Peter Norris

Most bloggers would like to make money off their blog, and PayPerPost can help them do that. PayPerPost was one of the first services to allow bloggers to write post for money.

Through PayPerPost’s blogger dashboard, you can see opportunities available to you, and see the requirements necessary for your post. Opportunities available to you depend on your Google Page Rank and Alexa Score.

I joined PayPerPost a while ago, but never got around to actually writing any posts. But with going back to school. I decided I needed to earn a little extra money. The payment you get for your post depends, and all payments can be delivered through PayPal.

I would definitely recommend PayPerPost to any bloggers looking to earn a little extra cash, and to anybody or any company looking for a new way to advertise. For a small amount of money, you can get the word about your product or service out to the blog’s readers.

Signing up for PayPerPost is easy. Once you have an account, you have to submit your blog to the site. Once approved (it could take a couple of days but most blogs are approved) you can start posting and making a little extra money.

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I hate it when sites aren’t designed to work with all browsers. How hard can it be to use open standards and make compatible sites? A couple of weeks ago my sister got a Macbook and she had been using Safari (I saw no need to confuse her with extra browsers- it would have made my life a lot worse), but when she went to log into her account on the university website she couldn’t log in. It said they didn’t support Safari. So I had to get her Firefox so she could access her account. And for some odd reason she likes to use the smileys and colour backgrounds in hotmail. Of course, those don’t work in Safari, or even Firefox. It looks like Microsoft limited those to IE.  It isn’t difficult to make sites that work with all browsers. There should be some sort of standard or compatibility requirement for sites. Sites should work in all browsers. In would just make life so much easier (especially for us Mac users).

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In one short week it’s back to school. On Monday September 3rd I’ll be moving back into res for another fun filled year. This is year two of four and I’m definitely looking forward to going back. Classes officially start on Thursday the 6th, but I don’t have my first class until the following Monday the 10th. I have a pretty decent schedule this year. My schedule for the fall term is as follows:

Monday
11am-2pm: Marketing in the IT Sector (Lecture)
3pm-6pm: Cisco Security 1: Fundamentals of Network Security (Lab)
7pm-10pm: Computer Architecture (Lecture)

Tuesday
11am-2pm: Cybercrime (Lecture)
2pm-5pm: Cisco Security 1: Fundamentals of Network Security (Lecture)

Wednesday
9:40am-11am: Object Oriented Programming (Tutorial)
7pm-10pm: Object Oriented Programming (Lecture)

Thursday and Friday
Nothing!

Aside from I plan to be involved in some extra things, such as a Mac user’s group and a security club. I’m really looking forward to year 2 of IT Security at UOIT. 

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My main bank, TD Canada Trust, recently implemented a multi-factor authentication system on the online banking site. When you log in from a computer you haven’t used before or perform certain transactions, it will randomly ask you one of 5 security questions (out of about a dozen or more) that you chose earlier. You will then be required to input the right answer to continue to log in.

I personally think this is great. I do a lot of my banking online and anything that makes it more secure is great. Even if it means it takes an extra minute to log in. The only way I think they could improve this is by allowing you to create your own questions. Most of the questions are things an attacker wouldn’t normally look for, but this would make it even more secure. Also I think it should ask you a question everytime you log in.

Ironically, just about two months after they implemented this, they were hit by a phishing attack which targets anybody, whether they are a TD customer or not. The email asks them update their information on a website that looks nothing like the real TD site. I think this would be a good time to remind you that banks and companies that deal with money will probably never contact you by email to “update your information”.

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