philtaylor

@philtaylor (37)

United States • Age 77

Joined myLot 16 years ago

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Modern Techonology or Old School?

thebohemianheart @thebohemianheart (8827) • United States 11 Sep 09

The past few years I have gotten kind of lazy about writing letters and, sending cards. It is just easier to find a card on line and e-mail it or, pick up the phone and talk to the person. I try to justify this by telling myself...

paper cards

real vs virtual

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philtaylor Like you, I often take the easy "email" way to correspond with friends and family. And yes, a real card or letter has more impact usually, but frequency and thoughfulness of communication is more important, and you can't beat email for this. I try to send...

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Twitter

DarthJustice @DarthJustice (2014) • United States 22 Apr 09

I've known about the site for quite a while now but it wasn't until just today that I joined the website. It seems like a nice way to keep your friends and family updated. Does anyone else use Twitter? How many followers do you...

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philtaylor Yes, Twitter is a great service for communication. I have belonged for about three months and I have 393 followers. Twitter is useful for communication with friends, because, like chat, it instantly updates your Tweets and allows you to post shortened links to...

23 Apr 09

help with twitter

psychotaz206 @psychotaz206 (2086) • United States 23 Apr 09

i just joined twitter yesterday and its not working right for me and i cant seem to beable to get ahold of anyone to talk to about this, my ads are not showing up,i cant follow anyone it wont let me , so can anyone help me with...

help

twitter

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philtaylor I use Twitter frequently, and it is a great service for communicating as well as following world events and interesting people. I'm not sure what problems you're having, though, because setting up a profile and following people should be very easy, using their...

23 Apr 09

My Father

kvfessenden @kvfessenden (50) • United States 5 Jan 07

My father was diagnosed with this horrible disease in 1995. I have watched him slowly slip away as the years went by. I have also seen an emotional change in him too. There is no cure for this disease,so I cherish every moment...

disease

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philtaylor I am sorry to hear of yoour father's disease. As an MS patient, I can relate to this. I am sure your father is grateful for your support and concern, just as I am grateful for my wife and daughter's help over the years. Cherishing and love are the most...

22 Apr 09

Your PJs (Poor Jokes) Here...

madhuvrn @madhuvrn (81) • India 22 Apr 09

Hope you might have bit up by many poor jokes. You can put up your PJs here in this space. The one which I have recently heard... How will you take bath when you travel in a delux car? Answer:- The car is delux...

jokes

poor jokes

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philtaylor I don't know if this a poor joke, but a friend of mine used to say "You can lead a horse to drink, but you can't make him water." How true. Most of the poorest jokes I've ever heard were during my chindhood. Such as, "If your Uncle Jack was fixing the roof and...

22 Apr 09

It's Earth Day! How can we save her?

4080392_marlon @4080392_marlon (23) • Philippines 22 Apr 09

Countries all over the world is celebrating the 39th International Earth Day today. I supposed this very important celebration is observed all over the world. It is important that on this day we work hand-in-hand in protecting...

earth day

global warming

nature

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philtaylor Greetings and Happy Earth Day. Probably the single most important thing we can do to promote protection of the environment is to increase the consciousness of every man, woman, and child of the importance of their actions in making the environment healthy or...

22 Apr 09

What time do you get up on Saturday mornings ?

greenline @greenline (14838) • Canada 21 Apr 09

With the working days so long and tiring, I am always so happy to get back home on Friday evenings. "Thank God it's Friday" as we say. I would then relax in all my favorite ways, listening to music, reading, watching movies on the...

relaxation

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philtaylor There was a time when we would regularly stay up until 3 AM, usually reading, but those days are gone. I usually get up at 6 AM to make my wife breakfast before she goes to work, even though I am retired/disabled. But Friday night is the exception. Since we...

21 Apr 09

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What do you do when you are down and out?

figjam00 @figjam00 (1445) • India 21 Apr 09

Guys I am feeling tense these days and I don't know what to do.....

life

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philtaylor faith in god provi8des a guarantee that all our bible-based hopes will be fully realized. the overall theme of the bible highlights god's promise of kingdom rule, under which the earth will become a perfect paradise wherein righteous people will joyfully...

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How often do you clean up your email accounts?

deejean06 @deejean06 (1952) • United States 21 Apr 09

I'm trying today to declutter my inbox - literally. I'm trying to go through all the emails I have that I no longer need and delete some of them just to make it a bit less to sift through...I try to declutter at least once a week...

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philtaylor I may not be more organized, but I do go through my email daily to weed out the tons of spam and find the relatively few messages I want. I use Outlook Express for my local email, and I usually just take ALL of my inbox messages and "move" them to the delete...

21 Apr 09

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Had you ever been banned on Adsense? Tips to avoid Google ban in our site

raghul77ster @raghul77ster (2132) • India 21 Apr 09

One day, If we wake up and find that our website isn’t showing anymore in Google, we have been a victim of a Google Ban. This is the worst thing that can happen to our website, especially if we are running a business through our...

google website ban adsense

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philtaylor Rather than Google ban, it should be called Google "Slap", becuase that's what happened to our website, HonestMED.com. We provide over 600 pages of medical and health care resource information, and we added Google Adsense to all of our pages. We receive many...

21 Apr 09

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Computer hackers or terrorists!

bhanusb @bhanusb (5709) • India 2 Apr 09

Yesterday(1st April) I did not open my internet.There was a news that a computer worm named CONFICAR may attack on one and half crore computers of the world at the first hour of Ist April.This worm may delete all the informations...

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philtaylor Conficker was a bust--just like Y2K. Not that there aren't a lot of hackers building "botnets" out there (because there are), but anyone with a decent firewall and antivirus software should not have had a problem. As a Twitter user, I sent out a "tweet" asking...

2 Apr 09

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Do you read the prologue?

SomeCowgirl @SomeCowgirl (32191) • United States 3 Feb 09

Not all books have a prologue but those that do are usually boring and not pertinent to the storyline. Do you still read the prologue just in case it does give valuable information or do you skip it and after reading the book, if...

prologue

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philtaylor I always read the prologue, but I don't usually find it boring. Often, I learn about the author's interests or reasons for writing the book. No, I don't think it is often necessarily pertinent to the storyline, but it helps me judge the author's intent and...

4 Feb 09

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advice please..

galoforce @galoforce (263) 3 Feb 09

please check out my website, and tell me what i could do to make it better. thanks. www.urbanlinepromotions.com

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philtaylor As a longtime web developer, I would say you have any excellent website in most respects. With the exception of the misspellings of "opportunity" (you have "oppertunity" on your lower right, and "their" instead of "there" on your artists page, your site is...

3 Feb 09

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Do you make a to do list everyday??

djemba @djemba (767) • India 2 Feb 09

Yes that's the story of my life, i make a to do list and hardly reach its middle till the end of the day and then its added to the next one..And so work piles on and on and on..I don't know what to do??Now I've stopped making them...

to do lists

work

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philtaylor Yes, I use "to do" lists, but I have some advice. To do lists should only contain items that are BEYOND the usual, expected activities that you are going to do anyway. Also, I limit my "to do" list to three activities in priority order, which seems to keep me...

3 Feb 09

What is the best visitor counter?

jsitko @jsitko (1169) • United States 3 Feb 09

I want to put a visitor counter on my blogs and was wondering what your opinion is on to which one is the best and why. I have seen many but did not know which one to choose. When setting them up, I also saw a question I need info...

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philtaylor As a webmaster with dozens of sites, blogs, and wikis, I would highly recommend using Sitemeter (free from www.sitemeter.com). This not only counts, but gives you a good idea where you traffic is coming from, as well as emailing you weekly summary reports....

3 Feb 09

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How many hours did you take your nap?

kd6315 @kd6315 (174) • Malaysia 29 Jan 09

I love to take a nap in the evening, it makes me feel refreshing. Do you love to take a nap? Normally i sleep for 2 to 3 hours... What about you?

evening

sleep

sleeping

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philtaylor I generally take at least one nap a day, often in the morning. I live in a senior citizens modular home park, where we have a clubhouse where residents have their mailboxes. Often I take a nap from 9:30 until 10:30 in a recliner while I wait for the mail to...

30 Jan 09

How many square foot?????

vidhyagowri @vidhyagowri (1973) • United States 30 Jan 09

how many square foot is your house and how many bed rooms and bathrooms you have in your house? ours is 1200 sq.ft. with 3 bed room and 2 bathroom.

house

rooms

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philtaylor My home seems to be the same size yours is--about 1,200 sq.ft.--but it's a new modular home. We live in a senior citizens modular home park and we love it. Out home (new) cost about $50,000 and we pay $650/month site rent, but it is certainly more affordable...

30 Jan 09

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do you have any worries about on-internet shopping?

world_travelling @world_travelling (21) • China 5 May 08

Now, internet shopping is becoming more popular these days, and some colleagues around me buy a lot of stuff, such as clothes, baby staff, IT products, even computers from internet, but I still have my own worries about...

internet shopping

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philtaylor Internet shopping is a great thing. I buy all my computer and office supplies through Staples.com and not only is it fast, but they deliver my order free to my door if it is for more than $50 (which it usually is). Electronic banking is fast and safe. Since I...

5 May 08

Relapsing or progressive

rajeshpalakkad @rajeshpalakkad (1450) • India 23 Jan 08

Are there two types of MS - Relapsing and progressive? Which one is common? Whats the difference?

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progressive

relapse

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philtaylor Actually, there are THREE types--relapsing, relapsing-remitting, and progressive. Relapsing is when an MS patient suffers an episode of symptoms, which may cause continuing damage; relapsing-remitting has episodes, but mostly recovery when the symptoms pass,...

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Computer Problem

carolbee @carolbee (16230) • United States 22 Jan 08

For about the last month I've been having a problem with my computer. When it feels like turning off, it turns off. Apparently there is a glitch somewhere or maybe even a virus. I don't leave the computer on when I'm not home. Not...

computer problem

glitch in program

power supply

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philtaylor I have had similar problems (as have my friends). This is possibly caused by a program (or virus) running in the background that refuses to shut down. I recommend you go to http://sysinternals.com and download a free program called "autoruns." This program...

23 Jan 08

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