Rediscoverer

After being offline for more than a week, I’m here again. I had to go on work leave in preparation for the Geodetic Engineering Licensure exam that was held last September 26 and 27. I was supposed to get back to work on the 28th, but a typhoon hit Manila directly . Power, communication and transpo went down (while billboards and roofs went flying around) . The power supply was restored (in our city, but major parts of Metro Manila are still down) the day after, but not the phonelines. I went to office, thinking that everything was put back to normal. Errrr… not. The situation at the office builduing was worse. No electric supply, except for the elevators and office lights. Alenaire was down so we were all sweaty at the office. Hoping that the power will be restored and we’d be back to work, we waited for several hours. What a waste of time. Office hours were over but still no light, so we just went home. Trains were shutdown due to power failure, so I had to take the bus for a two-hour trip. After another hour, I finally arrived home, and found out that the phoneline is back. Hooray! I worked at home the next day (even though it was a saturday). I almost forgot what I was doing before I went on leave, so I needed to catch up. By the way, the results of the exam was released on that day. I was quite relieved to see my name on the list of successful examinees. The cramming paid off. I need to fill-up some papers and attend the oath taking ceremony. After that, I’ll be a Geodetic engineer. Sweet.

Rjene gave me a link to a love song about Web Standards. Read more about it at Boagworld.com . Very funny, specially the part with the tables nesting fifteen levels deep. )

It’s my birthday today. But nevermind that. I got a new PC as an advanced birthday give. Well not really a gift. And not really intended for my birthday. It’s just that my brother was stupid enough to mess with my old PC (prehistoric computer). One day I came home with coverless CPU welcoming me at my desk, the hard drive and CD-rom drive detached. I got really pissed off (I arrived late in the evening from work) and almost woke everyone in the house. My mother told me that my brother (who just arrived from several months of his duty on a ship) tried to “repair” my PC (just ot remind you: he doesn’t know anything about computer hardware!) and see what he can do with my busted CD-rom drive (he was planning to replace it with a spare one). I was always reluctant in disassembling and replacing the parts of my PC because the parts were in critical shape. It was really old, a PIII 550 mhz, 64+32mb SD-RAM PC-100, 10G disk space (laughable, yes; but it was the top of the line during its time). If any part of it breaks down, I won’t be able to find any replacements, which means “bye-bye PC”. It tried to save my PC by putting back the harddisk and the CD-rom drive. Someone also messed with the processor settings. Mom also told me that my brother tried to bring it to a repair shop when he realized things were getting out of hand. But of course, the technician wasn’t able to revive it since it was way too old for him. Might be because of some weird evil magic, I was able to run it and see the Windows start up screen again. But then, it just froze… and that’s just about it. I didn’t see the start up screen again. I tried to repair it again but I kept on getting a mild dose of free flowing electrons on my arms. The PC was turned off but still plugged in, so I knew it was already grounded. I remember a previous computer repair shop telling me that my PC was hopeless, since the power box (I don’t know if it was the right term) inside my PC was failing, and anytime soon my motherboard might get toasted. I think it already happened.

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Errr… I’m planning to switch to WordPress from Textpattern. I like Textpattern for its simplicity, but I got the chance to try out WordPress and liked it very much. I could do so much with it. But I thank Texpattern for introducing me to Textile .

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I use IE just to know how it feels to get exploited.

Image was from an IE fan . Thanks rjene! You really love _{to kill} IE.

1. It gives you that nice, warm feeling for being able to help other people and also makes you feel that you’re worth something.
2. You can help yourself come up with a solution to a problem that stomped you for the past few days.

Hey wait I minute! The advice I gave to you… that’s what I’m looking for! Aw shucks! Thank you for making me think. I’ve been very stupid these past few days

Hooray! I thought that I wouldn’t be able to put this site up. Been really busy these past weeks. Aside from work, I’m also reviewing for the coming Geodetic Engineer Licensure Examination on September. I had to follow a new schedule: work from around 7/8 am to 3/4pm to attend review classes that starts at 530pm until 930pm. Oh, man! I only get around 4 hours of sleep every night (or make that morning, since I sleep from 12am to 4am, Mondays to Fridays).

Anyway, welcome to my homepage. And what is this all about? Ummm… I think I need to create an “About” page.