Tomorrow is supposed to be an historic day for the Blogger community of the Philippines, that’s because a Wordcamp is taking place in Manila for the first time. It’s too bad I’m booked to fly to Manila on the 18th instead which concludes how impractical it is for me to decide to fly in earlier for Wordcamp, come back to Davao then back again to Manila on 18. When I accidentally called Ria this morning (mistaking her for my friend Ria Lumapas), I got to ask her where she was and she replied matter-of-factly, “I’m in Manila.” Hearing those words, I suddenly felt a crushing sense of panghihinayang. The closest English equivalent of which would be…regret.
Oh well, life moves on. Hopefully when I move to the States I’ll catch the Wordcamp in San Francisco, booya!
Meanwhile, a blogger who’s not in the field is obviously mulling about the internet. Just now I downloaded the beta version of Google’s new browser Google Chrome and for a Beta version it has so far impressed me with its speed. It’s phenomenally faster than Mozilla 3.0 and is apparently more efficient than Safari. Apart from the exciting fact that Chrome is Open source, it introduces a very unique way of managing javascript by incorporating multiple process in one browser. Now the brainiacs from Google can best explain what that means not me, definitely, no. Luckily, they came up with a very friendly way of helping us understand…through a comic strip!
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After work two days ago, (note that I’m typing this Monday morning) I went over to Basti’s to meet up with Blogie of http://angdabawenyo.com, who I have apparently been introduced and re-introduced to over the times we’ve spent (albeit separately) in the same coffee shop. I’ve never had the gall to actually sit down and talk to him over ciggies and some geek talk, but I’m glad that Saturday gave me that opportunity.
Because I got to meet him, he was able to give me an idea about professional blogging, which is to say, something I haven’t really considered in spite of the fact that I’m quite possibly one of the oldest bloggers around town. I started out between Freshman to Sophomore year in high school, via freewebs! That’s between 2001-2002. But right now, I can’t officially announce that as how my memory serves me because I have no proof yet. Meanwhile, I took the liberty of checking out http://webarchive.org to see if my old site is there, and sure enough it was, however, disappointingly enough, it only had pages from the latter versions of it. The crappy layouts I started out with weren’t there which means to say that http://klonline.codeswitch.org should have reflected an earlier date in the web archive. Also, I can’t really say that the web archive they had on http://kl-online.cjb.net would really break it for me as the oldest blogger, since I’m almost sure I started earlier than that. The cjb.net URL is actually a redirect. The source URL care of freewebs can’t be found anywhere! So, blargh. There goes my proof. Except if my friend Abby of http://livejournal.com/~perfectly_sane_ who was my first blog buddy/staple plug and visitor could help me dig up some old stuff. My only hope is if she has files from HER blog from way back and show that she has been plugging me since somewhere between 2001-2002. (Crosses fingers.)
Plus, I’m pretty excited about this Saturday. Hopefully we can get sponsors for the Blogger party. I mean, you could say “big deal” if you have a bunch of bloggers meeting up one Saturday night. The thing is though, there really is a whole lot of difference between a handful of Friendster bloggers next to SEO-adventurers, intelligent-blogger-types and of course, your sardonic online commentators. Ahem. Cock your chin and be a snob for once, will you? IT has a little bit more to it than most people think.
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