Right now it has not been easy to find something good as a job in my area. Most of the things available are factory work. That does not do anything for me as my career has always been along the lines of web and graphic design. It is actually what I am studying for. I am seriously considering to look for New York jobs as there are a lot of opportunities in my field, especially in the New York City area.

Of course, I like the freelancing, but I am not as known as others and even though I do have some demand on my services, it is not like having a regular job to go to. As a freelancer, I have to pay for my own healthcare and even continuously strive to put myself above others when bidding for a job. I am almost at the point in my life that I may need to move to somewhere like New York to finally get somewhere with my career.

I found out that Blondish.net had been nominated at the Blogger’s Choice Awards in several categories:

- Best Geek Blog
- Best Blog About Stuff
- Best Blog Design
- Best Blog of All Time

I saw that my friend Lydia nominated my site. Thank you, Lydia! I believe in order to vote, you have to sign up.

I appreciate if you might be able to vote for me there. I actually have not done any blog award sites or any web competitions in some time, so I would really appreciate it. If you comment here and say you did vote there, I will make you a special graphic gift showing my appreciation that you can snag and take back to your own site.

CD Rates which is known as Certificate of Deposit Rates are not savings bonds, nor saving accounts. They are similar, but require you to keep the money in the account over a certain amount of contracted time. The amount accrues interest, but if it is taken out, then it you would not receive the amount of money that was interest. The amount for investing in CDs are much higher than usual savings accounts. However, the interest rates are usually much better than savings accounts from even credit unions.

This is something that my ex and I have discussed about getting with the money we have put together in his savings account. It would allow Angel to have money when he is older and not have to worry.

After the recent “fix” by Twitter to make things go more smoothly, Twitter changed some of their stuff back. They wanted to change it to allow members to only see the replies from followers, but not from the regular. At first I thought this meant that twitter would eliminate the general site timeline. It was not.

As MG Siegler of TechCrunch describes it

“So basically, you can see when someone is replying to someone else but only when they’re not really replying to them.”

Of course, as I mentioned already, Twitter took a bit of time again this week to change some of the settings back, so it is not so bad. I am sure Twitter is trying to do things in the best interest, but I have to say that if the focus of this simple one function site gets any more difficult, it may not be very appealing anymore. Already I have noticed glitches (via my “suspension” which was deemed a cache problem when I refreshed my computer over and over) and that the site seems a little more loaded with the features added. Of course, with any script, the more tables and code you add to make more functions, the more the load.

My hope is that Twitter tries to not do too much more. The site is blossoming ‘as is’ already and if they wanted to put some text ads, I am sure no one would complain as long as they were on the sidebar of the page.

I should not complain, but I actually enjoy meeting the new people that are on my stream. Sometimes through my followerers, I find others who I can connect with too.

What do you think about this?

Well, only a few hours ago, I was able to get on Twitter. After the original report on Sunday evening had been resolved in favor of suspending me, and then replying to that, it came to be that I basically was experiencing some Twitter glitch. Kind of scary, especially when knowing I did not violate their policies.

I was told that it was my cache and that I had possibly been looking at someone else’s profile. The problem was is that it was my profile as I have actually never ventured upon someone’s account that had been suspended. Anyway, I am back on as my Twitter addictive self.

In the meantime, I believe I am going to whip up a tutorial on how to make my transparent vector bottle like the one I showcase in the main image of the layout here at Blondish.net. I really do need to get cracking on those tutorials. Also, I had quite a few reviews to post that I originally tackled over at Rev.iew.me. I am currently open for website reviews so if you have a website and want to be reviewed, feel free to apply anytime.

After I got back from watching the movies with my boyfriend, late Saturday evening, I was going to twitter and talk about the movies. Lo and behold, a blaring, account suspension was posted. I was shocked and confused why this was up. I do not use Twitter any differently than I did months ago when I was very active.

The reasons they list for people they flag and suspend are those that spam, impersonate others, mass creating user accounts, and more. However, as I recall, I have done nothing new in the past couple days since being able to finally access my computer from home. I use to post almost all day and evening. I am myself, so it is not an impersonation, and I re-tweet informative links, giving credit to the original person who posted the information.

I am quite confused. Has anyone had any issues like this with Twitter. It kind of sucks since I have been an avid promoter of Twitter and have written many encouraging blog posts about the site.

For those tired of not finding an active enough forum or want to try another one, I recommend Snark Forums. There are a variety of topics that the group contains and plenty of people to meet.

Some of the members there are extremely helpful and very savvy when it comes to being a code ninja, especially when designing your website. They will tell you how it is when it comes to design and I will have to say that I have learned a little by advice and reviews from some of the members at Snark Forums, previous to being a member at the community.

Anyway, since I recently joined the group, I have been enjoying it there and have felt quite welcomed. I recommend trying Snark Forums.

I have completed the website review of Velociteen. The site has a great focus, but the design really needs some work.

If you have a website that you want reviewed, you can request to have your site reviewed by me.