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Filed under blogging, events
Looks like the Cebu Bloggers Society is hamming it up. Everyone is so enthusiastic about coming up with activities that I can barely keep up with the group! (My presence borders on being an apparition of sorts.) I did make it to our first Christmas Party last Saturday at the Jardin de Busay Estate. One member was generous enough to let us hold the party at his family’s house, which was on top of a hill. Truly a garden in the sky.
I admit I was most excited about the promised dip in the swimming pool, but we ran out of time. I helped cook a Chinese dish instead, if wrapping meat into empanada-like rolls can be called helping at all. I’d rather not post photos of the party because I’m sure the photos would ruin my already tainted reputation. We do have a safe class pictures though:
Thanks, everyone! I had a fun night!
Filed under blogging, events, technology
A couple of months ago, a lady in Germany sent me an e-mail and introduced me to the Girl Geek Dinner movement. She was coming to Cebu and needed help in setting up the first Girl Geek Dinner in Asia (in Asia!). She was scouting for girls in Cebu who were into technology and who could form the core of the group, and she chanced upon my ailing blog.
I must have been hibernating that much, because I hadn’t heard of it before. A quick search on the web told me that it is an international movement (or organization) of international fame where girl geeks meet and discuss developments in technology and new media. It was started in London and sprang from the umbrella group Geek Dinners, which included males. Geek groups are usually dominated by males, so a smart girl decided to form a group exclusive to girls. Now, there is usually a group in major cities, such as the Frankfurt Girl Geek Dinners, London Girl Geek Dinners, and the Seattle Girl Geek Dinners.
Cebu has come up with one, too! They had their first Cebu Girl Geek Dinner last night at Asiatown IT Park. It was proudly sponsored by Exist Global. I don’t really know who were there and I don’t have pictures to show, because… I wasn’t there. 
I was already set to watch Twilight with friends, and it was already on my calendar since last month. I committed to helping promote Cebu Girl Geek Dinners, though. I see that no one has written about it yet, so I’m hoping that this will be my share.
Hopefully, that was just a start. I’ll surely be there on the second Cebu Girl Geek Dinner.
Filed under blogging, rants
I’ve lost count of the number of times that my server was down, and customer support is almost always never available. I am pissed. At first, it was easy to brush off. But then when you can’t access your blog most of the day, and then it happens many times a week, then moving out is the only sensible decision. It’s affecting my already measly traffic.
A number of people have told me that they can’t access my blog, and it alarms me. How many visitors have the patience to wait for your blog to be okay, and how many of them are hooked enough to try to open the page again some other time?
It was bad service from the start. It took them awhile to set up my account. I lost several weeks of the one-year term that I bought. I had to make a long-distance call to follow up, and all I was told was that I should just wait, as if it was my mistake that I didn’t wait long enough. I know some webhosts can set up their clients’ accounts in 48 hours. Some even set up their clients’ sites; all the client does is log in and write away.
I didn’t get any help at all in setting up this blog. I didn’t really expect them to set it up for me, but some technical guidance would have been helpful. There was a time when I messed up my database configurations, so the blog was down for almost a week. I submitted a ticket, but I didn’t get any response at all. It didn’t surprise me.
I am moving to another webhost before the year ends. For now, I am scouting for a webhost that is stable and has excellent customer support. Any suggestions? This blog is currently hosted by Philhosting, so please forget it.
Filed under blogging, events
It looks like the blogging community in Cebu is finally kicking off and starting to catch up with the communities in Manila and Davao. I hadn’t seen that many bloggers in Cebu until Thursday night at the Digital Filipino Club Fellowship Night.
The event started with a buffet dinner at the Teatro Casino of the Waterfront Hotel. Most everyone I know was there on time. I was a little late, and when I got inside the hall, I was surprised to see so many wearing black shirts with the Blogger ko, Bai (I’m a blogger, pal) design on the front.
I knew there was going to be a shirt, but I didn’t know there were that many bloggers who would be there. There used to be only around five of us at meet-ups. I hadn’t been attending meet-ups in months, and I have a huge backlog of group e-mails to open. I’m glad the group has grown a lot since!
Here we are with Janette Toral, the event organizer (who kept saying that my hands were cold):
And here’s our lovely shirt!
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Filed under blogging
Update 09/21/08: Congratulations, Winston!
Two of my friends, Winston and Maya, have been nominated for the Bloggers Choice Award in the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards. Winston, the web prodigy, is the most promising batang yagit I know. He’s probably the only yagit who owns several web sites, flaunts a wireless-capable phone, and takes photos using a DSLR.
Maya, my college blockmate, is a good writer, and it shows in her posts. She’s kick-ass smart, too. She goes to nowhere else than the best law school in the country. I am rooting for her because I think she would become a Supreme Court justice someday, and she could help me get away from legal entanglements.
There’s Jester, too. I met him through Maya, but he claims to have known me way before through my online presence. He is controversial, but I like how he puts effort into his posts. If you’re into intellectual masturbation stimulation, visit his blog.
I am not allowed to vote for more than one blog, so I am abstaining and helping in the campaign instead.
To vote, please check the guidelines here.
