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Yvonne, My “Canadian” Friend

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I met up with my high school friend, Yvonne, last week. She migrated to Canada when we were 15 years old, without completing her education here. Many people thought it was a risky move to uproot like that but I think her parents made the best decisions of their lives.

Yvonne came back to Malaysia to visit an ill relative. She could send flowers too, but a personal approach makes a lot of difference.

Yvonne told me that back in 1990s, Canada has already progressed way beyond what we had in Malaysia. Even now, she could see the vast differences of these two countries.

For example, education is very advanced in Canada. There were already established online entrepreneur universities, set up even before we could spell E.N.T.R.E.P.R.E.N.E.U.R.

Anyway, Yvonne told me that to see the differences, one would have to live there. She told me that after wok, she is taking up recreational cooking classes which none of her friends here are able to do due to the long working hours and low pay that could not afford extras like these.

Yvonne said that I should go and visit her sometime and if I do, she would take me sightseeing and at least visit the top ten York attractions. She also has two used Honda scooters that we could ride on for countryside excursions. My, does that sound tempting!

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Six Hours! Too Freaking Long!

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A few days ago, PayPerPost rolled out new features. Does it seem like they keep rolling out new stuff ever so often? Anyway, while I am mostly satisfied with their new features, what I am not happy with is the time that one is allowed to reserve an opp.

When I first joined PayPerPost seven months ago, only the fastest members who submitted posts managed to get the Opp. This was then upgraded and people had 30 minutes to write out their post.

Complaints after complaints, it was raised to an hour. Fair enough, 30 minutes may not be enough for some people, especially when their blog host acts up or when advertiser’s site refused to load or when there are too many links to add plus videos and what not.

So this time, PayPerPost has gone to the EXTREME by raising the time frame to SIX freaking long hours. I mean, I only sleep less than five hours every night so if I were to reserve an Opp, I could take a nap, take a bath, have my dinner, get my hair done and even catch a movie, come home and THEN write and submit my post while the rest of the Posties keep clicking on the Opp that I have reserved.

I just think that it’s not fair to other Posties to subject them to this torture. If they were anything like me, they would be clicking on the TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY button non-stop. It’s not fair to the advertisers too who expect swift action AND quality work for the money they have paid.

TWO hours is the most that I would give for an Opp to be completed once it is reserved, but then who is asking me?

Computing & Internet

Free Gay & Lesbian Video eCards

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I was actually searching for free greeting cards for my friend’s upcoming birthday when I accidentally stumbled upon free lesbian e-greetings instead. I am actually not surprised that there are free e-cards that cater exclusively to gays and lesbians. They too need a card to cheer them up once in awhile, I guess.

The ecards here are not the usual postcards or animated cards but they are artistic video ecards. I am not even sure if I have seen video cards before, let alone FREE ones.

What I feel is that even non-gays can send and receive these cards too because they are all tastefully created. They are like pieces of art. Check them out, will you?

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In Case It Escaped Notice

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I have enrolled into the DoFollow BlogRoll. I am so happy to announce this. It is not that I do not want to Follow but I just only discovered how to do it over the weekend! Call me slow or whatever, I am not that technical mah!

Anyway, as soon as I read about it and finally understood how to implement it after reading a few times, I got it done!

If you would like to participate too, you first need a WordPress hosted blog on your own domain. Then download and install the DoFollow plug-in from Semiologic. By the way, they have some of the best WordPress plug-ins. After uploading the plug-in to your plug-in folder, activate it from your WordPress admin panel.

And then create a page for the DoFollow BlogRoll and just copy and paste the blogroll code from Tricia’s page. Drop her a comment and when she adds your blog to the blogroll, you will instantly be linked to all the other blogs that are on the blogroll.

You may wonder what benefits you have by implementing DoFollow. When your reader leave a comment on your blog, it is an instant link back to his/her own site. This will encourage more people to comment on your blog. I am sure all bloggers love more comments. Anyway, the more links there are between you and your readers, the more popular your blog will be and hopefully Google will revise your Page Rank upwards in the next update. I know your Technorati Score will definitely improve!

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Check Out The Capitalist Chronicle

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Since this weekend when I decided to increase the readership and popularity of my blog, I began to actively search out other blogs to read and possibly comment if I could relate to them. As you may have noticed, I also joined the DoFollow Blogroll and increased my link out in the hopes of reciprocal link backs.

One of the blogs that I came across that is worth mentioning is a personal blog by the name of The Capitalist Chronicle. The most recent post is about being fleeced by a computer repair shop. Boy, can I relate to that! You may have read my post not too long ago that my computer kept hanging, which the problem is entirely different from what happened to The Capitalist, I would like to point out that my computer was in that condition AFTER I brought it home from the computer shop. Sometimes one wonders if these shops purposely create problems for us so that we continue to send in our computer for them to repair.

Another post that put a smile on my face is that after SIX long months, The Capitalist managed to change his screen name from the default “admin”. Haha, I remember the first time I hosted my own blog. I had to ask my webhost how to change it!

The Capitalist Chronicle is a blog that I really can relate to. For one, I love his writing style and his rants are what I would rant about to, but after reading his posts, I don’t feel the need to rant on my own blog anymore because, hey I don’t feel so bad anymore knowing I am not alone!

If you are looking for a good read, check out The Capitalist Chronicle.

Computing & Internet

Looking At MySpace In A New Light

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Some of you may know that I do not understand the popularity of MySpace. I see it as this cluttered virtual jungle where people lurk around and making friends with strangers whom we know not their intentions. This goes for all social bookmarking sites. As you can see, I ain’t no fan of them though I am a member of some of them after giving in to the persuasion of friends.

Today, though, I came across someone saying that we can actually increase traffic to our sites or blogs. I think it means putting links up on our profile and then being active making friends with strangers?

Or does it mean that search engines will pick up our URL easily from our profiles? I have seen many MySpace profiles popping up on Google Search. One of them was Bon Jovi’s MySpace page when I was searching for something else. Maybe MySpace profiles are search engine friendly?

Well, I have a new target starting next month and that is to increase my Google Page rank and lower my Alexa Score. Maybe I should make full use of my MySpace profile.

Computing & Internet

The Phone Resource For All Telecommunication Needs

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The other day, I was chatting with a good friend about a mutual friend who is deaf. He told me that this girl, still uses her cell phone exclusively for sending and receiving text messages only since she is not able to use it for voice. He told me that she replies to SMS text very quickly but I have been wondering, how can she be holding on to the phone the whole day?

Coincidentally, today I came across this website that sells all kinds of phones and telecommunications accessories. They also have a couple of hearing impaired phones that I think our friend will find most useful.

Apart from these phones for people with special needs, they also have video telephony products, pagers, voice recorders, novelty phones that make great gifts, radios for outdoor communications and many more.

It is great that we can make our purchase from The Phone Resource and request for their gift wrapping service and have it shipped directly to our gift recipient. They have four different styles for only $4.95 each. That eliminates the hassle of wrapping the item up ourselves!

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