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Members of Tricia’s Musings?

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You know what I find odd? People have been scrolling down my sidebar and registering to become members of Tricia’s Musings. I’m really not sure why they’re signing up though. Yes I have a few posts that I’ve made that I marked private that I suppose it’s possible that they could see if they went through my site, but it’s not worth becoming a registered member just for that.

I have about 10 members now. 2 of them I know who they are. They signed up with their name and website and I think they even sent me an email when they registered. When I first started this blog I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it and I had thought that I might open it up and let members of my two websites make blog posts on it too. I nixed that idea quickly, but no before a couple people had signed up.

The latest new members aren’t signing up with a name or a website, and I think their email addresses look a little suspect. Well, I think it’s suspect to begin with when they don’t sign up with a name or website, don’t you?

Their email addresses end in .info or .ru – not all of them, but half of them and the whole address looks funny to me. I’m wondering if it might be people signing up so that they can try to figure out how to break into my site and domain directories. What do you guys think?

I think I might delete them from my site. If by chance you are reading this and you are someone who registered as a member of Tricia’s Musings would you please identify yourself and let me know why you signed up? Otherwise I think I’m going to delete the people that I don’t know.





The woman of your dreams

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Do you know anyone that met their spouse online? Sure, in this day and age lots of people met over the internet and carry out long distance relationships that eventually lead to marriage don’t they. I remember when there was a time when people were very secretive about how they met, but even that happens less often these days.

Having worked in the Toronto Jewelry trade I knew many Russian men, in fact I’d say that 50% of the jewelers that worked in the trade were from Russian or Northern European Countries. Many of them went back to their homeland to marry their russian brides. Some of the marriages were arranged, others had been secured through services similar to the one that Loversplanet.com provide.

The men that I knew that had ended up marrying Russian Brides were, for the most part, quite happy with their experience. I met many of the women as well and they seemed to be happy with their new husbands and their new life in Canada.

Perhaps you are interested in marriage but you aren’t finding the right type of woman? Have you ever thought of learning more about Russian brides? Loversplanet specializes as a dating agency for Russian Women, and they introduce these Russian women to men from all over the world who are seeking beautiful, family and marriage minded Russian women. It’s said that even as young girls Russian women grow up thinking of family and marriage first. That’s not to say that they don’t want careers of their own, but they place family and marriage high in their life priorities. I can attest to this, as I have met and worked with a number of Russian women.

If you are interested in learning more about Moscow brides or perhaps lovely St. Petersburg brides check out Loversplanet and find out how they can help you, perhaps meet the woman of your dreams.

Cool Bug Stuff – fun and educational

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Did you realize that as a reptile owner, you don’t just become the owner of one new and fascinating pet but that you can often become the owner of hundreds of other pets that go along with your pet reptile? “Oh oh what’s she talking about now” you’re probably asking. LOL well, what I mean is, that a number of reptiles need to eat bugs, so when I had my Chinese Water Dragons I had to keep crickets, mealworms and earthworms for them to eat. There were times when I had 1000 Zoophoba (king mealworms), 500 crickets chirping away in special bug keeping containers in my home, as well as a couple of containers of earthworms in my fridge.

When you have to keep those kinds of creatures in your home for your pet you start to become fascinated with their life cycles too, and if you’re like me you start learning about the creepy crawlies. Believe me I’ve written pages and pages of information about bugs on two of my other websites. So when I saw that CoolBugStuff.com was offering an opportunity to write a post about them I jumped on the idea.

CoolBugStuff.com is a website that educates people about bugs. The site is written in a way that a child can understand easily. There’s tons of free information on hundreds if not thousands of bugs, as well as educational resources, and cool bug related educational products. I can easily see teachers visiting this site to find information and or projects to use with their kids in class. Isn’t there always some kind of bug related project in school?

The company sells bug related toys, clothes, books, games, science and bug related kits, and even uhm … edible bugs for the home and classroom. Interesting. Also, if you happen to be in South Florida CoolBugStuff.com does creepy crawly bug Adventure shows for Kindergarten to Grade five classes.

I think this is a great site. One I would have gladly written about here or on my reptile related sites because I find bugs interesting. Oh, I guess I could have written about it on my gardening site too. Bugs are very important to gardeners – some are bad and eat your plants, and others eat the bugs that eat your plants. I’m sure CoolBugStuff.com has that kind of information on their site too – so if you can’t get into bugs simply because they are fascinating creatures, perhaps if you are a gardener, you might find some of the information there useful for your gardening needs. Big hint- look up lady Bugs while you are there.

Why does your kid close their browser all the time?

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Have you ever walked into a room where your child is sitting at the computer and noticed that they suddenly shut down their browser or minimized it as you approached? I bet that’s happened. Heck it might even happen on occasion with your spouse too!

What would you think if I told you that SpectorSoft, has produced a software that would let you know what types of things your child has been looking at when they are on the computer? Doesn’t that sound like a great form of computer monitoring? Kids know all kinds of way to get around “parental” software that blocks them from viewing sites, but if you had software on your computer that monitored their keystrokes you’d be able to tell what types of things they talked about online during IM conversations – and you’d be able to make sure that they weren’t talking to someone that they shouldn’t be talking to, such as an adult pretending to be a teen. The monitoring program also lists the sites that are visited. If you discovered that your child was going to sites that you disapproved of, then you could use your parental software to block those sites.

Software, such as SpectorSofts, Keystroke monitoring software could give you peace of mind if you are worried about what your children are doing on the computer and it can help you keep them safe.

Keep your kids safe by using a keystroke recorder

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Have you ever wondered just what your kids are doing on their computers when they are in their rooms with the door closed … or maybe when they are home before you get home to monitor their computer use? Maybe you even wonder what your spouse does on the computer?

Now I don’t want to bring up anti-trust issues but sometimes there is a need to know what’s going on in your own home. You might want to keep track of the sites your kids visit for their own good. They could be talking with strangers on Myspace or other sites that want to do them harm.

This is where a software device called the keystroke recorder comes in handy. You can track everything from every thing input into a keyboard- emails, things filled out on websites, or even passwords, and you can see what sites were visited as well. If you are interested in learning more visit the Spectorsoft site and read all about their keystroke recorder.

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