If you visited one of my other blogs over the past couple of months this one is a great treat in comparison. I was told that I should pay for hosting instead of having the free hosting. I was told that the free hosts can change your content and your code - even though its copyrighted. I learned the hard way. They can and they did.

Within hours I left the other sites in the dust. I still keep them up but they are nothing in comparison to this site and what it will be as well as the other three I have coming soon.

For the past couple of weeks I have spent an enormous amount of time trying to compose good content (except for my spelling errors~thank you, John ;-) for this site that readers would enjoy, learn from or pass on to friends. I choose my subjects like I choose my battles…carefully.

Now, in the past 24 hours Internet Explorer has become a battle I’m willing to take on. Internet Explorer has caused major havoc on my site and in my life. For a person that enjoys peace, my life has been the complete opposite of peace. Thank you, IE 7.0.

Friends have told me that I’d regret using IE and should change to Firefox. Firefox is reliable, fast and if I enter code…it stays put. Well, I installed it a couple of weeks ago but since I hadn’t transferred all my tool bars yet I didn’t give it much thought…until today.

Cecilia, with VoNetwork, my hosting company, was trying to help me figure out why my template suddenly went wacko. My sidebars on either on the wrong side or at the bottom of the entire site. Ugh! Cecilia is a gem. She looked at my site and said it looked fine to her. Then, she remembered…that even though I have Firefox, I use Internet Explorer. She uses Firefox. She had me pull up my site in Firefox and voila! No problems.

Like my free webblogs…IE 7.0 is now biting the dust and trust me, I’ll never look back. There’s just no excuse for causing so many errors on one page. Life’s too short.

Hopefully, you all see the good site and not the bad site. If you see my “search bar” on the left side of my website, you are using Internet Explorer and its not displaying properly.

You have to wonder, if this is happening to my site that’s not a big deal to anyone but me…what’s it doing to your sites, your code or what are you not seeing that you should?

For your convenience, if you want to give it a try now, here’s the link. It will make your time on the Internet a whole lot happier, faster and accurate. ~Diana

Again, I’m not a investor person, a money person or a business person…I’m just a person that uses the Internet - a lot. Personally, I prefer Yahoo! for my searches but use Google’s Adsense (coming to this site soon). All this being said, is Yahoo! being a true yahoo or are they making the deal of the century now that they passed on the Microsoft buy-out?

At first, I thought that Chief Exec, Jerry Yang, was about to have his head served for dinner but it appears he wants to pull off a major coo and go into partnership with Google on their searches and possible make a deal with Time Warner Inc’s AOL.

I can’t say that I’m for or against whatever Yahoo! does but the Yahoo! employees need to care because it appears that jobs will be cut whatever deal Yahoo! accepts. Why is it that when mergers happen that jobs are on the line? I can kind of understand some of the upper-crust losing out or moving to other areas because of too many chiefs or duplicate responsibilities. But, can’t Corporate America find a way to save jobs in spite of mergers, buy-outs or acquisitions? Shouldn’t that be paramount? It’s not like the US has a huge surplus of jobs out there to offer these people.

I don’t know, maybe I need to take some business classes (that’ll be the day…not) but it seems this and other mergers are for the shareholders with no thought of the employees that will lose their jobs. And, if this isn’t bad enough…these employees have been dealing with the stress of the Microsoft buy-out for a year now…and it appears it’s only going to get worse before it gets better. Talk about job stress.

Again, loyal American workers lose out to shareholders that will make a lot of money - leaving the loyal workers…out in the dust.

Just my thoughts…I’d love to hear your’s,

~Diana

Internet businesses are on the rise more than ever now. Between Google Adsenseon websites earning between a few dollars a month to hundreds of dollars a month to employees working from home via their internet-office our society today would collapse without the internet.  I can’t tell you the last time I walked into a bank. My income is deposited right into my bank account or PayPaland I pay all my expenses via - the internet. Shoot, you can even do your grocery shopping on-line and have it delivered to you. No wonder some of us are becoming Internet addicts. The Internet has become our life’s dependency. 

A couple of articles about Internet addiction have crossed my desk recently. Hmmm, think someone’s trying to say something? Anyway, I found it interesting to read some of the symptoms of Internet addiction (this is not the same as porn addiction). Do you know someone that shows any of these signs?

The below are symptoms from Covenant Eyes:

Have your family or friends complained about the amount of time you spend online?

Are you less involved with your spouse or friends because of your involvement with the Internet?

Have you lied to your spouse or family members about your Internet usage?

Do you feel estrangement in your relationship with God because of your involvement with the Internet (pornography, gambling, etc.)?

Do you avoid social engagements or try to leave such engagements early in order to spend more time on the Internet?

Do you hide your Internet involvement from your spouse or family members?

Do you, your spouse, or family members stay up late, after everyone has gone to bed, so you can log onto the Internet privately?

Have you, your spouse or a family member experienced an increase in moodiness, anger and harsh blaming?

Have you, your spouse or family member tried to stop your involvement with the Internet, but have been unable to do so?

Many people find that overcoming these temptations is virtually impossible on their own. Developing a relationship with another person who can hold them accountable is the most effective way to obtain help. 

A survey found that one in eight Americans may have signs of internet addiction:

– 14% of respondents found it hard to abstain from internet use for several days
– 5.9% said excessive internet use affected their relationships
– 8.2% said the internet was a means of escape from the real world
– 3.7% felt preoccupied by the Internet when offline

Where do you stand? Do you know someone that might be in this situation?

~Diana