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Blogging

What Happens When Your PR Is Down?

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Well, I think that most of us have suffered a PR demotion twice in the past month. What can we do? Nothing but to work on our blogs and work harder too. That’s what I am going to do and also start more blogs. Yes, I will be back!

A couple of my big time paid blogging friends have a string of blogs in the back burner, also updated regularly but are not monetized yet. However, they will bring these out if and when their working blogs are battered. With the rate they are posting, they realise that their blogs will be battered sooner or later.

Personally, I cannot manage that many blogs because I have a job to keep but to them, blogging is a full time job. Is blogging a full time job for you?

Travel

Get Your Tickets Ready

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My sister told me that she won a pair of Disney Tickets in a company raffle. Well, that’s good news but my sister told me that even if she bought them, they are not expensive because she knows where to buy her discounted Orlando theme park tickets. Perhaps her company got them at a discount too and nobody would be any the wiser. Haha!

However, according to my sister, it will come in handy when she makes a trip to Florida early next year and a little savings here and there goes a long way. I was also told that these tickets sell like hot cakes and vacationers would have to plan their trip well and make sure that all tickets are bought way before departure date to ensure that they don’t end up going to Orlando and not get to enjoy their various theme parks. That would be awful, wouldn’t it?

WordPress Issues

Do Scrappers Read First?

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I am sure many of us bloggers using WordPress are faced with the menace of splogs or scrapper blogs. However, have you tried writing a post with the relevant titles but different content and see if they pick up your post?

For this blog, I get a lot of ping backs for my travel posts and whatever posts on Yahoo! Yes, these people have splogs for anything under the sun. I know that they have AdSense all over the splogs (I never bothered to visit), but how much can that bring them? I know of some bloggers who run legitimate blogs who took more than two years to draw their first AdSense cheque.

Ah… I think that these sploggers may earn more because they are very targeted.

Anyway, with the speed of ping back just right after published a post, I am wondering it they have my feed or something. However, it has been proven that if you write a post that bangs them, they won’t publish THAT on their SPLOGS! Hah!

Computing & Internet

Is Friendster Still Relevant?

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Most of my friends are already on Facebook and they tell me that it’s an addiction. I don’t know what they mean because I have not registered yet but I can do without the addiction, thank you very much.

Anyway, this morning, I received an email on Friendster Friend Update and was surprised that a lot of my friends are still active there with new friends added, new comments received, joined groups, became a fan (this is something I never heard of), added new photos or simply updated their profile.

I am a Frienster member and hardly ever log into my account unless I have a private message through the site so I am surprised that with the many new social sites coming out hourly, Friendster is still very much relevant to my friends.

If you are a member of both, do you find yourself moving all you activities to Facebook? With the tremendous growth of Facebook, it looks like many people have migrated.

Computing & Internet

It’s Never Too Late To Study

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A friend told me that I should get a tertiary education because although I have a job that does not depend on my level of education, it may still be helpful to improve myself while I still have time to myself. She said that once I am married or have kids, then it would be a thousand times more difficult. I do know what she means and appreciate her advice. I thought I’d go to a college nearby for convenience sake but I don’t relish the thought of being the oldest student in class.

My friend said that I’m just thinking too much and there are plenty of adult students pursuing their tertiary education. According to her, capella university, a full accredited online university has more than twenty thousand students from around the world. If they can juggle so many things in life AND their studies, why can’t I?

Good question!

Capella University offers a full range of certificate, undergraduate and graduate programs and there should be something that I have a passion for. I am glad that I have the option to study online thanks to the advancement of technology.

Blogging

Comments Deleted

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Two days ago, my computer crashed and I was offline for about a day. Well, not exactly offline as I still had the use of another computer and mobile device. However, I did not log into my blogs and so my Spam Comments just piled up. It took a few hours for the computer technician to format my computer. Yes, I sent it in even though I could do it myself but I felt that I have better things to do with my time than repair a computer. Anyway, by the end of the day when the computer is once again healthy and restored with all my favourite programmes, I logged into this blog only to be welcomed with over a thousand spam comments.

So, I just clicked on the “DELETE ALL” button without going through the spam like I normally would. I cannot afford half a lifetime sitting here looking for that one or two legitimate comments.

If you have left me comment during this down time, I apologise that I may have deleted your comment. You could, of course, just drop me a message via my Contact box if you would like to contact me.

Computing & Internet

Custom Blog Design

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If you have been following my blogs, you would know that I recently changed the theme and am also looking for another WordPress theme for my new blog. I have already been to almost all sites that offer free WordPress designs but could not find anything that I like. Call me a fuss-pot but I have uploaded more than twenty designs to my server but none of them impressed me. My friend chided me that since I am so fussy, I’d only be satisfied with a Custom Blog Design and I think he may be spot on!

Coincidentally, today I was introduced to Mediawick, a company that offers web design services in particular for Word Press blogs. For the time being, they are offering a custom WordPress blog design for $300 each only. I think that this is a very reasonable price!

I checked out the portfolio of Mediawick Digital Solutions and am impressed with their design ideas. The one I love most is Mediawick Orange. Although right now, these designs are not “perfect” to me, the very idea of a custom design is where the client will always be opened for suggestions and changes.

Besides custom design of WordPress blog themes, Mediawick is also available for website and other kinds of design.