About
I am from Bulacan (Philippines), and I hold a degree in Communication Research from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. I’ve worked in the Information Technology industry since 2001, the same year I started weblogging. My interests include vintage cameras, fine art photography, indie music and art films.
Photo by Nelson Chan
My Blogging History
My first entry into blogs began with an account at www.weblogger.com back in 2001. I moved on to a community-oriented blog at Livejournal, which was eventually featured in the February 2003 issue of PC World Philippines (view the article here).
Scouring the web to advance my skills, I acquired a free ASP-based limited hosting account at www.digitalrice.com, and was able to run Movable Type on it, primarily regarded as the leading blog CMS of that time. After garnering enough sense and finances to get paid hosting, I migrated to a Ploghost-hosted sub-account, running on Movable Type (hacked to run in PHP).
Around that time, Movable Type’s parent company, Six Apart, offered existing users of their script an opportunity to beta test TypePad, and I got into the testers list. Later on, the company again offered users to beta-test Movable Type 3.0, and I was again included as one of the testers. I ran the new version on my host for some time, but when Movable Type rolled out paid licencsing, I then opted to run the open-source blog CMS WordPress, which was then creating a buzz among ex-Movable Type users.
I purchased the domain raincontreras.com late 2003.
As of late 2008, this site is now hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET.
Recent Web Cred/Projects:
- Pioneer blogger for Pinoy.Tech.Blog
- Co-founder of the now-defunct Litratista.org
- Moderator for the ToyKameraPilipinas/RFilipinas mailing list.
- Creator and Administrator of the Rangefinder Filipinas website.
- Host for the self-produced and now-defunct Ten Song Affair and 90s Plugin music podcasts
DISCLOSURE POLICY
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.
The owner of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
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