Blogging

If You Do Not See Your Comment

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I’d just like to clarify that if you do not see your comment being published, then I am sorry that I may have mistakenly deleted it from my Spam Comment Folder. I tell you, I feel myself getting old, just sitting here deleting pages and pages of spam comment. Is there anyone with more than ten pages of spam within a couple of hours??

I don’t know what I have done for my blog to deserve this but no way am I going to waste anymore time going through them UNLESS I see that someone has left me a comment on my Stats Tracker, or if a message is left to my via my Contact Form.

My spam comment count is already almost 40,000 and still counting. Before long, I will over take that person with more than a million comments. Who wants to bet??

General

Pushing For A Password Management Solution

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My friend tells me that the reason he drinks and smokes and not able to kick these bad habits because of work stress. He works in the IT department of his company, you see, and is in charged of the administration security of the department and company as a whole.

According to him, there are quite a number of individuals sharing that password and it’s his responsibility to make sure that the password is not misused and changed regularly. He told me that some of the staff could be rather careless and should anything untoward happen, he would be the one to get it from the bosses.

This budget, he is going to push for a password keeper solution that he said would make his job a lot easier. At least, most things would be automated and his job would be to ensure that the appliance works well and comply with certain regulations.

I hope that for his sake, his company would be more forward thinking and not calculate the cost so much.

Fashion

Nudie Jeans Making A Splash

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A friend asked me to check out the online boutique at Tobi.com. She said that there are nudie there and I did not know what she meant :-) Turns out that they are actually jeans. Yes, you heard me right!

Tobi.com also carries a brand name called Seven For All Mankind, or just Sevens for short. This is apparently based on the belief that the average American owns seven pairs of jeans. I do not know if it means seven pairs of jeans at any one time or seven pairs of jeans in a lifetime. What I do know is that I only have two pairs so there is still plenty of room for more pairs of jeans for my wardrobe.

Now that I know what nudie jeans are, I think that I should get them but according to y friend, I would not be able to buy them locally and would have to buy them online from Tobi.com. I am fine with online shopping so that is not a problem with me.

If you are thinking of adding new stuff to your wardrobe this holiday season, why now check out nudie jeans from Tobi.com? Jeans are evergreen and they never go out of style; at least not in my book!

Computing & Internet

Gmail’s Old Version, New Version

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I tell you, this is driving me crazy!!!! No matter how many times I set my Gmail to show the older version, each time I log into my account, I get the new version again and again. I don’t want the new version, cannot meh??? I prefer the older version and it is not because I cannot accept change, OK?

Change is perfectly fine, only IF it is better than the older version. So no, it’s not anywhere BETTER so I prefer to stick to the old version.

In fact, I am still using the Old Versions of quite a few computer programmes, just because I like to. New ones could be rather buggy and resource hungry so who needs the extra features which are left unused?

I don’t know why Gmail cannot even “remember” my settings and I would have to do the same thing over and over again. It’s like being forced to use something that I don’t want to use! This is getting stale!

General

The Comprehensive Programs At Cliffside Malibu

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The other day when I wrote about addiction treatment of a friend, a reader left me a note saying that Cliffside Malibu has a specific program for each person and that it has been proven very effective.

When an addict first enters Cliffside, he or she is evaluated by a physician, clinical therapist and psychiatrist. These three specialists will then create a treatment plan for the addict outlining the areas that need addressing and to evaluate the progress he or she is making throughout the stay at Cliffside.

Also, the difference between Cliffside and other rehabilitation program is that Cliffside offers two programs from primary treatment to extended care, meaning they will help the addict kick his habit and let him stay on till he is totally clean.

Did you know that one of the greatest threats that addicts face once they leave their rehab center is the fact that the majority of them lapse into the same addiction again? It’s like living in a loop with no way out. It’s as though the treatment received in the past year never occurred.

Cliffside Malibu therefore has addressed this concern with the extended care program so that addicts will stay clean and do not face the temptation in falling victim to the same substance abuse over and over again.

Blogging

Ad Placement Experiment

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I was talking to the boss of one of the local advertorial agencies and I told him that my ad bars are not earning me anything even though the total page impressions of my blogs did not change much. Well, not as much to be noticeable, anyway.

Firstly, he said that I only have one ad code implemented on the sidebar when the maximum ads that we could place on a single page are four. This is an automated process so you could embed the codes all over your page but only four of them will show up.

Anyway, he told me that although my page impressions did not change, not all page impressions are equal. We in Malaysia most probably earn more in page impressions from within Malaysia. Ah, my blogs receive more foreign than local visitors. No wonder.

Also, he told me that I should also try out the half banner because different advertisers are using the different ad formats. Now I know why there are no advertisers on my ad box sometimes.

Well, I have made slight changes to the ad placement and size. Here’s hoping that my revenue picks up!

Travel

Where To Buy Cheap Air Tickets

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I wrote quite a number of times that I am thinking of getting out of the country for a holiday but to be frank, the airfare makes me cringe! It is not cheap at all despite knowing the boss of a local travel agency!

This morning, I came across the website AirValues.com which sells cheap air tickets. We get to save up to 65% on air tickets and that is a considerable amount of money! With the savings, we can most probably buy a cheap student airfare and bring along my late cousin’s daughter for a holiday.

Besides buying air tickets from AirValues.com, we could also use the powerful search engine on the site to search for air tickets for many more international routes from their airline partners. I think that everyone should be given the chance to travel and with such a hefty discount on airfare, there certainly is no excuse not to take a vacation break anymore.

If you are planning a trip for the year end holidays, it is nor too late to check AirValues.com. You cheap air tickets are just a mouse click or phone call away!

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