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Spam Glitches

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angry

I hate spam. (No not the canned food!) I’m sure most bloggers are familiar with it and I know a lot of them who are seriously pissed with spammers. It’s beginning to grate on my nerves too. Everyday, the first thing I would do is to sort out and reply on my blog comments. And everyday too I am greeted by hundreds of spams. I have more than five blogs so I think you can imagine how frustrating it can get…

I have Akismet installed for this wordpress blog and it has been a big help but still there are some legitimate comments that goes to the spam folder so I still end up checking it. It has been getting worse lately and not a day goes by where I have to weed out at least a hundred spam comments.

Grrr! Spammers be gone!

I Love Your Blog Award

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This came as a pleasant surprise from Edel..

One of the perks of blogging is you get to have people who appreciate your work. I know this blog is not really as awesome as some other blogs, but I keep trying to improve, learn and along the way I meet friends who actually reads and enjoys what I write about.

Here are the rules:

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.

2. Link the person you received your award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Put links of those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you’ve nominated.

Below are the 7 blogs I’m passing this award to:

It was really hard to come up with 7 blogs I could pass this on to since there are lots of blogs I know who deserves this but most of them have already received this award..

Finally made the move!

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I really thought it would be nerve wracking to transfer this site to another host. That is one of the reasons I held back from getting a new host even if I really needed to. I read a lot of posts saying that transferring host can be a headache so when the decision was made, my brain kept cooking up scenarios of my blog being lost with no back-ups. Hehe overactive imagination on my part.

There are lots of web hosting providers out there and I had a hard time deciding which one I’d choose. A lot of my online friends recommended Hostgator so I checked out their hosting plans. The plan prices, features are almost identical to all other hosts I checked the difference though is that  they accept Paypal payments, you have the option to make monthly, 2 and 3 year payments, and what clinched the deal? They offer free site transfer ( free domain transfer, free file transfer, free MySQL transfer, free Script Transfer).

As of this time I am really satisfied with the way they handled the transfer. I just submitted a ticket, less than an hour I got a response for my confirmation to go ahead and in less than 12 hours my site was successfully transferred!

Pinaywifespeaks went into Twilight Zone!

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A couple of days back, I mentioned I was losing bandwidth fast and August still had a week to go. I’ve been mulling over adding bandwidth or changing to a new host. Then things happened and I had to deal with them first before I could attend to my website and hosting issues.

My father arrived from Bicol and I had to bring him to Camp Crame because he had to process something about his pension and retirement benefits. I am really sad that at his age (he’s almost 80) he still had to come a long way just to get the benefits owed to him. I have a lot to say about my dad and other police retirees pursuit to have their pensions adjusted and received so I’m reserving those thoughts for another post.

Chinks also decided to go on vacation in Bicol and I didn’t have the heart to refuse her asking to spend sometime with the grandparents since well soon be leaving for Phnom Penh. Not having my daughter around made me a bit depressed so I am so thankful for mobile phones and web cams.

Hi-ace is about to defend his dissertation tomorrow and the past few days has been a doubly hectic time for us. Being the “supportive, understading and  wife” :P that I am  I helped him out with countless revisions, proofreading, and printing I’ve already sworn, I won’t ever take up graduate studies just to avoid the pain of writing a thesis. After that I was so sleepy, weary and tired to the bones.

It was just last night I got the chance to check my sites and darn it! I can’t access my site and cpanel. I’ve exceed my bandwidth and my site has been in twilight zone since the 25th. That was a 6 day vacation and whew! I checked my traffic rankings :(   and the results were a bit depressing too..

I don’t want to dwell on it anymore. Priorities are priorities and as of this time, I will soon be able to fix the hosting and bandwidth concerns, will be able to drop on my fave Entrecard sites, and write some posts..I’ve also decided to updated my theme. I want this blog to have a new and uncluttered look just like this new wordpress blog I have modified.

I guess I could go to bed now and get some much needed zzzzzzz and I don’t have to worry now coz I could safely say now that Pinaywifespeaks is back from twilight zone!

Got to Add Some Bandwidth..

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Happy :)

I’ve been away from my notebook and the internet since yesterday ‘coz I’ve got stiff neck so I had to give myself some rest and relaxation time. It was long overdue and I enjoyed the short break. It was not until late this afternoon that I decided to check my email for messages and I didn’t expect to get an email from my hosting company that this domain have reached more that 90% of my bandwidth.

Last month I got that message two days before the last day of the month and it didn’t bother me but this time August still has one week to go and my site is running out of bandwidth. Hubby suggested I should now upgrade my hosting plan.. and I think it’s a good idea.

When I got this domain and chose a hosting plan I didn’t really think I’d get any traffic so I just chose the starter plan with a small bandwidth just enough for readers like my family and friends I could “coerce” :) to read me . Originally, the plan is to make this into a personal blog but I guess I’m too private to reveal too much of myself and besides I really think blogging about my daily activities would be boring so this site went on to feature a multitude of things I find interesting.

:) I’m really happy with this.. I know my traffic is not much compared to really fab and popular blog sites but having some people checking out my site, reading my posts, leaving comments, offering link exchanges, giving me stumbles or diggs, well it really gives me so much pleasure. I also checked my Alexa traffic ranking and it coughed out 144, 756, a big jump from its 1 Million something ranking last May.

Thanks to my regular droppers, visitors and blogging friends.. You guys inspire me to learn, explore and write more…

PMC Weekly Fest: Mother and Child

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Here’s my entry for Pinay Mommies Weekly Fest, Week 8: photo post – Mother and Child. I have some photos here with me and my daughter, Chinks. We both like playing around, making faces and taking photos especially during rainy days where we can’t do much but watch tv and lounge around. I feel like she’s growing up so fast and if I could just capture our moments together in photos it’ll be a great pleasure for me and her dad to reminisce our daughter’s childhood.

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Thanks to mapiles.com and bloggista.com for being our generous benefactors of this week’s fest.