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.

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.

Do you feel that each and every day that you are online and as you register yourself with more and more websites that you will one day forget all your important passwords and then not be able to log in? I know that most websites have a security question like “What is your favourite colour?” or something like that.

Well, what if I don’t even remember what is my favourite colour anymore? It has changed according to my mood haha like the mood ring! So how?

This is one of the reasons I am so reluctant to register with new websites, especially social sites or those that require me to register to vote, like Digg.com. Yes, it’s here that you can find a non-Digger, non-Facebooker and non-Twitter, despite their popularity *shrug*

So you can imagine how I hate it if my cache is cleared or my computer underwent a reformat that my browser does not auto log me into my favourite sites. I would then have to bring out my little black book because I can’t bloody remember them all!

And yes, my secret book is REALLY black and it is REALLY small!

The following is a fair and impartial review request of the website and service of Home Camera.

Home camera is an in-home surveillance camera that is free to use during beta testing. If you have done research on home surveillance, you would know that those advanced equipment do not come cheap. With Home Camera, however, you do not need to buy additional equipment because all you need to do is to install the software to your Windows PC or laptop like any other software and hook up a webcam.

Turn the program on and start monitoring anywhere you like after you have named your camera. I find that the easiest way to name your camera is the room that you re monitoring, like living room, baby room, dining room or kitchen. This is to avoid confusion because you can connect a total of four webcams or CCTV cameras.

Once everything is set up, you can then access your cameras remotely from any internet enabled computer, laptop, PDA or mobile phone. With Home Camera, though, you can also opt to share your surveillance cameras with other Home Camera users. Perhaps you will be away without an internet connection and would like your siblings to keep an eye on the house and pets, or share your children’s moments with the grandparents so this is a great feature and can be easily implemented by granting access to specific users.

Personally, Home Camera is perfect for me because I have a dog which suffers from seizures. He lapses into fits and it is especially bad during a storm because he suddenly developed a fear for the rain and lightning and of course the sound of thunder terrifies him. This is especially frustrating for me because I live in Malaysia where it rains almost every day. You can imagine that I have to stay with my dog for hours daily.

My friend has advised me to keep him in a room all by himself and asked me to stay away to retrain him but I can’t let him inside without checking on him every other minute in case he hurts himself in a bout of fits. I went to check out the prices of surveillance equipment and they cost me an arm and a leg. Seriously, I could not afford them even if I could reclaim my freedom. That was why I kept putting it off while my dog continues to cling to me almost every day.

While Home Camera is the perfect tool for me thanks to its motion detection and automated recording where I can access the video or images that are automatically stored on the server of Home Camera or emailed to me, I know that Home Camera would also be perfect for people who are dependent on foreign maids to care for their children. We have read enough horror stories of how kids end up physically and mentally abused by these maids or even died the hands of these maids from hell. With these cameras well hidden at strategic parts of the home, the maids would not even realize that they are being watched.

Aside from the fact that this is a free service for the time being, and users who register during Beta testing will have a FREE Home Camera Lite account for life even after the service is commercialized, the plus points of Home Camera compared to other home surveillance services are its user-friendliness and intuitive interface plus the fact that we can use out existing computer and webcams without forking out thousands of dollars just setting up the remote monitoring system.

I noticed something. Every time I wrote about a big corporation, someone from India would come and read my post and then send my permalink to the company and someone from that company would come and check it out. I think I have noticed this happening about five times. And each time the first person that comes to read that post is ALWAYS from India.

Is there a company in India that has online spies for hire? Let’s say I run a company and I am afraid that someone out there is writing bad about my company or a branch office in particular, maybe I can hire this company who has staff to monitor the internet 24/7 for their clients and when some someone mentions the company whether in a positive or negative way, off the spy sends out the link to the client.

Hhmmm the more I think of it, the more plausible this scenario is.

Perhaps these companies can subscribe to Google Alerts and Technorati themselves? Why hire people to do the job? Of course, I have come across companies who come personally as well, can see from their IP mah 😀

I came across many plastic surgery terms when I as browsing through a plastic surgery website just now. My, are there so many for us to memorize! I would like to get one IF there is no pain because I would like to get some little “defects” off my face and body and I know that I could look a whole lot better with some help, help that could not be rectified with cosmetics! But I am uncertainly though! One thing is the pain, another is the cost and I will never go to a quack doctor in his makeshift clinic to get a tummy tuck, for example, just because it is cheap and that is what I could afford. No way! I would rather suffer from ugliness than put myself at risk!

The popular trend now is to check into a clinic that looks like a five star hotel, be treated like a VVIP and then come out as a new person! This is what I dream to be able to afford one day when I could pay a million dollars to look like a million dollar girl!

There was once that I read a patient went in for liposuction and the clinic staff forgot to shut the machine off because she was busy chatting away on the phone while the patient on the coach fell asleep, with the machine on. I don’t know what the consequences were but she came out in a pretty bad shape, I read.

After reading all those bad experiences of others, when my friend told me that she may have to get a rhinoplasty, I told her to only go for the best. There is only all to gain to check in with a reputable plastic surgery clinic, right?

She agrees with me, of course, but would still need the final approval from her husband. He is the paymaster, after all!