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3rd blogger meetup

UPDATE: I’m getting an overwhelming response from many parties. This by itself is already a good thing for Globe. Dinner cancelled. Just kidding! I’m trying to grab more slots to accomodate a lot more people. I hope you guys understand that this is not my event. I will try my best though. I will update you all over the weekend.

I was contacted by the senior brand manager of Globe Innove to help organize a short evening meet and greet for bloggers to try out the milieux of services offered by Innove, namely the wireless Internet capabilities deployed throughout the Metro as well as the provinces.

The objective of Innove is really to ride on the viral nature of blogging (i.e. The Mike Abundo Effect) in the Philippines by asking high traffic bloggers and pseudo-celebrity-status bloggers create buzz about their services, god or bad. Well, there isn’t much negative spin you can generate with Innove’s services, especially in the Metro, so good for them.

Since this event isn’t organized by me, I was given a slot limit for the evening. I already have about five people who are interested to join. Send me a comment if you’re interested. Note that to give Globe a bang for their buck, it would be preferable if your site has a relatively huge reach.

virtually moving stuff around

I didn’t realize it would take so much effort trying to move six websites from one server to another. In the span of one week I have supervised two server database moves and several DNS refreshes due to misunderstandings and other technical anomalies.

Thank God the people involved are technically adept to remedy the situation quickly. When this is all done, we’ll all have to celebrate!

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How expensive is your hobby?

I swear, being a geek has its downsides. You tend to spend a lot for your hobbies. I recently caught the photography bug after buying the 350D I’ve been wanting since December.

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After being able to save for it, I went ahead and bought several accessories such as a Velbon tripod, a Sumdex camera bag, and a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. The last item is a portrait lens known as the “nifty fifty” which allows you to take really great portraits at an affordable price as seen in this really cute portrait of my doggie.

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I’ve totalled my expenses for this new cash black hole hobby and the opportunity costs were basically a trip to Australia or a couple of trips to Singapore, Hong Kong, or Malaysia. Gawd. What next? I’ve to stop myself.

The only way I can justify spending more on photography is if I turn it into a profession, thus making the hobby pay for itself. I’ve done this for my iBook, which has been paid off many months ago by writing.

I used to have bug collecting as a hobby. Argh. Talk about spending. What about you? How expensive or cheap are your hobbies?

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A Bugged Life Gallery

I’m migrating most of my online photo albums to a new iPAP Photo Gallery which can be found at this address:

http://gallery.abuggedlife.com

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Many thanks to Abe who helped me install this and to Markku for writing the plugin.

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Informal Blogger Dinner on June 24 2006

What: Pinoy Blogger Dinner
Who: If you have a blog, join us!
When: June 24 2006 | 5:00PM onwards
Where: Meet in Starbucks Metrowalk Ortigas
Why: Wala lang!

Abe will be joining us as well as some guys from Pinoy Tech Blog.

Please spread the word bloggers!