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I have not been able to go online on a regular basis than I used to. The internet service provider sucks. At the moment, using somebody’s unsecured line. shhh…. Can’t blame us really. We really want our line to be fixed but they are delaying it.

We called the phone and internet provider a few days before we move out. Made and order for a phone line and an internet connection to be set up. The officer said, it’d take 2 weeks to 1 month. So we waited 2 weeks. We made a follow up call. The person said, they are working on it. We waited another 2 weeks. That made it a month. Called them up again. Turned out that the order wasn’t even taken!! No record!! Then why the heck did the person say they were working on it??

We went to the kiosk ourselves. Placed an order. The lady there promised she’d do a follow up the next week. One week has passed, still nothing. Gosh I am pissed actually. But what can we do? Nothing just wait on and call every single week until they get it done.

The house moving had caused us a lot of upheaval. Even after a month there are still things not really settled. The internet being one of the most important things to get done. The internet being important also because I need to do a lot of loan and bill payments using online banking. Who needs diet pills when you have the pressures of daily lives to make you lose your appetite.

Sometime ago, I posted an “offtopic” post regarding my email being hijacked. I had 3000 over “undelivereable” mails in my webmail mailbox. When I saw that, I was baffled. No way I could have sent that many emails in just a few days. I took the pain of deleting all those “rubbish” and contacted my hosting provider. I was afraid that my webmail account might have been hacked. Turned out it wasn’t.Thank goodness. I still do get these unwanted emails now, but at least not bombarded with thousands in a few days.

Only today I read about this “undeliverable” spam emails at privacycouncil.org. Turned out, this thing happens rather frequent, and to many people. Legitimate email addresses getting hijacked by spammers to send their spam emails. Mine included. This kind of spamming is called backscatter spam. I would never have realized this if I have not found the article there.

Even though now I feel relieved that I am not alone in this, and my webmail is not hacked, I still despise the thought that my email address is being used by some “buffoons” to spam peoples’ inboxes. They even use my email address to make fake purchases on ebay! Can you believe it?

I saw an interesting offer at the Privacy Council website. For $9.00 they can help to wipe out your contact details from all major mailing lists. Perhaps this will help protect your email address from being manipulated by spammers. Save you time from having to deal with this sort of annoyance.

These past few weeks I just notice that I have a frequent visitor, who would stay for hours on my blog. That visitor is from mountain view. As I know, google servers are there? It can be their googlebot doing their crawl. But I know how a googlebot would appear in my statcounter.

But this one came in to my blog by googling some keywords.

Can googlebots do a search? Or what?

I am back online. We have moved to our new apartment. So far I like the place. Still new, and many things seem a little awkward for us, but we are managing fairly well.

Still have plenty of things to do in the apartment. Install the shelves. Buy a new furniture or two more. Hopefully we will settle down soon.

I’m moving house. No not my hosting (my hosting has been great). I’m moving to another apartment. Tomorrow, I will be sending the small things over to the new place. It’s only some blocks away. Day after tomorrow, the movers would come to take the bigger things.

The new place has no internet connection yet. So I am not sure when I will start blogging again. Though I hope it won’t be long till we can get another connection set up.

I am feeling a little sad. Not that I am so attached to this place. Only been here for a year. But still not a great feeling to leave what you are familiar to. I am just hoping that the new place will be better. So far, it is better. Bigger space, newly renovated, and I like the brightness of the place. This apartment is somewhat dark, being on the second floor, we don’t get much sunlight. Anyway, I just want this to end quickly, so we can start settling down quickly too.

Okay then. This will be the last post that I will be doing from this apartment. Hope to get internet connection by next week. Feeling a little depressed now, so going to browse more reviews for my dell 1525 laptop and also some cool looking Guess watches. The feeling of watching something that you are going to buy soon is equally as therapeutic as buying it.

Bye bye for now.