Daily Archive for January 8th, 2007

ping? pong! (# see footnote)

Its been over 2 months, from the last year since I posted any new stuff on my blog. Welcome back!

I have a more or less the usual excuses for that my long absence from blogging. Here’s the excuse list

Reason #4. Server downtime

No idea why sometimes the pages loads too slow or the server fails to connect I may be planning to revamp my entire blog, upgrade the wordpress engine, create a design myself, move and host it on my server located at home.

Reason #3. Occupied with tons of end of the year and new year events

End and the start of year have no lack of festive seasons and activities in army, church or home.
In camp, usual work & duties continues.. In december I had 2 weeks of advance training course.
Then after that, was about a week sent overseas with my family
When I’m back, it was time for caroling and christmas and..
the cycle continues..

Reason #2. Series of computer tragedy
The irony that I’m always helping others fixing their computer problems, I never get the to solve my own.

Lately I threw out my pentium 3 pc, but I still left with tons computer debris. motherboards and other computer junkies are left lying around with a slight hope of electric life sprinkling in them or waiting to be “basketed”.

My main personal and working system, pentium 4 2.8ghz ht starts to load windows slow (which means really slow.. worst than my pentium 3 could boot up windows xp). ram problems, northbridge fan problems.. and when i think i got them fixed.. strange noise from my 160gb sata harddisk even after formatting. well, im using xubuntu (a debian, xfce, ubuntu type of stuff) on a old 40gb maxtor hdd (at least on a 80pin ribbon cable) to type this.

Reason #1. Plain laziness and impatience

Well, I could have used some other computer, login from somewhere else. But no, I thought my environment then on my pc was the best customised and didnt attemp, even when i would create an entry anywhere else on planet even though it was so.. technically possible.

Anyway here goes a post to break my silence, hopefully this would drive me out of my reason #1 keep going..

(btw the post is titled ping pong, well not that it has to do with table tennis but i remembered irc servers would “ping” clients which reply “pong” to show that they are alive — yes i’m still here. )