supertyphoon here in the Philipines. Things here are a little crazy and very sad. This beautiful country continues to be plagued by seemingly endless bad things.

Typhoon Parma, churned toward the country just a week after tropical storm Ketsana triggered the worst flooding in 40 years in and around Manila, leaving 300+ people dead.

This woman cries beside the coffin of her son who died during the flooding Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009 in suburban Quezon City, Manila.

OK I know this doesn’t look like an SEO conference but it was!! We had our gun SEO team fly in to Boracay from around the Philippines and the partners from Australia, Japan, England and China for a week of serious strategy and fun. Why pay for an expensive conference centre in a big smoking city when you can get out there in nature with WIMAX, relax and also work? Yesterday we were literally in a river spa with the waterproof ToughBook discussing a new High Value Linking Strategy we’ve been working on for a year which is now at fruition. Business should be fun and healthy…………..

We finally moved into the new house in Boracay today…pics tell a 1000 words……..Doing a lot of commuting between the offices and conferences but its worth it when we get home.

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Well I left Byron Bay on January 15th 2009 for what I expected to be 5-6 week trip across Asia working with our youth venture capital fund www.YSEI.org and this year’s 10 fellows. I started out in Malaysia and have been working with projects in Thailand (way up north near the Laos border), Sarawak and the Philippines (north and south).

5 weeks has turned into 5 months and I’m now in the Southern Philippines, on a small island, in the middle of a big typhoon with no power and a flood roaring past the front door. I’ve got two broken ribs from a little surfing mishap on a big wave but otherwise in one piece and rolling. These things happen.

PRESS RELEASE: 16th January 09:

In the urban regions of Manila’s metropolis, five young Filipinos have built the country’s first mobile, self-contained, wireless telecentre. The students are all graduates of the Philippines 1st telecenter, GLOW, which launched in 2000. They have designed a new and innovative approach of delivering ICT learning combined with a sustainable business model, to communities that typically have no access to the internet and IT training services.

For the latest Philippine news stories and videos, visit GMANews.TV

There’s no two ways about it - SEO is hot again. In the last 6 weeks, SEOmoz has received a higher than normal volume of requests for consulting. Alongside that, we’ve been getting calls from venture capital firms out of the blue - seven to date - asking either about investments they’re considering in the SEO sphere (and requesting insight) or literally asking whether SEOmoz would like to take more capital to grow (post about that coming soon).