After the 2006 Blogcon

Published mid-afternoon of September 27, 2006

Philippine Blogcon 2006

I could write a lot of things about the blogcon last Monday but I’d just be echoing what everyone has to say about it. So I’ll just mention that AJ noted that I (along with Anne) had a grand entrance for being fashionably late, though I didn’t notice. ;) I was so hungry I even forgot to register!

Now to the more important parts: I won a 256MB flash drive in the raffle, and Anne too! In fact, three prizes were won by our table alone. Food was great and limitless and we bloggers had the whole NSG Greenbelt 2 all to ourselves.

I had a grand time shooting with Karl & Mimi’s Canon EOS 5D (photos above were from that camera, thanks Karl) and they’ve just posted some of the photos we took that night. It was raining with 350D bodies in almost every table the event could’ve been sponsored by Canon. Jayvee was all smiles with his rumored lady–love (chika!) and Yuga was his usual charming problogger self. Marc gave his blog SEO talk and Rico was also there though quieter than he typically is. ;) Bimbo and Direk Soxy Topacio gamely set the record for being the first to order alcoholic drinks, I think. Other pisay bloggers were also there: Clair, jobarclix, Chris, and Ka Edong. Also, I finally got to meet a personal favorite pinoyblog: Eugene of vaes9.

Kudos to the Globe Innove people for picking up the tab again. The attention and recognition that you give to Filipino bloggers will surely reap its benefits in the months ahead.

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Overloaded

Published terribly early in the morning of September 22, 2006

Left: Anne, Right: Anne with Barbie

I’m just too overloaded with work and other things right now that I could hardly keep my weblogs running. It’s nice that if I couldn’t write, I think I can get away with a few links and some photos. I’m lucky enough to have a handful of eager models; Anne gamely posed with Barbie on a lazy Saturday afternoon. I actually have a few more with my other models but I really have to sleep now. ;)

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BlogCon 2006

Published mid-afternoon of September 21, 2006

There will be a blogging conference on the 25th of this month (September) from 7 to 10 PM at the National Sports Grill in Greenbelt 3, Makati. This is sponsored by Globe Innove who was also behind the blogger dinner that we had a few weeks ago, which reminds me that I haven’t really written about it.

This an open event for all pinoy bloggers and we’d like you to be there! Since there is no planned program for the night, we’ll probably end up talking about anything that comes up. Anything goes. You know you want to be there.

Abe and Jayvee has more details on this, and we have a wiki for attendance confirmation. See you there!

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Fun shoot

Published terribly early in the morning of September 8, 2006

[1] Arvi

[2] Clar & Ispok

[3] Anne

[4] Arvi

[5] Ispok & Clar

[6] Anne

[7] Arvi

[8] Joey

Joey finally succumbed to the digital SLR craze and helped himself to a Canon EOS 350D, going all the way to Hidalgo in Quiapo on lunchtime of a working Monday. He couldn’t make himself wait for the just announced 400D, and right away scheduled a photo shoot with our friend Arvi. She gamely posed for us though we were obviously amateurs in creative direction. Fortunately, we had a few good ones.

Ispok and Clar managed to join us for a good part of the shoot, and they ended up posing for some shots. Anne wasn’t spared as well, I just had to take photos of her too. :) Christa was the only one spared from my camera, probably because she was also busy shooting with her nice little Ixus. I just realized now, we could probably pass for a Canon promotional team. Maybe they could lend me a 400D for a comprehensive review perhaps?

I’m quite surprised how good some of my photos turned out, they were at least better than what I expected. I borrowed Karl’s favorite 70–200 f/2.8L and fell in love with it right away. My D60 felt like new when it was mated to this wonderful lens. Now I’m having a hard time stopping myself from stealing from my savings account. All photos posted above were with that lens, except for those in #3 which were both shot with the Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro I bought a few months ago.

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PHP rocks! (Java sucks?)

Published at around evening time of September 1, 2006

Galleria cinemas.

I’m not a fan of rant–type entries though I just feel like doing it now. I’ve been going through java training here in the office and there’s one thing I could say: PHP rocks! Java/JSP/Struts and everything that comes with it is nice, but coming from a PHP background I just feel like they’re trying to complicate simple problems. Then you have XML config files and other things that do the same and end up making everything too hard to comprehend.

Whew, had to get that out of my system. Just a random rant. :) Gotta go now.

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