The users as well as the usage of the internet has evolved within the past decade (2000-2010). Through web 2.0 technology, social media, css based design, not only have the aesthetics of webdesign but the users as well.

Back in high school the only heavy users of the internets we’re the tech geeks who liked fiddling with code, fanboyed over their video games, created websites and shrines and then blogged by hard coding html. The net was being used by people who actually took time to understand the net, how pages are made, the time it took to get something online, in all senses geeks. We’d blog and blog and its was all in good fun.

The problem with the internet now a days is that social media has made the internet a past time for more people than before and it has become so easy everyone thinks their a genius at it. It’s not just the tech geeks anymore, it includes journalists, mothers, fathers, grandparents, vanity-obsessed-shopping-everything-and-eveything-I-do-is-interesting-air-head girls… you name it there’s a clique in the internet for it.

This is not to say that I’m a networking genius but I simply just miss the days when we had a little less idiocy on the net

I don’t really have a lot to say for this blog except I started my semester with this:

Thats Me and Aila, Tara and Migna, Say and Mea dancing during orsem

First of all Gurdy says happy gregorian calendar new year!

Gurdy says happy new year

My way of starting the new year is by getting a 39 degree celsius fever and a soar throat that cripples my speech I’m actually feeling better now after spending most of the day not talking at all (I actually replied to my philosophy teacher’s question by writing a note on a scratch paper:lol:).

I also started my Communication 14 “Dream Project” today by not drinking any carbonated or sugar-compressed drinks (coke and my school C2 addiction). I actually do feel healthier after a day of drinking 80% water (10% was my morning fresh milk and 10% was my evening tea).

Unfortunately I won’t be able to do one of the things that I was looking forward to do this year. Because of a) my dad’s unpro-activeness and procastination (he kept saying oh there’s going to be a voter’s registration at the club house) b) my inability to keep track of things that made me ID-less the whole Christmas break (thanks to Joseph Teoxon by the way for keeping my ID safe), I am still NOT a registered voter. So kill me if you deem me extremely sinful. Again this is a justification of why I should get a driver’s license already (where else in the world would you see a 21-year-old city kid without a drivers license).

I’m retiring early (if you count 20 minutes before 12pm early… this post seems to have a lot of asides) tonight lol maybe I should continue the I can’t speak charade tomorrow

I haven’t clicked the update link on my wordpress admin panel yet (I’m waiting for a compatibility check with my plugins) but a lot of the new features are really worth being excited about.

1. Global Trash/ Undo – I actually have mixed feelings about this. I’ve always wanted an undo feature in wordpress but I never thought it could be implemented in the same way as a trash bin. It does go hand-in-hand with the trend of doing everything on the web.
2. Image editor – This is something really big specially if you work with wordpress as much as I do (and if you use it with newspaper/magazine sites the way I use it with the GUIDON and G).
3. Easy Video embedding – This would be a great help to those who like sharing youtube posts a lot but I wonder if the code will be xhtml valid afterwards?

I’ll probably try this out on my offline installation of wordpress tonight before I upgrade any of the wordpress blog installations I have . If you wanna know more about wordpress 2.9 check WordPress.org.

I didn’t blog about this before but right before leaving for G.theguidon.com relaunch party I was approached by one of glance’s reporters that were at the event to pose for a picture that was to be featured on their fashion article on the ACTM first GA (which had a mafia theme).

I’m not one to actually think a lot about fashion. I usually just try to look nice but I think the ACTM first GA (combined with the G Relaunch) was one of the days where I really decided to mix and match and find something that worked. I didn’t have to look much to find something black and sort of formal since I stocked up a lot of those from latin dancing hahaha.

Speaking of apple and macs, I got myself an apple remote today. A girl was selling brand new sealed apple remotes on Philmug the other day and they we’re really at a good price (600 php compared to the usual 1400-1900 php that they sell it on the major apple resellers in the country). I asked her to reserve one for me and I finally picked it up today. Finally I can make the most of Lockdown, Frontrow and keynote. I’ll definitely be ready for my group’s communication 11 presentation next week. It is a little irritating that the apple remote doesn’t come paired with my macbook (apple stopped pairing them as of Feb 2008), but I got a very good deal none the less. I still haven’t taken out the plastic covering the remote but I have paired it with my macbook so no one else can access it . I shall dub thee remote “Maggie Mui”

Last Saturday’s NSTP was tiring and fun at the same time. An interesting spot light of last Saturday was our guests from Santa Clara University, California. Sam and Austin are recent graduates who volunteered/ ordered by their mentor to come to the Philippines and do research for Austin’s Family’s Foundation (I think) as well as get exposed to the different kind of poverty we have here. I don’t have any pictures yet but I’m contacting my NSTP classmates as well as Sam and Austin to send me some pictures.

I don’t really agree with the common notion that Jason didn’t really want to be there but I do believe that he just didn’t try enough. His reaction to the judges, “I was thinking Bob Marley” somehow made really uneasy about he was treating the competition. He was really a unique contestant but the problem I guess comes with how unfamiliar he was with the singing competition.

As for my rants and raves from last night’s performances, Syesha definitely pulled through. Let’s face it, the odds we’re practically against her with half the world voting for Archuleta and the other half choosing between Jason and Cook. I loved Syesha’s performance of Proud Mary, it was definetly entertaining a lot like her performance of “One Rock and Roll too Many”.

Cook seemed to be uneasy last night but he was still really good as usual and David Archuleta once again stole the show last night with both his performances.

I did see one amusing pattern in last night’s performance. It seems that the contestants we’re singing song’s previous eliminated contestants from this season had performed. Anybody remember Josiah Leming?

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And who could forget Danny Noriega

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As for the contestants, last night’s theme really separated the versatile singers to those who aren’t used to moving from one genre to another. Syesha did a good opening number, I really liked how she started on top of the piano and worked the entire stage for her performance. Funny though, the whole barefoot thing made it feel like she was copying Fantasia.

Carly Smithson hasn’t been making stand out performances for the past two weeks but she definitely made her mark this week. Jesus Christ Superstar was definitely a good song for her and she really looked like she was having fun performing.

I’d have to say, the best of the night would definitely be David Cook yet again. Cook has really started to step out into the lime light. The spotlight was definitely on him tonight as people were definitely expecting him to out do his performance of “always be my baby” last week. He pulled it through with singing “Music of the night” from the Phantom of The Opera. It sounded just like it did on the musical as if he was made for the part.

But who will get kicked off tonight? hmm… Well I really don’t want to share my opinion on that as I don’t want to get flamed all over my blog so lets just wait and see.