General

Getting Ideas For Wedding Planning

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One of the reasons I spend so much time online is because I get to look for lots of information. If we are patient and willing to spend some time checking various sources, we can gather lots of useful information.

The other day, I was helping a friend look for Wedding Planning ideas. I surfed to quite a few sites that cater to bridal couples. I managed to find a site that has almost everything that a wedding planner would want to know about planning a successful and enjoyable wedding in The Wedding Channel.

They have success stories of newly weds which make good reading and boosted the confidence of my friend. She told me that with sites like these, who needs professional wedding planners anymore?

Well, it isn’t the same but then when a bride plans her own wedding with her own time, resources and creativity, I believe it is more fulfilling. Don’t you agree?

Computing & Internet

Are Directory Submissions Still Relevant?

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I read that being listed on directories would help in raising our ranks but from what I understand, quite a few of these directories have been spanked as well so how would that be helpful?

The problem is that with blogs like mine, not all directories would accept my submission.

Moreover, the thing that makes me lose faith in the strength of being listed in Directories is that we have to list on specific categories, usually no category for blogs and we end up with an incoming link from the inner pages of a directory. So yeah, a directory may have a rank of six or even higher but its inner pages most probably will only be a three or two. Four, at the most.

And it would be most disheartening if after all the hard work, we find that the directory has been demoted. Bah!

The other day, I was introduced to the services of a company that charges labour for manual submissions to 100 directories with a minimum rank of five. I still have not decided if I should go with them, or look for one that charges cheaper, or do it myself. Frankly, I cannot afford the time.

But in the first place, would listing my blogs be a problem to those directories?

Blogging

Adding No Follow Attribute

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I follow (pun intended) with interest fellow bloggers’ discussion about adding the No Follow attribute to links are not paid for, links that we normally place in any of our posts so that readers will know what we are referring to in our post.

However, I don’t see why I should place No Follow when I have been linking to so many different sites for free since the day I started blogging.

I have a blog that I link out every single post and why do I have to change the way I have been blogging, paid or otherwise? One thing I hate is to be dictated on how I should do something especially when it comes to blogging, which should not be made into a chore.

I am aghast at the thought that some people even think that they should go back on their archives and add this attribute to all their old links. My goodness, surely people have better things to do with their time?

I think that if a blogger is not comfortable linking to a site for the first time then it probably is a wrong link on a wrong blog.

General

How To Look For Radiators

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The hazard of spending too long hours on the internet is that everyone seems to think I know the internet like the back of my hand. Just last night, a friend told me that he needs my help in looking for a used Taurus Radiator for his old model Taurus.

I think I already mentioned that I have no interest in cars and do not like surfing to car sites unless I want to buy one but since this is a very easy task I’ll just help him with it.

I think it’s pretty no brainer that to look for radiators, the first place to look for it is on Radiator.com haha! That was what I did and I managed to locate his Taurus radiator just by following a few links from the homepage from the car manufacturer to car model to the year of the model.

I taught my friend what he should do to look for this Taurus radiator and hopefully he will look for other radiators easily like this.

Blogging

Blogger’s Call Card

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I got to know of this blogger’s call card called Entrecard which I think it s a good way for us to network and take our blog out to more people on the internet. I have not read through the benefits of having an Entrecard yet, or perhaps my brain has yet to digest how good this is but from what I understand, Entrecards are only open to bloggers who run an English blog and not a splog or spam blog.

After getting our blog approved, we will have to place a widget on our blog where other Entrecard holders get to drop off their cards.

I think this is a pretty neat concept and will take the blog sphere by storm if enough marketing efforts are made. I think once I can make time, I will also get a card for myself provided my blogs are approved. Some people may think that I run spam blogs. Heh!

General

LG KU990 Viewty

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My friend sent me these shots of the LG KU990 Viewty to make me green-eyed. He said that this one totally rocks and coming from a long time smart phone user, I have no choice but to believe him.

According to him, there are many ways to input text and this one will be best for blogging 😀 What I do not like is that he said the iPhone cannot compare to this at all. Cheh…I hate him now :p

I’m waiting for my iPhone to arrive and then I am going to compare the features of them both. Let’s see if the Viewty is the iPhone killer as proclaimed by my friend. I hope iPhone wins, if I get my hands on it lah!

Let’s chant, “iPhone! iPhone! iPhone!”

Travel

Only All Inclusive Vacations Now

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A long time ago, a friend of mine asked me if I have the chance to go on a holiday and cost is not a problem, where would I go. I told him that I have no idea and perhaps I would just bump around where ever catches my fancy.

Now, I know better and based on the experiences of family and friends, the latest of whom just returned from an All Inclusive Mexico trip, all inclusive vacation is the only way to holiday in style.

Unfortunately, he is no longer with us and so I am unable to show him the fantastic all inclusive holiday packages that are being offered by Karisma Hotels. According to my friends, once you have experienced vacations like these, you would want no other because the rest will never measure up.

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