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slacker mommy files

anything and everything from the mind of a slacker-turned-wife-turned-mom

Category Archive: Blogging

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Curbing the Freedom of Speech: One Level Up

I am a coward. I admit that wholeheartedly. When I get into a confrontation, it is either I flee, or I fold. But there is something brewing in the Philippines that I can not run away from: The New Cybercrime Prevention Act. At face value, it seems like a good idea. The thing is, this law makes cyber libel a crime punishable by six years and one day to twelve years. The punishment is a gross exaggeration from the … Read the rest

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Major Major Boo-Boo at Slackermommy

    Last night, I was battling with a bug in this WordPress installation. Somehow, WP kept posting my old – emphasis on the old – posts from around 2003-2004. These were posts I imported from my semi-defunct blog on Friendster.com. So if you have come, say, for the last two days, my new posts were from years and YEARS back.

    Anyway, I have learned a few things while trying to handle the situation.

  1. Never try to rectify things at midnight with
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Artisteer and Adsense

I spent the better half of the morning today trying trawling all across Google to look for a way to insert my Google Adsense snippet every post page here in the blog. I had just put up this new theme (created via Artisteer and I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out the proper solution for my problem.

I tried going through some tutorials sites like this one but it wasn’t what I was looking for. I was almost tearing … Read the rest

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Slakermommy.com is Broken!

I just upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and i messed up my theme – big time! Anyway, it’s about time that I get to upgrade my theme as well. So while I’m trying to fix things, I’ll just put up this temporary theme. Once I get my theme done in Artisteer, I’ll put back in again. XD

UPDATE: I re-installed WordPress but I disabled my plugins first. That was what I forgot to do. Now everything is back to normal. XD … Read the rest

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Julia’s New Blog

    About a week ago, I did my friend Julia a favour by transferring her Blogger blog to her own domain at http://blessmybag.com. I was actually easy to do so with a help from various online how-to articles and a myriad other short tutorials.

    The very first thing to do was to have Julia’s new domain name to be redirected to our web host (hostgator.com). Leejay already did that bit, by changing the name servers in her godaddy.com … Read the rest