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Things to do

  • revamp site
  • do up a repository for p&w songs and other docs
  • find out how to apply for counselling courses

back from the dead!

been away on a super long break. actually, what happened was pretty stupid. my server broke on me and i had to get a new host. and apart from that, i was away for reservist during that period.

and when i finally found my new host, i realised the backup data i received were packaged in a way that made no sense to me. if i actually took the time to figure it out, i’m sure this blog will have been up sooner. as it is, i had too much on my mind. work, love life1, finances… everything important.

so i neglected this site. thankfully though, Jer saved the day. thanks bro. although to be fair, you saved the day because you needed to get hosted as well. haha! but yep man. thanks.

in other news, i’m active (sorta) in church. i’m not only in the choir for the 7am Mass, i’ve also just signed up as a catechist. i’m also serving as a guitarist during monday night’s praise and worship session.

work is getting better. not very very good. but better. which is always cause for a celebration. my love life is still non-existent. and i can’t really be bothered with that actually. i mean, hey. if it happens, it happens. if not, i’m not going to mope and moan about it. hmmm. i’ll probably just drink it all away anyway.

and yes. eversince my trip back to the philippines, i’ve been drinking and drinking non-stop. it’s nothing alarming but i think it does sound pretty pathetic that i am drinking all by my lonesome. but never fear! i found someone to go drinking with. so everything’s all good.

  1. the lack of it actually…[]

Reflections

this post is the start of a new category. this category will be called reflections. have not decided on whether or not it will be a daily or a weekly thing but it will be a regular feature.

will also be cleaning up the blog. have decided to do something much more constructive and positive. i have been blogging for a number of years now but it seems that the quality of the posts haven’t really been maturing with the years. i will be starting a couple of new blogs as well. one will be more of my private and personal matters which will be closed to the public. basically, i just need to let off steam sometimes. blogging is a form of therapy for me but the way i have been blogging… however, when the things i have been blogging about becomes a matter which is discussed outside the blog, i feel that’s the final straw.

something happened a few weeks ago. initially it was some personal matter which slowly grew to include a whole bunch of other people. it was my fault though. glad to say the matter has blown over somewhat and while the dust is slowly settling, i’m still a little bit rankled at how it’s sort of spread. it’s kind of made me a little bit more wary of what i say and to whom i say things to. all the more i dare not trust people. so what i do now is to remember to keep my mouth shut.

the next blog is where i will put up the creative pieces i have done. whether it’s poetry or songs or demos or if it’s the upcoming fantasy fiction short story i am writing, it will be up there. this blog has pretty much become a collection of stuffs and it’s growing daily and i’m finding it hard to even design a theme for this blog because basically, this blog has no theme.

so basically, in the upcoming weeks of january, there will be something of a reboot coming to this site. it’s actually pretty scary. i kind of forgotten the basics of CSS designs and all my webdesign stuffs. i will need to refresh myself once again and this time, i hope i do a better job. don’t be surprised though if i end up reusing this theme.

on to tonight’s reflections.

basically, in my line of work, attitude determines our altitude. how hungry we are for our goals will actually manifest itself as how focused we are to achieving it. if we truly are hungry, we will find ways and means to achieve our goals. sadly, it seems i am not that hungry yet. although i know i want to hit my goal desperately, there’s still something blocking me.

it used to be a problem of my mindsets. however, now that the mind blocks are slowly being broken down, it comes down to habit as well as existing mind sets. for example, i’m used to having my saturdays and sundays off. i still remember 2 months back when i wasn’t involved in road shows. i would just stay home on those saturdays and sundays. i would only come to the office on saturday because of the focus meeting and if i have some urgent appointments. otherwise, if there are no appointments, i’d just take the day off.

even now, when i have my roadshows, i tend to get distracted easily on saturdays and sundays. i will need to overcome all these little problems asap. another problem i have is that i love to procrastinate a lot. and i need to get rid of it asap too!

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read the manual and understand it.

although i own this domain, i have never really used this domain apart from this blog. which actually means although i have administrator powers, i never really use them. i have no freaking idea how to do more then set up ftp access, subdomains, mysql databases and emails.

one of the reasons i seldom access my control panel is that i have no idea what the other functions are for. i’m freaking terrified of messing around with stuffs i don’t know. anyway, something happened last night that reinforced that.

so the fgb asked me to help him set up a subdomain for the purpose of testing out wordpress mu. i thought it was a simple matter and actually it was. i mean, ftp access, a subdomain and a mysql database for the wordpress mu. how hard could it be? it’s something i have to do even to set up this subdomain for my blog.

well. fgb asked if it was possible for me to enable him to create a sub subdomain. he then linked me a knowledge base article on what to do to enable it. it was simple. just open a support ticket with my webhost and that’s it.

simple yeah? and i screwed it up. haha! all i had to do was simple. get my hosting company to add

ServerAlias *.subdomain.soliloquy.us

on to my domain’s httpd.conf file. nothing else. instead, what i did was ask them to add

ServerAlias *.soliloquy.us

instead. this affected ALL my current subdomains, thereby killing this blog. i panicked for a while before realising what exactly was wrong. i then opened another support ticket to get things back the way it was before.

thankfully, it was easy to do so. heh. moral of the story? before messing around with what i don’t know, i will make sure to not only read the manual and documentations but to bloody understand what i am doing before even attempting. some stuffs you can get away by reading the FAQs midway into the procedure. some other stuffs can only be done once and if you screwed it up, that’s it. as an example…

rm -rf

never ever try that as root.

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