When I opened an account on friendster several years ago all I did was browsed and searched for friends as often as I can remember. Then, after a year a two I only visit the site like once in every month.

Today, after doing some work I took a break and I remembered friendster and checked my account. I was smiling the entire friendster session after seeing some childhood friends and neighbors in the province. We have this neighbor before where all of his siblings are boys and after browsing to his account I saw a picture of his family together with his 3 brothers. All I did was smile because I know how these boys like when they were still little. It’s really nice to see friends and reminisce some happy moments together. I think this is one of the best things what life can offer.  Happy memories stay forever as long as you keep it.

I have an OPM Lyrics website which I started last February. At some point I stopped updating it then came April, that’s the time I gave more of my time and religiously updating it. The website traffic then improves and later on spammers found the website.  Eventually, spam comments were increasing from like 10 comments to hundreds then right now it is hitting thousands spam comments a day. To fight this spam I enabled akismet plugin for wordpress to at least minimize spam comments but still I’m getting hundreds of it everyday minus what the spam buster has eliminated. It’s really time consuming to delete those spam comments every now and then and worse once I missed deleting it for a  day it just accumulates so fast. Its even harder to delete it in the long run.

I think I need  to scout the web and find additional ways to battle wordpress comment spam. Does anyone know a better solution for this?

Warning Yahoo Photos users : 

If you  made a backup of your photos online specifically yahoo photos please note yahoo photos will be shutting down permanently. Meaning all of your photos will be gone by September 20, 2007.  I believe I have many friends and some clients who uploaded their photos on yahoo.com when friendster is not yet around.  So please, if you have friends who aren’t aware of this please inform them to check on their photos. Make sure they have their original photos somewhere else.

Please check this links:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/photos/photos3/closing/closing-01.html
http://photos.yahoo.com

 

How far can your patience go when something goes wrong with your internet service provider? How about twenty days of no DSL connection on your Internet Cafe? How would you handle it?

Last July 21, 2007 saturday our Greendot DSL connection went down. Actually, not just me but all of their clients/Icafes nearby. At first I thought it is just a minor downtime. Then came afternoon still no internet I reported it to their tech support. Then next day came still no internet connection. I called back and only to find out that they don’t have field engineers during weekends here in binan Laguna. For me two days of downtime is still fine with me. Came Monday and I was expecting the internet will be fixed by afternoon but no luck. They cannot even tell me what the problem was. I suspected it was something to do with their DSL cable.

After five days still no progress. All I get from their phone support was “they are still investigating the problem”. That long? Am I still COOL about this? Yes, I am. After 6 days of no DSL connection from Greendot DSL/ PT&T I decided to inquire and subscribed to DIGITEL DSL. Of course I still need to wait for several days before my Icafe will be connected back to the Internet. For the record it took only 1 day my digitel landline to be connected and 10 days before digitel were able to connect my I-cafe back online. And Greendot DSL was still down during that time.

Here are the worst parts of this plight.

1. The persons (two of them) who came here almost 4 years ago and encouraged me to get DSL from them didn’t bother to even reply back to my SMS and calls.

2. The official support contact numbers of Greendot DSL doesn’t work or always busy after 7 days from the first time I called for help. So, I have nobody to call from 7th day to the 20th day.

3. Their DSL cables were stolen. This is the main reason of this issue but I just can believe it why it took them 20 days before they were able restore their Internet DSL? Actually, till now I don’t know if they are already online. I just assumed since someone from their side texted me.

4. I still received a new billing statement. Why? (I didn’t paid it and planning to visit their branch near my location and make it official for discontinuing the service.)

5. The two persons I’m talking about now texted me and explained to me. Wow! At last! After 20 days! Thank you

Why didn’t I get a second DSL as my backup? Before I do have a backup line but with the very cheap rate of internet per hour in our erea I disconnected it 2 years ago. So, thats it.

AM I STILL COOL? of course not. malaki kaya nawala sa akin lalo na yung mga malalaking Internet Cafe dito. But at the end of the day di pa rin eto maging dahilan para mag mumuk ako buong buwan.