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Archive for the ‘My Opinion’ Category:
Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Risk
Just in case you have not heard, Internet Explorer has a security problem. I sent an email to a few friends last night and when I turned on the news at 5:30 this morning, it was on the news. Here is a link to Kathy Hendershot Hurd’s article on the problem - Warning MSIE Security Risk Discovered. She sites several different sources.
I switched to FireFox about six months ago.
Caregiving Directives - Are Your Legal Documents In Order
Between my daughter, Nichole and I, we have been Gladys’ caregivers for the past three years. Even though we stepped into caregiving under unfortunate circumstances, we were glad that Gladys had the foresight to take care of legal documents and directives. In 1993 she had her attorney draw up all the necessary paperwork to give me her Power of Attorney and Health Care Power of Attorney.
In this video Scott Solkoff shares information on: Living Wills, Health Care Power of Attorney, Health Care Surrogates and Do Not Resuscitate Orders.
Related Reading:
Caregiver’s Legal Stuff: Bank Accounts, Pensions, Social Security
Caregivers and Blogging
When I became a caregiver for my sister I decided to set up this blog. Most of my family and friends are not really familiar with blogging so when I mention that I want them to visit my blog I often get this blank stare. I translate that stare to mean “your what?”
Anyway, this is a great medium to share and receive ideas and insight into the caregiving experience. Sooner or later most of us will have to make decisions concerning the care of our elderly parents and relatives.
Yesterday, Michael Martine, who is helping me with my blog, extended an opportunity to new bloggers to Submit Your New Blog Here and Jumpstart Your Blog Traffic.
This is what he is asking people to do:
Increase Your Blog Traffic
If you just started a blog and want a little increase in blog traffic, here’s what you do:
- Leave a comment at the bottom of this post with your blog’s URL in the website field and describe your blog in a short paragraph.
- Subscribe to my RSS feed (it’s all I ask in return for helping you boost your traffic).
- Make sure you also subscribe to the comments on this post so that you get alerted on every new comment.
- Every time a new comment is added, go and visit that blog! This is simply the golden rule at work: do for others as you would have them do for you. You want traffic? Give traffic.
- But here’s where it really gets good: Subscribe to the other blogs’ RSS feeds.
- Stumble a post or two from the other blogs.
- Write a post on your own blog, link to this post so others can participate and write about the new blogs you have found. Link to them.
This is a great opportunity. If you are just getting started, click the link above and take Michael up on his offer if you prefer to open a new browser, his URL is: http://Remarkablogger.com. This is a time sensitive offer, at some point Michael will stop accepting bloggers for this experience.
