Headache!!

My head is hurting like mad, I think it’s caused by a lack of sleep last night. Hubby’s friend who helped me set up my new computer only left at 1:30am. Today is another blog rush day for me, rushing to complete deadlines for my assignments and then there’s no better time for stupid Streamyx to be down than when I’m at my busiest. It always has to be this way. I still have 5 outstanding tasks from this particular advertiser and I am pretty sure I will not be able to complete them by 8am tomorrow. It’s ok, I’ll just let them expire, sleep is more important to me now.

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Blog Rush

Woke up at 6am today and managed to complete 3 paid posts that were expiring in less than an hour and typed 6 non-paid posts as filler posts, all in 1.5 hours.  I always perform better under pressure and when I’m under pressure, I think faster and better.   

I’d wasted one whole day yesterday checking all my unapproved and unpaid paid posts and trying to restore all my lost posts.  I’ve learnt a lesson well and for those of you who have not backed up your blog yet, please do so if you don’t want to face any disappointment in future if you loose your posts.  Try BlogBackupOnline.com, they’ve helped me recover my lost posts for my Blogspot blog. 

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Lost Posts

I finally managed to retrieve my lost posts for my Blogspot blog from BlogBackupOnline.com, a website which currently provides free back-up service.  The response to my email and customer service were very good and prompt and they managed to guide me to recover my lost posts.  I had worked until 1am to recover my posts.  They even offered to call me to guide me through the process to restore my blog. I am impressed with this company.

However, I am totally disappointed with the host of my blog.  My lost posts were not saved in their system.  Just don’t understand how this can happen and I am really dissatisfied with their service.  I have now also backed up my own blog at BlogBackupOnline.com.  Even if they decide to implement a back-up service fee in future, I will be willing to pay.

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Finally Completed

Woke up at 6am today to rush off the 3 outstanding assignments from this advertising network.  Managed to complete them within an hour and now I have to slot in the interim posts in between.  Won’t have much time to do blogging today as I’ll be going to my gynae’s office for the Amnio later.  Have been very busy for the last few days and have not done blog hopping for 3 days already.  Sorry, if I’ve not visited your blog yet! 

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Fruitful Day

Despite my computer being sent to the computer shop for repair and a thorough disc scan today, I still managed to complete 9 paid posts and 16 non-paid posts for both my blogs, making a total of 25 posts in a day.  I always feel I work better under pressure. I was trying my best to rush off at least half the number of assignments this morning before the computer guy came to my house at 10am and within a short time of 3 hours, I managed to finish off 10 posts.  I’m drop dead exhausted now and feel nauseous. I haven’t gotten much sleep last night as I was up almost the whole night checking on Alycia. Looks like it’s going to be another sleepless night for me tonight.

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Outstanding Assignments Cleared

I’ve finally completed all my outstanding assignments and only left with 1 that I had received yesterday. It’s a feeling of relief yet itching for more assignments. Have not been receiving many offers for the last few days. It’s funny that when I am bogged down with many assignments, I feel the stress but when I don’t have any, I feel upset and itching to have some. Humans are just never satisfied with what they have! Well, at least today I can start writing more personal posts and spend some time reading to the girls.

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Site Statistics

Looking at the site stats of my new blog available from the host, I am surprised to see that I have an average of 1,681 hits a day, sometimes the figure reaches 3,700. But what confuses me is the stats also show number of visitors which have a different figure. These are the stats shown for yesterday :

Date : 10 Oct 2007
No. of visitors : 164 (the figure is low here as I still have 200+ visitors to my old blog)
No. of pages :367
Hits : 1879

Does anyone know how to interpret it, i.e. what’s the difference between no. of visitors and no. of hits? What are pages too – is it the number of pages that the visitors had viewed from my blog?

Also, I am surprised to see from the stats that most of my visitors are from Australia (8,444 hits), USA (8,678 hits), Netherlands, Japan, HK and other countries abroad. It surprises me more that hits from Malaysia only stand at 500+. These blogging stats are really mind boggling!

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I Need To Breathe Some Fresh Air

It’s been a hectic day for me today. Brought Alycia to the clinic this morning, typed 9 posts today and chatted online with Elaine for almost an hour as she was guiding me in my new blog. Settin up a new blog ain’t easy, luckily Elaine has been super patient with me. Despite her spotting yesterday and today (35 weeks preggy), she still tried her best to help me. I just don’t know how to thank her. Now, I feel a bit dizzy and I need to bring the gals out for a walk to breathe in some fresh air, oopps…. polluted air in the park.

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Notice Any Difference In My Blog?

Notice the difference in my blog?

It’s the new beautiful pink header that I’ve been wanting to put in my blog for a long time but just didn’t have the time or knowledge to get about doing it. I have to say a BIG thank you to this wonderful cheery mom who has kindly offered me her help in creating this lovely header for me. She had offered me her help quite some time back but I only had the time to go through my pictures folder yesterday to select 2 pix to email to her today. I must really commend her for acting so promptly and I was really surprised that she managed to get the header done for me within hours!

Thanks Anggie for your help and for your very prompt replies to all my emails. I really appreciate your help.

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Unable To Upload Pix

Is anyone facing problem uploading pictures into your blog (Blogspot) today? I’ve been trying to upload pix to my blog the whole afternoon but kept getting the “unable to display page” message. This is just so frustrating. I hope it’s not a virus attack on my computer or anything wrong with my blog or computer.

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Test From God

I had a real test from God recently. There are certain ads that I will not accept to write no matter the amount offered. Over the last 2 weeks, 2 ads on the subject matter that I will not encourage people to get involved in were persistenly being offered to me. The ads first appeared in my account of the first advertiser for almost 1 week at a price that’s slightly higher than the usual amount. Everday as I checked for offers, this particular adv kept staring at me, as if inviting me to accept it. 2 days ago, it appeared again in another advertiser’s account of mine at an even higher amount. Both times, I didn’t accept the offer. This morning, it appeared again in the third advertiser’s account of mine at a price that’s even much higher at USD12 for only 50 words. I was so tempted to accept the offer. I clicked on the opp to have a look at the description and wanted to click on the reserve tab but my strong mind and spirit stopped me from doing so. The opp was later taken up. And I think God rewarded me for passing his test with a long list of assignments from my favorite advertiser.

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Blog Problem Solved!

Yay!! My blog problem is finally solved last night. I wish to thank everyone who had given me their advice, especially to Girlie as she told me that the problem could be due to some codes that I’d added to my blog. When she said codes, it didn’t strike me immediately that it could be some widget codes from advertisers. It was only 2 days later that it struck me. I also prayed hard to God to help me solve my problem as I was really desperate to get help and I think He heard my cries for his help. No one seemed to be able to help me with this problem and it was such a nagging problem coz I had wasted so much time whenever my blog ‘hang’ and I had to log out and log in countless times each day.

So the solution was I removed the ad from The News Room. I have been adding ads from The News Room into my blog for months but never encountered any problems with my blog, except that when the video was being downloaded into my blog, my blog would slow down for a few seconds. I changed the ad and added a new one a week ago. When I finally had time to sit down and ‘study’ my blog last night, it finally dawned on me that it could be this ad that’s the culprit. When I had removed the codes for the ad from my blog, voila…. my blog was processing fast again and didn’t ‘hang’ anymore. I’m so glad that my ordeal is finally over after more than 1 week.

So to bloggers who have ads (esp. videos) from The News Room, please be warned that it could slow down your blog and cause the memory to run out.

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Blogger Problem or My Computer Problem?

Remember I wrote a post about me encountering some problems with my blog? I have deleted some files from my C drive, as advised by Cherry and also performed a disk defragmentation. However, the problem still persisted. Each time I clicked on my blog to perform a task, eg. clicked on a link to another website, clicked on the perma link, clicked to edit post, clicked to create new post, etc., it would take at least 3 minutes for my computer to process the task. In addition, a message which states “Stack overflow at line : 63” or “Out of memory in line : 56” would apprear. Most times, my blog will just ‘hang’ and I would have to close it a few times and log into Blogger again. However, if I perform a task or even a few tasks within half a minute of logging in to my blog, my computer will have no problems processing the tasks. Once the half minute is up, my blog will hang and the error message would appear. I have no problems logging in to other websites. This is really driving me nuts. So much time is wasted everyday.

I’m not going to write to Blogger Help Desk for support coz it’s useless. I’d in the past written to them a couple of times but never got a reply.

Can someone please help me solve my problem, pretty please?

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Driving Me Bonkers

My blog is driving me nuts. There is something seriously wrong with either Blogspot or my computer. Each time I try to perform a task like edit a post, click on a link, click on the permanent link, etc. my computer will ‘hang’ and I have to log out from Blogger and log in again. Then an error message will appear. It is slowing down everything and wasting so much of my time. I hate this downtime. I am already so pressed for time everyday and with a technical glitch like this, I can really go bonkers. I bet myself when I publish this post, my computer will ‘hang’ again. Aarrgghhh…….

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Blog Marathon, Again

I’m running a blog marathon again today. I’ve just submitted 4 paid posts today and I have another 5 to complete. Reason being I’ll be going back to Ipoh tomorrow to celebrate my dad’s birthday. I’ll be away for 3-4 days, during which time I dont think I’ll have the time to do much blogging. So if you don’t see me visiting your blog today, just be patient, I’ll do so soon.

To Ashley’s mum and the rest of the mommy bloggers, you have a great gathering at Bangsar Village. How I wish I could join you all too as I’d really love to meet all of you.

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Issues With Tiga P Lagi

Tiga P is clamping down on bloggers lately. The latest I heard is that they are freezing accounts of bloggers to conduct investigation on their blogs. I know of several bloggers who just had their accounts suspended. Tiga P is really strict now but I feel they are still practising double standards. While some unlucky bloggers are ‘nabbed’, others who flout the T&C manage to get away. That’s why I have a few friends who had long fired this ‘lcly’ Tiga P. Tiga P….. when you don’t get offers from them, you feel one kind, like withdrawal symptoms but when you get them, you get all stressed up…

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HEALTH FREAK MOMMY