I built my first Web Site when I was fourteen years old and a site that offered free web hosting services hosted it. It’s not really something grand but I was somehow proud of being able to make my cyber mark on the World Wide Web.
Unfortunately due to some reasons I lost interest with building Web sites. It was just recently that I become attracted once again with the Internet. My dilemma now however is the fact that blogs have become more popular than Web sites. “What should I do? A blog or a Web site?”
This question has plagued me for a few days until I have read a post by George Lindemann Jr. He wrote that blogs are still, technically, Web sites made easier. Anyone who does not have any extensive knowledge with programming and coding but want to build their own Web site can make use of blogs. With this piece of information I was able to come up with a decision.
What was the decision? I think you already know ^_^
The Internet is growing and it is growing at a very fast rate. What’s great today may not be that great tomorrow.
Currently, the information superhighway has made a transition or an “upgrade” if you may call it. We are now utilizing the principles as well as tools of Web 2.0. However, such change has affected all of the World Wide Web. Internet citizens who want to take advantage of this “upgrade” will also need substantial knowledge when it comes to web 2.0 design and development.
I for one am not that familiar when it comes to these things. When I started blogging, I came across the term Web 2.0 frequently but never really bothered to do any research about it. It was just recently that I took my time and read about it. Now that I have become more aware of Web 2.0, I might become meticulous when it comes to blogging or any online activity for that matter.
My web host was down for about 4 days thus it became inaccessible. The server transfer was completed a few days ago unfortunately my site underwent some complications. As you may have observed, my database rolled back by 2 weeks meaning all of my posts for the past 3 weeks were taken off. Honestly I am quite ticked by this but I really can’t do anything about it. I just have to recreate the posts and hopefully nothing goes wrong again.
UPDATE: I still am experiencing some minor problems in regard to posting and commenting. Please bear with me while I fix these things.
~Lazy Goy
Surprise! I was able to successfully update from Wordpress 2.3 to Wordpress 2.5. It’s been almost an hour since the update was completed and everything seems to be a-okay. Still crossing my fingers though ^_^
About the change in layout, this is just temporary. I’ll be changing this from time to time until I’m done with the page layout I am creating. Anyway, ’till next post ^_^
The picture that you see is my bokken. To the unfamiliar, a bokken is a wooden stick shaped like a katana though it can also take other forms like a tanto or a wakizashi. This is used for kenjutsu training. Instead of using real swords that poses a lot of dangers, a bokken is used instead.
Why do I have a bokken? Well you see, ever since I was a little kid, I always have had this fascination for swords. As I was growing up, this fascination never left me. So I tried to seek for schools here in Davao that taught this art. Unfortunately, I did not find any.
However, when I was given the chance to study at the University of San Carlos in Cebu, I gave my search another whirl in this uncharted territory. I explored Cebu City for many days. I found training places for judo, aikido, karate but not for kenjutsu. But there was one aikido practitioner in one of the dojos I visited who told me that there was somebody in Cebu who teaches kenjutsu. And then he said that the guy is a teacher in the University of San Carlos. "WTF?! I exhaustingly roamed around Cebu City and the one I have been looking for was right under my nose!" The next day I searched for this teacher and I finally caught up to him late in the afternoon. Gathering all the courage I had I approached him and inquired about kenjutsu. He told me that he had no proper dojo although the university lets him use the judo practice area. I then asked him if I could train with him. I can sense that he was hesitant at first but then he blurted, "adto sa judo gym ugma 5 pm. naa ba ky gi?" and since I didn’t have one he told me, "pagdala na lng ug white shirt and jogging pants"
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