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Adobe Reader for Symbian OS lets one read Adobe PDF files in a mobile phone. I use this with my Nokia mobile phone. For more information, click here and here for other mobile products.

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Phishing.

No, I didn’t misspell this word for fishing. Phishing in the online community means fraud or something criminally fraudulent or ok then, something fishy.

Phishing is an attempt to get sensitive information from people who go online and need to use user names or logins and of course, passwords. In a worse case scenario, these sites would ask for credit card details.

Most often, phishing will be in the form emails or instant messaging about a PayPal account, eBay product that has been ordered but not been paid for, online banks and even social networking sites.

This directs the recipients of the email to go to certain sites and enter the details that they ask for.

Take for example this site where a friend has invited me to join. I decided to join because I got invites from several friends but have not responded positively. Just a while ago, I went to the site to see what this all about.

Of course I did not push through with the registration. The reason? It was asking for my yahoo mail password.

My what? Yes, my yahoo mail password.

Something fishy really, if you ask me.

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If I were to believe the many emails I have been getting, I should be a very, very rich person by now.

How many times I have won a European lottery when I have been to Europe only in my dreams is way beyond me.

How many times I have been bequeathed a will by strangers with so much money is mind-boggling.

How many times have my “number” been drawn and I have won lots and lots of money.

Well, if these emails are to be believed, where is my money then? Why am I still slaving away day in and day out just to help my family get by?

Fake lotteries. There are lots of them here.

I have deleted these emails as spams. Who knows, there might be worms in these. Ugh.

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I read about this term one time, BLOG ADDICT.

Yeah, feels like term coined by those who do nothing but blog all day. No harm done if blogging is something that makes one productive.

What I mean by being productive means there is some kind of a monetary compensation that can be had with blogging.

OR by being productive means one can learn a lot of things either by blogging (writing skills and thought processes, yeah right) or by reading others’ blogs (current events or simply taking a peek gossiping reading about the day-to-day happenings in other bloggers’ lives).

No, not that only monetary benefits can make one a happy blogger.

The blogger is happy, I know but of course, one has to consider the expenses when blogging.

Blogging = expenses and by expenses mean electricity bill, ISP bill, as well as time and effort. Yes, these time and effort can also be convertible to monetary equivalence too.

I know because in my line of work, we get paid by number of hours we worked.

I have written two posts about the Hazards of Blogging here when a man who blogs wrote that he was going to a US territory and maybe he forgot that he has a case in the mainland US. What happened next? Click here.

So how should one know that blog addiction is now running in one’s veins? That everything else seem to take a back seat because blogging takes precedence over all things? One more sign is that the “normal” daily routine of work, including house chores, professional work and other responsibilities are sometimes neglected not given much thought about yes, takes a back seat in lieu of blogging. Why does this sound like a funeral instruction.

Click here for anther entry I have written where you can read and check or maybe add some more symptoms about being a blog addict.

Now don’t go asking me why I came up with the things I have listed. I won’t tell you my sources, and if you are good, your guess is as good as mine.

Now here are other other sites where one can read about being BAD. Yes, BAD.

Blog Addiction Disorder. Some more 10 signs about blog addiction ( I don’t have some of those listed here).

Have fun. Blogging, that is 😀

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i still haven’t posted this post that has been sitting in my drafts for a few weeks now. Apologies to Thess, I really, really do appreciate this wonderful award you gave to me 🙂

Julie – ah, her passion and love for her country the Philippines…I always look forward to her Litratong Pinoy entry especially when she injects it with her thought provoking questions.

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