Gimme A Break

Is this the season or what? More of my mommy friends are getting online and starting their own blogs, and the more enterprising ones are even thinking of starting small retail sites.

Gosh, I’ve been so bogged down with questions of how to start? and where to start? that I might just move out of town . No, seriously I’m really eager to help a friend so I’ve been doing some searches online to find some great deals for them.

Guess what I found? Yes, that webhostingpad offers some of the best prices on web hosting with packages from as low as only $1.99 per month with a free domain thrown in. Now if that isn’t a bargain, I don’t know what is !

I’m asking my friends to go check out AlreadyHosting.com to check out the features, prices and reviews. Might as well show them the ropes now. I’m just thinking ahead a little. If their first site proves to be successful, I’m sure they’ll all want to be starting more sites and then I’ll be stuck doing all the donkey work again . Okay, so I’m mean! But hey, these girls know I’m just as busy as they are.

• truly unbeatable
• me, trading apprentice?
• price comparisons made easy for moms
• compare free cell phones
• finally a holiday we can afford

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Do you have a security system installed in your home? The festive season is round the corner again and many people will be traveling and most would feel uneasy about leaving their homes empty.

I’ve recently had a Home Security System installed. I’ve been procrastinating as it’s not within my budget. I always tell myself I’ll do it next month when I have the money.

But with a bit of searching on the internet, I found that for roughly $1 a day, I can get an ADT monitored home security system. Now that I can afford. I talked to one of the consultants and got a free evaluation and getting the entire system up and running didn’t take as long as I expected. So I’m happy I finally got around to doing it. So that’s one load off my mind.

• broken into
• leaving your front door wide open
• slow
• good or bad?
• turning rogue hackers into ethical ones

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If your kids are using up printer ink like there’s no tomorrow, then you should really be looking at the cheapest option for printer ink. Don’t be paying regular prices through your nose.

At 101 Inks, you can find inkjet cartridges, laser toners, cartridges, toners, fax ribbons at the lowest prices and save up to 85% off regular prices. They also offer free shipping on orders of $55 and above.

Now you can save an additional 10% by using the coupon code “8356620″ when you check out with your order. Seriously go check them out yourself and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

• online auction where you can save and do good
• purple chic
• where the magazines are
• tubes are in!
• more than a nurse’s guide to good living

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During the school breaks, city kids tend to spend too much time online and of course, when they’re at loose ends, they tend to get up to all sorts of mischief. Being parents, that means we have to be all the more vigilant of the types of things our kids are doing online.

I know for a fact that lots of kids think it’s really cool to be a hacker. I can see the glint in their eyes at the very prospect of it. They hero-worship the real life hackers, yes, even the ones that have been caught and sent to prison.

Well, hacking isn’t all bad though. Many hackers leave jail, turn over a new leaf and later become ‘ethical hackers’, the people employed in IT Security positions where they identify areas of system weaknesses and help catch hackers.

For those interested in pursuing a career in IT security, the EC-Council offers courses in such areas as  security fundamentals, Ethical Hacking, penetration testing, secure programming, disaster recovery and computer forensics.

They have live, online, instructor-led training courses that anyone can do from home. I mean, if someone loves the highs of hacking for fun, they might as well be an ethical hacker and make an honest living out of it, right?

• a small price for peace of mind
• crossroads
• much ado about movies
• interested in teaching?
• buh-bye, cell phone

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The kids and I have a good number of things planned for this weekend. I know it’s Easter for many of you but not for us. For us, it so happens there’s a computer fair we want to go to just for a looksee. It’s kinda obligatory, we go whenever it’s in town to see if we can pick up any bargains. We don’t like paying regular prices on our computer stuff especially since they get outdated so quickly. So yeah, we’re going to the city… yay!

• save additional 10% off already discounted printer supplies
• power-hungry games
• buying in truckloads
• staying in, eating in
• the weekend warehouse sale

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We have this hand-me-down tradition in our family where when dh or I get a new cell phone, we pass ours along to one of the kids. My kids have never gotten brand new cell phones, they’re just ‘inherit’ our old ones.

My pda phone has just been ‘inherited’ by my daughter. It’s still fairly new but since she wants to listen to her beloved MP3 and watch movies on it, she’s been hounding us about getting the memory upgraded.

Well, that’s not too bad considering that it didn’t cost us too much to find the memory upgrades at the PC fair where we can get some good discounts. Do your kids get new cell phones or hand-me-downs?

• compare free cell phones
• buh-bye, cell phone
• don’t you just hate phone spam?
• madwoman
• buh-bye, brand new car

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I hate to complain in the new year but this internet connection has been driving me nuts. Some international internet cable broke in the ocean somewhere on December 20, 2008 (I think). That was the day the internet started crawling and no number of retries or reboots could bring it back to speed.

You would think that the cables would be fixed by now, since it’s been over 2 weeks. But of course, everyone is away for the holidays apparently so there’s no one available to get the problem fixed.

But it’s already 3 days into the new year and the problem still persists. Go figure! Meantime, blogging has come to almost a complete standstill for me. I’m only doing posts that are expiring and can’t wait anymore. Otherwise, I’m just staying off my blogs because I’m just wasting time!

• snail’s pace
• when the travel bug bites
• drumming up ideas for a good cause
• not going anywhere?
• how to complain effectively

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I started out with all the good intentions of getting some background work done this holidays seeing that web traffic will probably be at its lowest since everyone’s out enjoying themselves with their families and loved ones.

Turns out the internet too is suffering from a hang over and is crawling ever so slowly that it’s impossible to get anything done at all. What a bummer! At first I thought it was the internet connection in my area.

But when I started calling my friends to check, it seems practically everyone is having this same problem. A friend who was trying to check for life insurance quotes online wasted a whole night without nothing to show for it.

So what do you think it’s wrong? I’ve written to my webhost and they’ve gotten right onto the problem. But it’s been hours and still we’re crawling at snail’s pace here .

• buying home insurance the easy way
• darn the crawl!
• full of initiative
• I gotcha covered
• circling like a vulture

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