The Geek Brewery

Hey, I’m back!

This blog has been down for almost two weeks and now I’m back to business. The downtime was a chain reaction of things — cause-and-effects.

The Nightmare

The root of all evil was the corruption of my blog’s database, which in turn resulted to abnormal behavior of my WordPress blog. The abnormal behavior ate lots of server memory which forced my  host to suspend me.

I asked my host to fix it for me but they were not well-knowledgeable about what was happening. I attempted to fix it a number of times, but I end up defeated by time. Gladly, I had a 3-hour CS11 (Computer Science 11) class last Friday — I was able to spend some time fixing it while answering my machine exercises.

Effects

The downtime hurt my blog much. Here are its adverse effects:

1. A plunge of my RSS readers.
2. A very big slice on my Google AdSense earnings.
3. Exclusion of my pages to search engine result pages.
4. Loss of potential earnings and opportunities.

Personal Updates

Now, let’s leave the blog. I’ll talk about myself.

During the almost half-month “blog hiatus”, a lot of bloggable things occured. Here are a few.

Computer Games

I now play computer games. Ever since elementary, I always hated computer games. I learned to love them, eventually. Here are the list of games I’ve played:

• WarCraft Games
  • BattleShips
  • X Hero Siege
  • Pudge Wars
  • Ninja Duels
• Battle Realms
• Command and Conquer Generals
• and a lot more LAN games.

I thought LAN games were lame but they were actually not. Wahehehehe.

The Trip to Malacañan Palace

Kuya Aethen invited me to join him in the Top Outstanding Students of the Philippines. The awarding was in the Rizal Hall, the Palace seen on the back side of a twenty peso bill.

I was quite disappointed when I saw Malacañan Palace ’cause it was a lot smaller than I expected. The Palace surely has a “Palace” aura. Almost everything inside was great, except for this small room we discovered which looked like a stock room. Here are some of my Malacañan pics.

Sorry for the poor resolution of the images, it was taken on my camera phone.

Conclusion

That’s all for now. I got to follow-up other things. I still have to work very hard to regain my rank in the search engine results page.