I’ve already forgotten the last time I logged in to my yahoo account to edit my information. Yes, I am fairly active with YM but I still use Gmail as my primary account just because I feel that Yahoo is already too populated. So, when I logged in today, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Yahoo has put their identity theft protection service to the next level.

I’ve always thought their old method for verifying users was too easy to break. Now, unless you really know the person eerily well, (or a stalker perhaps?) you will be having a very hard time breaking into their account. Kudos to Yahoo!

Here’s to you stalkers!

Hooray! My laptop’s back in tip-top shape. I terribly missed bringing this very portable MSI Wind notebook computer everywhere I go since its keyboard went haywire on the third week of June. Yep. I was left to use my old laptop for almost a month after an attempt to clean this little one led to its untimely demise.

It was an innocent act. All I wanted was for my laptop to look clean and tidy so I went on to clean it with the Crocodile cleaner that I’ve been using for ages. Little did I know that I’d get fluid to seep in between the keys causing my keyboard its life and almost 1,900 pesos down the drain. We were first quoted a replacement keyboard worth 1,750 pesos when my father called up the MSI service center in Cubao but lo and behold, when he got there he was told that it would cost him 1,900+ pesos. Ouch! Good thing I’m still considered a “dependent”. Hehe. Hooray for being a medical student!

Being away from my laptop for weeks was a pain in the ass. Good thing I didn’t really need to make papers for my rotation in Anesthesiology earlier this month so we had time to think between getting a new one locally or getting it from a supplier that I found on ebay which offers the replacement keyboard at a way cheaper rate. Yup! Even with shipping. I personally would have wanted to buy the one online since it’s a whole lot cheaper but my father brought up the issue of paying for customs tax. I don’t have much experience buying large stuff online and having them shipped to the Philippines as most items that I have shipped from outside the country didn’t require me to pay anything at all so it left me half-hearted on buying online. But hey, I am not, definitely not complaining. After all I have my little Lappie Jr. back. Haha! Now I’m back to good ol’ business everyone!

Whoever thought of making laptops this small is an utter genius.

This is undoubtedly the best weekend I’ve ever had. I went out to pamper myself: name it, I’ve done it! I’ve never had a lot of fun in the last couple of weeks. I was out and about town meeting friends, attending parties, going to the movies, drinking, dancing and just being happy. I felt free. Like I had nothing to care about in the world. I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve said how I missed this kind of life. I’m so happy that I’m almost crying and I don’t want to go back to being a medical clerk ever again. This is really the most exciting long weekend I’ve ever had. Really.

At least in my dreams.

In real life, I just wasted away my time at home in front of my laptop. I didn’t even go out to burn time in the mall to watch a movie or perhaps dine out. I didn’t get to have my nails done, what more get a relaxing Swedish massage. I didn’t get to see any of my friends. There were no parties to attend, no music to dance to and no booze to infuse my system with. In fact I bet I need some sort of immune system boosters since I’ve caught another bug and is suffering now from a sore throat and that occasional cough.

I’ve wasted such a great long weekend. And my only hope to make this perfect, that is seeing Bee for the first and last time this week, ended up in smoke just a few minutes ago when he told me he couldn’t see me.

What an absolutely great weekend isn’t it?

Xeeber is still down and I don’t think it’s going back up again any time soon. Anyway, I’ve been receiving hits from people looking for a Xeeber alternative after I shared one of online discoveries (Magic’s Yahoo! Status Multichecker) that I thought of looking for other alternatives online in case this one faces a problem in the future. I was actually quite surprised because there were indeed a lot of other YM status checkers available out there and the good majority of internet users hardly knew they existed.

Anyway, I’ve done my research. Here are some Yahoo online status checkers available for free. I’ve tried them and they’re working perfectly well as of this post. They’re all able to tell if the Yahoo ID entered is online, offline or invisible. Those italicized can even display the YM ID’s avatar. Read the rest of this entry »

I tried accessing the Xeeber website and it’s still down. I am greeted by no longer a 404 Page Not Found error though but just a white blank screen. I did a whois lookup on Xeeber and found that the domain is set to expire in 2009 and it seems that all Xeeber servers are alive and kicking. So I’m assuming that it’s either CheckDNS is unreliable or Xeeber’s gone for good. Although I discovered an alternative to Xeeber (which appears accurate and reliable when I did my own background check), I still miss the good old online stalker’s tool. Hehe.

I wish it’s not yet the end.

Last year, there was a friend who despite my being always invisible on YM was still able to catch me online consistently that I wondered if he was telepathic. With me being close to freaking out, he introduced me to Xeeber – an online tool that’s able to detect whether a YM ID is online or on stealth mode. It was relatively new then but as more and more people created buzz about Xeeber, the tool became more popular and yes – the servers have become more crowded.

I have lost interest knowing who’s online or invisible after some time, after all, there was but one person I always talk to online: Bee; and he’d always buzz me or leave me a message when he gets online anyway that I don’t even need to use Xeeber on him anymore. This morning, I went to visit the good old YM buddy and much to my dismay, I received a 404 Not Found Error. Seems like Xeeber’s down. For good? That I don’t know. So now, I introduce you to another of my latest discoveries: Magic’s Yahoo! Status Multichecker. I don’t exactly know how long this one’s been up and running or how widely popular it is already amongst the YM circles, but at least for me this tool’s “new”. It works exactly like Xeeber: you have to input your friend’s YM ID and in a single mouse click, you’d know if he/she’s online or just hiding away. Like Xeeber, Magic’s Yahoo! Status Multichecker will also grab your friend’s avatar and display it for you. Here’s Magic’s Yahoo! Status Multichecker in action. That’s my avatar by the way. Neat huh?