I can be extremely disorganized with computer files. My bare desktop hides a labyrinthine hard drive that contains files in sub-folders upon illogically named sub-folders that at times, I actually have to search for files.
I’m dependent on online drives for the centralized storage of files I’m working on. For so long, I used my [...]

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I woke up to a WordPress database error yesterday. The error wasn’t caused by any changes I did to the site but something to do with the server.
I spent hours the night before working on this, a demo of using WordPress to manage a news portal.
With time to kill while waiting for the site to [...]

I started working before the word processor as we know it today and the graphical desktop became mainstream. In fact, in my first few weeks on the job, I used a typewriter.
When I joined The Freeman, a Cebu City-based community newspaper, in 1996, its newsroom was using networked PCs running DOS. It took me a [...]

I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of an online desktop, a workspace that is accessible on any computer with an Internet connection. Last year, I tried to set one up for myself using a variety of free services: from free online file storage to online notes and to-do lists. I ended up with a [...]

I’ve released the nautica05-wordpress theme, a template based on the open source Nautica05 design posted at the Open Source Templates site by Studio7Designs. I used the Nautica05 template in turning this Cebu blog into a webzine, which I discussed in my previous blog post.
Nautica05-wordpress is a template for blog sites. I will be releasing later [...]