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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.

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).

Australian Outsourcing Firm PageOneRankings.com.au has re-launched Australia’s premier study abroad site for international students wanting to study in Australia.

Appropriately called StudyinAustralia.com, the site is the premium name for education institutions in Australia, and a magnet for International Students wishing to study here.

PageOneRankings.com.au Managing Director Simon Healy said “We are dedicated to showcasing the exceptional quality and high standards of the Australian Education sector, promoting the many lifestyle benefits to overseas students of an education in Australia and fundamentally connecting students with Australian Institutions.

I was sitting down the beach today after a barreling dawn session at “The Wreck” in Byron Bay and was thinking about the values of pen versus computer when planning…………..and decided that nothing beats pen and paper especially after my recent trip to Malaysia where my laptop got fried yet again…

OctiSphere 1.0 created at Bondi Icebergs Club 2003

I decided to revert to my diary for initial notes and the mud-map of what we were planning on our 08 projects and how they all fitted together. Now I understand you may think these sketches are the product of a deranged mind but they are in fact proof of concept. The first image is Octisphere1.0 which we mapped out at the Bondi Life Savers club in 2003.