I’m Tita Jane Uymatiao. In the Philippines where I live, Tita means Aunt. I love geeky stuff and consider myself a Digital ImmigrAUNT.

A bit of trivia about me…

• First programming language learned was COBOL (no kidding!). I submitted my programs for encoding on punch cards (you can now guess what generation I’m from!)
• Was so excited over my first laptop which I bought in the U.S. and lugged back to the Philippines because it was one of Dell’s high-end laptops at that time — with a built-in fax software and disk storage of 20 MB (you did not read that wrong. MB!)
• Gets sentimental remembering my early days working with MS-DOS and C-prompt commands, Wordstar, PageMaker, Lotus 1-2-3, and a bit of VisiCalc before Excel came into the picture.
• Remembers the sounds of a dial-up modem and regrets throwing away my U.S. Robotics modem. Am happy though that I still have my IBM flowcharting template and Beeper 150 pager.
• Thought I had had enough of IT consulting and computer audits when I turned to blogging in 2006 but realized that IT and geekiness will always be in my blood — reason why this blog was created.
• Gets a lot more excited over a gadget rather than the latest fashionable women’s wear
• Hopes to continue covering the IT world by maintaining this tech blog
• Will write about anything tech that catches my fancy and which I think you’d love to read. And that includes MacGyver-like discoveries under my How To’s category
• Wants to tell other Titas that there is no age limit to geekiness. Once a Digital ImmigrAUNT, always a Digital ImmigrAUNT!

Tech isn’t all I write about. Here are my other blog sites:

Life, Take 2: My Reinvented Self (personal)

The Philippine Beat (lifestyle)

The Yogini from Manila (yoga/wellness)

Blog Watch (advocacy site where I write my thoughts as a citizen)