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Well, if she has, she must be under a really good medication, for she’s kicking off her asses again in the recently held 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.

In the recently concluded video awards, Brit made a victorious comeback. She just won three Moonmen. These includes Video of the Year, Best Female Video and Best Pop Video. These are all for her hit “Piece of Me“. These are actually her first wins in VMA history.

Aside from that, she had also delivered high ratings to MTV. According to LA Times, Britney Spears worked her magic for the show even without a performance. More than 8.4 million viewers watched the three-hour music event, which is a 19% increase over the last year’s viewership.

Britney has just made her real comeback, and there are no other people who are more delighted, than her fans. She actually dedicates her awards to them. But, some are still wondering if this will be for good. Is she psychologically sound enough to handle her career? How about her rumored mental illness? Is she really a bipolar?

According to John M. Grohol, a psychologist, Britney Spears may have a Bipolar Disorder. A bipolar disorder is a serous mental disorder characterized by mood swings between extreme depression and mania(ie. from extreme happiness to extreme sadness). When this is left untreated, those people with this disorder can go back and forth between these two extremes.

This rumored mental illness actually appeared after the dispute over Brit’s custody of her sons against her ex-husband, Kevin Federline. I think she’s just being over emotional because her ex-hubby is trying to take her children away from her. Federline took advantage of her ex-wife’s weakness, and may had invented stories that could give him more authority over their children. And he did succeeded. Well, he should do his best to maintain a connection with Britney, since without her, he will lose his status as a celebrity.   And mind you, Brit is filthy rich.   And having her children in his custody means a stable fountain flow of dollars.

I guess people should not believe everything they read or watch in the news right away. Popular people like Britney Spears, is the media’s favorite target of topic exaggeration, for they can attract massive attention, which means higher profits and income. We should be more vigilant on how we process the informations we receive everyday, because not all of them are based from facts.

Bipolar or not, Britney has proved her prowess once and again in the pop music world.

N.B: I wrote this topic due to Maybel’s request.

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You can download Britney’s Piece of Me mp3 here

The onset of technological advancement has paved way to lots of possibilities and opportunities. The lifestyle of modernization is greatly embraced by people across cultures. Most people worldwide became dependent to this technological advancement, such as, you don’t have to go to Paris anymore to buy your favorite costumed made Italian lingerie. By a few clicks of your mouse you can have the finest designer clothes from your favorite Italian clothesline. You can pay your bills without going to the bank, but by just paying online. You can even sell merchandise online with international prospects. And these are made possible by no other than the internet.

The internet or the World Wide Web is the most celebrated technological breakthrough in the dawn of the 20th century. It narrowed down the cultural gap among people world wide, and long distance communication is made even easier, more affordable, and very portable. Phone to phone conversation may be is still in, but cyber communication is the current trend in the market. Cyber communication is another name for communication using the internet or the web.

The internet or cyberspace has introduced a more dynamic and convenient way of communication platform which jives in with the current fast-paced lifestyle of people across nations. This has made way to Instant Messaging(IM), such as Yahoo Messenger (YM), Google Talk (GTalk), MSN Messenger, IRC, and a lot more instant messaging services. And lately, these IM companies have added voice messaging service (for voice conference, phone to phone talk) as add-ons to their software applications.

Another form of communication platform in the net is the web-based instant messaging, wherein, you can send messages to anyone without using any software-based IMs, but your browser(such as Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, Avant ). On the other hand, interpersonal and dating websites(such as Cherryblossoms.com, FriendFinder.com, AdultFriendFinder.com) and social networking realms(such as Myspace.com, Friendster.com, Facebook.com, MyYearBook.com) have also dominated the online world. People around the globe meet online, communicate with each other, make friends, transact business, and even to the extent of building romantic relationships through these mediums. These can also be seen in email correspondence, forums, blogs, and the likes. Due to all these online innovations, cyber relationships exist.

And thus, we can say that cyber relationships are intimate and non-intimate bonds that are formed through frequent online communication. These can be platonic, romantic, or businesslike. As more and more people became acquainted with the World Wide Web, this has become the trend, and has posed lots of criticisms among people from all walks of life.

Some find it very convenient and classy because it is high tech, but others are dubious and cynical, especially when most people’s conception about cyber relationships only focuses to romantic relationship, that is the referrence to those people who use the internet as a medium to find love, sexmates, husbands, and even an aging foreigner to uplift their economic status .

There are actually lots of factors that affect these attitudes toward cyber relationships. The next lines are questions that can actually help us to better understand this new change in our society.

First, is to what extent people perceive it as serious or not. Second, is to how open-minded are they, as to their level of involvement. Third, are the advantages brought by this new trend sufficient enough to outweigh the disadvantages, and how these factors affect those people who are involved. And lastly, is to what extent socio-demographic status can affect ones attitude towards cyber relationships, that is, how does a person’s gender, social economic status, educational attainment could affect his views on the said issue?

Cyber relationship is may be the in thing nowadays, but just like anything that is new, it will take time before all people can fully adjust and understand its implications to the society.

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1and1’s hosting platform is not the standard cPanel and DirectAdmin. As of now, I’m trying to locate the back up database function in their Webspace and Access area. Just a while ago, I tried to manually back up my files from the server through ftp, but my web browser(I use fireftp, mozilla’s add on) encountered an error and I have no choice but to close it. I’m actually using a lower version of firefox, and I noticed that it has lots of bugs. I need to upgrade it to firefox 3.0, the latest version.

So, why should we back up our wordpress blog? Backing up data is as necessary as the air you breathe. As a website or blog owner one should be well aware that it’s not only your host full responsibility to check on your database. It is advisable that you keep recent back ups in your local hard drive. That way, if anything goes wrong you can still restore your contents. And this should be done in regular basis.

Wordpress has a Database Backup plugin. Check it out.