Computing & Internet

Pissing Mad

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The other day, I was so mad with this blog for pay marketplace. I placed four bids on two opportunities and surprisingly all were accepted. Usually these advertisers will take forever to even make a decision.

So anyway, I wrote and submitted all of my articles and promptly forgotten about them. Unfortunately, I received an email from this marketplace informing that all my articles, at 200+ words a piece, had to be withdrawn as the adverting opportunities were purchased with a fraudulent credit card.

I was also told to remove my posts from my blogs. But the posts have already been ping-ed and cached, you know? My stats tracker even showed people who came to my blog from searching for that particular domain.

Pah! And now I am told that I have written for nothing.

Writing a post and giving links for free is one thing, but writing posts that I THOUGHT I would be paid and then told that I will NOT be is another issue, you know what I’m saying?

Finances

Settle Your Credit Card Bills On Time

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After reading my post that I do not own a Credit Card anymore a blog reader was very surprised.

It is not that I do not want to use a credit card anymore. I still think that credit cards are an important part of our modern lifestyle since we are heading towards a paperless and cashless daily living.

I feel that for expensive purchases, we are better off swiping our credit card, and it is all the more beneficial if we have a credit card that rewards us with a cash back program.

What I feel that is evil about the plastic card is that the temptation to spend is very great and the ability to borrow money so easily against the credit card

If we are disciplined to only use the credit card as long as we settle our outstanding credit card bill at the end of the month before we are charged an interest then more power to us!

Travel

Welcome to San Jose, Costa Rica!

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This morning, I received a beautiful postcard from Markus sent from San Jose, Costa Rica. What a surprised as he did not mention that he will be going to Costa Rica for his vacation.

I remember the time my parents went to Costa Rica for their wedding anniversary where they stayed at Hotel San Gildar. They brought home wonderful memories and a stack of photographs! What a beautiful hotel it is situated in upscale Escazu, San Jose.

Hotel San Gildar’s strategic location is excellent for both tourists who visit the East coast and the West coast of Costa Rica. Moreover, the Juan Santa Maria International Airport is only 20 minutes away so it is very convenient.

Coincidentally, Markus also stayed at Hotel San Gildar during his vacation. He told me to check out Hotel San Gildar’s website where there are new photos of the hotel in their online photo gallery.

My parents and Markus also enjoyed the warm Costa Rican hospitality from the staff of Hotel San Gildar. I suspect that this is the hotel I too will be staying in should I visit Costa Rica.

General

It’s Mother’s Day Again!

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It is going to be Mother’s Day soon. I still remember the previous Mother’s Day. It was just like yesterday. Where has all the time gone?

This year, my siblings asked me what I should get for mother. No matter what people say, I still feel that Mothers Day roses are the best. Our mother loves roses, anyway.

Even so, I would love it that we each give her an individual Mother’s Day gift to surprise her. I am sure our mother will think we will only send roses to her, AS USUAL. What a surprise she would get!

Besides the roses, I think I will have a hard time figuring out what to give her on this special occasion. Mother is such a simple lady that she will like no matter what we give her. Moreover, when we ask her if she has any request, she will always reply in the negative. And if I were to buy something expensive for her, she will complain that I am wasting money. You know, it really is not easy being her daughter.

I asked a friend what he is giving his mom this Mother’s day and he said he will just give cash because it is the most practical gift on earth. I think I will just follow suit.

Blogging

Host Your Own Blog

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I have a friend who blogs on a not-so-popular free blog service, which I shall not name. The server is so slow that not only is it difficult to access to read, he told me that it is also the same trying to write and publish post. There were times that he lost his posts due to one reason or another.

So I advised him to host his own blog. However, a few months passed and he told me that he has moved his blog to Blogger.

Well, I guess he did not listen to my advice. I have told hm that since he is starting from scratch, he might as well get his own domain, right? But no, he told me that he is using Blogger because he has no money to host his own.

If he had looked hard enough, there are low-cost hosting packages that will not burn a whole in his pocket. He told me that he needs a large hosting space to keep videos. Who asked him to keep videos? Shouldn’t he live within his means?

Surprisingly, he graduated from web designing from a foreign university and yet he claims that he does not know how to set up his own blog. Well, I do not know either and have complained much but I still managed to get the blog to the way I like it to be.

It’s disappointing that he is taking the easy way out by blogging on a free platform. I have been there and done that and if I started to blog now, I would definitely start with my own hosted blog.

Computing & Internet

Have You Heard of KissCafe?

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I was introduced to KissCafe last week. People tell me that since I am single and am online for such long hours daily, I might as well get some free dating online.

I don’t really like to socialize in online dating portals mainly because one never know what kind of people are behind a rosy profile. Moreover, I am never good at making introductions or worse, describing myself, which is standard procedure in online socializing. Bah!

Anyway, my friend told me to just check the site out and so I agreed. First of all, I just have to say that I love KissCafe’s logo. Just take a look!!

I found that KissCafe is a free online dating portal that is open to the world. Most of the dating portals that I have come across were mostly for a certain community or other and it is not easy to find a partner.

KissCafe’s membership base is wide and far-reaching though, so it is as if you can find anyone in your local area. Perhaps it is because of this that they are launching new languages for the website.

Members on KissCafe all look like decent people just trying to expand their social circle. You wouldn’t want to know some other sites that been through that it is an embarrassment to just browse through their picture profiles!

KissCafe makes sure that members’ privacy is protected and everyone is accorded security and control over their own dating experience. If I were to join a dating site, KissCafe would be my choice because I would have all the full features of other dating sites, but I do not have to fork out a penny! It’s free!

Computing & Internet

Introducing SpyShakers

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Although I have two computers at home, I do sometimes still use computers that are not my own, especially when I am away for long hours, I have to get online either at the cyber cafe, at the homes of friends or relatives. I am never comfortable using a stranger’s computer because for one, I have to remember the web addresses that I frequent plus worry that my log in IDs and passwords will be stolen with screen capture devices or keyloggers.

I thought that I would have to “live on the edge” until I get my own laptop but my friend told me there is a new website called SpyShakers that has a webtool to shake off spies no matter from whose computer we access the internet.

SpyShakers is said to work best with FireFox with the Sidebar tool which resides on BOOKMARKS. Well, once you are on a computer, just access your Sidebar, log in to your SpyShakers account and then visit your favorite links from the Sidebar. Your log in ID and password for your list of favorite websites will be there so that you can drag and drop the data into the log in page. Keyloggers won’t work because you aren’t even typing!

It’s great that I can use this service for free whenever I am away from my own computer. It gives me the much needed peace of mind, you know?

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