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Dog Breed & Breeder Resource Site

If you know me personally, you will know that I love dogs. And I have friends who chided me many times, “You and your dogs!”

Today, I came to this website with dog breed and breeder information. Some people are not agreeable to dog breeding but I think that as long as the breeder follow regulations strictly, it should be fine.

I checked out the page on Brittany, a Spaniel breed and promptly fell in love with the puppy gracing the page.

Spaniels are very friendly and smart dogs and they have many more characteristics that you can check out from the page on Breeder Retriever. On this site, apart from breed information, you can also access the forum to view more photos, discuss on this specific breed with other dog lovers, find a breeder for Brittany and buy books on Brittany for further reading.

I think that Breeder Retriever is a great resource site that gives us an all-in-one information pack on everything that has to do with any dog breed.

Before buying a dog you may want to read about the breed here first to know for sure that the dog with these typical characteristics is what you are looking for.

New: NameCheap Hosting

You may not know it yet, but I bought all my domain names from NameCheap and when I use their codes, I get discounts too. Although the discount is not great, when I renew my domains for five years, yes, I get a big savings from there.

Last evening, I received the first NameCheap newsletter and the good news is that they have a new arm to their business: HOSTING.

If you are a customer of NameCheap, you would know that they have one of the lowest domain name rates. I did my homework before buying them 😀

Anyway, I am happy to note that NameCheap hosting is also cheap. It is too bad that I already paid for my hosting from a guy in Malaysia for one year starting 1st September, 2007.

Bah! I would have gone with NameCheap if I have yet to pay for my hosting. And the customer service of this fellow is LOUSY!

Score With Professionally Written Dissertation

A friend asked me if I know of companies that offer dissertation writing services. I told him that I know of a website called YourDissertation.com which provides writing services from school level right up to PhD level for British and American students.

I went to check their order form and there are many options for you to select from for any of your dissertation topics. The price increases as you place your requirements like type of dissertation, study level, citation style, number of pages and the time frame you allow YourDissertation.com to come up with a professionally written dissertation.

If you buy such a service, it is important to check if it comes with a plagiarism report and if you are allowed to make unlimited times of amendments. You may want to get these for free like what YourDissertation.com is offering.

Proposal To “Mary”

If you have a WordPress powered blog and if you dig your Spam Comment folder like I have to, you would probably have received numerous “comments” about a website called “Proposal To Mary”. I am not going to link to the site in case somebody mistaken it as a paid link. Perhaps you could Google it if you are interested but I am not sure if it is indexed yet because it is new without much content.

Anyway, this website was set up by a German man who met his girlfriend “Mary” during a holiday. From what I understand, he has now moved to America to be with her and he wants to propose to her but does not want to do it directly.

What he wants to do is to ask internet users to help him spam spread the word to as many people as possible hoping that it will reach “Mary”.

We don’t know the real name of “Mary” because he would like to protect her privacy PLUS if her name is disclosed then someone who knows her would straightaway email the proposal to her and the game would be over.

I think that this is a very romantic gesture BUT what happens if the proposal does not ever reach her? The internet could be too huge or it could be very small. Just like in real life, if you want to find somebody, you never can but you will keep bumping into people whom you would like to avoid!

Hassle-free Hawaiian Vacation

I wrote a few posts on Hawaii vacation and a friend told me that nowadays, people are opting for vacation rentals instead of conventional hotels for their accommodation. Yes, I know of that but I wonder where people go to book these because I only know of one company that comes highly recommended from a friend who had a hassle-free Hawaiian vacation thanks to this company.

A friend told me that one could get excellent accommodation from Gebhart Properties whether it is a Maui Condo or a resort.

So I hopped over to their website. Gebhart Properties is a vacation property management company so you can imagine their huge database of vacation homes. Now, I am thinking that with companies like Gebhart Properties no longer do we need to look all over the internet for our dream vacation homes when these companies have already done all the groundwork for us.

That makes a truly hassle-free vacation!

Dang Those Splogs!!

Almost a month ago, I wrote the post “Too Lazy To Write“. Well, the problem is getting more and more severe. As soon as I published my post, I already got a Ping from them.

I read that I could block their IP address and they would not be able to scrap my content, but I don’t know how to go about it and I also read that once we ban an IP, other legitimate readers who are sharing the same band of IP would also be similarly banned. Another way is to add a footer to our RSS feed but that does not prevent scrapers to steal your content but just stamp your copyright.

Although many people have been saying they love their own WordPress-powered blog yadda, yadda, yadda, these are the targets of scrapper sites (or splogs) I don’t face this problem or get flooded with spam comment on Blogger!

We can’t win, can we?

Get User Reviews From Trusted Places

Trusted Places is a social website where people hang out. My cousin, Jasmine, told me that when she first moved to London, a colleague told her that this is the place to check out if she would like to get the most out of her money.

On Trusted Places, real people share and rate their favorite London bars and pubs, restaurants and other places that people go to eat, drink and hang out, places to shop or catch a show and just about anything that a community member feels worthy of a mention either in a positive or negative light. With such information readily available online, locals would know which places to frequent and which to avoid.

Jasmine told me that based on these user reviews, she now only frequent places that come with high rating from members of Trusted Places. I think this is a wonderful concept as it pushes commercial places to offer only the best services or lose the business!