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Security and convenience are just some of the benefits of having a credit card.   In these times when carrying a considerable amount of cash is getting quite risky, it is becoming safer and more popular to carry this piece of plastic instead.   If you don’t have one yet and you feel like you need to get one, it would help if you have a pretty good idea about what credit card is right for you.

You need to decide what you’re getting a credit card for so you could maximize the benefits.   Do you intend it to maximize your own business? To finance your education? To avail of airline rewards? For gas rewards? So on.   Whatever your intention is, don’t just jump right into the bandwagon of getting a credit card just because everybody seems to have one. Check first what your needs are.   For instance, if you drive everyday, a credit card that gives you gas rewards could benefit you the most.  Or get an Airline Rewards Credit Card if you’re a frequent traveler.

A lot of people still veer away from credit cards for fear of overspending and raising their credit obligations up to their neck.   On the other hand, a lot of people also think credit cards are a saving grace in times of  need especially during an emergency.   In the end, it boils down to being responsible in handling one’s finances.

I almost gave up.   I’ve been having difficulty dropping EC for the past days because of my internet connection that seems to be getting slower everyday. I kept getting “page load error.” Sometimes, when I got to visit other blogs,  the Entrecard Widgets just didn’t appear or if they did, they didn’t have the word “drop” on them.  I tried dropping, nevertheless, but my drops didn’t register so I got really upset.   I needed to refresh the pages a couple of times before the pages loaded in “normal” appearance.

Frustrated, I decided to tinker with my PC in the hope of fixing the problem by myself (even if I’m no techie). I clicked on maintenance and analyzed my hard drive, then defragmented it.   It only took a few minutes to defragment my files and good grief, my PC is running better again.

Now I’m back to blog hopping and EC dropping.  See me visit your sites in a few!

Everytime I turn on my computer, signing in to my Yahoo! account is the first thing I usually do.   So today I got a little perplexed as to why I couldn’t sign in.   I thought I lost my internet connection, a cable got unplugged or something, so I tried to surf the Web.  There was no problem.   Except for Yahoo!

What could have caused this? After several failed attempts, I decided to just give it some rest and try later.   Have you encountered problems with Yahoo! lately?

Got this photo from Small Note - Budiawan Hutasoit.  Homeless techie?!!!  Amazing how laptop computers have now become a necessity.    (I don’t even have one! LOL)

Supposing he’s blogging, I wonder what his URL is?   I’ll be quick to add him up to my blogroll! Cheers!

original image source: http://www.stevenhumour.com/

I don’t exactly know what I’ve done but after a few minutes of surfing, my monitor suddenly blipped dead then restarted.  But then I couldn’t log in.  It kept saying “disk failure” or something close to that.  Good thing I have neighbors who are software engineers and are willing to help anytime.   Help means free service, LOL! I feel that I owe these young men a grand thank you - Argeo, Jomar, Jong, Ian and Daniel.  They’re so like my younger brothers back in Davao who are as computer-savvy.   It pays to have nice neighbors around.

My PC is now obviously up and running.   Now back to business.  Fire away!

I’m not a techie person.   I don’t have any educational background in web developing, computer programming, PC set up or anything techie at all.   But since I got sort of addicted to blogging, I invested a lot of time and energy trying to learn the dynamics of web developing and the jargons that come with it - URL, widgets, RSS, HTML, permalink, etc that I had zero knowledge about when I started blogging.

Starting with the purchase of my personal computer, it took me a lot of queries to know what I should buy.   I was naive about processors, memory, Operating System and all that.   All I knew was that I wanted a fast computer with a sleek design and nothing else.   I was especially keen on the LCD monitor.

I ended up with a good package somehow but since I didn’t take much attention to the accessories, I ended up with the not-so-good-ones.  That’s to say that my mouse fails to function sometimes and my brand new speakers are now totally mute (And that’s just after two months of usage).  Also my web cam isn’t as clear as my friends’ though it looks pretty good in white.

If you’re also a struggling, self-educating techie wannabe like me, you could use a little help from existing info sites in the web.  I found one that has useful, easy-to-understand tips on computer technology.   You’ll also learn some computer lingos and other stuff about computer application, blogging and the likes.

It’s pretty informative.

Check it out yourself.

Who can stand without communications technology today? For one, it is a basic ingredient to business success. Here in the Philippines, as telecom companies try to outdo each other by offering all types of promotions and other marketing hypes, we, the end users, are the ones winning.

Call and text rates are going nowhere but down. And I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they’ll remain affordable or at least reasonable forever. Landline rates have their own share of promos and perks as well. Placing calls to mobile phones using landlines have become cheaper due to competition. And gone are the days of the snail mail when we can now do business by faxing proposals and quotations using our landline.

Everybody’s getting hooked up if they want speedier progress. Spectrotel phone service news
revealed that in Michigan, telecommunication companies are also mushrooming, expanding healthy competition.

That’s always been the case. The more, the merrier.