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I love Notepad. You can use if for a lot of things but did you knew that you can use Notepad as a simple digital diary?
To use Notepad as a digital diary, follow the next steps:

1. Open the Notepad and type .LOG and press enter.
2. Save the file and name it what ever you want.
3. Now open the file again in Notepad. You’ll see that the current date and time is inserted automatically after the .LOG line.
4. Now each time you open the file, Notepad repeat the process and the current date and time will be inserted automatically. This way all you have to do is place the cursor below the date and time tag and write in your digital diary!

Note: if you want to insert the current date and time while writing press F5.

Source: Gedetbasumatary.

You may have noticed a slight delay every time you open My Computer in order to browse folders. Why? This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers every time you open Windows Explorer. However there is a way to get rid of the delay:

• Open My Computer
• Click on Tools menu
• Click on Folder Options
• Click on the View tab
• Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
• Click Apply
• Click Ok
• Reboot your computer

Do you want to test your internet connection speed fast? In case you want to you can try Speedtest.net.
SpeedTest.net is a broadband connection analysis tool with a huge selection of geographically dispersed testing servers.

Speedtest.net measures the performance of your broadband connection. At the end of each test, you are presented with the download (the speed of data from the server to your computer) and upload (the speed of sending data from your computer to the server) bandwidth speeds. The tests are performed completely within your web browser over HTTP (just like normal web browsing).

Here below you can see my results:

What’s your broadband speed??

I know this week it’s all about my graduation :razz:. Tuesday it was my graduation and yesterday it was time to celebrate that!

Some time ago I had invited some good friends and family to celebrate my birthday (which was actually on 26th of June) and my graduation. So when Jannie and me woke up in the morning yesterday we started to prepare everything for the party and after some hours we were finished.

The whole day we had a nice sunny day but around when the party started it started to rain. At first we sat inside the house but after a while we went outside.
Because the party was a BBQ party, I started to fire up the BBQ and putting some meat on it.. It was very delicious!
You know what’s stupid? I usually always make pictures when we go out or when we have a party and guess what I DIDN’T do yesterday! Yeah, making pictures! Why? Because I was very busy BBQ-ing and Jannie was very busy entertaining the guests and playing host.. So you have to forgive me for the fact that this post doesn’t contain pictures!

Anyway, I got a lot of nice presents and a lot of money! I was very glad that it didn’t rain the whole evening, cause at a moment the rain stopped and the sky became clear! Lucky us!
It was a very nice evening and a party which I’ll never forget! It was a good chance to see some friends of our again which we usually don’t see that often because of our busy schedule and life.

So it’s time for us to get dressed and head up to the theater in Eindhoven to see Fame the musical!

How was you’re weekend btw?

Two days ago I wrote a post called: “New CommentLuv - Found Here Badge“. In the post I explained that CommentLuv can increase your traffic & readership and that’s also good for your pagerank.
Anyway, It’s time for a BIG list of blog which have the CommentLuv plugin installed. (Ok, The list isn’t that big yet, but I’m sure it will be!)In case you want to show your visitors that you’ve CommentLuv installed, then you can use the badge here below.

If you don’t have the plugin installed yet, click here to get the plugin. If you have the plugin installed and you want to be on this list, just leave me a comment and I’ll add you asap.

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It’s vacation and it’s time to relax and have a nice time, right? After spending the whole afternoon driving around on our scooter in the lovely and hot weather we had this reservation in a restaurant followed by a movie in the cinema. Beside that we went to the city hall as we wanted some info about getting married. We don’t have a date yet but we know one thing for sure: it’s going to be next year around the summer period! Getting married is a bit difficult for me as I’m not born in The Netherlands and there fore I have to find my birth certificate from Iran (where I was born) and that might be a problem, but the guy in the city hall assured us that if we couldn’t get it we could get married anyway because then they can make an exception for me!

Anyway, Jannie and me both like good and delicious food so we were a bit curios about the food in the restaurant. I mean the menu looked great but it’s the food that counts..

So we headed to the restaurant which is about 15 minutes away from our house. The restaurant is located in the center of Eindhoven and it’s just 100 meters a way from the cinema. When we arrived at the restaurant the weather had changed from hot and sunny to a rainy & muggy weather, so it was raining really hard and we were glad that we were inside!

After eating the starter which was really delicious we knew one  thing for sure: The food is damn good!
Later in the evening when we were finished with our food we went to the cinema. Jannie wanted to see Sex and The City Movie which was actually a quite funny movie! I didn’t think that I would like the movie but I enjoyed it pretty much. The morality of the story was actually: It’s impossible to please everyone in your life, so start leaving your own life like YOU want it! Like the movie we were planning to do exactly what we want to do!

If you’ve left a comment on my site then you might have noticed that I use this plugin called: “CommentLuv“.

The CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment, this way you can encourage people to join in the discussion of your posts and give something back straight away.

With this pluging I like to encourage people to comment, joining in the discussions of my post and giving something back to the commentator straight away.

What benefits does this have for you, as a commentator?

1. Increased Traffic / Readership:
   You can increase your traffic and readership of your blog. Why? As people visit and read through the comments, they can see the titles of each person’s latest post. So If you’ve a great post titles, you WILL get traffic from this source and don’t forget that some of this traffic will convert to regular readers if people like your the stuff you write about.
2. Benefits To PageRank
   If the blog you leave a comment behind is a Do Follow blog, (like mine!:razz:) it will send you visitors your way but it will also pass you a little bit of PageRank.

   Source: Scratch99.com

For maximum exposure and benefit when commenting on CommentLuv enabled posts you should turn off FeedBurner redirect in RSS feeds.

Anyway, As I didn’t like the original CommentLuv badge I wanted to make my own. Jep, like the You Comment I Follow badge. Anyway, this is what I came up with. Cool isn’t it??

Yeaah.. After 4 years of “hard” studying it’s finally there… My graduation!!

It all started in the morning when Jannie woke me up and gave me a very nice card. Beside the card she gave me something which I REALLY loved.. A Nintendo Wii!! I didn’t had time to play with it today but believe me, I’m going to play with it all day tomorrow!

In the afternoon my mother in law came to our house to join us in going to my graduation. Before leaving for the graduation we had some cake which Jannie had ordered for me with a text on it saying: “I’m Graduated!”.

Anyway, at 15:00 me, Jannie, my mother in law and a lot of other students who were graduated came all together to receive our diploma’s. A paper which we all had to work hard for! And believe me, it’s just great to get that peace of paper. Why? Cause you know that you’ve achieve a mile stone.
After waiting for some time they finally mentioned my name and I could pick up my diploma.

After shaking hands and being congratulated by my teacher it was time to sign the diploma and get the hell off the stage!

We all got a yearbook which is very nice to have to remember the school time and your classmates!

So here I’m.. Graduated! After my graduation we went to my mother in law’s place and ordered some delicious Greek food, followed by my mother in law’s birthday party.
I had a terrific day today and I’m going to remember it for the rest of my life!

Since some time ago I kept seeing this “U Comment I Follow” badges on a lot of blogs, so I was curious and started to digging some information about this.

Almost all blog platforms by default are set up so that a “dead end” piece of code is inserted wherever there is a link in a comment, so that search engines will not “count” the link as they are crawling the internet. This was originally designed to help stop comment spam, but it doesn’t work. What it does is remove some of the incentive for your readers contribute to your site by commenting on your posts.

What can you do about it? Turn off “nofollow”. Show your commenters that you appreciate them. Spread the link love.

After reading this I decided to turn off “nofollow” with this plugin called: Do Follow. Do you wish to join this movement? Just download and install the plugin and use one of the badges.
Randa Clay has created some “I Follow” logos which people can use to let the visitors see that they DO Follow.

For a long time I’ve used his logo but today I decided to make my own unique badge and make one which matches with everything else on this site. So I started Adobe Illustrator and after spending some time on it, this is what I came up with, do you like it?!

Are you new to the blogosphere and do you need a good list which explains a lot of blogging terms?! Or do you need to refresh your memory? Anyway, it doesn’t matter which group you belong to, this is just a huge A to Z list made by DailyBlogTips and it really explains a lot of blogging terms including A-list, Adsense and many many more!
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