Day: January 19, 2013

Social Profiles and Search Engines

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Whats written on the Internet stays on the Internet. With so many Web crawlers and countless data gathering tools, one has to be careful on what is visible to the public. Already many jobseekers are shocked and are in disbelief to see their past words coming back to haunt them during crucial job interviews. Although we can’t totally disassociate ourselves from the new social media, we can be careful on what’s visible publicly. Here are some tips to protect yourself by denying your social profiles to the search engines.

Pegging

Pegging is a great memory technique to remember large number of numbers or facts. It just takes 20 mins to practice but would help you life long.
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Here is the memory aid.

0
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z,s
1
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t,d
2
–
n
3
–
m
4
–
r
5
–
L
6
–
j, ch, sh
7
–
k, g, or c
8
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ƒ, v
9
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b, p

Just add any vowels – a,e,i,o,u in between to make nouns and list of nouns into a story. You can add any number of vowels in between.
Example: 

Mnemonic for remembering the order of streets in Manhattan between 2nd Ave and 5th Ave:

3 Lost People Meet

3rd Ave.
Lexington Ave.
Park Ave.
Madison Ave.

Two great Companies – same results

The best decision I ever made in 2013 (so far) is to fire two great companies to save costs. First my Cable & Internet Service Provider (Bright house) and Wireless provider (AT&T). I fired Bright house due to the recent horrible customer service experience, my DVR box malfunctioned just before Christmas and ever since they missed 3 continuous appointments to fix them and not even a courtesy call to apologize. So they left me with no other option but to fire them. I had to switch to Verizon FIOS and so far everything seems to be fine with much cheaper plan.
Second, My Wireless provider AT&T is hugely over priced for my iPhone – minutes, data and text plans. I found a cheaper alternative which uses the same AT&T Network. It’s a quite a deal and was surprised to find Straighttalk from Walmart was able to offer Unlimited nationwide calling, texting and data for just $45 with no contract. I just used my out of contract AT&T provided iPhone4. Similar plans from AT&T cost more than $80 with a contract.Image
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Am so relieved now, and looking forward to save money and hoping to get good customer services in the months to come.