An Open Letter to Gadget For Life Dot Info
Dear Website Administrator,
I am sorry if you consider your website as a blog but it clearly isn’t one and you should stop your blog if you intend to maintain it in this way. Though I wasted a lot of time and energy digging deep I couldn’t find when you exactly started the PC-Guide category on your blog, which is a reproduction of That Damn PC.
I did not sign up for your free online backup services and I was told that the previous bloggers here at That Damn PC did not either. I once again request you to stop copying every single …read more
November Month in Retrospect
I started this month as the new damn PC guy and ended it by buying a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 in one of the Black Friday deals though I wish I had won a PC in a giveaway.
I had been opinionated about using push buttons and organizing program files, worried about the rising types of blog fraud and spam mail, conscious about the precautions to be taken in a cyber cafe and disposing e-waste responsibly, sad about the layoffs and the Mumbai attacks, and excited about the Ancient Rome 3D and the LIFE photo archive projects. I also began an ongoing …read more
Types of Blog Fraud
Readers looking for PC tips are requested to skip this post. Having found that That Damn PC has become a victim of blog fraud, it is my duty to alert the community.
Blogging is increasingly being seen as a sustainable model of income. Where money is involved in large sums, there is also fraud. Problogging is perhaps at too early a stage to discuss at length about blog fraud, but there is undoubtedly an upward trend in these cases.
A blog with too many advertisements, IMHO, is not a fraudulent blog. It is simply a bad idea, and sometimes not altogether bad …read more




