A Blog For Your Thoughts

A couple of posts back, I wrote that I wanted to start a few more blogs. I am serious about it you know, even though I already have so many! It is as if I have so many different things to share that I need a blog for each line of thought.

Just now, which making purchases for domain names, I was thinking, will I be able to afford maintaining my domain name renewal and hosting bills year after year? What if I lose interest in blogging? Where will my posts be?

I suddenly remember about the free blog provider at http://www.thoughts.com/. Yes, they are free like Blogger but with a refreshing air to it. You will know what I mean if you visit Thoughts.com.

What I like about blogs on Thoughts.com is the ability to set access level to each posts to the public or keep them private. This is what we can do with WordPress but then you have to remember, we are paying to host our blogs. Like I mentioned, it’s free on Thoughts.com and they offer unlimited bandwidth too so you can pile your account with photos, videos and most importantly, TRAFFIC!

Are you worried about getting traffic for your lonesome self hosted blogs? Well, you need not be if you are with an active community like Thoughts.com where members will visit each other and make comments. They even rate posts too, like an internal Digg. A great feature that can grab the attention of other members!

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A Different Aspect Of Italy

My friend, Paul, told me that if I plan to go to Italy, there is no better time to go than now. he knows what he is talking about because he just spent the most romantic Christmas in Rome last year.

If you have read my blog, you will know that I was invited to visit Italy a long time ago but it did not work out, unfortunately. Till today, I have harboured dreams to visiting some of the most romantic holiday destinations in Italy.

According to Paul, he had the chance to put up an a Roma hotel with the most amazing architecture. Since he was already in Italy, he thought he would make a trip to some of the top spots in Italy like Florence, Venice and Milan, besides Rome.

In Venice, Paul said he was lucky to have found the perfect accommodation at a Venezia hotel. Paul is an architect by profession and he thoroughly enjoyed the architecture that Italy has to offer. He thinks he is lucky to have the opportunity to stay at a Milano hotel and similarly at a Firenze hotel of very old architecture.


The Basilica, St Mark’s Square, Venice
picture courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net

If you look at this photo I have included, you will know what I am talking about. This simply puts us all in awe of the craftsmanship of the Italians! They are not only romantic and sexy, you know?

Scary

A guy I recently know found out about my blog. OK, so I told him about it. And you know what? He spent a few hours reading from the most recent post, going back to the very first post. My goodness! My blog is already a year old with more than a thousand posts, and he had the patience to read every single page.

OK, so many he did not read every single POST, but he did flip though every single page. Of that I am sure because my Stats Counter shows it!

Isn’t that scary? Yerrrr… the scarier part is that I have already forgotten what I wrote about and maybe I have leaked some secrets out there or talked about someone like him? LOL

I wished that he would come to my blog every day and read one post a day because then only will his visit be counted as a unique hit once a day, though I hope all the page views will count for something!

AvaTax, Awesome Add-On For QuickBooks

Some of you may know that I run an online store. While I would not say that it brings me quick bucks, at least the income derived from my sales bring in good pocket money. I know that should I have a larger inventory, I could rake a higher sales volume so I would say the potential is there except that time does not permit me to explore further at the moment.

I told my sister that she should run an online store as well so that she does not have to slog twelve hours a day. But she told me that selling in the United States would be a big headache no thanks to the different sales tax in every American state.

Well, today, I was told about Avatax, an add-on for Quickbooks. Quickbooks, I am sure you know, is an amazing financial software that people in sales find most helpful. However, if you integrate AvaTax for QuickBooks, you will have the sales tax of your customers calculated automatically. No longer do you have to refer to any chart or the internet for the sales tax each and every order.

By using an automated system, you are saving time and human resource in invoicing and order fulfilment. Visit this link, http://www.avalara.com/QuickBooks, to read further and even watch a screencast on how you can run your national sales seamlessly with AvaTax.

*** This post was brought to you by Avalara ***

Vedis IS Sexy

This evening while checking my Stats Counter, I was very amused to find a reader from Uganda who came to my blog from searching for the key phrase “sexy vedis”. If you are a Malaysian blogger, I am sure you know who Vedis is. If not, hop over to her blog by clicking on the first link on my Scratchback widget.

Anyway, clicking on the referrer link that brought him to my blog, I am surprised to find that I rank number one on Google Uganda for “sexy vedis”. Yes, it’s true, check this screenshot!

Who cares if there are only a total of 3,290 results that were returned. Who cares that it is Google Uganda and not some other major sister site, right? Number one is number one. Sexy is sexy and Vedis sure is sexy!

The ABCs of Payday Loans

Although some people may think that payday loans are bad, I think that it’s lucky that payday loans are available for some people who are desperately in need of some fast cash in an emergency. We should not judge people who need loans like these because there are a million and one reasons why. The only thing is that if we have applied for a payday loan, it is our responsibility to see to it that the loan is serviced according to the terms of the loan without default.

Before one jumps in and apply for a payday loan, he should check the terms and rates and compare them with other financial lenders before putting in an application. Applying for one is so hassle-free because most would not require us to fax in any documents and it could be done online. Getting out of a loan is the difficult part.

If you are in a financial fix and contemplating a payday loan, you should check out the website of Payday Loans ABC where you will be able to get the ABCs of payday loans. This is a site which tells you the process of applying for one, the requirements, the terms and most importantly, which are the companies that provide payday loans at reasonable interest rates in your state.

I had the opportunity to visit http://www.paydayloansabc.com/ just now and although I am not in need of a payday loan, I managed to gain new knowledge on payday loans.

*** This post was brought to you by Payday Loans ABC ***

Why You Should Get Dot Coms

Recently, I have been trying to come up with really catchy domain names. Unfortunately, the good ones seem to have been taken already. It seems that I am always late. There was one really good one that I wanted and I checked that it was just registered last month! Bah.. I was so pissed off. I actually already had an idea to set up a blog of that niche, in fact, it’s just moving from a free hosted blog to self-hosted blog but I did not have time to get down to it and so I missed the chance of registering for that domain name.

Oh yeah, the reason that we should get a dot com instead of dot something else, is because there is a shortcut key on the iPhone which saves time in typing out your web address on the iPhone as opposed to another site which has a dot net or dot info (increasingly popular, this one!).

You might say that we can bookmark our favourite sites but then I surf to a lot of sites that are not fit to be seen by others and I normally clear my cache after surfing. If not, it would be very embarrassing if people see an iPhone and wanted to try it out. LOL

See, I told you I have the weirdest logic didn’t I?

Random Thoughts Off My Mind