I mentioned that I have more than ten blogs and websites and a friend asked me how I could manage them all. Well, filling them with original content is not that difficult. The difficult part is building readership, comments and most of all, link popularity.

Sometime back, I read that submitting our URL to as many web directories as possible will improve our link popularity. As you know, I am so busy working that I do not have the time to submit all my sites manually. Of course, I know there are many automatic link submitters but none that I tried worked well enough.

I also thought of engaging the services of companies that offer web submission services for a fee but my friend had a bad experience and that put me off from paying for my web submission.

Just now, I was told of a human edited web directory called Max Directory that is free for us to submit our blogs and websites with a reciprocal link back. However, because this is a human edited directory, we would have to pay $5 for the review process and get Standard listing or pay $10 for the cost of review AND Express listing. Naturally, if you have selected Express listing, your listing will appear above those with Standard listings.

If you think that it is not worth paying $5, consider this: Human edited web directory is of better quality than web directory that do not have a human reviewer to review their listings hence all and any links could be listed, bringing down the quality of the web directory as a whole.

Navigation of the site is really very user-friendly however, the only improvement I would like is to make submission easier with a prominent link on the top bar to a submission form instead of having to browse to a most appropriate category and submit from there.

I just realized that although I have written more than five thousand posts since I became a blogger slightly more than two years ago, I have not once posted a poll on my blog for my readers. I didn’t feel the need to do any survey or make little questionnaires.

Just now, I was given the chance to check out a website that offers free polls for blogs and websites. The good thing about this poll service is that we do not require any HTML technical knowledge or coding. We just need to sign up for an account and input our questions and select options to create polls which we can then embed on our site.

I did not sign up for an account but I can see that there are many color options to select from to match the color of our site and these polls are not only free but also easy to use.

I know that this company is the same one that offers free web counters that I wrote about last night so I expect these polls to have a link back to a poker site again. However, you just have to ask yourself if you mind linking to a poker site and if your readers mind that too in exchange for free use of a web tool.

Just now I was happy that my Stremyx was restored after 48 long hours. Little did I know that it will be down AGAIN! It has been down since slightly before 8pm and what time is it now???

I called up Streamyx again just now and gave them my report number. After a check, the guy told me that the status listed for my case is still “in progress” and the deadline is tomorrow.

What the heck… they told me that deadline is two days upon lodging a report and now they are way past it already. Did you know, last evening, a lady called me up and told me that she is from TM Point and asked me if I were willing to answer a few questions which is a survey of how satisfied I am with their customer service.

She wanted to know the level of satisfactory I have towards their technical knowledge, courtesy, and bla bla bla and I told her that I will be satisfied if they just get my problem solved. That’s all.

Just now, the guy who fielded my call wanted to help me with troubleshooting and I told him to cut the crap. The problem doesn’t lie on my side, OK? Now I am so pissed off!

P/S: I will continue to write and write about my Streamyx broadband internet until I get what I have subscribed to. Please bear with me!

Some of you may know that I have visited countless dating sites because being single, it is like my friends and family’s agenda to help me meet as many guys as possible, online and offline. Today, I had the chance to check out a dating site that is slightly different from the kind of dating sites that I am used to.

This personals site is called One Good Love and it is set up for the lesbian, gay and bisexual community. We know how difficult it is for these people to take their relationship to the next level. People tend not to take them seriously.

With One Good Love, members can check out gay personals discreetly and make contact through the site. Gay dating has gone web savvy and there is no need to pick up people from the bar anymore.

This website is not for people who are looking for fun but for people who are ready to take gay or lesbian dating to a deeper level.

Should I cheer that my Streamyx broadband internet connection is restored after exactly 48 hours? Well, isn’t it HIGH TIME already? I believe that since I subscribed to Streamyx until now, this has been the longest outage that I ever went through.

I feel damn lucky that I could rely on my Celcom 3G. It was not perfect because my Nokia E61i was very hot working as a modem for such long hours and I could not use it as a phone without either the call dropping or the internet signal dropping even with an incoming SMS text but at least I still had an interent connection.

Some people told me that I should ask for a rebate for the outage but to go without Streamy for two days is only RM2.20 per day since my package is only RM66 per month. Aiya … RM4.40 only, forget it lah, it’s not worth the hassle.