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Busy as a Bee

Well, hello  there blog!

I know I have been too busy with things trivial or not to just update. I haven’t been able to do LitratongPinoy for two weeks, and that goes the same for the other weekly memes that I join.

Busy as a bee, that is what I am these past few days, cramming as many things to do while I can leave the kids at home. No, I did not start a business but that would be a welcome idea since promotional items are one of the most sold-out items these days, with the elections just a few days away. I really wish I was able to cash in on this venture.

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Know Your Carbon Footprint

Almost everyone is talking about carbon cutting and carbon footprint. These terms do not just stop at being words but by carbon cutting, one HAS to do a lifestyle change to be able to lessen one’s carbon footprint.

A carbon footprint is “a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change” according to this site.

Determining one’s carbon footprint does not entail making drastic changes but rather making small steps towards changing what used to be sources of wasted energy, be it about electricity or gas emissions.

Some of the nitty-gritty details include lessening the use of non-biodegradable materials like Styrofoam, changing incandescent bulbs to fluorescent light, among other  things.

For a more detailed understanding of the topic, here is a Carbon Footprint Calculator that will help you analyze the conditions about you and your household.

Are you ready to make new changes?

Third Party Apps in Facebook

Annoyed with those third party apps in Facebook? Yes, these are your friends’ game scores, newly acquired farm necessities, flowers, gifts, pillows, relatives, calendars, pokes and a list so long I could not possibly name a tenth of.

Oh, here is a page that lists down these third party apps in Facebook.

Ok, I admit, I used to take quizzes and take on challenges but I rarely publish my results. There.

Anyway…

Built to work with existing operating systems third party applications are programs made by or written by people who are not the provider of the operating system.

When I see one appearing on my time line, I click HIDE. I don’t want a cluttered timeline. I am more interested in updates than in scores, thank you very much.

I have also written before that contacts who will tag me with products they are selling would be “marked” and be warned. Not even neutrogena skin id reviews and a free tube will make me change my mind about not hiding these updates.

Are you getting annoyed with these third party apps in Facebook? What are these apps that get in your nerves?


Check Your Privacy Settings

Google Buzz definitely stirred a lot of controversies since the day it came into existence.

Ok, I admit, I was excited at first but when I see names of people appearing in my Google mail, responding to the posts of some of those I’m following, I tweaked the privacy settings and the sites connected to me to give me a sense of (a little) security from being exposed to people I do not know.

Not that I feel I should have taken diet pills before my photos are seen ( 😀 ) but you know, not all the people in your mailing list are people that you exactly want to share personal info with.

There are contacts that I do not personally know in my mailing list such as there are people I come in contact with in social networking sites that I do not personally know too. Even if I share common friends with them it does not necessarily mean that they are my friends already.

Like with Facebook, before the change in privacy settings took place, I went the super private way, by being not searchable by people I would not ask to be a contact in the first place. I just did a several changes in the privacy setting which I discussed in this post after they made searching for friends easier.

What about you? Have you checked your privacy settings lately?

How to Look Busy at Work Part 2

Part 2 of How to Look Busy at Work

Keeping yourself preoccupied with other tasks that are not work-related for a whole day or several days is a big no-no. You need to distribute the times you will find time to chat with your friend, or update your profile on you social networking site, if these sites are allowed.

If these are not allowed, uses a proxy to surf the net which you can get for free to help you avoid detection.

Or, have your own wi-fi enabled mobile phone (if there is wi-fi) or netbook (with your own mobile connectivity) where you can check sites that matters most to you (yes, like that treatment for acne site your little sister is pestering you about).

Have props. If you are just going to the bathroom, or have a smoke in the smoking lounge, or visit a friend in another department, bring something with you, like a clipboard or a folder with documents inside to give the impression that you are busy.

Take note of the way you encode. Encoding emails make people encode faster, not unlike when encoding reports, so careful pecking of the keys should be done to ensure the words are being thought about and deliberated.

Keeping busy at work even if one is not actually busy is not an easy task but with time and practice, these things get polished.

Just make sure you deliver what needs to be delivered or else, you would be really busy doing a lot of things.

Or be out of job for slacking too much while on the job.