June 10, 2008

How much time do you spend in front of the computer?  Me?  A LOT.   I’ve got three active blogs keeping my hands full. I regularly update all three, specially my working blogs Cafe Munchkin and this one, which get at the very least, two updates a day.   And then, there are the SPs (sponsored posts) which are keeping me both busy and happy.  Hee hee.  I know, I know, some of you find these SPs a wee bit annoying.  I used to get annoyed too, you know.  That was when I was still on the other side of the fence. 

I also talk to my Mom everyday, sometimes twice a day even, via YM (Thank you Yahoo Messenger!).  Then, I check and reply to emails and chat with family and friends.  I don’t even have time anymore to go to my Friendster and Facebook accounts. 

Do the above make me an addict of sorts?  Yes?  Perhaps.  I can’t resist the call of my LT (laptop) and DT (desktop).    It’s that bad really.  But don’t bring me to the computer counterpart of drug rehab just yet.  Everything is still under control.  Promise.

This is a fun tag from Meeya.

Participants: 1. Me and Mine 2. Creative In Me 3. Little Peanut 4. Pea in a Pod 5. Sugar Magnolias 6. All Things Me 7. Because Life Is Fun 8. Mind Bubbles 9. Something Purple 10. Stripe at Yellow 11. Vanity Kit 12. Em’s Detour 13. Big Eyed Gal 14. The Chronic Shopper 15. Vital Sighs 16. Maver 17. CODPG 18. Working It 19. MyParty.Finds.A Home 20. Munchkin Mommy 21. Cafe Munchkin 22. Mapped Memories

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MY FIRSTS

First real job
:: Junior Architect at RMJM Philippines, Inc.

First screen name
:: Munchkin Mommy

First funeral
:: I can’t remember.  I choose not to remember.  Hee hee.

First pet
:: Jackson, a Japanese spitz dog.

First piercing
:: Ears, I was 7 years old.  My Ninang who was a pediatrician accompanied me.

First tattoo
:: None. I used to want one near my ankle.

First credit card
:: Citibank Clear Mastercard, my first credit card which wasn’t an extension of my Mom’s.

First kiss
:: Next question…

First enemy
:: A gradeschool school/classmate who made my gradeschool life miserable.  Hahaha!   Inggit kasi sa akin.  :P 

MY LASTS

Last car ride
:: 11:30am today when I picked up Abby from school.

Last kiss
:: A few hours ago before Abby took a nap.

I am tagging Gracie, Dang and Abby.

Microsoft is at it again.  They have recently launched Microsoft Task Market, a “technology preview”.  How many times did you need to get something done but didn’t have the know how to go about it?  Or maybe you just didn’t have enough time to do it?  That’s what this technology preview does.  Through Microsoft Test Market, people who need work done are connected to those with the know-how to do it.  People can outsource work without the commitment of freelance engagement, thus, time is saved and the end product, improved.  If all these were to be believed, one can really Get more done faster with Task Market.

Following is the press release for this new Microsoft baby:

Welcome to the launch of the Task Economy. We’d like you to be among the first to experience it, kick the tires, and share your opinions with your readers.

Microsoft® Task Market is a new Technology Preview site that lets people with tasks find people with the know-how to do them – saving time, and improving the end product.

For every person who throws up both hands at the prospect of creating a complex formula in Microsoft Excel, somewhere in the world there’s another person who can make it look easy. For every poor proofreader, there’s an expert one out there who wouldn’t mind making a few extra dollars. For every small business owner who doesn’t have time to do background research on a new business prospect, there’s a talented researcher who could quickly put together a dossier.

The big idea with Task Market is this: create a viable market to get them together and things get done.

Task Market is in the Technology Preview stage. That means that developers at Microsoft Research are releasing the site “into the wild” to demonstrate the potential of the technology, investigate the breadth of user adoption, solicit ideas on how to improve the site and, ultimately, create a market of Task Posters and Task Solvers to help people get their office tasks done.

A Task Market Task is:

· Something that can be done for $20 to $500

· Something that the Task Poster could use help doing

· Something that can be delivered electronically, like a Microsoft Office document.

A Task Market Poster might need help with:

· a specialized Excel formula

· language translation

· letter writing

· an aspect of their accounting

· making a PowerPoint presentation “pretty”

· graphics, charts, formatting or logos

· research gathering

· proofreading

· building sell sheets, listing sheets or simple brochures

· fact checking
Task Market Solvers create profiles of their skills to help Posters assign tasks to Solvers with the right skill sets, and get email alerts when a job arrives that fits their skillsets. Posters can award and pay several solvers for tasks to compare results, and give more work to the ones they like. All without the commitment of a freelance engagement.

Check out the working tech preview at www.taskmarket.com . Who knows. We may be building a whole new economy. We’d like to start with you and your readers. Let me know if you have any questions.

Meeya tagged me for this linky love tag.  I have every reason to believe that I’m the only blogger who hasn’t done this yet.   Sorry for the delay, Mee!

Disclosure: The image was taken from a very informative site about parenting: more4kids.info

This is the Links Around The World Tag.

Instruction:
1. Place your link after the list. If you have more than 1 blog, feel free to add them all here!
2. After placing your blog’s address/es, you must tag 5 or more bloggers that is not yet in the list, this is to keep the ball rolling.
3. Here is the best part: Make sure to update your list every now and then, by getting the master list here. I’ll be updating the master list every day, or as soon as I see a new blog that’s been added to the list.

^_^Links around the world tag
1. Momhood Moments
2. Business Mars
3. Princezz
4. Princess
5. Cecil
6. Ron & Cecil
7. Pinay Mommy Online
8. OnlineBiz and Resources
9. A Simple life
10. Moms…..check nyo
11. Mommy’s Little Corner
12. Random Thoughts
13. Paradigm
14. See Me For What You Will
15. Pamp’s Blog Corner
16. Pampered
17. HappyHeart
18. Qtcotzkie and Baby
19. A Sorta Fairytale
20. tragicseven
21. Listen to the Beat!
22. Just Saying
23. Tipsy Tips
24. Different Angles
25. Delicious Corner
26. I Care
27. Blog Blag Blog
28. Daily List
29. Life’s Journey
30. Welcome to my Crib
31. A Daily Walk With Bill & Gina
32. Me,Myself + 2
33. Fun.Fierce.Fabulous
34. Mike
35. BerryScrappy
36. BloggerHappy
37. A Reality Bite
38. Why Babie
39. My Views On My So Called Life
40. GwenMari
41. Mari
42. My Untamed World
43. My Uncensored Life
44. Confessions of a Domesticated Party Girl
45. Working It
46. MyParty. Finds. A Home.
47. Munchkin Mommy
48. Cafe Munchkin
49. Mapped Memories