I was looking for a designer recently to help me with my blog layout. At first, I asked a friend but he wanted to charge me too expensive. Perhaps that is the going rate but I was not prepared to pay it as it was out of my budget.

He told me to learn it myself. It is not that I do not want to learn, but the codes are like Greek to me. And I seriously am running short of time so I can’t spare the time to do it myself by trial and error. I have to blog for a living, you see?

Anyway, I asked another friend, who studied web designing and development in his course, if he knows XML and CSS and he said he is not good. I was shocked. If he took a university course in that and he is not good, what chance do I have?

If you have been reading my blog, you will know that I recently upgraded the memory of my desktop computer. I thought that I would enjoy a significant speed improvement since I doubled it. However, I noticed that there is hardly any change at all.

I don’t know why, does it mean that memory is still insufficient? Or does it mean that my computer is showing its age? It’s only 2.5 years old! I know this may seem old when it comes to technology but my previous computer lasted almost seven years and I expect that my current desktop would last as long as well without giving me major problems.

However, at the speed it is running, with the cursor always showing a busy signal and forcing me to pause every other second, I feel like pulling my hair out and chucking the computer down the river that is near my home! SIGH!

I am sure it is very common to receive unsolicited email. We call that spam mail. However, how common is it to receive a spam mail from someone, which you trashed and did not respond to, only to have the same person email you, asking if you have received his email yesterday and stating the fact that he did not receive a reply from you.

Of course, in his eyes, his email isn’t a spam mail but to me, it was unsolicited, it was spam. And you know how I treat emails like that! Anyway, the second spam mail received the same treatment from me, that is to trash it, and I have still not heard from him for a third time. I would not be surprised if he wrote to me again asking if I did receive his second email. LOL

Have you had this experience before? I hope that all spammers are not as persistent; otherwise, I can only imagine that my inbox will be flooded with double spam!

This morning, I received an email purportedly from MSN telling me to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7. HHmmm I am always weary when I received unsolicited email like these, you know?

Anyway, I think that this person who wanted to spread a virus, yes, the link provided for the IE 7 upgrade actually ends with the extension .exe, is rather stupid for making an amateur HTML email. LOL

I think that if he wanted the effect that would cause us to click on the link and download IE7, at least make an effort to copy the emails that come from Windows Live.

If you received a similar email telling you that you should upgrade to IE7, be careful and do not click on the link. Just delete the email! I am sure you would not want your computer to be infected with some malicious virus!!