The other day, I received an invitation from my friend to join her on Netlog, formerly known as Facebox. I really do not get it why people like to join all these. I did join some of the larger social networks but I am inactive and joined just so to oblige my friends so that they could add me to their friend’s list. I almost always decline friend request from strangers because before the month is over, I would not even remember who is who anymore. Besides, I would have forgetten my log in ID and password as well!

Although I did not join Netlog, I did browse through and it seems like Netlog is the largest social network portal serving Europe, supporting nine European languages and English.

As with other social network portals, Netlog provides you, apart from your profile, with a photo gallery, a blog, guestbook and a network of friends. If you are curious why my friend joined a European network, well she lived for a year in Europe, so I guess she misses the good times there.

I was actually searching for something else on the internet when I stumbled upon a whole range of free recipes available on CookingSpot.com

If you know me, you will know that I love to cook, but currently do not have the time to fully indulge my passion. This does not mean that I can’t COLLECT recipes! I am always telling myself that I will experiment with all the recipes in my collection and I am still waiting for that day to come!

CookingSpot.com has an extensive database of recipes that I believe is more than a thousand. The huge list of recipes ranging from Asian to Western to Soul food makes me so hungry!

The category that stood out is PET TREATS! As you know, I have two senior pets, so these recipes are something that I would like to try out as soon as possible before it is too late, if you know what I mean.

Since my blog post introducing Jean-Claude, the Animated Tiger in early May, I have friends asking me when wll the second installment of the Life According To Jean-Claude mini series be released. Well, I have good news now. The second episode is called Barbarossa.

Jean-Claude is clueless about Barbarossa, not know why the battle happened or where. However, what he does know that to win a battle, the fighter has to be persistent. That’s how he wins his backgammon games too. He is, afterall, the number one backgammon game player on BackgammonMasters.com. Jean-Claude knows that each time they play backgammon, he has the key to winning the game because he has mastered the strategies and philosophies of backgammon.

If you do not already know, Jean-Claude if the animated tiger mascot of BackgammonMasters. Perhaps that is why he is winning all the backgammon games! Sources say that BackgammonMasters will be releasing Blackjack somet time this month. Watch out! Jean-Claude may soon master the game of Blackjack as well!

BackgammonMasters is the premier online casino game provider with its all-in-one software. Just download and install ONCE and you will be able to play all games available on one website, in one platform and only one game lobby. This is where BackgammonMasters has won over its competition.

Don’t forget to watch Jean-Claude Animation Series Episode 2 – Barbarossa, at:
http://www.backgammonmasters.com/jc-barbarossa.html

Since owning a personal computer, I have had my fair share of computer viruses, trojans, malwares, spywares and what-nots.

If you remember, barely two weeks ago, I was having problems with my hanging computer but I just had it formatted at the end of April, 2007. Anyway, a couple of days ago, my computer could not connect to the internet. I mean, my network shows connected but the speed was so slow, none of my messengers were able to connect neither were the web pages loading.

I figured that the problem could not lie in my cable, network card, modem, hub or even internet line since I did have another computer connected without problems and if it was hardware, surely the failure would have been total? But here my computer was connected BUT not connected, if you know what I mean.

I called up my computer technician who advised me to run my anti-virus program, clear my virus vault, defrag my hard disk and restart my computer but the problem persisted after two hours.

I gave up! Sent the computer to the shop where the technician told me that I need a format And I was like, “AGAIN?” But as if I had a choice! *sigh*

Well, now my computer is in good health once again. What I suspect is that the first shop that formatted my computer last month did not protect my computer with an anti-virus program before going online to search for driver updates despite my reminder. I remember that soon after taking my computer home, my anti-virus program already gave me trojan alerts but I did not think too much of them.

My friend told me to demand a refund, but I don’t have proof! He taught me to bang their tables, raise my voice, threaten harm to them and shit in their office! Hahahah as if that will work :-p