Committing to a Tertiary Education

My friend Henry, who made me promise him to get a college degree has asked me for an update! Eeekkk I haven’t made any commitment to continue with my education for lack of time but Henry won’t buy my excuse!

So I will be setting a goal for myself to get a college degree online within this couple of years since it is more convenient to study at my own pace than attending real classes. For one, I save a lot of time commuting to and from college if I were to study at home after work and I will not be distracted by college social life and friends. As an adult with plenty of responsibilities and commitments, I need to stay focused, much more than a normal college student.

Right now, I am not sure with which college I should sign up with since but I do know that it has to be an accredited college so that my qualification will be valid and recognized.

I expect a better tertiary education to bring me better opportunities in life but first, I will have to hit the books once again.

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Ashley’s Online Boutique

I believe I have surfed through a few thousand websites now but Ashley’s Boutique has got to be one of the cutest sites around. Ashley’s Boutique is actually an online store selling primarily designer inspired women’s apparel, watches, sunglasses, handbags, purses and accessories.

Lately, replica products have been very popular. To me, they look an exact copy of the real thing and come with only a fraction of the price. I for one would certainly try not to buy the real item when I can have a copy at a more reasonable price. Fashion, after all, come and go.

Even though I am not a handbag person, I really loved to browse through the selection of the finest replica handbags. Each product comes with multiple shots from different angles so as to help the shopper in deciding which to buy. No more guessing games!

If you are fashion AND price conscious, now you know where to look for your clothes and bags. You CAN look a million dollars without spending as much!

Networking Overtime

Many people are expecting the upcoming Google Page Rank update to happen in late July. How accurate their prediction is, I am not sure but I hope that it won’t happen so soon. I am not ready yet!!!

Currently, I am working my butt of trying to network and expose my blogs as much as possible by joining blog rolls, publish viral tags and viralinks, leaving comments every time I blog hop and even joined a blog carnival.

The thing is, after a few days of publishing the viralink and viral tag, I did not notice any jump in my Technorati rating, at least not at the pace of when I joined MyList when my score literally jumped! As I understand it, virals won’t work if I published your link on my blog, you know it, come and have a look and even thank me, maybe, IF you do not edit your own viralink or viral tag to include my blog URL.

I am disappointed. What is the use of my publishing all these and giving out one way links when they are hardly reciprocated?

I am dying to get Page Ranks of Five this time round. As you can see, I am only at Page Rank Three currently and it will take a rather long leap to reach that level of a Five, but it will make a whole lot of difference to me.

Page Rank predictors have indicated that the amount of backlinks to my blog is only good enough for a Four. Can Google grant me a little more time to build more backlinks so that I can get a Five THIS update? How many links does one need in order to qualify for a Page Rank of Five, anyway?

I hope I won’t kill myself doing it! Is there a shortcut to this??

Promote With Customized Stickers

Paul told me that his company recently ran a promotional blitz. One of the things they did was to spread their brand name further by printing t-shirts, pens and stickers as freebies for their clients.

Paul told me about CustomizedStickers.com where they guarantee the lowest prices and eve provide free artwork and unlimited colors for full sheets of custom designed stickers.

He told me that it is really value for money because other companies would be charging for these services plus use only 50 to 70 line screen for their stickers whereas CustomizedStickers.com uses 150 lines per inch for photographic quality.

Also, quotation is free without obligation and one could easily order custom stickers online, fuss-free.

Paul said that customized stickers are a great way to promote our brand name product or service. As a rule, if you keep bombarding people with your name, they tend to remember you subconsciously.

Free Auto Blogger

I came across this nifty tool called Free Auto Blogger while surfing the internet. As the owner of multiple blogs, I surely can appreciate the hard work needed not only to maintain the blogs but also to network and build backlinks and popularity while trying to raise the Page Rank.

However, I do not get it why would anyone cheat the system, and importantly, himself, by using such a tool, helpful it may be, by building a blog or even blogs not by his own effort?

It is very satisfying when we see the many backlinks pointing to our site all by own own hard work and see the Google Page Rank rise with every Google update every three months or so.

Maybe I am just a sucker for hard work but I get a kick out of seeing my Technorati ranks go up all because I did some homework the night before. So while it is certainly tempting to use this tool, it is after all, free, I don’t think I will ever be using it.

How Popular Is Your Blog?

I came across a new widget on the blogosphere which I think bloggers should embed on their blogs if they want to know how popular their blogs are. I used to wonder why bloggers are like one of a kind species because they feed their ego with traffic, comments and votes from their readers.

With a blog rating widget powered by Blogorator.com, they can actually SHOW their popularity on their blog itself.

I used to run website that requires readers to cast their vote as well and found that I had to explain to them that the first star on the left is actually the lowest score that one could give while the first star on the right is the highest. I was surprised that something as logical like this escaped some people.

Therefore, with this Blogorator widget it would be great if the stars increase in size from the left to the right.

I also found that when we hover our cursor over the stars, only the first star will show 1/5 while the others do not show 2/5, 3/5, 4/5 or 5/5

Over at the website, although we could customize our widget by changing the colors to suit the layout or theme of our blogs, I feel that we should be provided with a palette of colors. I had to search for HTML color guide on the internet and copy the code over to match the color of my blog. With a palette readily available, members would find it easier to change the color of the widget.

Showcase Your Photos To The World & WIN!

Bloggers are people who take photos any chance they have. That is what I have observed from the bloggers that I personally know and the blogger meets that I attended. Today, I stumbled upon a photography contest where we could submit our photos and stand a chance to win cash prizes.

I think this is a great opportunity to showcase our photography skills to the world. Winning is a bonus! Unfortunately, this contest is only open to resident of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States of America and United Kingdom. Malaysia is ALWAYS left out *sigh*


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If you are in one of the eligible countries, do check out Picture.com right now. There are many categories that you could enter. If you have been looking to enter a baby photo contest, you can enter your winning photo to Picture.com.

The best thing about this contest is that it is free to join! All you need to do is to submit your photo together with your email address and mailing address and all these can be submitted online. So what are you waiting for? It’s a Free Photography Contest- Enter Now! Win $10, 000! Just click on the banner in this post. Good luck!

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