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In the past, getting access to county public records like marriage or birth certificates is a tedious process. Nowadays, these documents can be easily traced and gathered off the Internet. So gone are the days that one needs to spend a day queuing up and paying enormous fees. Thanks to technology!

Are you a big fan of Kanye West? I saw him once at the Oprah Show on TV and I was impressed with how much he adores his mother! He even sang a song for her, which I think he wrote, too.

West has a list of ring tones available for quick download at Kanye West Realtones. Maybe it’s time to give your mobile phones a new buzz.

We’re now on the 3rd quarter of the year and I haven’t updated our family budget spreadsheet. I have put all the bank account statements, credit card statements and bills on file, which is just what I need to start putting the numbers on our budget list.

Blame it on poor time management. I’ve been slacking to do this for the longest time. Hmm, if only there is a budget software that we can download for free. That would make my work a lot easier.

I am somewhat excited about the prospect of being employed again next year. I do miss my work as a SAP HR consultant, both doing projects and software support. I often think of the company I’ll be working for. Will it be a consulting or an end-user company? Either way, it will be a welcome change for sure.

SAP (or Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing) is a system software that is widely used globally. Small scale to large businesses can benefit from the enterprise resource planning software product with system functionalities ranging from Human Resources, Finance, Sales or Materials Management (to name a few). Quadrate is a company that provides SAP certified integration. The usual project landscape covers blueprinting, business process reengineering down to actual implementation and system go-live.

Many full cycle projects I’ve been a part of have benefited from the end-to-end solutions that SAP offers. With the increasing demand for fast-paced outputs such as printing reports, invoices, pay slips to processing orders or transmitting salaries to banks, it becomes imperative for companies to acquire and implement SAP to their core businesses.

SAP was first launched in 1972, fast forward to 2008; it is now the world’s second largest software company and third largest independent software. So that’s an edge over other software in the market.

I read in the news that Google web albums and Adobe flash videos are being used by spammers to redirect users to other sites.  There are links embedded in videos and photos that users are unaware that they are being sent to spammer websites!

A MessageLabs analyst further stated that spammers are focused on using Google’s free hosted services to distribute spam.  They expect these tactics will increase in the coming months.*

Acck!  When do we see the end of spam!

[source: MX paper]

Last Saturday, we went to the city to bring our Dell laptop for keyboard repair. There was a huge fire in a hotel located in Darling St that made our journey to Lapy King longer than the time it took to replace the keyboard!  Good thing my patient husband held on and continued to drive despite the snail’s pace traffic.

After the 5-minute repair, I was all smiles when the technician handed over the laptop to me.  I felt the smooth keyboard once more and I was happy.  Now I can blog and blog-hop all I want!  Thanks Lapy King!

There is a study that claims that the first letter in your email address maybe critical to how much spam emails you get.  There was an analysis made out of 500 mil spam messages with email addresses starting from A, M, R, P or S got more that 40% spam.  While those starting from Q or Z got only 20%.*

Too bad, my email addresses have the letter M at the beginning.  No wonder whether it’s gmail, yahoo or hotmail, I always get tons of spam mails!

[source: MX paper]

For real couch potatoes, having access to DirecTV is a must have. Imagine the array of shows and movies that are available 24/7, who needs to go out and watch on the big screen?

There are DirecTV deals to choose from. Like free access to premier or DVR service for a limited period, free HD receiver upgrade, 60+ channels and a lot more! Whether it’s news, music, movies or sports, the DirecTV offers are simply irresistible.

A quick quote page on Direct Sat TV’s website is available for interested subscribers. So, what are you waiting for? Get into the satellite TV bandwagon!

My husband and I thought that it’s best to bring our Dell laptop for servicing rather than have our friend come over to help install the new keyboard. As much as we want to save a few bucks for this, we realized that we would be putting unnecessary pressure on our friend to fix our personal laptop.

So, thanks to Google. I was led to a laptop servicing company called Lapy King. We only need to shell-out 88 dollars and our Dell will be back to its original state. It’s good that they have a branch at Pitt Street in the city. We don’t have to drive far.

I was so frustrated this afternoon when I discovered that all the photos I took from our visit to Brays Bay yesterday were all corrupted. I didn’t reformat the memory card that I used, never got to doing it since I removed the old photos.

When we came home yesterday, I was surprised that I couldn’t view the shots I took. I even have a few that I really like, the ones with my two charms hugging each other. Ayayay!

Lesson learned: Always reformat the memory cards before using them.

When I wrote about a post on my broken laptop keyboard, I wasn’t decided yet at that time whether to purchase a new one right away. First, even though I could not snap the keys back (following the instructions on Dell’s website), part of me is hoping that one day I would be able to. Second, I thought I could live with using the laptop as it is, with missing keys and all.

But the organized and neat freak in me could not resist having it back in its original condition. So yesterday, I called Dell’s customer service once more and inquired (for the second time) about how to go about fixing my keyboard.

I immediately ordered a replacement, with a minimal fee of 25.00AUD. However, I was shocked when the support person on the other line said that the labor fee (that is a Dell person will come over to our house to install it) is a whopping 190.00AUD! I had to sit down and ask again how much the service fee is and when I confirmed that my earlier understanding is correct, right there and then I decided to purchase the part and forego the service fee.

Thank God that one of our friends is into IT hardware and although he is more familiar with another brand of laptop, he promised to drop by and checkout what needs to be done. I offered to cook dinner for him and his wife, as our “payment” for their efforts.

I hope it will work out. I miss using my Dell.

Can’t wait to use my brand new keyboard!