Computing & Internet

Connected At All Times

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I need to be connected to the internet at all times because of work. In today’s IT age, I feel as if everyone is the same but was a little surprised to discover that a neighbor, who is a doctor, is not. I told him that my friend in the United States, Paul, told me that most doctors have equipped themselves with PDAs and smart phones so that they could have access to medical resources on the web at all times.

Let’s say they wanted to check up on something called Acute COPD Exacerbation, they could just log in to Epocrates Online and read the possible symptoms, suggested treatments, prescription, dosage and possible drug reactions with other medication that the patient may be on.

I think that more doctors here should be made aware of such free resources on the web so that they could make the most use of the information available in their “pocket”.

“This announcement was paid for by Epocrates.”

Computing & Internet

40 cents Increase For .com, .net, .org and .info Domains

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Gosh, it seems like just yesterday when there was a price increase for domain names. That prompted me to renew all my domains for five years. Since then, I have acquired even more domains and now I got the news that come 1st October, 2008, .com, .net, .org and .info domains would increase by another 40 cents.

This puts the price of my .coms to $9.69 per year, assuming I am not using a coupon code. Luckily I always managed to look for a coupon code before buying, renewing or transferring my domain names. Savings may be slight but it all adds up especially when we own multiple domain names!

So it looks like I will be renewing my domain names for the next few years again to avoid paying 40cents extra EACH domain name a year! But I just calculated, this renewal will cost me about MYR1000! F@rk loh!

Computing & Internet

Living In The IT Age

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I think that school leavers are so lucky to be living in the age of internet technology. When I was at that age, I really wanted to be a flight attendant but I did not have resources and did not even know how to be trained to be a qualified flight attendant.

These days, girls who dream of an exciting flight attendant career could just surf the internet for information. They could check out a flight attendant school online and make enquiries or read the experiences of a flight attendant from a flight attendant blog and learn what the job really entails.

I wish that I had easy access to such abundance of information back then. I know that I would have the advantage over other girls if I had the training and paper qualification of being a flight attendant. My life would have taken a very different path; the path of a high-flying, jet-setting career girl!

If you are dreaming of such an exciting career as a flight attendant, you should check http://aha.edu, the website of a flight attendant school.

Blogging

Blogs Dismissed

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As expected, most bloggers who have been with PPP for a long time now have had their blogs dismissed by the network. Well, the thing that everyone who is affected is unhappy about is because there is no reason given on why a particular blog is no longer qualified.

Of course, this just means that a blog will have no chance at all to improve and ask for a re-review. Like I said, I hate the finality of it. Can you just hear the bang of a closing door?

And as expected, there are some bloggers who are so bitter that they are going to remove all posts that have been paid for from their blogs. This will mean that advertisers will not get what they wanted. Yes, they KNOW it is for a 30-day live post but they WANT permanent links.

I also know that some bloggers will not be removing these old paid posts, but will be unlinking them all. Eh…. they have plenty of time on their hands now, don’t they? Why continue to provide link juice at the expense of their own PageRank?

Note: This is an observation post and is in no way critical of the network that I have been with for almost two years. 😀

Finances

Credit Card Offer

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The other day, my bank called me up to offer me a credit card. It’s new in the market so they were saying that it’s free for life and does not come with any special terms. Of course I accepted. However, it would have been better if it was a business credit card. Frankly, I already have too many personal credit cards that I hardly swipe some of them. I only have a couple that I use regularly because of the rewards.

I believe that if I had a business credit card (I do own a business, you know), I may get to enjoy more benefits and privileges that are only for business people. Oh well, maybe I don’t have enough funds in my account, so they are only offering me a basic credit card.

At least, I am better than a friend. She told me that she was offered a bad credit credit card. I am sure you know that bad credit credit cards are for people who have poor credit. It is said that if a person who holds a bad credit credit card settles his credit card bill at the end of the month fully, and do so for a year or two, he will be able to raise his credit score. I don’t know how true this is. What do you think?

Computing & Internet

Who Are These “Friends”?

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A friend was surprised to see that the number of friends I have on Facebook has increased drastically recently. I have to tell her that I do not even know 3/4 of the people in my list!

I started out on Facebook with the hope of only adding people I really know in real life as friends but I feel really bad if they request for inclusion especially if they found me from “people you may know”.

And then there are friends with multiple profiles who want to raise their game characters or gain points, so much so that I no longer remember whose profile belongs to which *real* person.

I do not see the point of adding a person in our buddy list when we don’t know him or her but I guess most people join social network sites with a mission. They “network” trying to “sell” or blast people in their network with an “idea”.

Well, even though I have twenty blogs, I only added my personal blog to my Facebook profile. That is for the convenience of friends who are genuinely interested to know what’s happening in my life.

Finances

When Is The Right Time To Buy A Car?

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I have been thinking of buying a car lately. Right now, I am still using the family car and it could be really inconvenient even though I hardly need the car at all. Having my own car would accord me more freedom but then I wonder if I will get the chance to drive it since I work such long hours.

Nevertheless, I have recently been researching on the best auto loan to get. My friends tell me that I must be crazy to think of buying a car during this economic downturn what with such high fuel prices but then I think that if I do not buy it now, I would never get to buy it. Ah… I must remember to add auto insurance to the cost of my car! Buying a car is not just the amount of down payment that I could fork out. There’s also insurance and road tax… and fuel!

You know, nowadays, even people who have bad credit could apply for auto loan. Bad credit auto loans are for people with bad credit. In a way, it’s not good that they will be spending money on a new car despite their poor financial health. On the other hand, having an auto loan gives them a chance to redeem their credit if they are able to pay off their monthly loan installments on time.

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