Computing & Internet

Hanging Computer

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For the whole of yesterday I had my computer switched on and connected to the internet and I only shut if off at 7.30am in the morning. After an hour and a half, I switched it on again and the stupid PC kept hanging. That was just before 9am. I had to shut it and restart and it refused to shut down. Strangely, I could restart it, just that I could not shut it down.

What the heck could be wrong? I am a non-technical person and I hate to troubleshoot it. I’d rather just chuck it into the big river that’s next to my house.

So this cycle went on until 1pm My AVG Free detected a trojan. Could this be the culprit??? It was healed and I hope it stays healed and not get restored into the system. How the hell my computer could contract a trojan, I do not know. I just formatted my computer a week ago!

Anyway, I really need a back up system. Maybe it’s time to invest in a laptop? How about one of those Sony VAIO C Series notebooks?? As the saying goes, “Every girl needs a pink laptop!”

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Helping Parents With A Troubled Teen

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It looks like being a parent is not as easy as I thought. My friends who are parents are always complaining about one thing or another of their problematic children. They say I am lucky not to have children because children, especially when they hit teenage years are always suffering from angst, some even as bad as going into manic depression.

I don’t think that my friends are bad parents. Granted, they may not have as much time to be with their children as they want to but at least they do share quality time together. Looks like that isn’t even enough.

I stumbled upon a website that addresses the complex issues of parenting teens and one of the issues brought forward is Treating Biopolar Disorder.

This looks like a very rampant disorder and I believe that if it is not recognized and treated early, it could get worse.

I told my friends about the website of Parenting Teens which has very informative for parents with teens. This website discusses the various problems that are faced by both the parent and child but its primary focus is on helping parents with a troubled teen and how to handle the situation.

Hopefully both parents and children will benefit from the website. The solution is readily available and it is up to us to look for it.

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One Blog Too Many

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How many blogs can a person manage with regular updates and nurturing each blog to a decent Page Rank and popularity?

I know of people with more than a dozen blogs, myself included. Most people only started blogs to cash in on blog sponsorships. In my case, I started the bulk of my blogs way before I found out about blogging for pay.

I currently actively update six blogs everyday, six blogs that are sponsored and I tell you, I don’t even have time to brush my hair. One thing about me is that I like to blog in advance. This way, I would not be pressured to come up with quality posts when I need them as interim posts. My life is so uncertain, I don’t even know what would happen tomorrow so if I can’t find the time to blog one day, I still have back up posts saved as drafts.

I don’t know how some people can manage to upkeep their slew of blogs. Well, I do not bother to read these blogs to find out if their posts are quality posts or junk just to fill up the space and meet marketplaces requirements. One thing I noticed, though, many people get an escape route from writing more than necessary by just publishing a photo and writing a short paragraph explaining the photo.

As for myself, I am upkeeping my six active blogs at the expense of my passion blogs. Sigh, money is very important at this time of my life. If you do not know why, then you should read ** An Anonymous Journal **

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Beautiful Asheville

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My friend, Paul, told me that he wants to retire from the rat race of New York City. Life in the City is getting more hectic and stressful. He has been saying so for years but this time, he actually went to Asheville, North Carolina to have a look at the new Asheville homes.

Paul is an architect and he tells me that Asheville has a European touch due to the art-deco architecture. After living in New York for almost fifteen years, he find Asheville to be very serene and just what he is looking for.

He thought that the only things he will miss should he move to Asheville are the talented buskers and musicians of New York but he is surprised that creative people like these could be found in downtown Asheville too. What a delightful discovery that Asheville is just as culturally rich in the arts as New York City is.

Paul says that with the many restaurants in Asheville, he will find it an adventure to try out the different cuisines as he explores the city.

Paul could imagine himself living and enjoying life in Asheville when he decides to slow down his career, but he says that now is the right time to invest in Asheville property before the whole of America realizes the beauty of Asheville.

Computing & Internet

Could You Please …

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Fuel My Blog?

I noticed that despite being a fairly new blog, I have quite a number of readers, although they do not want to leave me a comment. I do seriously need that Mr. Firrrst to help break the ice or perhaps I could do that myself by leaving a comment as soon as my post is published.

Anyway, if you are my mysterious blog reader, could you please fuel my blog?

If you are a spammer, could you please fuel my blog?

If you came to my blog from search engines, could you please fuel my blog?

If you fuel my blog, you would not gain anything and neither would I, but it will make my day to see more than one person has voted for my blog every day.

So from today onwards, I hope that I am not asking too much when I ask that you please kindly fuel my blog. To do so, just click on the orange, red and red fire image on my side bar.

Computing & Internet

Get Free Travel Directions Online

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If you remember, I once wrote about losing my way in my one hometown. Well, I am very bad at directions. And my sister too. When my sister wants to go on road trips, she will get the map directions through PublicRoutes.com

This website offers the free service of giving us street directions and traffic updates for most major cities in the United States and United Kingdom.

The best part about this is that we just have to input our starting address and destination address and select our mode of transport, whether by road, rail or on foot. Click on the GET DIRECTIONS button and we will be given the best route.

And if we would like to be more specific, we could even let the system know that we would like to stop somewhere by giving a location and even select our travel.

Don’t ask me how this system works since I am so not technical minded but let me tell you, I am very impressed!

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Feeling Bad

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I maintain so many blogs, giving priority to sponsored blogs that I often neglect my passion blogs. It’s not for lack of ideas that I do not update them, but for lack of time and energy. I wish I was this robotic entity where I can just go on and on, blogging away. Can you imagine me as the pink Energizer bunny?

It is all right if there is no traffic to my blogs, but guilt is enhanced when I see the same visitors coming time and again only to find the same ol’ content.

It is especially bad when there are even people who blogrolled me, thank you very much, only to find yesterday’s news on my blog *sigh*

Some friends asked me why I bothered keeping those blogs when I am so hard-pressed for time. Like I said, I have a passion for them and one day, if paid blogging falls apart, I would still be happily blogging away at my passion blogs.

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