Uncertain times
In these days of sudden rain when outdoor furniture covers don’t seem to be a very good idea; when you can wake up to a sunny day but be doused by the time you have your morning coffee; when you read in the papers that world commodities prices have gone down but you see that everyday commodities prices at the talipapa are still going up; when what used to be a P20 bus fare to the office is now P22; when you try to eke out just a few more pesos out of a few sidelines to augment the grocery budget and here comes someone who accuses you of being dishonest—this is time when I give in to my combative nature.
It came to me in the form of an email from Strawberrygurl, about this UP Professor who also happens to be an “abang periodista” (humble journalist) who has taken a stand against paid blogging. After having read the journalist’s blog about his beef with paid blogging and the ill effects it may have on readers on the Internet, I then wrote a quick comment which I regretted immediately after I had submitted it. I regretted it because I realized that this journalist just needed a sounding board, and I was bored.
So off I went to my other blog to write a lengthy reply. I have always been a believer of “to each his own.” But every now and then I let PMS get the better of me.
Busy Weekend
I maintain a few websites for friends sometimes for small gratuities (money for snacks) and once a year as they renew their domain registrations and hosting services I sit down and jazz them up with new templates and layouts.
This weekend I did my sister-in-law Dr. Faith Mesa-Gaerlan’s org site Philippine Society of Emergency Care Physicians (PSECP).
Couple of days back I gave Danton Remoto’s blog a little facelift. I’m also submitting a proposal for his personal website for the May 2010 Elections.
Just finished overhauling MSU Demolay Rainbow for Sam and his brother Ferdie.
I got a few pics lined up for the Gallery on Gaerlan St., more buses with Bayani stickers for Press this Button, and the Lego Boys invade Chinatown on Do I.T. Yourself.
But they will have to wait for their updates, after all it’s a long weekend. I have another day ahead of me to do that.
:((
After weeks and weeks—months actually—of tearing my hair out about why the Yahoo bot doesn’t like my domain anymore I’m just about to stock up on wrinkle creams and give up.
Here’s the complete story. Sometime in March I realized that my domain kusangpalo.com was no longer indexed in Yahoo. I’d do a manual search on Yahoo.com for “bambit” and it would return just about every mention of the word “bambit” on the internet, except those from the kusangpalo.com domain. When I did a “site:kusangpalo.com” search in Yahoo I would get a “site is not indexed would you like to submit” message. And submit it I did — both the URL and the RSS and whatever else I could. I had the sitemaps and the meta tag, everything! I read somewhere that putting in a Yahoo widget might help. Which explains the Yahoo answers widget you see below the comment box. Hasn’t been a month since I put it there, so I’m still waiting if that will do the trick …
The accidental geek redux
I’ve lost track on how many times I’ve tried to make something out of our Top Level Domain kusangpalo.com. Once it had been a Joomla site offering services for something that Sam and I do as a homegrown business. We offered services for domain name registration and web design and hosting, including creating presentations burnt on mini-cd’s which can be given away as promotional products. Then it became a Joomla tips site and then it became just a jump-off point for either Sam’s or my blog.
I don’t remember if it ever got PR in its previous incarnations, and I wasn’t that keen on it then. But now I figured since it was there I might as well put it to good use.
There’s stuff I do at work that I can’t talk about because of NDA’s and such, but I’ve always felt that life as an IT worker leans more on the interesting side. That’s what I plan to accomplish with Do I.T. Yourself, show the perky side of I.T. life from the point of view of an accidental geek.
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