Sketches of Life

If you are grinning your teeth each time you login PPP to see all available opps are in grey, you should sign up for SocialSpark. There are more opportunities there for PR0 bloggers because they look at your RealRank and the advertiser links comes with NoFollow meaning the advertiser is not buying your Page Rank. Remember that the main reason Google smack us because we are selling links or our Page Rank.

Your readers won’t be tricked reading you post not knowing that is it sponsored. All opportunities from SocialSpark must have in-post disclosure. So it is up to you to skip this post or continue reading. If you are looking for some extra income from your blog and not risk your PR being smacked by Google, I’d suggest that you continue reading.

You are also given longer time to complete the opportunity reserved; 12 hours. You can sleep for 8 hours, dream about what to write then wake up for a good breakfast then only start writing your opp. One setback; a blogger is limit to 3 opp per day no matter how many blogs you have. Come to think of it; this is good as it gives other bloggers more chance to grab the opp. If the opportunity that you want has been fully reserved, you can request for a slot once it is made available again.

As for me, after a month of signing up with SocialSpark, finally today my blog is approved. As you can see, this is my first opp with them. There are a lot more things to discover in SocialSpark and I do not now where to start. I’ll start making some money first from them then only I shall start making friends with others and drive more traffic to my blog! Hahahaha.

Have been silence from this blog for 3 days again. Sign that I am upset again!

Nothing to do with family issue. I can’t wash dirty linen in the public. =P

It has something to do with my previous post. Have you heard of internet bully? We all know about road bully right. Well, I came to know that there are many internet bullies too!

No matter how honest you are, they are still suspicious about you. Bukan tu saja, dia orang blog pasal lu dan kutuk lu habis habis. Bila ada orang tinggalkan komen yang mengatakan yang baik baik pasal orang itu, dia orang cakap kita tipu and kita berpura-pura. Not only that, they refused to see the good in you but only highlights the negative things which are trivial.

I signed up for SocialSpark more than 2 weeks ago after much encouragement from my blogger friends. When I first signed up, I was lost there and until today, I still can’t find my way around it. There are too many things cluttered in one page but I some how managed to find the page to add my blog. I added all the codes required and waited. No reply from them on my blog approval after 2 weeks.

One of my blogger friends told me that I need to send ticket to them. I wasn’t in a rush so I sit on it until she told me that she get opp almost everyday. Ah! That was the magic word to make me budge and I sent the ticket. Got the reply the next that they will review this blog soon. I am still waiting for their approval.

As for my profile, nothing much there. I have only one friend, Ted Murphy! Once I get my blog approved, I will spend more time there looking around and visiting others’ profile to make better mine and make more friends like this one. She really has lots of friends. Meantime, I shall pray hard that they will approve my blog soonest possible. Eyes and hands itchy seeing lots of bloggers making good money from SocialSpark.

This post is sponsored.

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For the past few days, loading is super slow. And most of the time, I can only view my email thru their basic HTML. And at times, once I click my unread email, it is stuck at Loading… and it hangs there! At first I thought, it could be due to my laptop memory problem because I do receive message like your computer virtual memory is low.

But when I tried opening my Gmail in other computers, the same happened and using other browser like IE and Opera, the same also. So it is not my computer problem or Firefox. It has to be Gmail. I hope Google will fix this problem fast because for me who work on the computer and uses Gmail all the times, it really slow downs my work.

Hubby always makes noise when I asked him to login to my accounts. “You have so many passwords and so many account, how to remember all??? Not that I have password vault!”

So I emailed him all my accounts and the passwords and yet he still ask me for the password when he needs to login to my account. So I make noise lar, he told me to write it down and paste it some where. Like that not safe lar right? Anyone who uses my computer will sure know my password. Dangerous!

Must get the password vault lar. No need to remember or write my passwords down.

I heard that those companies that has branches across the country, they use the VoIP phone systems to save on phones calls. If your company is looking for the system, why not check out Xpander Communications. They specializes in hosted PBX small business VoIP phone systems for companies looking to improve and explore new technologies such as Voice Over IP (VoIP). Xpander delivers the most user friendly phone systems available thanks to a focus on simplicity, reduced costs, and drastically reduced maintenance. With Xpander, no more dialing 8 digits number. You will only need to to dial 4-digit numbers between all branch, satellite, or home office locations. Your company will also enjoy unlimited free service & support as well as improved long distance and international calling plans.

Someone copied my He Loves Me More Today post!!! And I am so pissed. If you like my post, at least link back to the post or better still, ask my permission to publish it in your blog. I would surely say “Yes”. Now I know how some of you felt when your post are stolen.

He even have the nerve to tell me that he edited it and added an image to it. So what! With that just few lines??? The post is very personal to me. My chat conversation with my hubby when I was at home and he at work.

I am so so so so pissed!!!

The copied post is here.

I took a screenshot of it but it is blur when I upload it here.

I got 4 options:

1. Tell him to remove it. If he refuses…

2. Report to Blogger

3. Report to the Blog Advertisers

4. Report to Google

Hubby said, forget about stupid people like this. As long as we know that is ours enough already.

But what if others point fingers at me and said that I copied his???

Salt Lamp is known to produce negative ions to neutralize the bad ions that are produced by the computers and other office equipment. We have one in our internet café, a gift from my supplier.

Anyhow, after reading about the benefit of water fountain, it is so much better that the salt lamp. It not only produces negative ions which help to improve our mood and increase alertness but also cools down the room with its flowing water.

Hubby is thinking of adding another unit of air-cond but after I told him about the water fountain, he said that it is a good idea. Besides cooling down the internet cafe, it also gives a nice, refreshing ambiance. It looks stunning too.

I hope when our customers feel more alert and relax in our internet cafe, they will play longer hours and we will earn more! Hubby will also feel more alert and not grumpy to his customer when he has to work there the whole day.

This is my average blog traffic.

Visits

Total …………………… 8,256
Average per Day …………….. 47
Average Visit Length ………. 1:59
This Week …………………. 332

Page Views

Total ………………….. 15,316
Average per Day …………….. 76
Average per Visit ………….. 1.6
This Week …………………. 529

This is my blog traffic last week. Almost doubled and the highest visit was on the 16th April.

Visits

Total …………………… 8,897
Average per Day …………….. 91
Average Visit Length ………. 1:30
This Week …………………. 637

Page Views

Total ………………….. 16,299
Average per Day ……………. 143
Average per Visit ………….. 1.6
This Week ……………….. 1,003

No! I did not post my sexy, naked picture on that day.

I blog about Pontianak in Pulau Gadong. When writing that, I have no intention of getting more traffic like what some of the, I call them “Adsense” blogger did. If I wanted too, I would use the word “Pontianak” instead of “Lady-in-White” repeatedly in my recent post.

It just that the incident happened so near my place and I use the bridge very frequent. Kinda scary passing the bridge at night now. hehehehe.

I faced my laptop almost every hour, every day. What to do, I love blogging. I can’t live without the internet. Now I am in KL; supposed to be holidaying but I can’t resist the temptation to check my Gmail. Thanks to my nephew, he sacrificed his game time to let me use his computer.

So, holiday or no holiday, I will be seeing the Google homepage everyday. After seeing the same homepage every day, do ever get bored of it? I think I see my Google Homepage more than I see my hubby’s face. Aiyo! Suddenly I feel so guilty. What to do, hubby work at odd hours due to the nature of our business.

Thank God that, that there is a way to place my hubby’s handsome face on the Google homepage. Instead of the common standard Google homepage, we can now create our own custom homepage with Groovle; Personalize Google. We just need to simply select the file from my computer, be it JPG, GIF or PNG, upload the image and the custom homepage is created.

If you are not married or don’t like seeing your hubby’s face every hour, you can always browse through Groovle custom homepage with favorite celebrities, sports team, cute animals and beautiful and majestic space photos.

I went to help hubby to install network cables and rearranging it to make it looks neater. His assistant supposed to help him but his grandmother funeral was yesterday.

When I asked hubby how much those cable cost, to my surprise, it is quite expensive. No wonder some company buys used cisco to cut cost for their networking needs.

Anyway, our work at the shop is half done. Hubby needs to continue tomorrow because I was too sleepy and sneezy. Dusty lar the place.

Giving up in getting traffic to your blog? Try write more interesting topic lar. Like your favorite “making love” position. Sure you will get tonnes of traffic.

Okay, let’s be serious. Try this one, Buzzfuse.com. I just signed up but honestly I am not so sure how it works. All I know that I need to place their code in the post that I would want to share to the whole world. Then send email to only the people in my contact list in my email and hoping that they will be free to check out my post.

I think when I am popular enough among my friends, then my post will be display in Buzzfuse website. I am guessing only. I can’t find clear cut info on how this can work to increase my traffic. Can someone enlighten me?

Hubby is in the process of upgrading his Internet Cafe. So far, we have a photocopy machine, fax machine, laminating machine, new printer and recently he added a combing binding machine. It is almost complete for the time being.

Next hubby is thinking of getting a TV for the shop. Hmm..I think it is more for him to watch his favorite show when working. In order to do that we need look for tv lift cabinets. Another cost incurred. I don’t think we have the means now.

Do you have a lot of traffic to your blog? Do you want to make money out of it? Yes, earn from every visitor that that visit your blog. Do you think your visitor would mind listening to 5 seconds audio ad? Only 5 second; I don’t mind.

Unlike AdSense and other PPC company, which requires your visitor to do the job to help you earn by clicking on their ads, Pay Per Play won’t does not need any click. The moment they step foot on your blog, they audio ad will be paid and they just need to listen to it while reading your blog.

You will be paid weekly and if you want more, you could earn as a affiliate too. Each time you refer a new affiliate you will earn 5% of what advertisers spend on their website. You will also earn an additional 5% on those that your direct referrals bring on board.

Well, Pay Per Play will only be launch this February 1 so quick be one of the first to sign up. To date, they have over 24,000 core affiliate partners responsible for signing on 9,000,000 websites producing over 1 billion 5 second audio ad plays per month (projected). I am sure we will get to generate some income from them.

They say that a picture is like a thousand words. Well sometimes, a picture is less than that if the mind is not working. A thousand words would only appear when the mind starts to think about the pictures. As for me, most of the pictures are about 100 words as I do not think much about most of them. Sometimes I do not even understand what the picture is trying to portray.

I like to see pictures where the author put funny captions on it. It is much easier to understand the picture or what the picture is trying to portray if the captions are there. There is one website where you can do so with your pictures. It is called The Bubblenator. It is very easy to use.

You will need your picture to be uploaded into the net. This you can do so with Flickr or Photobucket or any of the photostorage service available on the net. Then you enter the url link in the Bubblenator and there after you can add ’speech bubbles’ wherever you want on your picture. You can put up to three bubbles onto your image. Then fill in your desired text for each bubble or you can change its sizes. Thereafter, they will provide you with HTML code that you can use to put your captioned image on your web site, or blog,

Go try it out and show me your funny pictures.

If you are working in a medium to big size companies, you would surely notice that the companies would have a phone system that can connect to each other. Some would use PABX phone system. And if you are attentive enough, you might even know where the PABX hardware is located. Well, with the advance of internet and unlimited time connection to the net, there is a better and cheaper way to connect to each other in the company. It is the VoIP Call Center Phone Systems. There is no expensive hardware that needs to be fixed in the office unlike the PABX system. Furthermore, you can make cheaper overseas call to your customers or clients. It is definitely a phone system that you should look into when you are opening a new office or trying to cut overhead cost.

If you are wondering why your computer take ages to start or certain program is extremely running slow, you might want to upgrade your computer memory. Mine was the same when I first bought it. The RAM came with only 256mb, now it has double the RAM but it is still slow when I want to play certain online game. I think I need to upgrade mine to 1Gb. If you are not sure how much memory your computer needs, you can use the Memory Wizard at MemoryStore.com. The program will automatically find the exact memory upgrade that you need.

I just received a call from Pastor Joseph. He is planning to buy a laptop. Since I know only a little about computer specifications, I told him to contact my husband. After their conversation, my husband told me that Pastor Joseph want to buy a laptop with Intel Pentium processor.

Hubby recommended him to buy at the computer shop where I bought my laptop. There he can pay it by way of installment. Hubby also advised Pastor Joseph to ensure that all the necessary security program including a popup blocker program are installed in the new laptop. I do hope that Pastor Joseph will be more effective in his ministry with the new laptop.

Something happened in the office just now and I decided to take half day leave to cool down and followed hubby to the computer shop to fix our 19″ CRT monitor. We bought it secondhand and only used it for 5 months then it decided to make us spend more! To fix it, it cost more than a hundred ringgit and no warranty how long it can last. We bought it for only RM240.

So we decided to get the LCD monitor since our children uses our PC quite frequent. The price is RM610 after discount. We also bought the LCD protector for RM20. All this are paid by credit card, of course because we don’t have so much cash in our wallet/purse or in the bank. So many cheap credit card nowadays so we take advantage of it for emergency spending like this one.

Oh ya…This is really emergency spending. If we don’t buy the monitor, I won’t have my laptop to blog. I guess some of you know the reason.

Just imagine this. You are typing away on your computer. Writing your masterpiece for your blog. Your little ones are playing around you. “Mommy, look at this” “Mommy she bite me!” “Mommy I am hungry” Turn around to give them some of my attention. “Please don’t disturb Mommy. Mommy is VERY busy.” As usual, they won’t listen, one. Turn back to continue typing. “Eh, why Mommy’s, monitor is black now??? “Oh No! Where is your brother?” “Under the chair Mommy” the girls replied.

He must be the culprit, pressing the power button and shut down my computer. “Oh No!!! Mommy has not save Mommy’s work! Arrgghhhh!!!” “Barnabas, can Mommy squeeze you?” hehe…don’t get me wrong, I am not a child abuser.

At that moment of time, I wish I have the hideaway computer workstation like the above. As for me I will keep it close when the children are around. It not only prevents my CPU and printer from collecting dust. It also prevents little rascal that is obsess with pressing buttons.

So far I have not seen this kind of Office Furniture in the furniture shop here. I found the above from Saxen Business Solution. It is only available in UK plus free shipping to UK Mainland. Hmm…maybe Malaysian kids are not as rascal as theirs eh. Hehe.

We have 2 in 1 shampoo, 3 in 1 coffee. Hmmm…what else NN in 1? All in one job like what I am holding now. hehe. Have you heard about 4 in 1 Security Software? It is called NOD32 that contains Anti Virus, Anti Spyware, Exploits, and Firewalls.

Nowadays, anti virus is not sufficient to keep your computer safe from threats. You will need all the above to have peace of mind when you are online. I wonder when can we get the above for free. We can get free anti virus but for new technology there is always a price attached to it.

When I first started blogging I look forward to receiving comments. Comments make my day. Now because of too much paid post, I have to admit that I hardly get any comments but I made a lot of friends and we are chatting on MSN now!

If you plan to start a blog and don’t plan to make money thru it, I would recommend you to sign up for Free Blog at www.thoughts.com. At www.thoughts.com, you are able to create a completely free blog where you can share your thoughts with family, friends and their members.

Thoughts.com is different from Blogspot, Xanga or Wordpress blog. Once you sign and start posting, you will have an instant audience. You don’t even have to bloghop and leave comments in other’s blog to make yourself known. At Thoughts.com, your postings will be displayed through the site and the community can easily find them.

Thoughts.com is more than a free blog community. We also allowed to upload and organize photos and videos, rate other member’s posts, participate in the forums and stay up to date with the latest news from around the world. You can also easily find other bloggers who have the same interests and likings like yourself. It’s fun, I tell you.

I was at the computer shop looking at the various laptops on display. There are many nice looking laptops but one caught my attention. Being not the expert in computer matters, I have to rely on my husband to determine the suitable laptop specifications for my needs. Having taken into various factors especially the purpose of having the laptop, I agreed to buy one laptop that is value for money.

As I was still looking at the laptop, two guys came into the shop. No, they are not robbers, just walk-in customers. They asked the staff whether the shop sells original ink cartridge. They are looking for HP C6656 original ink cartridge. The staff showed to them a range of hp ink cartridges that were on sale. As they were looking for their specified ink cartridges, the boss of the shop approached them and advised them to buy the refill ink. They were quite surprised to hear that advice. They told the boss that refill ink would damage the print head of the printer. The boss told them that it is not true.

When we were back at home, I inquired from my hubby about that matter. Hubby agreed with the boss. He said that it is not necessarily true that using refill ink would cause your printer to stop working. It is the quality of the ink that matters. And most important of all is to ensure that the printer does not print using empty ink cartridges. That would cause the printer’s print head to be damaged. So now, I know more about printers.

Those days when I first started using the computer, I only know about virus attack and there are only a few anti-virus available to clean the virus. Today, new viruses are created everyday. Those people really EFNTD. I guess they must work for the anti virus company. No virus, no business lar, right?

Oh ya, besides virus, there are spyware and adware that invades our PC. Here comes ESET NOD32 anti virus software and network security solutions. They are among the top notch anti virus solutions. So, if you anti virus do not work, give them a try then. Not satisfied? You get their 30 Day money back guarantee.

Well, earning money is never easy, be in the the real world or the cyber world. My boss cyber world boss, Mr Google decided to de-rank my Page Rank from 4 to 3. Reason not given. Boss always like that one, they won’t explain the not so good things that they do to us. If they do something good, the whole world will know. I think, that’s normal right, no one wants to be the bad fellow.

But I hope that at least you tell lar, where we went wrong and we can correct our mistake right? Like now, everyone is guessing…

Is it due to the Blogroll, many PR0 blogs linking us that pulls down our PR? or

Is it because we write too many paid post? And due to it, Adsense has fewer clicks.

Can explain ah?

Once I resign the first thing that I would do is get an Apple Macbook so that I can blog everywhere that I go, provided the place has Wifi. I can blog on my bed, I can blog under the durian tree, I can blog while waiting for my girls at their dance class and I can even blog when I go for vacation. But before that I must make sure hubby help me to download some mac games for my girls to play just in case I need to snatch the desktop from my girls.

When I first started this blog, I emailed all my blogger friends to link me in their blogs. Most of them cooperate. Then I submit this blog to a few blog communities to get more traffic to this blog. Praise God, this blog got PR3 in less than 3 months.

I am not doing any e-commerce business yet, so search engine marketing is not that crucial unless I decided to go full time blogging than I might want this blog to be at the top of Google’s search results then advertisers who needs SEO will be begging for me to write for them! hehe.

Have you heard of Blogging Ads? This is the easiest way to get paid for blogging. You just have to join their network of bloggers and help them post tiny blog ads onto your blog. They even have a ready made ads that you can just copy and paste onto your blog. Yes! You do not have to write your own ads. But it will much better to write your own according to suit your writing style.

If you’re a company looking to give your website an extra boost in the search engine rankings then you’ll certainly appreciate how easy it is to advertise on blogs. All you have to do is come up with an ad and Blogging Ads will let their network of bloggers spread the word about your company. Go ahead and check them out to find out what all the buzz is about and you can make some money or promote your company with the click of a mouse.

My office computer is giving me problems lately. A few of my files cannot be read. It was okay the day before. I asked my husband about it. He told me that the computer is infected by virus. It is indeed troublesome when the computer is infected by viruses. Some programs are badly affected until I cannot open them. I feel like I want to strangle those who sent out the viruses.

We do have anti-virus software installed in all the computers but there are always new viruses being created each day. Hubby recommended the NOD32 security software which includes these antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall programs together in one suite.