Computing & Internet

Pumpin’ It Up

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In my post, Two Rejections, I mentioned that somebody thought that I have a magic wand so that I could improve on my P…R… just like that but this is even better. WICKO of LinkWorth has this image where this guy pumps up his P…R… enthusiastically and it just cracks me up. IF only it’s this easy I would be pumping away 24/7.

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In his blog post not too long ago, WICKO mentioned the possible side effects of over pumping:

dizziness, over-clicking, constant looking at your toolbar, less focus, diarrhea, constipation, sleepless nights, drowsiness and confusion (I’ve had mine today). If you are pumping for more than 4 hours, please call a LinkWorth Account Manager at 866.LNK.WRTH immediately. This product is made for men and women as this issue is not gender specific.

I am surprised that he missed out “blindness” haha!

To everyone who has been penisized in this latest round of spanking a couple of days, take care.

P/S: I noticed that StatCounter is back at the top :)

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Erroneously Rejected

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My friend told me that of all the places that she is a blogger with, only one place is perpetually giving trouble. Well, I know what she means but I have good vibes for this particular company mainly because I have been pretty fortunate with them until my ranks tanked.

The other day, I received a rejection from them. Now, if you are one of their many bloggers caught in the recent spanking, you would know how important it is NOT to receive a rejection because a rejected post may not be able to be resubmitted due to the shortfall in requirements.

To cut the story short, my rejection was because that I submitted more than three posts for the day. Now, I am a very meticulous person and I keep track of all my posts pretty well having been in the game for more than a year now and would you think that I would have such a lapse in judgement that I would submit over my quota and not get paid for whatever extra work I did?

Anyway, I have reason to believe that besides a name change, this company has outsourced their review work to India. If you noticed, you most probably have also received approval notices in the evenings, our time. No sane American would do review work in the middle of the night, I tell you!

So, outsourcing to India is fine but not when they were not briefed that we accept opportunities based on American time, specifically Eastern Standard Time.

This particular reviewer checked my archives for the whole day Malaysian time from 12am onwards and then told me that I submitted more than my limit. Sure, as it was over a TWO day period over in America. Moreover, this person picked out other opportunities supposedly from this marketplace when they were not.

I am just lucky that I still managed to resubmit my post so let’s see how things go.

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Making Hobbies Profitable

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I mentioned in an earlier post today that I was at a wedding dinner a couple pf weeks ago. I met an old friend of mine at the dinner and he told me that he is into numismatics now. Well, I always knew that he was into coin collecting and I thought that was just a hobby for him but it looks like he is going to make it into a career too, or at least something that would earn him a profit.

I think that it’s a great idea to turn our hobbies into money making concerns. Like a friend suggested that since I spend countless of hours online, I might as well set up an ecommerce store, sell something and make some money but I am too lazy.

Perhaps I will just invest into rare coins like this friend of mine!

Computing & Internet

Windows Live Services

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I received an email from Windows Live Team yesterday. I am surprised that it was just yesterday because I had to dig out the email from the bottom of the page just now!

Anyway, it seems that we could download this Windows Live software for our desktop or something. I never bothered to check out what’s so great about it.

All I want is for Hotmail to support IMAP. Why is it so difficult to open up the mail and let every free Hotmail account holder to access their email wherever??? I do know that Hotmail has the option for us to forward our email to another email address but taking this action would cause the email to be deleted from out Hotmail account. That sucks.

And they require that we log into our Hotmail accounts regularly or the account itself will be deleted due to inactivity. This sucks big time.

So, MSN, are you listening???

Computing & Internet

Ad Revenue Improved A Little

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The other day, I wrote about suspecting that my page impressions are somehow not recorded by the local ads that I have implemented on the blog. Well, the boss told me to place the ads of a different format and also at some other more prominent spots on the blog, which I did.

After a couple of days, I do see a very slight improvement in my revenue. However, I still suspect that there is something wrong with the system. How can it be that I was earning 10 cents per day and it suddenly dropped to one cent per day only when the number of page impressions did not fluctuate all that much?

Of course, this figure is just for illustration purposes to show the steep drop. Is that a 90% drop? I think so and it baffles me. Sure the boss said that not all impressions are equal and I do agree with him but the equation still does not add up!

Actually, I did complain once before and the following day, my revenue went up once again to the old days. I still think there’s a problem over at their end, just that they are not admitting it!

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Disposable Wedding Cameras

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I went to a wedding dinner a couple of weeks ago where the bridal couple provided each guest with a disposable camera so that all of us could take candid shots of the wedding. We have the option of keeping the camera or hand the wedding cameras back to the bridal couple so that they could get the photos processed and compile a wedding photo album of candid shots, separate from the official professional wedding shots.

I first knew of this idea from an episode of Oprah Winfrey and I think it’s an absolutely wonderful idea but I still have no chance to use it for my own wedding reception yet. Haha!

I saw from an online store that these wedding cameras can be as cheap as $4 each. That’s wonderful. Can you imagine the cost of equipping each guest with a disposable camera if it was $40 each?? Eeeekkkkk

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What’s Happening In Vegas This Weekend?

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Well, if you are a serious blogger, I am sure that you will know of BlogWorld & New Media Expo and PostieCon. I’m not able to attend even of I wanted to because Vegas is like half a world away. Urggghhh I want swaggggg :-(

I hope that those who managed to go will have a great time, managed to learn new stuff, gain new readership and traffic, etc.

I went to the official website of Blog World Expo and I found the following interesting blog statistics:

Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog. –> And the majority of these twelve million American adults have more than one blog. SCARY!!

There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day. –> I published more than ten posts on this blog alone yesterday. Heh I am a big contributor of the 1.4 million posts 😀

120,000 new blogs are created every day. –> With crazy bloggers like my friends, the number is only expected to go up!!

Blog readers average 23 hours online each week. –> Blog WRITERS average 23 hours online each DAY Woohooo!

OK… the other “facts” are not that interesting but if you are interested, check out Blog World Expo.

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