PJB: Tales of a Tech Shark

Author: PJ

  • Today

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    PJ

    Here’s something wonderful I picked up: Yesterday ended last night. If you were successful, it ended last night. You can’t live on yesterday’s success. If you failed, good news, it ended last night. Today matters.

  • Perspective

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    PJ

    You lied to people so that they would hate me. I lied to people so that they would like you.

  • Secure Yourself

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    PJ

    How do you handle remote threats or malicious attacks from bad threat actors?  Use a secure, reliable gateway, such as a reputable firewall or proxy, to protect you from outside threats. Block all connections or communication from malicious sources. Ensure that all of your security solutions are updated. I’ve learned the hard way that the…

  • Purge

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    PJ

    When a system crashes and crashes and crashes, do a purge. Start from scratch. A BCP or DRP will come in handy if you have one.

  • Cryptic End of the Road

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    PJ

    Caught someone red-handed. Bad reaction. Can do better. Will do better. Get up. Learn. Start fresh. Change. Refocus. Stick to your values.

  • Time Flies

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    PJ
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    Time flies so fast.  This blog first started in 2005 with a post about hearing our unborn baby’s heartbeat for the first time. Now, my boy is off to college in a few months. He chose to go to La Salle. I’m very proud of you, anak. 🙂

  • Back in Business

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    PJ

    Someone else took my domain name a few years ago after I forgot to renew my subscription. I thought that I had lost all of my blog content as I didn’t have any backups of my blog. Lucky for me, I was able to buy back my domain, and thanks to the Wayback Machine, I…

  • A Lesson in Eye Care

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    PJ

    I’ve been suffering from myopia, or nearsightedness, and have been wearing glasses since I started college. And back then, I’d always prefer wearing rimless glasses instead of rimmed ones since most of my glass-wearing friends and I thought they looked cooler (even though they were actually thicker than the rimmed ones). And I now believe that…

  • Childproof your Computer Desk

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    PJ

    My co-workers and I have been checking out different laptop models over the net recently, and the consensus is that the Lenovo Thinkpad T61 laptop seems like an excellent choice. But I already have a Dell laptop, so it wouldn’t make sense for me to buy a new one. So, I guess it would be…

  • Holy Week 2008 – Fort Ilocandia and Pagudpud – Day 2

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    PJ

    The itinerary for Day 2 of our Ilocos holy week vacation was a half day swimming excursion at Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte. Here are some early morning shots of Fort Ilocandia taken from my mobile phone: Here are some pictures taken while on the way to Pagudpud, which was roughly a one and a half hour’s drive from Fort Ilocandia in…