Moi with Kuya Blogie at Wordcamp 2009 (Photo by Chattee Lara)

Last Saturday, I braved through the traffic and all the troubles of commuting from Fairview to Makati to attend the 2nd WordCamp at AIM. It was pretty tough, I don’t commute this far everyday and I was horrible at estimating my ETA.

Normally, I would have come from my place in Makati but I was on leave from work for four days and decided to spend it at a relative’s house in Fairview which should be renamed to FARview imo.

I was an hour and a half late (sorry Glenn!) but we still managed to catch Beau’s talk about WordPress and their upcoming projects. Seth of Mozilla Firefox also gave a talk about their localizations projects and the open web. His presentation made me ooh and aah a lot and wonder why the people at work are still bent on using IE.

Afterwards there were talks about video and tech blogging, using wordpress for portfolio sites, and more. I didn’t bring my laptop with me since I was commuting and was really afraid that I’ll be mugged or something (paranoid, I know) so I didn’t take any notes and decided to wait for the speakers to post their presentations online.

I learned a lot, some of which I could really use at work. Working with wordpress kinda launched my career as a tech support specialist and it certainly sparked my interest in new media, and it’s a story I really should write soon.

The freebies were cool, too bad I didn’t get a firefox lanyard, but we got us some firefox and wordpress pins, a mousepad from OLX and of course, a wordpress shirt. Yay!

It was nice to see the Mindanao Bloggers- Kuya Blogie, Migs, Chattee, and Dulce as well. I didn’t get to hang around much because I had to go back to Fareview that night via MRT, which in fairness merits another post. More about wordcamp in the next few days, this fever is making the screen too blurry and shaky. Ciao!