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Creating A Dialogue Through Blog Comments

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My father wanted to know why my blog has so little comments, compared to Lim Kit Siang’s blog. Aiya.. how to compare wor? He then told me that I should invite my readers to give their views in comments and then reply to those comments and create a dialogue between readers and myself.

Aiyo… my father thinks that it is so easy to be a blogger ah? Actually, he asked me to set up a blog for him but I am lazy. My friend advised me to make sure that I teach him how to “PPP” LOL!

Anyway, I told him that to be an popular blogger in a short cut way, you need old time bloggers to mention you and your blog and literally drive traffic to you. It helps if you are young and beautiful and female. It helps if you post lots of photos of yourself, or photos of others that you pass off as yourself.

But we all know how selfish most established bloggers are. Even if you know them personally, they never will mention you and if they do, they will think that they have done you a great favour. Bah.. no comments, no comments lah!

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Am I Or Am I Not A Malaysian Blogger?

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The other day, I was chatting with a local blogger and he mentioned a couple of prominent bloggers but the problem was that he called them by their initials, as if we are both so close to them. He was throwing names like TT, JL, KS, XX, etc. Well, I always hate people using short forms because I can never make out what they mean unless I ask them outright.

I do know who he meant by TT and JL because we were talking about their flagship companies but I was stumped with KS. The first blogger which came to mind was “Kit Siang” and the problem was that this guy said that KS is “hot”.

I was shocked for a little while there and I said, “Lim Kit Siang hot meh????”

My friend was so amused, and he questioned if I was a Malaysian blogger. Of course I am but does that mean that I am a mind reader as well? Turns out that the KS he meant was Kenny Sia. Aiya…. Kenny Sia where got hot?

Computing & Internet

Online Job Marketplace For Beauty Professionals

Many people, particularly those who do not spend as much time on the internet as I do, do not know that they could look for a job online. Many still rely on the newspaper. This is not to say that the Saturday job classifieds of our local papers are obsolete. Well, they are limited.

The other day, my friend was surprised when I told her that I am looking for a spa job. Of course, I am just helping an acquaintance who does not have access to the internet.

Anyway, I got to know that there’s plenty of beauty jobs listed on BeautyJobs.com so if you are looking for a spa or beauty job, register with the site and upload a resume. You will also be able to browse listings of jobs based on location.

I think a job site like this specifically for beauty professionals is very handy and creates a job marketplace for both employers and employees.

Computing & Internet

Electric Charge

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There’s something wrong with my internet connection right now and I can’t blame Streamyx. Haha! The other day, after getting struck by lightning, honestly, I don’t even know where the problem lies in that my broadband connection keeps tripping.

I called up Streamyx and they tell me there is nothing wrong with my line at all. They do not even see the disconnection in their log yet I am experiencing that too frequently.

Is it my modem, hub or cables? I am thinking that I should wait a few days for the electric charge to dissipate but the frequent drop in my connection is killing my mood to work.

I do have Celcom 3G but to be honest, the stability has much to be desired. Let me try to be patient and wait a little while longer. I hope that things will right itself in time. I really have no time to troubleshoot unless I just change EVERYTHING!

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Robots.txt or Not?

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I’ve been wondering lately if I should have a robots.txt file or not. In the early days, I did not have it but later I read that we are supposed to have it to guide search engine spiders on which links to crawl and which to ignore. So I uploaded it to all my WordPress blogs.

Lately, I have been getting crawl errors which are actually not errors but a direction from my robots.txt of not crawling those links. I hope you are following me!

However, I am sick of seeing those errors. I don’t remember if I used to have these errors but they are adding up lately!

I asked a few people who have been hosting their own blogs longer than myself and they said that they do not use Robots.txt. They just allow the spiders to crawl ALL links. That should be the case, though I read that it puts as as risk for duplicating content or something. HHmm makes one wonder if we should or should not use robots.txt.

What do you think?

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Buy Radiators On Radiator.com

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I mentioned in a previous post that a few of my friends cancelled their car orders. Well, they have to face the reality that they can no longer afford a new car. Heh, neither could I.

However, there are a couple of them who would be happy with a used car and it’s an added bonus that they do know a thing or two about cars so they could refurnish their used cars and they would be as good as new.

A friend found himself a Mustang and was smart enough to look for a Mustang Radiator online that would be perfect for his car model. I believe that it is not easy to look for radiators for car models of old but then one can get any radiator from Radiator.com!

If you are also looking for used radiators, you may want to check out this website. It’s easy to navigate to the car model of your choice and if you encounter a problem, you can drop them a note or even speak to someone via Live Support!

Blogging

RSS on EntreCard

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If you have a blog with EntreCard, I am sure you will know that once you publish a post, you will have your latest post published o the homepage of EntreCard.

Well, the problem is that, with twenty active blogs that are linked to my EntreCard account, there was not once that I noticed that my post is on the front page. Twenty blogs and not even once! Is that weird or what? Yet, I see the same blog posts stuck on the homepage for hours… and not too long ago, for DAYS!

No wonder I also did not notice any additional traffic from EntreCard from their homepage. HHmmm what is wrong? I NEED traffic no matter which corner of the web they come from.

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