The other day, I was chatting with my childhood friend about how we used to play with cotton rag dolls and how kids these days have it so easy. My friend told me that her daughter now plays with dolls online. Well, that was news to me because I did not know that dolls have gone virtual as well.

She also said that her daughter loves to play with virtual stuff animals on webkinz and how we had to beg our parents to buy us our stuffed animals.

With kids nowadays so web savvy, I am not surprised that Cartoon Doll Emporium is one of the most popular websites that cater to kids receiving more than three million unique visitors per month. This is a staggering figure. It is also estimated that each kid spends an average of twenty minutes per visit. This is very impressive. I don’t even spend more than ten minutes on any website!

However, if I have my own daughter, I also prefer her to play with virtual dolls and stuffed animals. This is the new age now.

Oh my goodness! Today, I sent more than 20 SMS messages to my friend asking him to help me set up my new internet connection. I feel bad now because he just replied me telling me to dial 1-886-GeekNeed instead.

I do realize that I have treated him like my very own personal technical support line especially when something bad happens to my computer like the time it was infected with a Trojan that totally crippled it or the time I kept getting the Blue Screen of Death which was later attributed to a dying power supply.

Now that I know where to get cheap technical support via the telephone, I need not bother my friend anymore. He should have let me know sooner! At only $1.99 per minute after we have explained our problem for free, it surely is very reasonable.

What I like about 1-886-GEEKNEED is that they even could log on to our computer to repair or troubleshoot it remotely. Ahh.. I have longed for someone, just anymore, to come and take care of my troublesome computer for more. I have now found someone who would not complain!

My friend has wondered why my computer seems to give me so many problems and has insulted me by saying that it is “user-problem”. Well, let me show him that now my computer is 100% healthy. He doesn’t need to know that I am calling 1-866-GeekNeed, does he?

For the past two weeks, I have visited so many different blogs. What I like about blogs is that each owner has its own personalized or customized layout. While I have been impressed by some layouts, I have at the same time been put off by quite a handful as well.

One thing I exceptionally dislike is the thing called “Content Link”. I think that is what it is called. I am not sure how it is implemented, perhaps it is a plug-in or whatever, but I have no idea why anyone would want that on their blogs. Perhaps it is another mode of monetization but I think that to have all the little bubbles popping up each time I hovered my cursor over a link ACCIDENTALLY, the pop up comes out, blocks my view of the text field and interrupts my reading. There goes my mood for reading because I keep losing my reading momentum.

Although this could be a way to further receive revenue each time someone clicks on the link that appears in those little oblong pop-ups, I find it bad form should these links appear in a sponsored post.

Can you imagine how you will feel if you, the advertiser, have paid for the text post and then there comes all these links in bubbles popping up all over your blog post trying to lure away your market?

I think that blog owners who have implemented this should serious consider removing them because it is very unfair to the advertiser. What do you think?

Recently, my uncle, who lives in British Columbia, Canada, had a health scare. He was going in and out of the hospital so much that we thought it was something serious. We asked our aunt if he has a legal Will but he did not and because he was so preoccupied with hospital visits and doctor’s appointment, he could not spare the time to get it done at the lawyer’s office.

A colleague then recommended Easy Legal Will to them where they could get a legal Will online. After paying $59 by PayPal or credit card, my uncle was given a series of questions to answer. My uncle did that as accurately as possible and soon enough, the Will was ready to be printed out and signed.

While all these seems ordinary enough, my Uncle could return to the website anytime within the year to have his Will edited or revise or even rewritten at no extra cost.

After one year, my Uncle could extend his service by only paying $19 and he will also receive a second account for free which could be given to anyone he wishes. Of course my aunt should get that, shouldn’t she?

I really love the internet. It seems as if there will be companies offering any service that are useful to people who do not have access to people in real life. I am still amazed by the things that are online.