Sep 30, 2009
Off We Go...
Arrived at Manila yesterday. At least in the parts we passed through (Pasay, Makati, and Malate,) everything seems back to normal, with almost no sign of the previous storm's havoc. And nary a raindrop in sight.
I'm staying at my cousin Deng's place, as usual with my Manila trips. We found it in a bit of chaos, as ondoy's flooding reached here, recalling the water being almost knee-deep. The water's gone now though, but a lot of things that were not brought up to the apartment's second floor are still wet. Hopefully they will be dry before the next storm comes in...
A little history: the last time I lived in Manila was in September 2006, when Orange & Bronze got me for a 3-month contract work on a project. At the time, I was fresh off my GSoC work, and I was raring to whet my skills as a software developer. That job gave me that opportunity, as well as opportunities to meet new friends, participate in a bit of commercial software development, and get used to Manila life again.
Then awhile later I got into the Morph Labs bandwagon to become its first Systems Administrator, working from Daet via telecommuting. It was here that I began the long road to unrecovery^H^H^H^H^H learning the ropes of being a sysadmin, building some cool stuff in the process as well as maintaining it.
Now, I'm back here in Manila, to work for Orange & Bronze again, but this time in a more permanent position, as Systems Administrator Lead. I look forward to reconnecting with my old pals as well as meet new ones, use the valuable experience I've had over the years in my new job, and get back to the long road of unrecovery^H^H^H^H^H building more cool stuff.
And I start doing that tomorrow. Good times ahead.
Tags: life, morphlabs, oandb. | Posted at: 14:53 | 1 Comments/Trackbacks.
Sep 23, 2008
Turning 0x18
zakame++;
There should be a picture of me above, following the Me(me), but its late. And I have to get up early tomorrow to catch the bus to Manila for next day's Cebu flight (work calls.)
I look forward to another roller-coaster year. This year had been a ride
through new stuff mostly at work, picking up CentOS and Ruby along the way,
although remaining faithful to my Perl roots. And quite recently, it has come
back full circle with a renewed interest in Debian again. However, I've been
also coming back at exploring Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno,
rekindling my lost interest in distributed systems and showing me just how bad
Unix and friends have become (current meme: tell me why any xterms, mine or
yours, has a baud rate, as told by stty.)
Still, I can't forget my roots; yesterday's "save" was a subtle reminder that I should come back to Debian again. I'll do what I can, and maybe learn something or two in the process ;) I guess that's how $DEITY works; always moving in indeterministic ways.
Ok, off to sleep...
Tags: debian, inferno, life, morphlabs, perl, plan9. | Posted at: 16:37 | 0 Comments/Trackbacks.
May 10, 2008
Hello, World
You have reached my little site. There's not much here at the moment, but do drop by every now and then; its a work in progress.
As you can see, this site is quite spartan, and that's the way I like it. I'm currently using blosxom for this ephemeral blog site, despite the prevalence of database-backed blogging and CMS software with all the Web 2.0, AJAX, and Web Services bullshit. Those are not for me, at least for the moment; nor do I want to encourage a "community" around my site, whatever that is, as I have better things to do than exchange pleasantries.
That said, I know that the blosxom code is rather old and the plugins available for it seem to be disappearing. Since its in Perl, however, I think I can take a crack at writing my own plugins (and possibly improving blosxom itself.) I might probably rewrite it in CGI::Application, if it comes to that.
By the way, in case you're wondering: I'm Zak B. Elep, and I go by zakame on the Internets. I actually have an older, more dynamic, and friendlier weblog at spunge.org, where it all started; more on that later.
And yeah, the standard disclaimers for blogging applies: this site contains my own personal opinions on various matters (and maybe some real, hard facts, from time to time,) and in now way should these opinions be construed as official statements of organizations or companies I'm connected with. They have their own PR reps: talk to them if you need "official" shit.
That's all for the moment: I'll go play out with some code.
Tags: blosxom, cgi-app, morphlabs, perl, ubuntu. | Posted at: 07:30 | 0 Comments/Trackbacks.