racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

I’ve taken some time offline this week, mostly from work (building kick-ass sites, apps and blogs) as my wife and I had just given birth to a healthy baby boy. This would be our third child, and our only boy (so far, and most likely will stay that way). Aside from the hospital not having a reliable connection–I can only log in either via dialup or GPRS, which are very slow–I’m focusing on my family and taking care of hospital errands. It’s not so easy now that there are also two little ones we also have to tend to.

So it’s another blogging hiatus for now–as if I’m even able to post here regularly. You can still, of course, check out my other sites and projects, most particularly those under Splashpress Media (where I am now formally known as Editor in Chief), like the Blog Herald, Performancing, Cutline, Tubetorial and the like. I may not always have my name on the bylines there, but I’m involved in many ways in the sidelines (or the background).

If you need anything urgent–well, I don’t think anything is more urgent than the things I’m taking care of right now–you know where to reach me.

P.S. Linux sucks quite a bit when it comes to dialup networking and GPRS! I had too boot up to Windows.

I’ve been offline since the morning of Thursday, September 28th, 2006 due to the typhoon Milenyo. Our power was cut off 7:00 a.m. and the phone line came down a few hours after that. I just heard this evening that the power and DSL connection are already up, so I can hopefully be able to get online later this evening. I’m just checking up my email inbox to see if I missed anything important.

Isulong SEOPH

I’m at Ortigas, by the way, having some coffee and dessert in the aftermath of the Isulong SEOPH contest awarding. Our entry placed fifth!

Too bad we didn’t get to win the iPod Nano raffled off, though.

The crowd at the awarding wasn’t the usual blog meetup crowd. Well, okay, it was about 50% of the bloggers’ crowd, and the other half comprised the SEO people who were (likely) not really into blogging.

I’ll write about this later on, with some pics to boot. Right now, I’ll be enjoying a cup of coffee and some cake with my lovely wife.

(Just had to get online after three days’ being off the grid.)

Update: No power again!

Looks like I spoke (or wrote) too soon. Only a few hours after power was restored, it’s down again in our area. Must be some transformer that overloaded. Am now on battery connecting via dialup (trying to get in touch with Meralco via their website, but to no avail!). Sigh.