I really hate it when a computer is lagging. I do reformatting every time my computer lags before but I hate doing it now because aside from the fact that it is time consuming, it is also likely that lots of my files and program are lost. That’s why I don’t save file in my main hard drive any more. I have some extra drive for it so that in worse case scenario that my main hard drive will be affected, at least some of my files are safe. I am planning to have data backup software too to be sure.

Technology really helps a lot. I remember when I was still a kid, we were still using letters and telegrams (snail mail) as a mode of communication in our town. We still had to travel almost two hours if we wanted to use a telephone and call our relatives working here in the Metro. But now with just a laptop with webcam and laptop speakers you can already talk to your love ones even if they are abroad. That makes them seem so near.

It is been more than two years since I first entered the world of blogging when my friend introduced me to this and helped me on how to start. I am eager to learn much about being in SEO. I would read and study about it until I lost my interest in it. Now there are lots of online seo tools available so I can now continue to learn more about it.

It’s is really important that you have knowledge about computers nowadays not only in terms of learning how to turn it on or off, typing and just merely browsing on the internet. It is also important to have knowledge in computer maintenance and troubleshooting of some minor computer problems. This way you’re not bugging your computer technician where you bought your computer from unless if you’re lucky to still have free service and warranty. What if you don’t already have it?

As we all know, computer service nowadays is quite expensive and if you don’t know someone who is a reliable, competent and honest technician, sometimes you will be charged for something else even if your computer doesn’t have that much damage and just needs a little maintenance after all.

The usual computer issues and problems that can irritate you are the following especially Windows Vista:

• computer lagging - you just felt that unlike before when you could open programs as much as you can but in the long period of time of using it, this is the common problem

• slow uploading and downloading time

• slow internet browsing and computer hanging

You don’t have to call computer technician always and you don’t have to pay for the technician to resolve your computer always when you can do it your self. Just visit http://speedforwindows.com/. With just $12.95 one time fee, all the simple instructions to fix all these problems will be given to you. You can have the maximum performance of your computer in just 30 seconds after doing it by your self.

I am a nurse don’t have any formal study in computer but I maintain and sometimes troubleshoot or fix my computer. We can do it.

I really had a hard time on my previous computer specification. It lagged especially if I would be opening more than three programs at time. It was Friday afternoon when my son bumped on my computer while I was doing something. It restarted but was not able to re-boot on windows anymore. When I restarted it, I heard beeping sounds then.

That made me decide not to have it fixed but rather upgrade it to much new specification. I was happy my google ad sense earnings helped a lot. Now having my AMD Athlon 64 2.6 Ghz. processor and one gig memory while not the most latest one but at least they were upgraded. I’m really happy how this specification works fast. It was a blessing in a way that my son bumped on it. Maybe it made me decide right away to upgrade.

My friends and I once got a talk about having our school batch’s official website someday, since most of them are now working in different parts of the country. Also, this website will be used by us as our venue where we could get every one of us updated with each others’ happenings as a communication means.

I started building a temporary website from a free web hosting provider but we were annoyed by some pop up advertisement would pop up. In addition, the bandwidth and design had limitations. Luckily, I have a friend who informed me about having our own domain and that we could actually host it. She provided me a webhosting site where I could choose the best web hosting company that will meet our official website needs.

Since that was the first time I made a website of our own, I really had to consider first the web host’s technical support. We also had to consider affordability, reliability and most importantly, costumer satisfaction. For these, I read reviews about web hosting providers, their advantages and disadvantages and identified the best plans and promos.

Through these, I got my best web hosting provider and it is been a year now. I also host here my other blog site and created more website for my friends.

I am kinda fired up this morning. All the while I thought my DSL connection was in trouble again. A few months ago my DSL was down for almost two months so I’m gonna freak out if this ever happens again. My internet connection discontinued this morning and I saw my modem DSL lights were off again. That was the activity of my modem when I was having my DSL problem if I remember what happened a few months ago ---- so I thought its happening again.

Of course, I immediately called my ISP technical support and I was not even aware that they already changed there landline number. As we all know calling your technical support will take you a while for so many minutes before you could connect and get a technical support representative to talk to you. But before that, I already done minor trouble shooting because I don’t want also to trouble them if I could only fix it and with all the trouble I experienced before. I almost understand and able to know how to do trouble shooting. So I’ll check all the lines to confirm that they are properly connected and I found out that they are all connected.

Fast tracked talking to my ISP technical support team. As usual, he let me perform first all the line checking, as I was about to tell him that I already done I found out that the cord that was connected to telephone DSL circuit is not the exact one. I remember it was my dial up phone line that was in there because I was cleaning my area this morning and I accidentally pulled out the line. So ok, I mistakenly connected the other cable.

I felt ashamed because of what I felt. I was sarcastic while I was talking to the technical personnel. Anyway, I hope you don’t blame me. I just read yesterday in a forum all the bad experiences subscribers have with technical support team of not only one of the internet provider but almost in all ISPs here.

For more than a month now that I don’t experience internet problem since my connection got fixed after more than two months of waiting. So I hope they will continue to work for the betterment and improvement of there service. I hope and pray that during heavy rain I will not experience intermittent internet connection again.

I was just happy that my DSL connection is now fixed. I’ve been observing my newly restored DSL connection lately after more than two months of long suffering and hundreds of dollars in losses. The rebate they offered was not enough to compensate the total amount I lost. I cannot apply to other Internet Service Providers because I signed a one year lock up period with my present ISP. Aside from that, since I am also having problem with my DSL connection, I have been already scouting for possible ISP provider but because of some horrible experiences I read from other subscribers of other ISP in the country, I thought it is better just to sacrifice than sacrifice more.

Hoping that there will be new player that will that will give us better internet service someday and a government agency that will protect, preserve and uphold consumer welfare act for the betterment of the internet industry and its consumers in the country.

Our country is an excellent source of professionals with 1,181 colleges and universities that offer graduate and post-graduate degrees. Our country is also surrounded by 1,276 schools that offer vocational and technical training.

On the other hand, having 700,000 new college graduates every year results to an additional 11 percent unemployment increasing every year. The reason of this is that the economy cannot create enough jobs to accommodate newly graduates from their field of expertise.

Statistics show that there are some 2.5 million students enrolled at the tertiary (college) level. Of these, over 300,000 are enrolled in medical and health-related courses. Over 400,000 are taking engineering and computer science courses. Only 60% of graduates can work but half of those are not regular jobs and not related from their courses. The 20 percent shifted to other courses and others took post graduate courses just to have a job after.

Imagine the time you wasted in school and yet you can’t get a better job after graduation. Take me for example. I am a registered nurse and yet working and earning money without using my entire four years in nursing school maybe in some fields. But if I will be given a chance I will try to get Cisco certification because opportunity and career-wise, you can have better job with better money in this. See how global demand is growing for IT professionals. As we all know, internet and connections to world wide web are important to the whole world. This is a large part of the reason why many world’s multinationals companies run by computers and internet.

Can you imagine the world without internet today? Visit Cisco website and you will see the greater opportunity. Read personal stories of lucky Cisco certified people and see how they captured the world.

My internet service provider called me up yesterday to inform that my application for bill adjustment or rebate has been approved and will reflect on my latest bill for the periods May to June. But I am not really happy with it because until now I still don’t have my DSL broadband connection back. I am still using dial up for my internet connection right now. And it will be two months next week since I first informed my provider about the problem.

I still don’t know how much rebate they gave me, since I still have not received my latest bill. But I am sure it is not enough for amount that I already lost since then. I missed the opportunity of grabbing some tasks which usually needs faster connection to be win a job since other blog advertising companies are on a first-come-first served basis.

I am still hoping that this company will fix it today because according to the technical group I spoke to last Monday, their tentative date will be Friday which is today. I am still hoping that they can finally keep their promise of fixing my connection problem.

My internet service provider called me up yesterday to inform that my application for bill adjustment or rebate has been approved and will reflect on my latest bill for the periods May to June. But I am not really happy with it because until now I still don’t have my DSL broadband connection back. I am still using dial up for my internet connection right now. And it will be two months next week since I first informed my provider about the problem.

I still don’t know how much rebate they gave me, since I still have not received my latest bill. But I am sure it is not enough for amount that I already lost since then. I missed the opportunity of grabbing some tasks which usually needs faster connection to be win a job since other blog advertising companies are on a first-come-first served basis.

I am still hoping that this company will fix it today because according to the technical group I spoke to last Monday, their tentative date will be Friday which is today. I am still hoping that they can finally keep their promise of fixing my connection problem.

I was having problems with my broadband connection. It's been 2 months already that I am having intermittent connection. Until such time, no connectivity for me yet. So I decided to try another Telephone Company which offers DSL or Broadband connection.

To make it sure that I will not regret this next one I intend to shift to, I made some research, read some review and blogs about connection and service. I have found out that three big companies who are currently having DSL and Broadband Services in the Philippine consumers all had a bad experience in terms of connection and technical service. Others have worse experience than I have. The big problem is that these companies don’t have money-back guarantee instead if you want to avail there free installation service they will lock you up to 12 months. You have to pay if you want to have their service disconnected.

I am just wondering how the government agencies like NTC and DTI act on this consumer-related problem we had. The most affected are the consumers. How about the consumer protection law that the government must implement?

For now, we can’t do anything but settle with their service which honestly sucks. We only wish there could be new player that would compete these three telecom giants. A new Internet Service Provider who is competent and worthy that could render us satisfaction and money back guarantee. I couldn't wait for this to happen.

I remember when we used to operate our internet café business before, we used to buy category 5 cable (also known as Cat5 or "Cable and Telephone"). It is a twisted pair cable type designed for high signal integrity we used for computer networks.

We used to have 8 computers networked in our café and only using dial up. But now I heard because of new technology, the use of DSL digital subscriber loop, and other broadband services when the internet connection runs faster connection and carries many other signals such as voice and other data, Cat5 has been superseded by the enhanced version CAT5e.

Transactions using e-gold have grown worldwide, and even small businesses in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, are making use of this digital currency exchanges when doing business. These exchange e-gold currency for electronic money, or convert one type of digital currency (DC) to another, such as webmoney into e-gold.

But if you are into this kind of business such as to sell e-gold for wmz, visit Automatic e-gold and WebMoney exchange service The exchanges are done here completely in an automatic mode in 1-5 minutes. They also specialize in an exchange, input-output of electronic currencies.

Rudy Fernandez, Philippines’ local action star has been diagnosed pancreatic cancer and have tried different methods and medical interventions available in treatment to such cancer. Other celebrities known to have this condition also includes Patrick Swayze who was best known from the movie “Ghost” with Demi Moore and Whoopie Goldberg. Swayze has been humored that he had few weeks to live.

But what is pancreatic cancer? Why is it that according to the study, a 5-year survival is much less than 5% only: A disease in which malignant (cancer) cells are found in the tissues of the pancreas. This is also called exocrine cancer. Estimated new cases reach 37,680 and 34,240 deaths from pancreatic cancer in the United States in 2008: Depending on the extent of the tumor at the time of diagnosis, the prognosis is generally regarded as poor, with few victims still alive five years after diagnosis, and complete remission still extremely rare.
Early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is difficult because the symptoms are so non-specific and varied. Common symptoms include pain in the upper abdomen that typically radiates to the back and is relieved by leaning forward loss of appetite, significant weight loss and painless jaundice Therefore, pancreatic cancer is often not diagnosed until it is advanced.
This condition also has predisposing factors such as age usually in males. Cigarette smoking causes a 75% risk increase, and the risk persists for at least a decade after quitting, Diets high in red meat, obesity, diabetes mellitus, occupational exposure to certain pesticides, dyes, and chemicals related to gasoline, family history and gingivitis or periodontal disease are also added factors.
UPDATE — Patrick's representative has issued the following statement to TMZ: "Patrick's physician Dr. George Fisher states, 'Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far. All of the reports stating the timeframe of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue. We are considerably more optimistic.' Patrick is continuing his normal schedule during this time, which includes working on upcoming projects. The outpouring of support and concern he has already received from the public is deeply appreciated by Patrick and his family."

UPDATE - Rudy Fernadez Died June 7, 2008 6:15am

It seems that the percentage of those who passed the Nurses Licensure Exams have been decreasing. Out of 67,728 nurses who took the 2007 exam, only 28,924 passed depreciating the number by almost 42.7%. Nursing schools in the country who reduce the quality of teaching even before the average passers of the Nurse Board Exam really range from that numbers.

There’s a lot of schools nowadays offering Bachelors of Science in Nursing course. Maybe because of the volume of students who take up nursing course. Hopefully the quality of education and screening is still maintained. Not just only to enroll as much students who wanted the nursing course. But to be able to help those students prepared nurses in the future.
To graduate and pass the board exam as well.

I remember how hard and rigid the screening and selections of nursing students were during our time. NCEA results is so important and the cut off for NCEA must be 82% and above. Otherwise, you must pass the entrance exam with a higher result. Grades in every subject must be maintained above 82% for a minor subject and 80% for major subjects. You should also have an average grade of 83% plus pass other screening before capping. I remember maybe ¼ of the class did not make it to be included in our capping.

This could be a reason why our batch garnered the Top 1,3,6 and top 9 of the Dec 1995 exam plus more than 20 students from my batch is in the list of top 20’s. Also more than 10 of my batchmates made it to the top 20 in June 1995 Nurse Licensure Exam. With almost 75+-80% passing students. This is also a reason why I am so proud that I belong to Colegio de San Agustin – Bacolod College of Nursing Batch 1995 as I witness how the school did abide by strict and high standards for its nursing students.

To all 28,924 New nurses who made it in their Nurse Licensure Exam, my big congratulations. Welcome to the world of nursing. Nursing profession does not end there. Our profession did not end in the four years in our school and did end by just passing the board exam, but instead these are the beginning of our career in caring.

Most of us after who passed the board exam worked in hospitals as volunteer nurse, with out salary. Other hospitals provide allowance but most of them do not give even a single dime. Lucky if you know someone in the government which you can start as casual or regular hire immediately.

The reason why is that nurses after years working in a hospital here, tend to apply for a job abroad. Others work as volunteers for almost a year and as a reliever only. Just to have a certificate of employment which will be going to be used for their applications for job abroad.
To all new nurses good luck

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The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 28,924 out of 67,728 passed the Nurse (First Timers, Repeaters, Removals and Voluntary Retakers of all subjects) Licensure Examination given by the Board of Nursing in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga last December 2007. Ten (10) out of the 14 Retakers as per C.A. Decision passed and 729 out of the 1,132 Special Certification Retakers for C.G.F.N.S. passed the examination.

See complete list: 2007 passersPRC List is still the official List of passers

The making of Nursing 1995 website started by a "small talk" between Matt and me when the two of us got a chance to meet when he joined his family here in Manila. I think it was last October. It’s been two years since we got to see each other again. So we were just reminiscing those memories we have during college days over a bottle of Light San Miguel beer. When he got to mention about our batchmates who are now working in different part of the world, we thought maybe we could have our reunion in the near future. We leaned towards a chat about the need for a website where we and our batchmates can have access or contacts with each other.



So we came up with the website. I told him maybe we could start with our batch website in some free web hosting site like geocities and hopefully with the financial help of our batchmates someday we could launch a more professional (and paid) one.



With the help of Friendster in my friendster account I gradually contacted each of our batch mates who only have Friendster accounts. I started locating them and downloaded some pictures of them through their Friendster accounts and gradually submitting some old pictures of our college years..



Today, we have access to each other now. I know a day will come we can now launch the official website where we can have our official home on the world wide web. Forums or chats and individual emails may be added so that we will have our constant communication.



With the help of our Almighty Father may this dream that started over a bottle of beer will come into a reality.