With the long holidays from now, the weekend, right up to Christmas and then New Year, internet traffic is expected to dive. Well, the effect is already showing on my blogs. The problem is that the holidays have already started for some people since Thursday!

I know of friends who took a few days of leave off from work to make up almost two weeks of holidays. Some of my friends are already on holiday and left the country! Amy and her family flew to Bangkok this morning.

Most Malaysians would only get online at the office, using company resources to enjoy the web and when they are home, they won’t get online because they want to spend quality time with the family. And during the holidays, some of them don’t even have internet access in their kampungs. They are not like me who need to be online the whole day.

So there’s not much point in blogging because we would not get to reach out to as many people as we normally would on a work day. I think I also take a break from blogging soon!

The other day, my sister sent an email home to my mom and the funny thing was that, the email arrived without text even though she said that she wrote a long mail. The odd thing is that normally, when an email has no text, a pop-up box will appear but not this time, since she DID write an email at first.

I went to her email account to check her Sent Folder and yes, her email was there except that it also does not have any text! Now my sister is lazy to retype anything. I tried to teach her to type her email on MS Word or Notepad first but she is so low tech, she does not get what I am telling her, even on the phone. She doesn’t understand why she should do that. I guess she is not as sceptical as I am with technology.

I don’t know what has been happening to Hotmail lately but I have not been receiving my emails and I did not know until something bad has happened as a consequence. Well, I hope that whatever glitch it is facing will be righted soon.

It’s Christmas in a week’s time and do you know what I hate the most? It’s the family gathering. Coming from a family of scholars, it is hard not to feel small when talking to them because they keep asking me when I will continue with my education.

I tell myself, I am way too old to continue with it and whatever I study will not be used in real world, anyway, so why waste my money and the lecturer’s time, right?

I mentioned some months ago that my Uncle, an advocate of distance learning and online education, told me about capella university and asked me to check it out as there would be a course of my liking. Unfortunately, I haven’t the time!!! All I know is that they have a full range of courses from certificate programs right up to Post graduate studies and that this online university serves students worldwide.

I guess I need to go a little homework and prepare myself from their tirade of questions!

Although many people have said that Alexa is inaccurate, I would still like to see mine go lower and lower. I know that Alexa is no longer relevant but since I have entered this “trade”, I have received training to checking on my page-rank, Alexa reading, Technorati reading and whatever other rank there is. One of the latest that I check is Complete.

For a few days, I noticed that my Alexa reading on the toolbar and the one on my Alexa button that I have embedded on my blog are showing different figures. I know that one of them takes a little time to update but A FEW DAYS is way too long. LOL Can you imagine one of them being updated only to have a new reading?

One would think that a web-based application should be REAL-TIME, don’t you think so?

Although I have many websites, they are all personal sites. It never crossed my mind to set up a family website until I was told of Family Crossings. After checking this site out, I think that it is an excellent idea to have such family websites for families which are spread far and wide. Fro example, I have families in various cities in the United States, in London, Singapore, Gold Coast in Australia and of course in Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh, in Malaysia.

Naturally, and unfortunately, we do not get to meet up all that often unless it is a major family event when we are all obligated to attend. With such a family website as provided by Family Crossings at http://www.familycrossings.com, we would be able to share our life with family in the other side of the world.

Family Crossings provide us with the tools to set up such a family site without the hassle or technical know-how. It’s free too! However, if we would like to get rid of the advertisements that support the free account, then we could opt for an upgrade and pay only $9.95 per month. I think this is well worth the money because if we share the cost of maintaining this site among our family members, each of us will only have to pay $1 per month, or less. Tell me this is NOT affordable??

I read in a couple of blogs that some publishers have received their Christmas gift from G. recently. It is assumed that these publishers either are earning a lot or spending a lot on a certain G product. For all I know, it could be a random pick kinda thing, after all, they should keep everyone happy and not just the heavyweights.

You may wonder why they should keep the little guys happy, it’s simple because there are more of us. Hah!

It would be very ironic is one of those p.a.i.d.t.o.p.o.s.t. bloggers get one if these gifts Haha! If you are curious, this year, the gift is a 2GB flash drive, which looks like a credit card.

Last year, it was a digital photo frame. GIMME! GIMME!! GIMME!!! I don’t NEED these but it’s great to show-off Blehhhhh

Here’s a website that I have been a member of for years. Unfortunately, although it is like the Malaysian version of Classmates.com, it never kicked off at all. Out of the many students in my class, there are only about fifteen who are registered with the site. Imagine, few hundred students and only fifteen? They could do better.

That’s why lah… never advertise! LOLOLO

Anyways, I was reminded of it (I do not log in at all unless there is a new member signed up who is from my class) this morning when someone from my class registered with the site. HHmm unfortunately her name is not someone I recognise at all. Too bad

Although out of these fifteen students, a few were good friends with me, I did not contact them even though most of us included our email address in our profile. It would be awkward to contact them after all these years. I mean, is there anything to talk about at all??