My home PC died on me. It was working fine when I turned it on yesterday afternoon. I checked my mail, did some paid surveys, and left the survey thingy on while I got ready dinner. After dinner and shower, it was 6:45 p.m. looked at my PC, it was freezed up, man!! Hit and power button, na-da. Held on to the power button hopefully it will shut down, na-da. Did the three-finger salute (Ctrl/Alt/Del), na-da. Finally crawled under the desk and flipped the switch. Waited for a few minutes, powered her up; it started up but it won’t boot – Windows not kicking in. Damn. Pisses me off. Had to call in the PC doctor for consultation. The PC doctor said he has to look into it in the morning coz he can’t do much right now. Urghhhhh!!! Nothing worse than not having a functioning PC at home. I know I can use one of Db’s PC, but I don’t like doing my stuff in his office. I might grab his laptop if my PC is not fix yet. Hope the PC doc can fix it for me.
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Daily Archives: January 15, 2008
I was watching 60 Minutes on Sunday night while giving the boys their evening apples and carrots. Nothing much interesting until Leslie Stahl came on interviewing the creator of Facebook. Bam, that got my attention. This guy who is only 23 years old, a Harvard drop-out, started Facebook while he was still at Harvard. It was only an online student directory where students are able to send messages to each other. And all these were done out of his dorm room. You can read the rest of the interview here.
My friend Deb was the one who introduced me to this wonderful Facebook. I have heard of Facebook, but did’nt bother to check it out. I thought it’s another MySpace kinda thingy. When I got the invite from Deb to join and be her friend, I thought, what the heck. I was kinda hooked to finding out who else has joined this online keeping in touch friends/people directory. And the next best thing was I found my former classmate, SY, who I was once kept in contact back in 2000, but somehow we lost all contact till I was kaypoh-ing at someone’s profile and saw her. I was so happy I found her and I really hope we will keep in contact from now on.
Plus, I really like the games, too. Some of them are not an easy feat to get a score. Scrabulous is getting to be really fun. SY invited me to a game she initiated, and I have to say she is really kicking my ass! Who knows, I might initiate another game with her….
All said, my opinion of this another social networking thingy is great to look up friends you have not kept in touch, at least for me! And to poke and poke them, give them virtual drinks and flowers, notes, I find it fun. I can get into Facebook the whole day if I want but i’m spacing myself. Can’t get too addicted to it!
MIL new interest
My MIL is asking DB if he would like to join her in buying gold for investment sakes. She said she has been thinking about since for quite a while especially since she is receiving extra income from her deceased mother’s estate, plus each month’s revenue from the farm that is now run by her younger brother. She asked her other children to join her but they all turned her down. DB is seriously thinking about it.
Gold is one of world’s precious metal. It is a commodity traded by many investors all over the globe. If one is interested they can buy gold at BuillionVault.com, an online website for trading and investing in gold. You can even store your purchase in their vault safely. Their website is extremely user-friendly with tabs for your account, orders, the market, gold analysis and current news on the gold market.
MIL told DB she would buy the gold buillion for her investments and also for him, too. With BuillionVault.com, she and DB can obtain the necessary information they need to understand better how one can invest on this commodity. Like what DB said, he is very interested in the website’s gold price chart which is very new to him. He is trying to grasp more of this new interest and bring his mom up todate on his findings.