Technology never ceases to amaze me. Right now my wife and I are on the small island of Panglao, just off of Bohol in the Philippines. We are enjoying beautiful beaches, amazing diving, and lots of visiting with the people.Most of our trip has been spent visiting friends in Cebu. In the Philippines most of the people don't have a lot of money, so you can imagine modern architecture and design is not a hot topic. I have however been admiring the DIY style of housing here. For our transportation we have been riding around on tricycles, which are old motorcycles with elaborate sidecars. They cram the people on them, sometimes as many as 9 per tricycle, which leaves me riding on the roof of the sidecar. If that makes no sense, just wait for the pictures to come. Speaking of pictures I have taken a lot, some of them of the Guerrilla Architecture I alluded to before. Pictures to come. I will be getting back into the states this Sunday, so look forward to a flury of new posts next week, including an exclusive interview with MAKR.

I am not sure if there is anything modern and contemporary about the Philippines, but I will let you know. My wife and I, and her parents are leaving for the Philippines, to visit a couple of their 7000+ islands, and try and avoid some monsoons. If I come across an internet cafe in my travels, I will try and post a little something. If any of you know of a site (modern or otherwise) in the Visayan Islands, drop me a line and let me know about it. If you are looking for some fresh content, make sure you visit the other blogs.

Well I guess it happens to the best of us. I wish I could say that it was entirely not my fault, and that there was some strange cosmic force that invaded my server and caused all my files to disapear. The truth is, I did it. I have been working on getting a forum, and resouces page up (for all 80 of you people that have ever seen my webpage) and in the process I wiped out my entire blog. So that means that I am starting from scratch. Stay tuned though, I plan on getting things back on track soon. I will repost quickly the original content I had on here, and link to the tips I had from the other great blogs out there. Thanks for your patience, and don't worry, I plan to do nightly backups of everything from now on.