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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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Mark Cuban not only owns the Dallas Maverick but serves as chairman of the TV Channel HD.Net. He blogs too.

The finer points discussed in the NY Times article about blogging are the following:

1. Don’t expect to get rich.
2. Write about what you want to write about, in your own voice.
3. Fit blogging into the holes of your schedule
4. Just post it already
5. Keep a regular rhythm
6. Join the community, such as it is.
7. Plug yourself.

There’s this part in the article that fits exactly what I think sometimes:

In the end, the biggest threat isn’t that you’ll fail to learn to blog. It’s that if you blog regularly for long enough, and begin to get comments and links from other bloggers, you’ll have trouble doing your day job.

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A personal digital assistant or PDA is rewarding in so many ways.

What I am using right now, Palm T3 is quite handy, though this has been released years ago. There are many features that one can use repeatedly. These are some of the features: Calendar, Task Suite, Contacts page, MS Word, MS Excel, Real Player, Adobe Reader and a lot more features that one can ever need, well, as far as when this model was released 😉

Text twist? Photos? Vice memo and recorder? Alarm Clock? I got these too.

But of course, there is no wi-fi with this model. Can’t have everything. But, there is Bluetooth and it can be used to send and receive text messages, as long as my cell phone’s Bluetooth is connected.

If only the battery life will stay longer, I am perfectly content. Well, we really can’t have it all.

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Well, as of this moment that I am writing this. Borked, means screwed, broken, or not working, or whatever.

Maybe this happens when there is just waaaay too much of those linky love tags that will make one’s Technorati Rank go up as it clogs the site’s server capacity.  Or maybe not.

Me? I better steer clear of this as of now, what if Technorati suddenly thinks about punishing those who do these. Oh, perish the thought.

Here is a screen shot:

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May 27 marks the fifth year of WordPress.

They have come a long way, from the first release of  WordPress on March 27, 2003 to the newest release WP 2.5.1

Those who are interested to see where the celebration is, click here.

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There is a site for HTML tutorial for kids. Yes, its that modern already.

But take note, this site is also helpful for those who are not familiar with these technology terminologies that seem to talk in codes and well, still more codes.

You think being a blogger makes one adept with the technological terms that abound the www?

So what is .htaccess files or installing perl scripts or MySql database all about? Great, I am scratching my head here and would not be able to understand these, much to the chagrin of my hubby who can talk about these for hours but I would still end up staring blankly ahead 😉

Ok, here is the site: Lissa Explains

Do check it out. I know I will 😀

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