Google Free Website Hosting

Google is offering a free hosting. With google, you can now create and update your own website for free. All you need is a Google account. If you don't have a google account yet, you're missing a lot of your internet life! If you already have gmail account, just go to Google Sites to create your own free website. 

With Google Site, you can easily create a website that can host and attach different files like .zip and html documents. Enough for a personal, family, team and even small organization website.Google is not just a free hosting for your website. It also has backend interface where you can design your own site. You can even choose a site template if you don't know where to start or don't know how to design your own website.

Google free hosting offers 100Mb per site. With maximum attachment size of 10Mb and without limit on the number of webpages. That means you can create any number of pages for your site until you reach the 100Mb site quota. That's enough for you to have your own personal or organizational website for free. 

Want to have your own personal site for free? Create now with Google Sites. My personal site, www.siteniregie.co.cc is an example of a website created with Google Site. Check that out. :)

Will Attend Community CARE Workshop

On our last monthly meeting, our coordinator announced that she received a letter of invitation from Smart communication Inc. It is about the Community CARE (Campaign to Advance Relationship-Building and Education) Community Education "Alamin mo Bro". It is a two (2) to three (3) hour free workshop on basic internet connection.

This free workshop in basic internet connection will be held at 5th floor BCLP Office, Pasig City Hall.I believe this seminar will be exclusive to all BCLP Computer Instructors and personnels. So at this time, all BCLP classes are suspended to give way to this workshop.

We undergo different seminars and workshops before. But I think most of my colleagues are wasting those seminars and workshops because they are not learning anything from those workshop. I don't know, but that's how I observed it. 

This CARE workshop will start later at around 2pm. I still don't know the coverage of this workshop or what new technology will they teach us. But according to the announcement of our coordinator, it's just about "basic internet connection". 

We all know that Smart is a business enterprise, and they are promoting their Smart Bro internet. So I think this is just part of their advertisement or campaign in promoting their Smart Bro product. Nothing special. But again, I wish I'm wrong. I hope that I will learn something new about the internet after this "Community CARE (Campaign to Advance Relationship-Building and Education) Community Education. We'll see...

On Bass Guitar!

I also know how to play bass. When I was in college at P.U.P., I used to be a member of a rock band. Our band's name was "milk". You've read it right, "milk". At that time, bands with handles like Korn, Limp Bizkit, Sandwich were very famous. So I guess that's why we decided to name our band "milk".
My ka-banda's were Romulo on guitar, Francis on drums and Victor on vocals. It was our guitarist "mulong" who chose that name, and we also think it's cool enough so we agreed to be called as "milk". We used to play covers from different rock artists. From Black Sabbath's Children of the Grave to Limp Bizkit's Mission Impossible 2 theme song, we love to play those sort of different rock genre.
After college, I met new friends who also loves rock music. And they're also talented enough to show and express it. We call our band "Kwerdas". Ian on drums, Bon-bon on vocals and Doni on guitar.
It was a very memorable experience for me to play bass guitar. Especially if we're covering songs like Freak on a Leash, Children of the Grave, N.I.B. and Kagatan. But I think that kind of guitar is not really for me. I don't know, but I really enjoy playing lead guitar more even though I'm having hard times doing it.
I missed my bands, I missed the practice, I missed the audience, I missed the noise, I missed my band co-members, I missed my friends, I missed the announcers...
I still remember the times when each of us band members were being introduced every time we join different local band festivals.  "Regie Rivera on bass guitar!"

Custom Blogger Favicon

Having a blog in blogger.com or the so called "blogspot" blog is very handy. Any one can blog using blogger because of its simplicity. 


And it is so simple because you don't have to think most of anything like hosting, design, domain and etc. So I decided to have my blog with Blogger.com as part of my "back to basic" mindset.

With Blogger.com, your blog will have a default favicon of white "B" in an orange rounded rectangle. I'm not happy with that and I want to change it. Just to change hehe. It's not that hard though.


 It's like having a custom favicon for your self-hosted site. The only difference is, unlike if you have your own hosting account, you cannot host your .ico file inside your Blogger account. So you have to host it somewhere. Once your .ico file is uploaded on the internet, just do the coding on your Blogger.com blog's head section and point to your .ico address.

Here's some tip for you to try:

1. Create an image that you want to be your favicon using Adobe Photoshop. Save it as .jpg, .png or .gif. 
2. Make it an .ico file with Dynamic Drive Favicon Generator and download the generated favicon to your computer.
3. Upload it to merrypic.com and get the direct link of it.
4. Go to your Blogger.com blog's "Edit HTML" inside the "Layout" settings and use your uploaded favicon url to link it to your blog. See instructions on how to edit your template code here.
5. Save your template and your new custom favicon is set.

If you don't see your new favicon on your browser, just refresh, ctrl+f5, restart, or clear your browser's cache. Or use another newer browser. :)

Hello Tisay! Hello World!

Saturday of June 2009 when me and my wife spent our weekend in my in-laws in Antipolo City. Medyo nagtaka kami when we first saw a little white puppy inside the house. Meron na kasing Aso dun and his name is "Chow". Chow is not a pure breed chow-chow. But he is so cute and we love chow so much. So sabi ko "kaninong tuta 'to". I learned that like ''chow", the little white puppy was also gave by my brother in law's boss to him. The puppy was so young and it's about a month old. So me and my wife Venus started playing with that white little puppy and  we realized how cute she is. Then Venus asked them if we can adopt the puppy. Since my in-laws already have a dog, the allow us to adopt the puppy and named her "Tisay".

We named her "Tisay" because of her appearance. With her brownish-white coat, pinkish paw, brown nose and blue eyes, she's so "tisay".On our way home to Pasig, Venus put "Tisay" on her hat. Yes, Tisay was so small enough to fit to Venus' hat so we can carry her easily and para hindi din sya ma-stress. Before we got home, we went to a nearby pet shop and bought "Tisay" her crate, shampoo, dog food, plate, shirt, bed, collar, drinking bottle, vest and leash.  We love our new family member and we will try our best to give her a good life.

Tisay spent her first night with us beside our bed. We tried to keep her calm inside her crate but maybe she's so sad or anxious. We observed her and she's so calm and sleepy if she's beside our bed. So we decided to take her out of her crate and let her sleep beside us. When morning came, we woke up with a happy cute little puppy beside us running around, wagging her tail and licking our face. A very good morning to us all! :)