I’ve been browsing my directories of my web site, and I came across an old subdirectory, surprisingly named archives.. :) Checked the contents and found that the pages there are the first few ones that I created using plain text (well, I used Dreamweaver, but heck, I was on code mode :) … I don’t even consider the site then as a blog.. I wanted to put up some unix tutorial, japanese tutorial, my music etc… you know, everything eli.. it turns out will become another blogsite.. ;)

The first known entry was our wedding (without any wedding flowers).. December 17, 2005!..

God I remember those late night html editing thing that I did.. Napakahirap kahit may Dreamweaver! And to think, I didn’t even design the style of the webiste.. I borrowed it in Johnny America’s site. (I didn’t steal it, mind you…. I asked for permission and those kind people allowed me to use it..) Also, the original website that I was to use the design was in Razile.com site… Enough of that……After the wedding, the next entry was Matthew’s birth… March 1,2006 (come on.. I know you’re doing the calculation.. December? March?! Uso un! hehehe)


The next update I made, apparently was one month later… Matt’s first Month … All the old post are in archives.. using HTML text..By July 2006, And I used Bblog for the blog engine… The first post was July 5, as you may see here…

Bblog was great!! You can actually change themes.. Install plugins.. direct html coding.. etc.. this was a big deal for me, since im using plain text then.. The only reason I looked for an alternative was Spam! Everyday I would log in and clean up those pesky comments… 50, 100 or 200 at a time… Kainis nga eh, kaka-erase ko ng comment, na-erase ko tuloy ung comment ni Kelvin ng Ichyworms!

Then by 2007… I met Wordpress! Dyaaaraaaaannn!!! Amazing!!! Everything that Bblog can do, Wordpress can do better!! And there are literally hundreds of templates/themes out there!! And now, I’m starting to really enjoy posting stuff here.. I’m really starting to see the blog world.. un ba term dun? blogsphere? Dunno…

As you may have notice.. mag 2 months palang ako sa Wordpress… but I love it! Di muna ko titingin sa iba.. dito muna ko..hehe..dito nalang ako.. ;) experementuhin pa… :)

night!!!

I’m trying to put up a very simple, static website for the most hard working (and most important employee) in your company.. except your boss of course =)… This website is for the System Administrator! ;)

What is a system administrator? Well, look at the title. Administrator of systems. A system administrator takes care of systems. Now, most people read “system” to mean an individual computer, and think that all a sysadmin does is clean viruses off your computer and replace your monitor. That’s not wrong — but it is only one page of the whole story.

A real computing system is larger. Very few computers work just on their own anymore; when you use the web, play a game online, share files with a friend, or send email, you’re using a complex and intricate collection of computers, networks and software that come together to do the job you’re asking.

A sysadmin manages these systems — they figure out how to bring storage from one server, processing from another, backups from a third and networking from a fourth computer all together, working seamlessly for you.

It’s not an easy task. Your sysadmins need to understand in depth computing protocols. They often have to know something about programming, something about hardware, a lot about software — and even more about the people using their system.

A sysadmin is a professional, with complex skills, ethical challenges, and a daunting job. Many, if not most, people find computers difficult to use, and sometimes they’re unreliable. Being a sysadmin doesn’t absolve someone of dealing with unreliable computers. Oh, one can dream of such a day, but the opposite is true; no one sees more dead computers in a day than a sysadmin. No one sees them doing truly baffling things, and no one has more stories of computers failing, acting possessed, or even catching on fire.

The challenge of a sysadmin is making a computing system — a whole network of resources and servers and software — work together, work right, work even when parts of it fail — and work for you.

That’s the most important job of the sysadmin: to work for you. To take the staggering array of technologies, acronyms, protocols, networks, vendors, budgets, limited time, competing products, and threats to the computing network, assemble them all together in a working system. Their job is not only to be the geek in the corner who types all day. What they’re doing is bringing these diverse pieces of techonology into order, and fitting them together to fill your needs at work and home; to translate the world of computing into human terms.

This is a daunting task and we’re still at the cutting edge; we’re not perfect, and the field is still figuring itself out. Being a sysadmin takes a certain boldness, to be one of the first people to take on the challenge of turning difficult computers into easy to use systems. But hundreds of thousands of people are working in that field now, from the entry level help desk tech to the corporate CEOs and everyone in between.

So when you think of a sysadmin, think of the people who run the servers (including those fiber cable) that help you clean it off, the people who run your backups to make sure your data is safe, the people who bring you the network, the people who monitor it for security — and yes, the person who cleans the virus off your computer and replaces your monitor. –

I haven’t registered the domain yet, so I won’t post it here.. baka i-register mo pa eh.. maunahan mo pa ko… hehehe…

Here’s what happened.. well, what i can recall at least…. but the most important thing to mention is that, we had our first ever outage! This was on Saturday noon, January 6! Network link coming to and from London are down. OC-Network c/o Geoff Y. escallated the incident to their secondary counterparts.

After several hours of troubleshooting, it was found out that a water pipe burts and flooded the Data Center! Geessh.. what are the odds of that happening?!

 

First day of work in the year 2007! Let me present to you the ladies of Navitiare - on our way to lunch:

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