You’re probably wondering what Atma Xplorer is, what’s it about and why the hell did I choose a weird and convoluted name for this blog. I’ll try to answer that below.
What is Atma Xplorer?
Atma Xplorer is a blog owned and operated by sylv3rblade (AKA Stephen Advincula). Who am I? I’m a web developer (primarily Java but I’m migrating to rails), novice photographer, casual gamer (console, PC, handheld) and a certified geek. It’s where I put gaming, photography and fanboy-ism related stuff while I’m working some side projects to actually put them in. It’s not a personal blog (I’m still deciding if I should get one for that but I probably will) so I try to steer away from posting something too personal. It’s about Games, Computing, Photography after all.
About Atma Xplorer.com
On the technical side of things, Atma Xplorer is a WordPress-powered site hosted on a VPS server from Server Complete. I have minor knowledge in -UX which is why the managed VPS hosting that SC is providing is really very worth my money
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Atma Xplorer is powered by WordPress and uses a custom theme extensively modified from an existing one (FTW 2.0). If you want a copy of the theme, contact me.
What is Atma Xplorer about?
Xploring Games, Computing, Photography. Although I rarely stick to those niches since it’s really pressing to write stuff that’s constrained
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Atma Xplorer is about experiences associated with those three ideas in mind although admittedly, lately it’s been just games, games and more games
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Why Atma Xplorer?
The word Atma has been associated with many popular video games like the Final Fantasy series without being given meaning. Atma is a hindu (no I don’t speak hindu) word that means life. If you couple that with Xplorer (sans the e from explorer) you get “Exploring Yourself” which is basically what the Atma Xplorer is all about.
Sure I could’ve gone with the popular trend and attached Pinoy to Xplorer but having PinoyXplorer as the domain name for what the site is now seems quite odd doesn’t it?
