The other day while web surfing, I chanced upon one which mentioned that Microsoft is planning to launch a cash back service where when we use their search engine to search for a product and when we make a purchase from there, we get cash back.

True enough, today, I received an email from Microsoft notifying that they have just launched their Live Search cash back service. Browsing though their site, they do have some of the largest and most reputable online merchants in their database, but I am not sure if these merchants are offering the best prices.

Of course, it is up to us to compare, but sometimes, shopping online, you get caught up in the hype and end up with something that is slightly more expensive than you would need to pay buying from a local neighborhood store.

This service, however, is only open to legal residents of the United States. And there are quite a long list of restrictions so if you are interested to purchase via Live Search to be eligible for cash back, which I could not find the quantum in their Frequently Asked Questions, do read their terms thoroughly.

I received an email from Register.com [yes, I am on their mailing list] informing that they are running a five-day sale where we get to save 15% off an entire order. Even with 15% off, it would not be cheap! Every webmaster I talk to has told me that Register.com has one of the steepest prices in the industry. I wonder why.

Which reminds me, I have a domain name with them and I must get it transferred to my regular registrar before one year is up. I hope I don’t forget. I only have about ten domain names and I already have a tough time keeping track. I wonder how other people with way more domains that I do, do it. Urgh!

If you read my blog over the past week, you would know that I recently changed my servers as the previous one goes down on a daily basis, sometimes up to 12 hours and that hurts my traffic to my blogs. Now that I have a new server, which is more stable, I have the mood to start even MORE blogs. Just last evening, I set up blog number 19.

As you can see, I am very particular about my web hosts. It is not actually the cost but also the customer service and technical assistance. I may have 19 blogs, 16 of which are self-hosted and powered by WordPress but I have minimal knowledge when it comes to hosting, servers and what-not.

When I was contemplating hosting my own blogs, I read web hosting reviews online and ask my friends for their feedback and experience with the various large webhosts. Luckily my friends are more experienced than I.

If you are new to hosting your own websites, or are looking to switch webhosts, may I suggest that you do a little research on some popular hosts. Some of my friends faced no problems with Hostgator. You can read Hostgator Reviews and find out their packages at the website of Top 14 Webhosts.

While I was at the site, I also came across some a Startlogic Review. I admit that I have not heard of Startlogic before so this one is new to me.

A couple of days ago, my friend sent me a text message telling me to download and try FireFox 3 because it is faster. It is actually only Release Candidate 1 which means to say that it is for public preview and the, community feedback and final developer testing.

Well, so I did and I was pretty pissed off because my very important add-ons that I MUST use did not function and I did not have the time to either check for an update or to mess around with my computer. I need it to function 100% all the time.

So I had to uninstall and go back to an older version and make sure that all my MUST USE extensions are there. Cheh… wasted my time only. My friend is already using this Mozilla Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 so I will ask him to keep a look out for updated add-ons so that I could upgrade my FireFox too.

If you have read my older posts, you will know that while everyone seems to think the best of FireFox, I don’t think it’s exceptionally fast. In fact, I think it’s a bit heavy especially with a tad too many tabs open.

Although I use it every day at the same time as Opera and Maxthon [yes, I open three browsers each with multiple tabs as I work] Maxthon remains my primary browser.

This afternoon, I was told to check out the website of Chemicool at http://www.chemicool.com/ . I was rather amused because I did not expect it to be a Chemical website. It reminded me of my high school days where I had to study Chemistry for two years. I found it a tough subject, but though I did not fail it, I had difficulty remember Chemical formulas.

Chemicool.com has a Periodic table of all the common chemicals so that we could easily refer to it to check the similarities and differences of chemical elements. If you are interested in chemicals, check out Chemicool at http://www.chemicool.com/. You can also view individual chemical element facts by clicking on each colored square.

I shall not attempt to explain more because Chemistry is not my forte. I still have nightmares of my Chemistry teacher, Mr. Thong. And surely, I cannot start a niche Chemistry blog.

If you have been reading my blog, you will know that I was one of the early members of EntreCard. And then the site receive so many new members and websites that I got lost there. In the early days, I received an additional 20 unique visitors from EntreCard members alone but now, I hardly get one or two but then I am totally not active there.

I only drop cards on blogs that I chance upon during random blog hopping and I do not purposely drop cards from the many blogs listed on EntreCard. Well, I no longer do that because I don’t have the time. Anyway, I stopped adding blogs to EntreCard after my third blog as I ran out of email addresses to register with.

Well, that’s history already because yesterday, I received an email from EntreCard introducing their new features and one of them, the most welcome of all, to me, is the ability to add multiple blogs to a single account.

Yes, I will get down to merging my accounts soon because logging in and out of my accounts, even though I only have three, could be tedious. I wonder how others have the time and patience to do it.

I have a neighbor who is a florist and she has a floral business in town. I see that she does rather good business but I have visited her shop before and I would have to say that she does not have too many varieties of flowers or bouquet designs to select from. Still, she managed to garner loyal customers. They don’t know better, I guess.

If I were to buy a bouquet of flowers, I would rather buy from an online florist because the array of fresh flowers and the many different kinds of floral bouquets are impressive.

Moreover, by buying online, I do not have to worry about keeping the flowers fresh or picking them up from the florist. I just need to pick out what I want in my order, pay for it and it will be delivered to the door of my recipient. Isn’t it way more convenient?