Hi. My name is Adel.

Hi, everyone. My name is Adel Gabot, and I'm the incoming Editor-in-Chief for m|PH Magazine. I've been writing for it for some time now, but you'll see me more often, as I formally take over from Jason de Villa beginning with the coming issue. Big shoes to fill, and I hope my feet are big enough. The pic you see here is generally what I look like. In the pic I'm making like a CNN reporter doing a live feed from the tarmac at the Puerto Princesa airport, but actually I'm just calling home to tell them I forgot to buy dog food for the house before I left, and that they'll have to make do. After all this time, this is my very first post here. I guess we can use the cliche pretty accurately in my case for this blog: long time lurker, first time poster. I've had the privilege and ability for months, but to be perfectly honest, I wasn't really sure how to use WordPress and was too chicken to try, and afraid of making mistakes. Well, Jayvee Fernandez took time out to make me a tutorial of sorts, and now I really have no excuse. Let me introduce myself a little more fully. I used to be editor of another magazine before this, a men's lifestyle mag called Manual. I studied Journalism at the University of The Philippines, but I got sidetracked after school and became an FM radio disk jockey. (Any of you remember this DJ named "Little David"? That was me.) It was supposed to be something to tide me over until I found a real job, but I had so much fun I stayed there for almost 20 years (yeah, I'm old, so what?), until I wised up and went back to my first love, writing. I've always been a geek ever since I can remember, and began my dubious career as one when I was 7 years old and I grabbed a screwdriver to take apart my Mom's portable radio. After successfully dismantling it, I proudly went to my Dad and said "Dad! Look what I did! Now you put it back together before Mom catches me." Later in life I would do the same thing, sorta. I finally learned how to put things back together, and developed a good appreciation for how things work. I love gadgets, and I have a full arsenal of what geeks usually love to own. So you can pigeonhole me better, I'm a Mac user, I use the iPod as much as I breathe, I have a PalmOne LifeDrive, use a Canon 300D, own a GameCube, and my phone of choice is a Sony-Ericsson. I also own two massive Golden Retrievers named Rico and Bobby. I was the Chairman of the Philippine Macintosh Users Group for a couple of years (04-05), and I am still an administrator for the online forum of PhilMUG, as well as for PodCentral. Aside from being editor of m|PH, I'm Executive Editor for Hinge Inquirer Publications, which owns m|PH, as well as several other magazines. I am also a writer in the most basic sense of the word, and I'm working on a short story collection when I have free time (which is getting rarer and rarer these days). If you'd like to know more about me, I have a personal blog. The stuff there is not as techie as this esteemed site usually is but it might let you get to know me a bit better. Just click here if you have a moment or two to spare every now and then. I'll be posting here more often, like Art, Jayvee and our guest bloggers, but in the meantime, let me say I'm glad to be part of, finally, Da Wireless Kubo and I hope I can contribute as much as the rest of the gang. Thanks for having me. (Hey, Jayvs, this WordPress thing isn't so bad after all.)