Dhivael/Anne’s Hyperactive Blog

I’m terribly disorganized sometimes. I have a hard time keeping track of what and where. This is why I downloaded Copernic Desktop Search months back; to keep track of my computer files.

And when it comes to money… Agh! I can fill out tax forms… but keeping track of where it goes? I can’t remember. Now some people use Quicken or MS Money as their personal finance software, but those are a bit expensive.

I’ve found new software instead: PiggyBob! The name may be silly, but I’m already in love with this thing. You can add income and expenses to any day and it will show you a chart of income/expenses. For that day, for a month, a whole year. Whatever.

You can input income and expenses by name/description ( ‘Nordstrom’s – Million Dollar necklace’ ) and add them to a category ( ‘Things I shouldn’t have bought’ ). You make up your own names & categories.

The interface is really easy to understand and everything is labeled nicely. The only thing I don’t like is that the calendar shows the week beginning on Monday, instead of Sunday, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to change that at the moment… but that’s really a minor quibble.

The first 30 days of PiggyBog is free. After that, it’s only $19.99. Good price for good software.

I’m definitely buying it when the 30 days are up, to help keep track of my PPP income.

Silly people. Make up your minds already. Michael Arrington of Techcrunch posted about how ‘My hope is that PayPerPost quickly requires disclosure by bloggers…‘

That was on the 12th, about 2 weeks ago (give or take a few days). So now that PayPerPost has started down this road by creating DisclosurePolicy.org, he’s still not happy!

What?

Dang, make up your mind already! Sheesh.

He’s mad that PPP is paying people to put up a disclosure policy. What better way to make sure that people actually add it? $10 is great incentive! No doubt, in a month or so, this will be required for all PPP bloggers; and the late-comers won’t be getting paid to add it.

He’s also mad that the generic disclosure statments do not meet with his approval. Well, duh, you can rewrite them. There’s nothing that says that you have to use the exact wording they came up with. In fact, DisclosurePolicy.org encourages you to edit the thing as you see fit.

Did you see that, Arrington? Or are you too busy coming up with the next glowing review for one of Techcrunch’s ‘sponsors’?

Everyone gets paid somewhere along the way. You do (I count no less than 8 huge ‘sponsor’ ads/links on the side of the page). I do. Everyone does. And I don’t post about anything I don’t want to. If I don’t want to give a company a positive review, then I don’t blog about it. Simple. Easy.

I did NOT get paid to write this post.

I got paid to write the previous post.

It is October 30th, just a little after 4am. Two things are nearly here: Halloween (candy) and NaNoWriMo (books). I love both books and candy. I’ll try to get some surplus Halloween candy to fuel my NaNoWriMo writing, but I dunno if I can make it last a whole 30 days.

Considering this’ll be the first time I’ll have participated in NaNoWriMo, I doubt I’ll turn out anything remotely… sellable. But I will probably open up my writings in December, if anyone wants to read what I’ll have written.

Here in Tempe (Arizona), there are a ton of cell providers. Verizon, Sprint, Alltel… Personally, though, I have a Cricket phone. The service is great, and cheap. Unlimited minutes.

Unfortunately, my Kyocera Phantom isn’t the greatest. The battery keeps dying. I don’t know why. Maybe it just needs the battery replaced or something, but it may need to be completely replaced since it doesn’t really even charge in the first place. I dunno.

The downside of that is that, since it’s a Cricket phone, I cannot simply take advantage of just any of the best free cell phones that’re offered all the time. With Cricket, you need a Cricket phone. Sometimes, you can get them for free or with a rebate, but that’s usually only if you’re a new customer. I guess it’s the price you pay for such cheap service.

Before I go out to get a new phone, though, I should probably familiarize myself with the current cell phone glossary. There are so many options these days… do I really need them all?

I now have just about every spice known to man, thanks to a big sale at Fry’s (Kroger). So, today, I decided to put the ‘steak’ seasoning on one of the porkchop things that was also on sale.

I put way too much on; it was overly garlic. My brother liked it, but I did not. The flavoring was okay, but way too strong.

Oh well, next time I won’t use so much. (I had completely covered the thing, like a ‘rub’ – silly me.)

The animals also liked the pork chop, didn’t mind the seasoning. Silly animals.

Have you ever heard of Grapples? No, no… Not a type of hold… Grape flavored apples. I remembered hearing about them awhile back… back when they first came out. I don’t care what they use; grape flavored apples scare me. Supposedly, according to people who’ve tasted them, they taste like grape Kool-Aid. I don’t like grape Kool-Aid.

Just as long as they don’t start making onion flavored pears or something like that.

If you have a blog that’s more than 3 months old, you can make money using PayPerPost.

Yeah, sure I’ve been ranting about PPP for the past 3 weeks, but that’s only because it’s so nifty cool. I think everyone with a blog should sign up. If you have (or can get) PayPal, you can sign up; no matter where in the world you live. They don’t care!

Most of the things you can post about are really cool. I’m sure the others are cool to other people, though. (Like the one about collecting swords isn’t for everyone; but if you like swords, it’s a cool opp).

Plus, unlike what many people might think, you get to choose what you blog about. If you don’t like an opp, you don’t have to take it. You only get 3 opps per day per blog, so choose wisely!

The pay is great, too. $4+ per blog entry you write. $10 is not uncommon. I’ll have made over $500 in my first month, on the 6th.

P.S. If you do sign up, use my email addy ( annelions @ gmail . com ) as a referal and they’ll give me $5 as a thank you.

So sign up now and start blogging!