The Berkano Show

it has been a wonderful three days since i've been given myself an i.p. address. For a while it actually felt like having an identity. Of course seconds later i'd realize that the identity was already there, all mudded, confused, and all, yet still my own. I now have the power to be almost omniscient and almost omnipotent! quite scary, as shown using some examples but still exciting if you ask me.

i will wander for a while and talk about my first encounters with the internet. There was this talkshow called Teysi ng Tahanan when i was in grade school and they were chatting about this nice revolution which allowed people to communicate with their loved ones outside of the country. Their talk was to introduce a whole generation of filipinos about the capabilites of the internet, since the network which aired the show was making itself known through the internet. During that time of course i had no idea how to use it and besides it would take me to high school before really getting to know the computer.

at first year high school i did great in math and an unusual subject called i.t. But it was in the summer when me and a classmate (coolio) while working as facilitators in a summer enrichment program that i stumbled into a program called the web crawler. I said to myself this must be the 'browser'. i tried typing 'http://computerchronicles.com', the website of a show i watched on that kung fu channel 6. On the upper right corner of the window it had this rotating globe (so now you would know it wasn't actually crawler but internet explorer all along). I think it was supposed to tell me the program was doing all it can to find the site but it wasn't able to. It didn't help that there was 'looking up' written on the status bar .

bottom line is i didn't see any page. But it was a start of the revolution for me. i would like to thank my instructors at stec for making me believe i can actually do something other people dont want to do.

fast forward to the future, here i am. the only complaint i have right now is that in high school and in college and numerous internet cafes (except in the old cyer 80), it was like surfing with an F1 car. Multiple tabs, streaming audio and video, online gaming i can do it in about 15 minutes. In my computer right now, PATIENCE has to be my friend. It does teach me to be more efficient. In fact, this blog was entirely made in notepad because it would really cost a lot of minutes to make something long.

i guess thats it for now.

well if there is one thing that bothers me right now is that my heart seems to be beating faster this past four days. Siguro isip ko lang pero parang laging kabado ako. Maybe its the coffee i take. Maybe its emotion which i doubt. But im quite sure it started to happen tuesday (probably monday evening). Well i resolved to take only two cups of coffee a day and see if thats gonna change anything.

chow.