pelf-ism is contagious

I initially hesitated to sign up for a Blogger’s Choice Awards account when I realized that my login details were not the same with those of my PayPerPost account because I knew it was going to be a one-time thingy. I mean, the nominating and voting will end on June 2nd, so what do you think will happen to the login details I had earlier created just for this?

The same goes to my PayPerPost forum account. At first I thought I could use the same login details but no. I had to register for a new account, which means an additional set of login details to remember.

So I recently wrote down all my online accounts in a cute little notebook. I have a category for emails because I have a few Gmail accounts, a Jaring account which I had abandoned because I was feeding on a LOT of SPAMS, a Streamyx account that I had never used because the email interface is as ugly as Jaring’s, a Yahoo account which I was actively using before I got my first GMail account, and a grad-student account which uses my alphanumeric-matric-number as the username that I used only once in a while because I sooo dislike the username. I mean, how many of us fancy emails such as gsk0203@pps.umt.edu.my??!!

And then I have a category for blogs — how many of you remember that I have a Blogger and a WordPress.com blog? And then I have this chenpn.com and my spanking-new-don’t-know-what-to-do-with-them-yet charity and turtle sites. There is also a category for photo sharing — I have a Shutterfly account which I am still using on-and-off and a Flickr PRO account which was my last year’s surprise Christmas gift Read my Shutterfly-Flickr review here.

Ouh, and I haven’t told you about the forums that I actively (and otherwise) participate in — the PayPerPost forum, especially whenever I needed help as somebody from the developer team is always on standby to answer our questions; the MalaysiaBloggers forum which I recently joined; the Jom makan! forum because I was invited by the most obnoxious blogger and the PostCrossing forum (anybody still remember Postcrossing, the Postcard Crossing project?!). PHEW.

Plus, I also have my Bloglines and Feedburner accounts, my Technorati, Digg, HighFivez accounts that I don’t normally watch because, well.. Oh yea, and I got myself a NEW 9rules account! And this is highly recommended! I mean, it has been quite some time since I last chanced upon a blogger who uses grammatically-correct English, and blogs about stuff that I find interesting.

If you have as many online accounts as I do (or probably more), I hope you find this article written by Justin Kistner — Digital life management — useful. He shares how he manages and uses his passwords and emails, and how he guards against identity theft. He organizes his “digital life” very systematically and perhaps, perhaps I shall learn to do that one day.

One day.

But for now, I will still use my cute little notebook

If you’re a regular here, you should know by now that I respond to each comment left by my readers. I started doing this because I thought it was a more personal way of acknowledging my readers who took the time to leave me a comment.

The problem is, well, this isn’t a problem but more of a question, how many of you actually come back to read my response to your comment? Are you bothered, or are you not? Or will you only read my responses if you happened to remember in which posts you left me a comment? Actually, I was thinking whether I should continue responding to your comments the way I am doing it. Or whether I should reply to your comment in the email so that you know I have responded to it.

Now, to make things easy for you (see, I’m so nice), I’ve “designed” this very simple poll. All you need to do is to click on whichever response applies to you most, and click “Vote”. Hey, do I really have to explain this?!

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Thank you so much for your time. I shall be back blogging as soon as I’ve ironed out some issues And to those of you who encouraged me to fight back, thank you very much for your concern. I appreciate it, I really do

I know, I know.. I know it’s Shutdown Day today, right? And I mentioned a couple of days ago that I’d try to stay away from the PC but yea, as you can see — mission: failed! *smiles*

I figured this afternoon that since I’m going to use the computer later tonight to edit J’s Master’s thesis — I promised to help him go through his papers before he submitted them to his Supervisor — why deprive myself?

But luckily I was smart enough NOT to make such a vow (I’m not saying he’s not smart though) Otherwise it’d be very embarrassing if somebody catches me blog-hopping!

So yea, if you participated in Shutdown Day today, let me know how it went, OK? Was it successful? Quite easily done? Failed miserably? Can’t resist the temptation?