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Computing & Internet

British English Langauge Courses

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Recently, there have been complaints that international bloggers do not have a good grasp of the English language. Surely our English is not the same as the Americans simply because of the fact that their English is American while ours is British.

But let’s not argue over whose English is better. There’s this website called Answering English that offers English courses that everyone could enroll in whether we are looking to improve on our English due to business, studies or just for our self-esteem.

Americans are probably not keen to learn English UK style but it is an added advantage to study the difference in American and British English.

From the website, it is said that all courses are taught in London. I wonder if they will be giving courses online in the near future.

In The News

The Case of Madeleine McCann

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Some months back, my father received an email from his business associate with the photo of Madeleine McCann and an appeal to help search for her. My dad was totally confused and he thought that the girl was the niece of the person who forwarded the email to him. You see, my dad is not very internet savvy. As for me, I did not personally receive that email that was being circulated, but I was totally skeptical and not sure if the story about the missing girl was true.

Anyway, now the police are saying that the parents may be guilty of accidentally killing Madeleine McCann. I am not going to be judgmental and say they did it because until the court says so, they are still innocent until proven guilty.

What I would like to know is, and it has happened recently in Malaysia, how could a parent kill his/her own child, accidentally or other wise? I also fail to understand, in the Ooi Ying Ying case, how could the mother cook up a story to protect the boyfriend who had killed Ooi Ying Ying?

To my innocent mind, although I am not married and do not have children, the only person who could kill another, whether the victim is of blood relation or not, is someone who is mentally unstable OR on drugs, and worse, BOTH. Now, I am saying KILL and not die in an accident, OK?

And then there’s the case of the boy who killed the daughter of his tuition teacher, who was recently released from juvenile detention. I seriously cannot understand why he could do it and is certified mentally normal. There seriously is something wrong.

Blogging, Computing & Internet

New Contextual Link Building Services

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Since joining a couple of companies that offer Contextual Links Building services, I have been on the look out for more companies so that I can sign up as a publisher. The latest company to join this new media consumer generated advertising in contextual link building through blogs is Inetzeal.com.

Inetzeal offers three different contextual link building packages ranging in price from $250 to $325. Each package includes 30 original blog posts with a minimum length of 200 up to 400 words with three to four links and deep links in post pointing to the client’s site. It is very important to ensure that such posts are relevant to the client’s site in terms of post topic and blog theme and published in blogs of various Google Page Ranks, with Page Rank 2 at the lowest to offer maximum value, benefit and effective search engine placement for their specific keywords.

Clients who are not that savvy and do not know which keywords to target, although they are allowed a maximum of ten keywords per package bought, can leave that to the hands of professionals of Inetzeal.

Although I am a publisher for many different contextual link building marketplaces, Inetzeal is different from all the rest because all packages come with a fixed THIRTY posts only and the length per post is set at 200 – 400 words. Also, no disclosure is required since contextual link placement, if written well, does not constitute advertising.

Computing & Internet

The News Room – Is There Something Wrong?

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I joined The News Room some time back when I took up their opp in the marketplace. I kinda like the site as it is content rich and I get fresh ideas on stuff to write whenever I run out of topics off my head. Plus, it is another way to monetize my blogs and in fact, from the handful of The News Room widget that I placed on my blog posts, I already earned $1.xx.

Unfortunately, not too long ago, I noticed that my widgets are not rendering any content. I don’t know what happened but I am doing exactly the same thing that I did when I first joined The News Room and successfully embedded their widget and earned that $1.xx.

Right now, though, I find that it is a waste of time to write up a post, embed the widget, publish it to find that the content is not displaying and I would have to take off the widget and edit my post.

You know, sometimes I may write something like, “If you would like to share this article/video with your blog readers, just click on the MASH button.” So no widget, and this line has to be taken off. Bah… how to monetize without the widget? And, I don’t even have the time to keep checking if The News Room widget is back online again.

Computing & Internet

Flirt Box

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Being single, one of the things friends and family do is try to match make me. You would not believe the number of online dating sites that I have been recommended this past six months. They were eye opening and interesting but I failed to find a date, even if it was an online one. Am I too choosy?

Have you heard of Flirt Box? This is a totally free online dating site where British singles meet, though people from the rest of the world are welcome to join the party as well.

Flirt Box is really different from other singles dating site where people have a chance to get to know others who share similar interests. Flirt Box offers more than that because there is the forum and a very funny column written by Neal D. Bogosian. Too funny. Everyone should read it no matter their marital status!

Perhaps I will just hang out here and not get my hopes too high.

Blogging

Blog Comments

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I am sorry to say this but recently, I have been having a slew of comments from people who came to my blog from a certain Do Follow blogroll and these people vaguely read through some of my posts and keep bombarding me with comments with a short sentence that touches slightly on my post topic, and obvious only looking for a link back to their commercial site.

I know there are companies that sell comments and there are people buying them, however, I do not feel right to publish these comments from people with a PRODUCT as their name.

I mean, I welcome comments from all quarters but please put a reasonable human name. I too don’t mind if the URL points to a commercial site BUT only if it is not in direct conflict to my advertiser. They wouldn’t want that because they have paid for the space.

And please leave a comment that makes sense and reflects that you have read my post.

General

Isuzu Pick Ups

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You may not know it but automobiles fascinate me. I think I may the only regular girl participating in the forum called 0 to 100 and thoroughly enjoy myself car talk with the boys. It is my dream to one day be able to participate in a 4X4 expedition, but that will have to wait till I have enough savings to spend like that!

Just now, I was checking out new models from Isuzu and I came across their very popular crew cab pick up and range of extended cab pick ups.

My dad is a fan of Isuzu and I can remember that we have had at least ONE Isuzu at home. Granted, my dad uses it at work but then he will give up rides on the pick up in the evenings when he is home early. How I miss those times. Isuzu extended cab pick ups still give me warm memories.

If you have the time, check out the website of Isuzu for their full range of pick ups and other models, including the 2007 Isuzu Ascender!