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Tired of unwanted email

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I wish there was a decent way to ensure that you wouldn’t get unwanted email … I mean I can’t even stop my friends and relatives from sending chain letters and joke mail. LOL Why do I hope to get email advertisers to stop sending me junk?

I did discover something that helps me “quarantine” the unwanted email. I now run all my email through gmail and then have it forwarded to my main email accounts from there. Google is pretty good at picking out spam so a huge portion of my unwanted email stays in my spam folder at gmail now. Seriously it’s cut out about 80% of the email that I used to have to sort though daily. No more ads for get rich schemes, IT job search or strange health products! I just check my gmail spam box every few days to make sure no real mail is getting stuck there and then delete all the spam.

I still get too much mail though! Probably because I have so many websites – between approving comments and getting direct email through my contact forms … and that unwanted email from relatives I have enough email to keep me busy for at least two hours each day! Speaking of “spammy relatives” my husbands cousins have time to send at least four chain letters or joke emails each day, but no time to send an email to tell us that his uncle has been in the hospital since Saturday? Now that’s bad.

Do you get too much email too? Too much spam or stuff that you just don’t care about?





Laptop running slower and slower

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My laptop is getting slower and slower. In a few hours when my weekly Norton antivirus system scan starts up the computer will run like molasses.

I think the problem is that the hard drive is about 65% full and even though I have 1 gig of RAM I think that It’s time that I start looking into getting some laptop memory. Perhaps another gig if I have an open slot for it.

Actually I’m wondering how I can tell if I have a slot open … barring opening the computer up and taking a look I mean.

At least this is the right time of year to get new memory for a computer isn’t it? Maybe I can get a good boxing day or New Years deal on new memory.

I have a portable hard drive that I store some of my files on as well … but when you take as many digital photos as I do you quickly begin to run out of space. I’ve already filled up our desktop computer with about as many digital photos and files as I can too.

What are your favorite Firefox Addons?

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I was just writing on my main blog about my quest to find an addon for Firefox 3 that will let me open multiple links in new tabs. You know, when you want to visit several sites on a blogroll … it’s nice to be able to open 10 or 20 links in new tabs at once.

I used to have an addon called Linky but that doesn’t work with Firefox 3 so I’m looking for a replacement.

My quest also made me wonder what your favorite Firefox addons are?

I don’t like to use too many addons as I find it slows down my browser, but there are a few that I really like to use:

Twitterfox – allows you to see new tweets in a browser popup.

Stumbleupon – the Stumbleupon toolbar. I only enable it when I want to stumble.

SEO for firefox

SearchStatus – displays the Google pagerank, Alexa and Compete ranks of sites being viewed.

Google toolbar

Google Gears – helps pages load faster

Entrecard toolbar- makes it much easier to view Entrecard sites

Adsense notifier – allows you to see your Adsense totals in the status area or top of your browser.

So what Firefox addons do you like to use?

Getting free stuff is cool

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I seem to be on a roll lately. Over the last two weeks it seems that at least every second day there’s been a delivery of promotional products from a variety of companies. It’s kind of neat getting stuff to try out.

My husband and I both have several blogs. I think the total between us is at about 18 right now. So I guess it’s no surprise that Marketing companies are contacting us via some of the more popular blogs that we write and offering us products to try and possibly write about on our sites.

In the past two weeks we’ve received two cans of coffee, a promo for eggs, granola type bars, really cool earphones to use with an MP3 player or smart phone, two DVDS for a TV show about UFOs and the unexplained, a razor and a pair of jeans.

It’s not always this way of course. Sometimes we go quite a few months without being offered anything neat to try, but we seem to be on a run right now.

Do you have marketing companies contact you through your blog offering you free promotional items?

Starting to get back into a routine

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Well … about a week ago I told you guys that I was going to change my whole routine -from how I sleep, to how I blog right down to getting some regular exercise.

So it’s only a week but I have made some progress. No major changes on the sleep front unfortunately, that’s still messed up, but I have gotten into a little better routine with my blogging and I pulled out the elliptical machine and started using it for 30 minutes each day. I do hope to build up to an hour or so of doing ellipticals each day or at least most days, but that will take some time.

Now if I can only get our dog Midnight to stop pretty much pulling me off my feet every time I take her outside we could start taking longer walks again. Earlier today she got excited when she saw a woman walking two dogs and at first she obeyed my command to sit and not bark, but I don’t know if one of the dogs made some kind of move when I wasn’t looking, but all of a sudden Midnight stood up and started running towards the other dogs with me dragging behind. The leash slide through my hand so fast that three of my fingers on my left hand still hurt. Boy was I mad at Midnight!

That’s what I’m dealing with on that front … but she’s pulling less and less each month so maybe walks with her can become part of my fitness routine again soon too. And of course, hopefully I start to sleep better again too.

Are you working on any goals to improve your health?

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