Bisdak Babbles

Let me invite you to my new blog: Random Snapshots !

I feel guilty about not updating this blog as often as I could have, but at the same time, I don’t want to waste all the photos that’s eating up my external drive’s memory fast. I’m pretty sure I’ll be updating Random Snapshots more than this one so I hope you could also take a roadtrip there.

As always, thank you very much for dropping by.

Just a quick update.  Last Tuesday, I bid sayonara to my home of almost 3 years. I am no longer in Japan.  Sad but it’s a reality I have to face.  However, what lies ahead of me is something better. I will post detailed updates soon. Thank you for dropping by.

You have read it right. You can now leave an audio or video comment in this blog. A million thanks to Kuya Ro at Nispiros Portal for sharing this very cool plug-in.  May it be in English,  Tagalog, Cebuano/Bisaya, or Japanese, I would be more than glad to listen to your comments.  So, please do try it out.  Hope to hear from you all!

Welcome to the new home of Bisdak Babbles!

After painstakingly trying to find my way around my web host, it really feels great to have finally finished setting this up.

For my web host, I am using 1 & 1.
Why did I choose 1 & 1?

• It is one of the cheapest web host around
• They’re giving out huge discounts for their 20th year anniversary
• Read many good reviews
• It’s one of the few web hosts that has PayPal payment option.
• Minimum contract is only for 6 months (obviously, my PayPal account didn’t have enough to pay for those that require at least a year lock-in period)
• With my selected package, I already have 2 free main domains and 25 sub-domains.
• I’m entitled to 1000 emails! (I’ve been wondering what to do with all 1000 emails)
• I could have up to 100 databases.
• They support Wordpress. Though their default Wordpress installation doesn’t offer much theme options.

I’m really overjoyed because:

• Through Wordpress, I was able to migrate everything! Including the precious comments!
• I can now have “real” smileys
• I can now use “The Calendar” with ease
• Hundreds of easy-to-use themes

If you’re planning to sign up for 1 & 1, I’d be very willing to give yo some tips. They don’t offer much instructions on how to setup your own Wordpress. Maybe I’ll post here a short tutorial soon.

This is still a work in progress. For those who were linked to me, no worries, I’m still working on the list and I’d be adding up that soon, together with the blog awards and friendship badges.

Thank you all! I’m very happy to have finally made my move… welcome to my new home!

But I feel kind of sad about having left Blogspot. After all, it had been my home for over a year.

I signed up for a web host last month but I still haven’t made any progress yet in my new virtual home. If only I’m just contented with the limited Wordpress features in my web hosts’ blog, I could have made my big move already.

By the way, I now have occassional updates on one of my blog, Exploring Kansai. I hope you will drop by there, too. Thanks!

I have the tendency to hide from the world when facing difficulties, thus, my 1-week blog break. It was really worth it because it’s now more apparent that I’ve really won new friends through blogging, and I was able to reevaluate my motives for blogging. But it came with some disadvantages…

* I swear not to stay away from blogging for more than 3 days or else I’d have to spend long hours catching up with everyone.

* At least try to take note of those who’re tagging me or else I’d have to spend my time looking for my name in everyone’s posts. The sad thing is, I wasn’t able to find it and I think I may have forgotten to add her blog in my list. I’m really sorry, whoever you are. I hope you’d leave me a message that it’s you who tagged me in a “hidden meaning of names” meme.

* I have to put off replying to the comments posted while I was gone, but believe me, I’ve read all your comments and I love reading them! Thank you.

I’m deactivating my comment moderation but I’ve enabled the word verification. I’m becoming lazier logging in to my dashboard just to filter out the spams. I’ll just delete them later. ^^

I’ve only been away from blogging for a week but it felt like months! Thank you very much to those who dropped by despite my “blog absence”. Above all, I’m very grateful to those who’ve expressed their concerns and to those who gifted me their prayers. Thank you very much! I’m really touched. You guys make blogging really worthwhile.

I’ve also placed back my shout box. I agree with one of the visitors here that shout boxes are really useful for interacting with other bloggers. Plus, my blog seems so lonely without it. However, I will still keep the comment moderation active.

I mentioned about my new domain, but I’m still working on it. So, for now, I’ll continue posting here. See you all around the blogosphere!

I didn’t know this time would finally come, when I’ve just bought my new domain! But I’m gonna take a blog break for a while. I’m gonna miss you all!

Thank you for always dropping by. Hope to see you again soon!