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General

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!!!!

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I may not be having any holidays some time soon but I know many of my friends and readers have already gone back to their hometown. It is Saturday here in Malaysia and everyone is already in a long holiday mood.

My friend, Doris, already had her Hawaiian holiday and Amy has already reached Bangkok. My friend Jason sent me a text message this morning to let me know that he is on the way back to his home in PJ from his work city of JB. Wawawawa looks like everyone is on holiday already and I am all alone here slogging!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my readers Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May you enjoy the holidays as much as possible but don’t forget to come back to reading my blog when you are done holidaying!!!!

Computing & Internet

Depending On Envoy

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The other day, I wrote that we cannot depend entirely on technology but without technology, many companies would not even be able to operate! Many companies have a dedicated IT department where there are full time staff manning the servers and computer networks. You can say that this is the heart of the company!

Uplogix has a network monitoring tool called Envoy that is aimed to help computer network administrators in their work and better manage servers from monitoring to troubleshooting problems. Unlike other network monitoring tools, Envoy is always connected so network administrators would always have access to the whole system even if the network is down.

I believe Envoy is like a godsend for network administrators because it will help them to be so much more efficient with their work!

Blogging

Rejected Task Missing

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This morning, I received a computer generate email informing me that my task has been rejected. There was no specific reason why the task was rejected and the bad news is that the task is not missing from my task management list. Well, I was not told what task has been rejected but I know which one they were referring to because that was the only task waiting for a review.

I never liked it that this company does not have a way to inform published WHY a task is rejected and every rejection comes with a canned message. Many friends have told me that they waste a lot of time submitting and submitting a task only to receive rejection after rejection because they don’t even know what is wrong in the first place.

Now that my task is missing, which means that I am not given a second chance, of course I wrote in to ask but today being Saturday here, Friday night in the West and so close to Christmas holidays, I really don’t expect a reply from them at all.

Anyway, from experience, I know that if something like this happens, just take a deep breath and move on.

Travel

Year End Holidays!!!

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Oh, how I envy my friends who are already on holiday! I will have to work and only maybe get a break on Christmas Day. I actually enjoy working because if I don’t work, I would feel as if I am being non-productive. Obviously, I am the only one who thinks so because every one else has made plans to go on a vacation!

A friend suggested that we go on a Mexico Vacation. I heard that it is a very romantic place there so I was not very comfortable agreeing to go with him since we are not that close in the first place! I don’t mind going if he pays for my trip, though!

However, his suggestion has given me the idea that should I go on a honeymoon in the future, Mexico is a great place to head to. I believe that Malaysians are slowly picking up these exotic travel destinations because they would like to experience something different and Mexico definitely can offer holidaymakers that unique holiday experience.

Travel

No 3G, No Holiday

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My friend was telling me that I should go for a holiday and he suggested Cameron Highlands, AGAIN! I told him no, I don’t want Cameron Highlands because there’s no 3G signal there!!

He laughed and said that I am supposed to go on a holiday so why would I need 3G for? Eh, I still need to work even when I am physically away from my workstation, you know?

A week ago, my friend was on vacation in Langkawi and she told me that her chalet does not have 3G signal and she was so frustrated she nearly threw her laptop and mobile device out to sea. LOL I certainly could do without that kind of frustration!

If I were to go on holiday, I am going to make sure that the area has a decent 3G signal that would enable me to get online at a reasonable cost, if I had to pay for it!!

Computing & Internet

Lost Contact

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I received quite a few emails from this website, Lost Contact, urging me to join the site. Ermm… excuse me, where did they get my email address to spam me? Oh I get it. It’s from Free Job Site, when a friend of mine, who wanted to participate in a contest, provided them with my email address. I really hate it when websites misuse their list of email addresses. Yes, they may have stated that they are at liberty to do such and such a thing but then that is really bad form.

After receiving such email in my account and also in the email addresses of other family members, which I don’t know how they got those, I decided to check the site out.

This is actually like a friendship lost-n-found site. Well, unfortunately, I am not going to register myself with them because I don’t want to be found. I am the kind of person who would pretend not to recognize someone if I don’t want to keep in touch with him or her. Bad, huh? Did they think that I would join? LOL

Finances

Hassle Free Online Payday Advance

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When someone decides to apply for payday advance, which means a loan against his pay check, it is a given that he is in need of fast cash. CheckCity.com know this and they have made it very easy for people to apply for online payday advance through their website.

While some people are deadly against taking out payday loans, when someone needs the money, he needs the money. The thing that we need to realize is that if we take out a loan, any loan at all, we need to fully understand the terms of it. We will then be able to plan our loan repayment according to the repayment schedule provided by the lender.

CheckCity.com has a new office in Montana and they plan to serve the people there for a long time to come.