Blog Your Way To Vegas

PicApp is giving one lucky winner an all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas for Blog World Expo. OK, when is Blog World Expo, you will need to check it up yourself. The thing you need to do is to embed PicApp images in your blogs, maximum two images per post, and the person with the highest number of PicApp images used will win.

I think this is a great marathon contest, except that they need to be transparent and add a little tally widget on their site. I would love to join as well, god knows I have so many blogs that require images, but then I hate the little box at the bottom of the image AND I can’t get away on long international trips for the time being so I am letting this contest go. Yes, contest freak me.

Who is joining? Will you let go this free trip to Las Vegas?

All Inclusive Resort Vacation

My friend, Lawrence, got his hands on an accommodation voucher for an all inclusive resort. He said that he would not be able to make it before it expires and would give it to me if I would like to have it.

Yes, I am so tempted to accept it. However, I am not sure if I myself would be able to make it. It has been a long while since I have been on a real vacation and if I were to make my way there, an all inclusive vacation would be it.

Karisma Hotels is well known of their all-inclusive romantic holiday packages. In fact, a friend told me that she is planning her wedding and honeymoon there too. Can you imagine not having to do anything except present yourself at your wedding reception? LOL That was the way my friend put it.

EntreCard & SeyzWho

I am sure everyone who uses EntreCard would have read about the collaboration with SeyzWho and credits will be awarded to members who comment on blogs that are in the EC community.

I think that it is a good effort to drive real traffic to blogs, instead of just doing stuff in our dashboard which does not bring traffic. I even think that advertising spots on out EC widgets should be purchased from members’ blogs.

However, I refrained from singing up with SeyzWho and waited for other members to implement it. Boy, I am glad that I did not do it. Like I passionately hate pop ups as I said in my previous post, I have things that pop up on my screen, small windows, bubbles, whatever, as I move my mouse across the page.

And SeyzWho will do exactly that. I don’t know if we need to implement special code or whatever, but the link to blog comments would not pop up a window detailing the comments that he/she has left recently and the comment rating.

And then there’s a widget that I noticed on some blogs that have been placed on the sidebar which POPS UP as well. I wonder if this is part of the EC collaboration as well. Whatever the case, this is not something for me. What about you?

I Hate Pop Ups

I noticed that more and more bloggers have implemented pop up advertising on their blogs. I absolutely hate them. More than I have those in line advertising that pops up a bubble if we so much as hover our cursor over a link in post, accidentally.

I don’t know about you I find that these pop ups jams up my browser for a couple of minutes when I access blogs that have pop ups, especially for the first time when I do not know that they have pop ups.

And I would think that somehow the browser was jammed and I was forced to close it, losing all my other windows since I use tabbed browsing. I HATE IT!

Maybe my internet connection is slow, maybe my computer is old and could not handle the strain but I think that I am not suing equipment that shabby or my line is that crappy so if I face this problem then so would have the internet browsers.

Maybe I am naive and I do not know the earning potential of these pop up or pop under windows to the bloggers but I think that they are totally not worth it!

Showing Off Airsoft Guns

My friend invited me to watch him play paintball last weekend. He said that I have been sitting in front of the computer for too long and I need to play. I don’t want to play paintball because I saw how he suffered from blue blacks all over his body a couple of months ago during a tournament.

But I went a long to watch because I knew he wanted to show off me his new airsoft guns. he said that he bought them online after wasting time looking for them at local stores.

According to him, online stores like ZephyrAirsoft.com have a complete range of airsoft guns and paintball equipment and gear while local stores only have selected items. He didn’t want to wait so he bought them directly from specialized stores. Besides, he was surprised that the prices were very reasonable too and the wait time was short.

Facebook Files Suit Against German Social Portal StudiVZ

Facebook is taking German social network portal StudiVZ to the courts for being a copycat and is seeking an undisclosed amount of money as damages. It is funny that Facebook itself had been embroiled in a lawsuit with ConnectU which accused Facebook for stealing its idea.

So the gist is that Facebook stole the idea from ConnectU but StudiVZ stole the same idea from Facebook. Get it? Of course, no party has admitted to it. Even if they did, would they admit? No, right?

StudiVZ meanwhile has stated that Facebook is only jealous that they are unable to penetrate the German market while StudiVZ has ten million German members. That’s quite a number there.

I enclosed a screenshot each of Facebook and StudiVZ so that you can compare them and see if StudiVZ has copied Facebook and if Facebook has a case against StudiVZ. What do you think? You be the judge!

Doing It While We Could

When I wrote about collecting menstrual blood and harvesting stem cells from there, my male friends were very tickled, even though this is a non-invasive procedure and done at the comfort of our own homes.

Laugh as they will, they do not yet realize that if it is unfortunate that they require stem cells in the future for medical reasons, they would not have these cells unless they have a sister who has had her stem cells from menstrual fluid stored and preserved! See how important it is to think far into the future?

Whether you are male or female, you should read the C’elle website on their innovative stem cell solutions particularly for women. This may sound funny to some but understanding why this has to be done will be very helpful. For more information, you can also read C’elle Client Testimonial

As a woman, I try to tell as many of my friends as possible that we could do this for ourselves and our love ones. In fact, we all MUST. Do it while we are young, do it while we still could.

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