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June 16th, 2008:

Protect your online presence for FREE

Jun 16th, 2008
by Gladys Erhardt.
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I have been posting entries about the risk it takes on being online and even when you’re offline. It’s true that our technology offers services that give us the comfort in our daily lives. But did you know that along with the new technology comes the greatest risk?
Shopshield
That’s true, it only takes 1 mistake to divulge our personal information to other people that could do harm to us. That’s also the reason why there are a lot of services offered for identity theft protection.
Shop Shield® is a new consumer service that offers complete protection against identity theft and fraud on your online transaction. The difference with Shop Shield towards other services is that, Shop Shield is FREE to use. Of course it gives you the unique, and cutting edge privacy solution to protect your identity when you are shopping online.
Here’s the list of the protection Shop Shield® can give you:

* Credit Card Numbers
* Bank Accounts
* Billing Address
* Email Address
* Login Information

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Training helps bloggers hone professionalism

Jun 16th, 2008
by Gladys Erhardt.
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Non-journalists entering the world of blogs, online feedback forums, online videos and news Web sites provide information that newspapers and other media can’t or don’t. But many are now turning to professional journalists for help with dilemmas they’re facing: When is something libelous? What’s the difference between opinion and news? And how do you find public documents?

About a dozen would-be reporters navigated the basics of journalism at a recent training offered by the Society of Professional Journalists in Chicago. The group plans similar seminars this month in Greensboro, N.C., and Los Angeles.

Lechuga, who didn’t attend the training, said it would have been a good idea. Having jumped into the world of online publishing with a finance degree, he said the claims against him — which are still pending — arose from a question of semantics, and he would have chose his words differently if he had a second chance. source

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Blogger to wordpress import/export of files

Jun 16th, 2008
by Gladys Erhardt.
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This is a snap sample of the FTP software that I am using. The window shows the internal files of my Bes’s new domain. (Click on the image to enlarge)

I am currently exporting my bes blog files to a new blog software, the wordpress from her old blogger files. I love using FTP when I do blog tweaks. I’ve learned how to use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) from my previous work. Anyway, FTP software is so comfy to use and its pretty fast (but if course it also depends on your connection).

The first thing to take note when you want to export your files to your own domain is that you need to search for the compatibility of these two softwares. Meaning, they need to communicate and it needs to allow you to transport the file.

Recently, wordpress, blogger, blogware, RSS, Blog Journal and etc allows you to import and export files between each others platform. On the blogger to wordpress export of files, my experience was when I tried exporting my old blogger files to my domain, it was not successful. So I played around with it and luckily I have an old free wordpress blog and I tried using it.

It worked. So the rest was very easy. Importing or exporting of files from the same blog platform is really easy.

The famous 5 minute wordpress blog set up. Actually its not 5 minutes but few seconds. It depends on how fast you type the required fields shown above and how fast is your internet connection. Right after you hit the “Install WordPress’ button, your blog is already created. (Click on the image to enlarge)

The second thing that you need to take note is the software configuration, like database set up and etc or better yet, get a domain and hosting that offers CPANEL and includes Fantastico. Fantastico is very easy to use and is (I could say) recommended for new users. With Fantastico, you’ll just hit the button “Create a wordpress blog” and you fill up the required fields like Name, email, password..etc and that’s it, your wordpress blog is created right away.

IF you don’t have the fantastico, everything..even the setting up of database needs to be manually created by you. I also notice that each hosting provider offers different style of control center so it needs readings and research before you start your blog tweaks. This way, you can save a lot of confusion and hopefully it runs smoothly.

I do get frustration sometimes, this cannot be avoided BUT as long as you are willing to do it, you can do it. I’ll post the rest of my blog tweaks on my next entry ;-)

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We went fishing on Father’s Day ;-)

Jun 16th, 2008
by Gladys Erhardt.
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Good morning everyone!! :-)

How was your weekend? Ours was so busy :) , I went with hubby on his work last Saturday that’s why I had a day off and yesterday we went fishing. It was awesome. I really had a great time looking at the fishes playing my bait :D .

We went fishing in Silver Spring at Cloudcroft, NM. Cloudcroft is 30 to 40 minutes away from our house. It’s almost 10,000ft elevated from the ground. So that means that it is located on the top of our mountains. Cloudcroft has beautiful trees and the temperature is 10 to 15 degrees cooler than ours in Alamogordo.

Let’s go back to fishing..

I enjoyed a lot watching the fishes playing my bait, it seemed that they know that it was a bait so they’re just playing with it. It took me 20 minutes to catch my first fish, I know it sounds cheezy but it was an awesome experience..though I know that its impossible not to catch a fish on that pond. For heavens sake it was a commercial pond and I guess they are adding at least 500 to 1,000 fishes every week..hehe.

It’s just a simpleness in life that I noticed and appreciate too much. My husband is a fishing addict and so I’m beginning to adapt it too. We’re always partners in crime :-D

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The Honda Accord Car

Jun 16th, 2008
by Gladys Erhardt.
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The Honda Accord is an automobile manufactured by Honda since 1976,and with the advent of the most recent Accord for 2008, Honda again has chosen to move the model further upscale and with an increase in size.

This increase in size pushed Accord from upper limit of a mid-size car by EPA standard for a 2007 model to just above the lower limit of a full-size car but is still rated as a compact car. Honda Accord also became the best-selling Japanese car from 1982 to 1997, gaining a boost in sales during 1991 and 2001.

I love Honda Accord, it’s beautiful. I asked my husband about the Honda cars quality and he said that they are good in gas mileage not to mention that features it gives to the users.

Difficult is worth doing!

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