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Readily Available Professional Translation Services

Sometime back, I wrote about my friend Lawrence who was posted to Spain to work. He told me that he is having a difficult time coping with the language used in the course of work. He said it’s different from what he has learned back home.

To help him understand the documents that he has to read and understand, he searched on Google for Catalan translation service, Catalan translation services, translation quotes and came upon a website offering professional translation services.

This website, Translation Central, can translate a whole list of languages, including Catalan, much to his relief.

Lawrence put in requests for quotes for translation jobs and he is satisfied with the competitive rates. He said when the documents are translated from Catalan to English it would be a whole lot easier for him to work more efficiently.

I say, thank God for readily available services like this which makes life easier for people like Lawrence!

Hardships at PPP-ville

Recently, there’s no more joy in PPP for me. Don’t get me, wrong, I still love the company and will never talk bad about it despite what went on at BlogHer. Who cares what the others have said and are saying? Many people have had internal conflicts with themselves and also with their blog readers for placing sponsored posts on their blogs. For me, I never had such issues.

I have been a Postie for slightly more than nine months and every day, I have looked forward to “reporting to work” at PPP. However, since late last month, the joy has left me because I have been shown the ugly side of human beings.

I love the company, but I can’t say the same for all the other posties. Sure, I have made friends with some of them and a common love for PPP has strengthen our bonds but there are many more who are out to stab other people’s back, conspiring with each other to bring some of us down and kick us out of the system. Did I mention that the private forum is a bad idea?

I should be so honoured that there are people who actually took the trouble to set up a blog just to expose my misdeeds. Well, if they did have numerous screenshots of other people, then why was it that after three weeks, I was the only one on the blog?

Like I mentioned, I too read many Posties’ blogs daily and I see many people committing the same violation and then some, yet, I let them slide. Why? Because I never will jeopardise the income of another person.

PPP has accorded the opportunity to me which I and my family cherish very much. With the money I earned from PPP, I managed to meet the three debt repayment schedules every month plus support and upkeep the household.

I also will forever be grateful to PPP because it was with the money earned through PPP that I was able to afford to provide the best veterinary care to my pet. It was with this money that saved my little monkey from parasite fever that nearly cost his life and would have if we were unable to afford the medical bills. It’s with money from PPP that I finally took him for a bladder stone surgery that dragged on for sixteen long months because I could not save money quick enough.

You may wonder why I say my earnings are all from PPP. While I may have joined other similar services, the bulk of my blogging income is from PPP. I did not maximize on the opportunities of other services because I did not want to bombard too many irrelevant sponsored posts on my blogs.

Therefore, PPP has helped my family and I and we appreciate it very much. However, I hope that the jealousy will die down because it simply overwhelms. One thing that would help is to do away with the leader board so that nobody will know who earns how much. For every one who congratulates me for reaching the top spot on the daily or monthly leader board, there are ten who are looking for a chance to get me down.

Do not be mistaken that I am the only one feeling so, that I am being paranoid. You can ask any top earner who is of the wrong skin color and he/she will concur.

That being said, I hope to have the the chance and the strength to continue as a Postie despite all these challenges.

A Gift For The Avid Photographer

I received a phone call last night from my good friend. She desperately wanted to know what birthday present to get for her boyfriend next week. Sometimes when we are forced to get a gift not once a year but also during other times like anniversaries and Christmases, we truly are stumped for fresh gift ideas.

Coincidentally, last week, I was surfing the internet for a gift for my friend whose birthday falls in September and I have decided to get him a digital picture frame.

I think a digital photo frame would be the perfect gift for my friend’s boyfriend since he is an avid photographer as well. Digital frames are great for people who take a lot of photos and videos because there is no need to hook up the computer or process and print the photos. Just slot in the memory card from the digital camera or camera phone and view from there. There is no more wastage on printing poor photo shots since we could view them as if from the digital photo frame.

My friend was delighted to know there is such a thing as a digital picture frame as she has never heard of it before and she agrees that it makes a great gift. Hah! She should thank me!!

All Inclusive Caribbean Vacation

I was helping my friend look for the ultimate honeymoon vacation just now and came upon SuperClubs. You see, my friends know that I spend too much time online and SHOULD know about the latest trends but I still have to search for the information.

SuperClubs offers all inclusive resorts in the Caribbean and Jamaica which means to say, the honeymooning couple will just have to pay for the vacation and present themselves. Everything else will be taken care of by the vacation experts at SuperClubs.

I told my friend about it and they can’t even decide if they should do an all inclusive Jamaica or a conventional holiday like Disneyland but I thought they said they wanted an ULTIMATE experience. Hhhmmpp!!!

Well, I figure, even if they do not take up my suggestion, my research isn’t wasted because an all inclusive resorts Caribbean sounds just as good for my parents’ wedding anniversary next year! Check out the activities that are included and the prices are great too!

An iPod Nano Will Do Too

You know what? If I can’t win an Apple iPhone then an Apple iPod Nano would be a good substitute.

Michael and Ed have asked for help to name their new site that is dedicated to hockey. We’ll have to come up with a name for the site and check for the availability of the domain name from GoDaddy. Well, I’ve got it and hope it’s creative enough to bag me an iPod.

There’s another chance to win as well for participants who make a post on their blog linking to Ed’s personal blog and Michael’s freelance writing site. See, it’s not that difficult, is it?

Coming across their contest page gave me a chance to check out the blogs of Michael and Ed. I had a laugh reading and watching Hard Gay on Ed’s personal blog. Hard Gay is hilarious and outrageous! Michael’s site is dedicated to his professional writing services and he blogs too, in excellent English.

Win or not, I think I’m gonna be a regular reader from now on 😀

Exchanging Link, Traffic & Promote Content For Free

I run so many blogs and sites that it’s kind of hard to network and create a loyal visitor base. While I do find ways to enhance traffic to my sites, I try my best to look for free link or click exchanges, so I was delighted to come across Link-Blox-Exchange.com | Site/Page, Blog/Post Exchange system [NEW, FREE].

This newly launched site based in the UK, is all about exchanging and building links, traffic and cross promote blog posts and content. A blogger may write well but he will not be noticed without a little extra promotion. With a platform provided by Link-Blox-Exchange, members can help each other build their web presence in a legitimate way.

Also, to ensure the quality of submissions, the founder himself, Sean, will check the content submitted to Link-Blox-Exchange within a few hours. That is a fast turnaround time, if you ask me.

Link-Blox-Exchange is a rare site with a 1:1 ratio exchange and I have come across many similar sites with different ratios that make it not worth the time to even participate. This site is free but we need to accumulate credit to fully utilise the features. However, as a bonus, new registrants will receive 100 credit points just by joining and that means a hundred visitors to your site! I don’t know about you but that sounds really good to me!

Hello

I’m Sean, a developer in the UK that has come up with a free, effective, ethical and genuine Link/Traffic/Content exchange with a quirky twist. Banner exchanges and Link exchanges have all been done before and mostly very poorly, so I have set up a 1:1 exchange system that doesn’t make false claims and has integrity.

What’s unique is Websites and Blogs can benefit, by not only exchanging links, but doing so either via the popular web badges (80×15 antipixel button) and/or text links. Also users can cross promote actual Pages/Posts, so actually you are exchanging related content as well as Traffic/Links.

Every new Blog/Post added into the network is manually checked by me within hours as well as every hit, to ensure the utmost integrity! You will recognise the little PixBloxes, they say a picture is a thousand words, a PixBlox is 1200 pixels! Text links are also supported. Both can easily and instantly be built with my cutting edge Web 2.0 Ajax tools.

The site has just recently gone live, and I would be very grateful for some coverage which is why I’m investing the little budget I have into top resources.

Human, personal support is also available (feel free to publish my direct email or ask me any questions): sean@link-blox-exchange.com

I also have a launch promotion running whereby new users get 100 credits for joining (only 5 fields) which equates to 100 visitors! It’s also FREE to fully use! As an extra promotion if you blog about the site, you can tell your readers they can contact me after joining and if they mention they came from your site, I’ll give them an additional 150 credits – exclusive!

I look forward for reading the posts,
Many thanks,

Sean
Creator: http://www.link-blox-exchange.com

OMG!!! This Is SO DUMB!

I can’t believe there are people who are this dumb. Well, as you know, there have been unwarranted cries of cheating and many of us have been accused, rightly or wrongly, of being cheaters. What a lark. Let the person who is not a cheater to call someone that.

For people who thought they were so righteous, they have been found to cheat the system of another marketplace. Hahaha how can there be people this dumb who would place all links from separate assignments into ONE blog post?

Is this ignorance? Is this an inability to understand simple instructions when all the guidelines are set forth in every email? Now, who was it who said that people from non-speaking English countries are not able to understand English and do not have a good grasp of the language?

Well, you just can’t hit a whole boat of people with a stick. There are people with good language skills and there are people without. And then there are people with average skills, in Malaysia, in the United States and in all countries in between.

Yes I am still sore to be labeled a cheater publicly. You can’t call me that when you did not inform me of the changed in the rules mid-game.

But for this stern warning issued by this particular marketplace, boy, oh, boy, aren’t they all cheaters as well? Or are they too dumb to understand simple English?