General

Investing As Much Or As Little

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Last weekend, I had the chance to chat with a friend regarding investments and what is the safest way to multiply our money. He told me that every form of investment comes with risks and it is just a matter of how high or low the risk is.

I saw on a website that it is becoming increasingly popular for people to invest in gold, silver and other precious metals. This is because with a company like Monex, investors can invest as much as or little as they can afford.

Previously, we had to invest a certain fixed amount of money and many people could not afford it, hence buying gold and silver was like a rich man’s game. Isn’t it great that we now have this opportunity to invest in precious metals without putting in our life savings?

WordPress Issues

WordPress 2.3.3 Released

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Just like I predicted, even before we have time to use WordPress 2.3.2 really well, a new version is out already. If you look at your WordPress admin dashboard, you will see why you are asked to upgrade to version 2.3.3…there are a few security fixes to patch up the holes found in version 2.3.2

Well, I just want to know, why can’t they just put out a major release that does not have any security holes and thus does not require patching up?

Do you know how much work it is to keep upgrading and upgrading our WordPress blogs even though some of us are using WordPress automatic upgrade plug-in, especially for my friends and I who own numerous blogs? I tell you, the technical issues of blogging sometimes kill the joys of blogging!

I mean, who has the time to keep upgrading, right? I guess I should feel lucky that I am only the end user and not the coder for WordPress. Haha!

Computing & Internet

Protecting Our Computers And Networks

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Threats to computer security are a major issue for people like me who are on the computer that is connected to the internet for long hours of the day and night. It is especially difficult for people like me who are not very technical with computers and would have to cart it to the repair shop for troubleshooting each time it is crippled by virus or other malwares.

The other day, I read an article which reported that there are seventy different strains of computer virus released on the internet every day and that is a shocking number. The only way to protect our computer network against this threat is to log of the internet and switch off the computer, my friend advised. But there has got to be a better way, right?

Another friend told me that we can protect our systems with good anti-virus programs. Of course, when it comes to protection, it is always better for us in the long run to get the best in the market. This friend also let me in on a norton antivirus download from a Symantec online shop for $39.99. Do you think that this is too expensive? Well, it depends on how you look at it, but for me, $39.99 is the price I would willingly pay for peace of mind!

Contests & Entries, WordPress Issues

index.php Successfully Removed From Permalink Structure

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A few posts back, I was wondering how to remove index.php from my permalink structure of my WordPress blog posts. Well, I spent a long time finding out and asked a few people. I was told to read the tutorial on WordPress Codex but you know me, I never can grasp anything technical or mathematical!

Well, my host did tell me that I should edit my .htaccess file and place the following code to the file and then save it.

At first, I could not find the .htaccess file. So I had to open an index.php file first and then edit the URL by deleting index.php and putting .htaccess in its place. if you are interested in doing this, here is the code to add to your .htaccess file.

I just copied the original file first and saved it in Notepad on my computer as back up, just in case I screwed up and then I the pasted the following at the bottom of the original code.

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

After saving the file, I logged into my WordPress admin dashboard of my blog, went to the options for Permalink and made sure that I selected a Custom structure and removed index.php.

I was a little worried at first, because I have a few blogs hosted on the same server and it looks like that all share the same .htaccess file. But luckily, the old blogs retained the old permalinks [I had no intention to change these blogs, anyway] but for the new ones, I have the pretty permalinks now which goes like this:

http://www.domain.com/year/month/day/post-title
http://www.domain.com/category
http://www.domain.com/page

I do not know if I will have problems later on with this permalink structure but I definitely love it better without index.php somewhere in there!

General

No More Hassle Car Shipping!

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I once read that in the United States, there are thousands of people relocating from one state every month. According to my sister, the United States is such a huge country that moving from a state to another, even though it may be only a neighboring state could feel like moving to an entirely new country!

People who have gone through a long distance move would understand the amount of work and red tape to go through. That’s why it is always best to seek the assistance of professional movers. I mean, you are going to move EVERYTHING and I am sure that you want to make sure that everything will be handled with care, right?

If you are moving a car, then it surely is a bigger problem but then when it comes to car shipping, why not check our CarMovers.com and obtain free car shipping quotes first so that you can make a better decision on which company to go with? Also, if you require further information on car shipping and auto transport, this is a great resource site to start your reading!

Computing & Internet

I Can’t Open My Blog On IE Anymore????

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This is so grand and I don’t even know when it happened or how it happened but I can’t open my own f@rking blogs on IE anymore without it popping up an error window saying that access to my web address has been aborted [Operation aborted] and then all I get is “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage”. I am so going to lose traffic because of this.

I understand that when I get this problem from some blogs that I visit, it is because of the theme. However, in my case, my blogs have been accessible for such a long time now until just now.

I didn’t even install any new codes or made changes or anything at all and yet
I am getting this error! I am so pissed off. Meanwhile, I can still access my blog through FireFox so I guess I will have to sleep on this for a little while and hope that whatever is throwing this error will straighten itself out by morning.

Never have I wished harder than now that the whole world uses FireFox.

General

Decorating A Home

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This Chinese New Year, my friend will be having an open house. Well, it is high time he showed off his new house to us. This house was completed at the end of last year but so far, this friend has not opened its doors to us yet. He said that he will only show it off when he has completed his interior decoration project.

Just last week, my friend was telling me how much he spent on dining room furniture alone. What does he expect when he wants everything to be classy, right? Moreover, you should see the bedroom furniture set that he chose from an online furniture store. It’s simply awesome and matches his personality to a T.

According to my friend, he is going to wrap up his contemporary living with convertible furniture in the living room. The clean lines of the design and contemporary styles and colors would be prefect for the architecture of his home.

So far, he has described all these to me in detail but come the holidays at the end of this week, I would be able to see for myself how beautiful he has designed and decorated his house. His wife would be so lucky!

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