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Aba. Shet, walaakong maisulat.

(The following write up was originally from Blackmoon.8m.com and has not been updated yet to fit this version.)

It has amazingly been more or less three years since I first typed the domain name that has aroused my curiosity in the HTML world since first year college--and I've never been more thankful for that. See, when I was in first year there's practically nothing much to do unless you're hooked up on some org, and though I WAS in an org and still there’s nothing much to do. I mean, come on--you're a froshie, what would you be doing? Beating the deadlines? Running after professors? Aside from trying to painfully adjust between your ideals and the painful truth that college is nothing but yet another high school thing only integrated in some ways (aside from having to cram the whole year’s worth of studies in six months or so) and NOT the horror house that your lame teachers back in HS depicted in order to make you wide-eyed students “study even harder for your higher education,” you just aimlessly move around. Apparently, I landed amidst a group of kids that your mother would love to hate--cutting classes, smoking, drinking…you name it, they’d try it if they haven’t done it yet just so to boast they’ve done it. And with the innate geekiness in me reviving me, thank god, they’ve slowly dissolved and were one by one marked as history, while I remained firm in my convictions that I SHALL finish college and give my parents less pain for once and stayed on--and up till now I’m still thanking my lucky stars for that. I probably wouldn’t want to see my self anyway as someone who would want to stop learning.

And so, the dummkopf found herself making friends with other kids in her block, and amazingly she also found herself making a bond with the person she thought she’d least like--Marc, who also soon became her closest buddy. Given that Marc was also a dominant character, in some ways she found herself in an unspoken harmless competition between the two of them. They stab each other sometimes, produce guns, kill each other, all that blah. Amazingly, they’re still close friends.

But three years ago, the competition was in heat. And then, they found their hands strangling HTML codes. Blackmoon.8m.com began to evolve…

The Very First Freeservers Site

(Second Semester, 2001)

We were just never contented with just looking at websites--actually, we were never contented with anything anyway. Since I was more knowledgeable in terms of using the internet than Marc at that time, being a regular chatter back in high school, I was first to stumble upon the amazing freeservers. I can’t really recall how, maybe that was while I was browsing some banned sites…anyway, I signed up, took a template, and wrote some stuff. I proudly showed it to Marc. Of course, being the bitter asshole that he was (kidding, Marc), he created an account and did his own. We lived on templates for a time. But amazingly, Marc was born with a huge mouth, and he wasn’t afraid to use that--he asked around first how to do hyperlinks. That was our first encounter with HTML.

We gradually learned soon after that. I’m afraid he had more talent than me so his site began to flourish; he’s gifted with layouting, honestly. And also, he had an edge--he was decided on doing a fan site for NSync, updating news about his favorite boy band and promoting it like crazy, while I had to content my self with a personal site. People would rather visit Justin Timberlake and his minions, and my dancing/singing/camera posing wasn’t that interesting, so what exactly can I do? Well, not much.

the geocities site [2 changes]

(2001)

Then again, I stumbled upon geocities. Bruised from all the stumbles I’ve been getting, I learned about the ability of java and geocities’ amazing way of giving life to basic website creation. My site was now template free. Again, I showed it to Marc and he followed my lead; did templates on our own. He had help with the background though, with chat mates around the world helping him with photoshop, while I had to contend with Harry Potter background-repeats and MS Paint. Like before it was hard to gain site traffic, because I had nothing much to add and update. I also learned that you can actually create websites using Microsoft Word. Amazing, really. And what’s more amazing, I changed the look of my geocities site twice, which didn’t have that much improvement anyway. ha ha.

blackmoon...loading 95kbps...
(v. 3.5)

(2002)

Finally, I learned of Microsoft Frontpage. The amazing dream-come-true software enabled me to create another website that I uploaded to freeservers which I revived, this time with more links plus a guestbook. I also learned Javascript and at this time, and found out how to analyze my own HTML codes. I also had help with some Corel. The three pictures--baby pictures, by the way—when hovered over by a mouse changes to straight looking pictures. Clicking on them would lead visitors to the main page that was a copycat of a certain graphics site I can’t remember the url now.

After this, I stopped updating for a long time. Why? I was getting more and more frustrated with the site traffic.

And I'm back in the game!
(notes of the drunk dummkopf - Blackmoon.8m.com) [both in blogger up to nucleus]

(september 2003)

Then, I discovered Blogger.

September of my second year in college, I clicked on the link of a fellow mailing-list member who was my crush back then because he resembled local actor Cogie Domingo a lot, aside from he was such a superb prose writer. And no, I wasn’t being a stalker when I clicked on his link, but rather I was curious to see where his link would lead me to--his blog, I later found out. I was forever the kid who wanted to write--and so, it inspired me to do my own blog. I published online using blogger, but then what with my medium HTML knowledge my pride wouldn’t relent on me using a tool such as blogger. I can do my own blog! I said to myself. I can do better than that!

But I can’t. So I had to eat my shit back.

I realized it needed a lot of knowledge regarding PHP, and it was kind of hard, so I instead looked for a publishing tool other than blogger. Nucleus was found, a tool that lets you publish your own writings on your own server as long as your site supports ftp. Freeservers doesn’t, it will though if you shoved dollars up their commercialized asses. I searched for a free ftp site and found a gem in compactvision—so for a time, I hosted my blog there. I redirected my visitors to my new blog site using some meta tags, so I was able to retain the blackmoon.8m.com url.

Around this time, too, I learned to use Photoshop. This blog showcased my first attempt at layouting using Adobe’s miracles. And the site traffic started to increase by this time.

Red glory template [nucleus]

(mid October 2003)

Then, I became bored. I often get it anyway.

With my hands idle other than typing, I did another layout...with red as a dominant color. Why? I got tired with questions like, are you from Ateneo? Your site is so blue! Not that I hate Ateneo and its products, really, since the guy who inspired me to use blogger was from there anyway and I have some Atenean friends too, but then you have to understand that…I’m also from La Salle. He he. And I also wanted a change of color, so there. People started complaining though that the color was too bright, and that blue had a more peaceful effect, so I changed it again. Besides, blue’s my favorite color anyway.

Postcard v.3 [collage]

(November 2003)

A question I got before: I had an initial v3.5, so how can I return back to version 3 after all the changes? Actually, I tagged this template “version 3” because this was the third change I had since my move to compactvision. It was also my first drastic attempt at collage making using Photochop (I mostly chopped the pictures). I named it Katwo, after *link here* Narda sugar-rush vocalist Katwo Librando who dabbled with digital photography applied with Photoshop manipulations. After a live performance at the C3 Comic Convention at Megatrade Hall, SM Megamall, I asked her how she did the tricks while I was asking her to sign my CD. She said I could do it, it was just easy. So I did. I emerged with crap. I took this down too after some weeks. The initial template was supposed to look like a post card too, by the way. And back then, the only Narda album I had was Postcard from Narda, so it was on eternal repeat on my player.

Go ahead; you can guess how I got the inspiration for this layout.

congratulations you have a baby alien [not uploaded version]

(November)

Just a template I liked because of the baby blue scheme. I can’t remember if I uploaded this, but I saw it on my folders so I included it here anyway. The white space on the right was where the text was supposed to be placed. If you can notice, some templates here are filled with spaces too--that's because most of the versions I have kept were plain templates and were just fixed in the main Nucleus administration area--in layman's terms, I just fixed some bits online. But you can make your imagination work.

Orange version

(November to Early December, 2003)

Just another color change. I like the baby picture I used for this, but someone told me the layout was crappy. Fuck you, I secretly thought. I didn’t change it for weeks. I took it down only after I got tired of it, but I liked the small icons I used in the left column to separate some tidbits. There was a small turtle, a globe, blah blah.

back to basic black [transition period from nucleus to blogger]

(December to Early January, 2003 – 2004)

This was the only layout that was the easiest to download. Why? No graphics at all. Just a few tables and text. I used this as a transition from nucleus back to blogger too--I adopted the layout after I reactivated blogspot. Why? Because the *^%#%&@$ people at compactvision DID NOT EVEN ^%@$%^ TELL ME THEY WERE GOING TO PULL THE SITE DOWN!!! I WAS CAUGHT UNGUARDED AND ALL MY BLOGS WENT DOWN THE DRAIN!!

And no, I’m not mad.

But those fucktards should have told their members they were going to do a site reformat and that just meant they were going to erase all the ftp users. Assholes!! It could have been okay if I was able to get my archives, anyway it was running on Nucleus, but no...they just pulled it down! Bastards. I had to eat my pride and return to blogspot’s welcoming arms.

the guy, the girl, and inanities in between - notes of the drunk dummkopf(s) [not uploaded]

(January 2004)

this wasn’t uploaded because Frey stopped writing. Who’s Frey? you ask. Frey’s the resident asshole who shared my Nucleus blog with me because he wanted to blog but was plainly html stupid. He erased half of his HTML template thus rendering his own blog site non-working, so I let him post on my site for sometime (and bask on the glory of my site too. He he.), but after my return to blogger he stopped posting due to academic reasons. He occasionally passes a write up or two for me to post sometimes.

This is a personal favorite too. Too bad I wasn’t able to put it up. It would have been the first time visitors would see Frey’s picture too.

woohooh! The new (conceited version, ha ha) layout for blackmoon! [back to blogger- 2 versions]

(February to March 2004)

After the compactvision mishap, I decided to create another layout, but this time, minus Frey’s traces—and so, the conceited version was made. A lot of people liked the layout except some of them have been saying it would look a bit conceited for first time visitors who don’t know how conceited I can really get (he he) and mistake the humble insanity to royal vanity. This layout had two versions, the initial one was mistaken for a John Mayer rip-off (someone said I did a JM pose on the picture I used although I have not seen that picture of John Mayer) and the other was disliked by Marc because of lame “just because” reasons.

Blackmoon.8m.com –
Telesine Bug Caught me

(March 2004)

The production of this version materialized mainly because of a school Telesine production that had…uhm…me, as the lead actress, so when the vcd version came out, I started cutting up stills and pictures like crazy. This was the first blackmoon version where in flash had a main participation, by the way.


Aba. Shet, walaakong maisulat. (The following write up was originally from Blackmoon.8m.com and has not been updated yet to fit this version.) It has amazingly been more or less three years since I first typed the domain name that has aroused my curiosity in the HTML world since first year college--and I've never been more thankful for that. See, when I was in first year there's practically nothing much to do unless you're hooked up on some org, and though I WAS in an org and still there’s nothing much to do. I mean, come on--you're a froshie, what would you be doing? Beating the deadlines? Running after professors? Aside from trying to painfully adjust between your ideals and the painful truth that college is nothing but yet another high school thing only integrated in some ways (aside from having to cram the whole year’s worth of studies in six months or so) and NOT the horror house that your lame teachers back in HS depicted in order to make you wide-eyed students “study even harder for your higher education,” you just aimlessly move around. Apparently, I landed amidst a group of kids that your mother would love to hate--cutting classes, smoking, drinking…you name it, they’d try it if they haven’t done it yet just so to boast they’ve done it. And with the innate geekiness in me reviving me, thank god, they’ve slowly dissolved and were one by one marked as history, while I remained firm in my convictions that I SHALL finish college and give my parents less pain for once and stayed on--and up till now I’m still thanking my lucky stars for that. I probably wouldn’t want to see my self anyway as someone who would want to stop learning. And so, the dummkopf found herself making friends with other kids in her block, and amazingly she also found herself making a bond with the person she thought she’d least like--Marc, who also soon became her closest buddy. Given that Marc was also a dominant character, in some ways she found herself in an unspoken harmless competition between the two of them. They stab each other sometimes, produce guns, kill each other, all that blah. Amazingly, they’re still close friends. But three years ago, the competition was in heat. And then, they found their hands strangling HTML codes. Blackmoon.8m.com began to evolve… The Very First Freeservers Site (Second Semester, 2001) We were just never contented with just looking at websites--actually, we were never contented with anything anyway. Since I was more knowledgeable in terms of using the internet than Marc at that time, being a regular chatter back in high school, I was first to stumble upon the amazing freeservers. I can’t really recall how, maybe that was while I was browsing some banned sites…anyway, I signed up, took a template, and wrote some stuff. I proudly showed it to Marc. Of course, being the bitter asshole that he was (kidding, Marc), he created an account and did his own. We lived on templates for a time. But amazingly, Marc was born with a huge mouth, and he wasn’t afraid to use that--he asked around first how to do hyperlinks. That was our first encounter with HTML. We gradually learned soon after that. I’m afraid he had more talent than me so his site began to flourish; he’s gifted with layouting, honestly. And also, he had an edge--he was decided on doing a fan site for NSync, updating news about his favorite boy band and promoting it like crazy, while I had to content my self with a personal site. People would rather visit Justin Timberlake and his minions, and my dancing/singing/camera posing wasn’t that interesting, so what exactly can I do? Well, not much. the geocities site [2 changes] (2001) Then again, I stumbled upon geocities. Bruised from all the stumbles I’ve been getting, I learned about the ability of java and geocities’ amazing way of giving life to basic website creation. My site was now template free. Again, I showed it to Marc and he followed my lead; did templates on our own. He had help with the background though, with chat mates around the world helping him with photoshop, while I had to contend with Harry Potter background-repeats and MS Paint. Like before it was hard to gain site traffic, because I had nothing much to add and update. I also learned that you can actually create websites using Microsoft Word. Amazing, really. And what’s more amazing, I changed the look of my geocities site twice, which didn’t have that much improvement anyway. ha ha. blackmoon...loading 95kbps... (v. 3.5) (2002) Finally, I learned of Microsoft Frontpage. The amazing dream-come-true software enabled me to create another website that I uploaded to freeservers which I revived, this time with more links plus a guestbook. I also learned Javascript and at this time, and found out how to analyze my own HTML codes. I also had help with some Corel. The three pictures--baby pictures, by the way—when hovered over by a mouse changes to straight looking pictures. Clicking on them would lead visitors to the main page that was a copycat of a certain graphics site I can’t remember the url now. After this, I stopped updating for a long time. Why? I was getting more and more frustrated with the site traffic. And I'm back in the game! (notes of the drunk dummkopf - Blackmoon.8m.com) [both in blogger up to nucleus] (september 2003) Then, I discovered Blogger. September of my second year in college, I clicked on the link of a fellow mailing-list member who was my crush back then because he resembled local actor Cogie Domingo a lot, aside from he was such a superb prose writer. And no, I wasn’t being a stalker when I clicked on his link, but rather I was curious to see where his link would lead me to--his blog, I later found out. I was forever the kid who wanted to write--and so, it inspired me to do my own blog. I published online using blogger, but then what with my medium HTML knowledge my pride wouldn’t relent on me using a tool such as blogger. I can do my own blog! I said to myself. I can do better than that! But I can’t. So I had to eat my shit back. I realized it needed a lot of knowledge regarding PHP, and it was kind of hard, so I instead looked for a publishing tool other than blogger. Nucleus was found, a tool that lets you publish your own writings on your own server as long as your site supports ftp. Freeservers doesn’t, it will though if you shoved dollars up their commercialized asses. I searched for a free ftp site and found a gem in compactvision—so for a time, I hosted my blog there. I redirected my visitors to my new blog site using some meta tags, so I was able to retain the blackmoon.8m.com url. Around this time, too, I learned to use Photoshop. This blog showcased my first attempt at layouting using Adobe’s miracles. And the site traffic started to increase by this time. Red glory template [nucleus] (mid October 2003) Then, I became bored. I often get it anyway. With my hands idle other than typing, I did another layout...with red as a dominant color. Why? I got tired with questions like, are you from Ateneo? Your site is so blue! Not that I hate Ateneo and its products, really, since the guy who inspired me to use blogger was from there anyway and I have some Atenean friends too, but then you have to understand that…I’m also from La Salle. He he. And I also wanted a change of color, so there. People started complaining though that the color was too bright, and that blue had a more peaceful effect, so I changed it again. Besides, blue’s my favorite color anyway. Postcard v.3 [collage] (November 2003) A question I got before: I had an initial v3.5, so how can I return back to version 3 after all the changes? Actually, I tagged this template “version 3” because this was the third change I had since my move to compactvision. It was also my first drastic attempt at collage making using Photochop (I mostly chopped the pictures). I named it Katwo, after link here Narda sugar-rush vocalist Katwo Librando who dabbled with digital photography applied with Photoshop manipulations. After a live performance at the C3 Comic Convention at Megatrade Hall, SM Megamall, I asked her how she did the tricks while I was asking her to sign my CD. She said I could do it, it was just easy. So I did. I emerged with crap. I took this down too after some weeks. The initial template was supposed to look like a post card too, by the way. And back then, the only Narda album I had was Postcard from Narda, so it was on eternal repeat on my player. Go ahead; you can guess how I got the inspiration for this layout. congratulations you have a baby alien [not uploaded version] (November) Just a template I liked because of the baby blue scheme. I can’t remember if I uploaded this, but I saw it on my folders so I included it here anyway. The white space on the right was where the text was supposed to be placed. If you can notice, some templates here are filled with spaces too--that's because most of the versions I have kept were plain templates and were just fixed in the main Nucleus administration area--in layman's terms, I just fixed some bits online. But you can make your imagination work. Orange version (November to Early December, 2003) Just another color change. I like the baby picture I used for this, but someone told me the layout was crappy. Fuck you, I secretly thought. I didn’t change it for weeks. I took it down only after I got tired of it, but I liked the small icons I used in the left column to separate some tidbits. There was a small turtle, a globe, blah blah. back to basic black [transition period from nucleus to blogger] (December to Early January, 2003 – 2004) This was the only layout that was the easiest to download. Why? No graphics at all. Just a few tables and text. I used this as a transition from nucleus back to blogger too--I adopted the layout after I reactivated blogspot. Why? Because the ^%#%&@$ people at compactvision DID NOT EVEN ^%@$%^ TELL ME THEY WERE GOING TO PULL THE SITE DOWN!!! I WAS CAUGHT UNGUARDED AND ALL MY BLOGS WENT DOWN THE DRAIN!! And no, I’m not mad. But those fucktards should have told their members they were going to do a site reformat and that just meant they were going to erase all the ftp users. Assholes!! It could have been okay if I was able to get my archives, anyway it was running on Nucleus, but no...they just pulled it down! Bastards. I had to eat my pride and return to blogspot’s welcoming arms. the guy, the girl, and inanities in between - notes of the drunk dummkopf(s) [not uploaded] (January 2004)* this wasn’t uploaded because Frey stopped writing. Who’s Frey? you ask. Frey’s the resident asshole who shared my Nucleus blog with me because he wanted to blog but was plainly html stupid. He erased half of his HTML template thus rendering his own blog site non-working, so I let him post on my site for sometime (and bask on the glory of my site too. He he.), but after my return to blogger he stopped posting due to academic reasons. He occasionally passes a write up or two for me to post sometimes. This is a personal favorite too. Too bad I wasn’t able to put it up. It would have been the first time visitors would see Frey’s picture too. woohooh! The new (conceited version, ha ha) layout for blackmoon! [back to blogger- 2 versions] (February to March 2004) After the compactvision mishap, I decided to create another layout, but this time, minus Frey’s traces—and so, the conceited version was made. A lot of people liked the layout except some of them have been saying it would look a bit conceited for first time visitors who don’t know how conceited I can really get (he he) and mistake the humble insanity to royal vanity. This layout had two versions, the initial one was mistaken for a John Mayer rip-off (someone said I did a JM pose on the picture I used although I have not seen that picture of John Mayer) and the other was disliked by Marc because of lame “just because” reasons. Blackmoon.8m.com – Telesine Bug Caught me (March 2004) The production of this version materialized mainly because of a school Telesine production that had…uhm…me, as the lead actress, so when the vcd version came out, I started cutting up stills and pictures like crazy. This was the first blackmoon version where in flash had a main participation, by the way.