Gas prices on the rise - a survey

Of course 'Gas prices' means something different in the UK than it does in the US, so a survey entitled GAS PRICES ON THE RISE might seem more poignant for those of us who have just received our gas bill!! aaarrgghh
However we can all relate to fuel prices of all types going up, what they don't realise in the US though is just how much we pay for car fuel...They don't pay anything near the prices that we pay over here. Have a go at the survey and earn a few cents for your trouble...

Make Money Online

More and more people these days would like to work at home. This could be due to people wanting to stay at with their children but also get some income at the same time. It is also better for the environment to work from home as there is no traveling involved. Many employers still do not let their employees work from home so many people doing this are running their own businesses or are self employed. A popular way to do this is to make money online using the Internet. There are a huge amount of online opportunities – it just depends on your skills and interests as to what you choose to do to make money. There are many blogs and websites which can teach you how to work at home and make money and so it is easy to find out where and how to start your online career.

Website Review : Biofuel Guide

Biofuel Guideis a website which has articles explaining what biofuels are with specific reference to ethanol and biodiesel. With many of us wanting to have less impact on the environment then it is useful to read guides such as these to find out what biofuel options are available to us, how they are produced and whether we can use them. This guide explains all about the chemistry behind bio fuel and how it is better for the environment than alternatives. It also puts forwards some advantages and disadvantages of using it as well as having a lot of information about controversy surrounding it and a list of misconceptions about it. It has all of the information you need to understand all about biofuel. If you are looking for a more environmentally friendly fuel then it is certainly worth taking a look at this guide and becoming fully informed about these alternative options.

How to Choose Web Domain Hosting

If you are looking for the best web hosting company it can be pretty difficult to know which company to choose. There are many companies offering this service and all offering different features and prices so it is hard to know where to start. The best thing to do is to identify what you need from the company. Perhaps you want to find the best domain hosting or you want a company which is very cheap. You may need Unix hosting or just something from email. Whatever services you need, it is important to identify this before you start looking for a web hosting company. Once you have identified what you need, you will then be more easily able to decide whether the company that you are looking at can meet your requirements. Make sure that you read some reviews to find out what other people think is the best web domain hosting company and you will then be sure to pick a suitable and reliable company.

Website Review : Web Hosting Rating

Web Hosting Rating is a website which reviews web hosting services. This means that if you are interested in changing your web host then you will be able to have a look and see what top rated sites that they recommend. This will help you to make a decision about which top web hosting service to use out of the huge amount of sites that are available. The website has a top three list of websites and they have a list of the main features, a screenshot and the price for each of them, so at a glance you can get an idea of what company can provide you with the best web hosting. When you have decided which you like the look of you can click the link in order to go the website of the hosting company and find out more details about the service they can provide for you.

Google follow-up

Rachel left a comment on my blog post entitled 'Google is the daddy' which I replied to, but my answer started to get so long that I thought I would turn it into a new 'post'...

I agree with you on most of the issues you raised. I am not sure about Googlenet but I know what you mean about them having such a big hold on the Internet. I do think that alexa is trying to compete with their ranking system but it would be great of there was a real competitors

Thanks Rachel
Alexa rankings are all very well, but it's the search engine position that most people are after - traffic monitoring is no doubt a consideration, but PR (I presume) is more complex... PR alone does not get you SERP, but a combination of PR and on-page optimisation - Google could decide tomorrow to use Alexa rankings (which are an indication of traffic) instead of PR - that's the problem for SEO 'experts' the formula keeps changing as trends change and people try new tactics to 'black hat' their way to high SERP. The more you try to 'fool' the system, the more complex the system becomes as it reacts. The problem is that no-one regulates the reaction, Google have only to answer to themselves. Right now I honestly think they do a good job and they are not really exploiting their global domination, but I do also feel that the loopholes are there if there was a change of heart and policy. This is why Monopolies are investigated and surely it can't be too long before Google oversteps the mark and gets broken up into separate entities?
I don't have any insider knowledge about these matters, these are just my observations as an internet user and specifically someone who has used Adwords and Adsense and uses Google search all the time.

Roofing in Cambridge MA

Fixing a leaking roof is one of the most frustrating repairs for homeowners. Simply finding the leak may prove virtually impossible and once the leak is found it is often difficult to know where to go next. Recently I was visiting a friend in Cambridge and his house had a roof leak. It turned out to be a missing / damaged shingle. We looked online for roofing Cambridge MA and gutters Cambridge MA found Dave Ness. He was fast to respond, and fixed the problem for a good price.

Caring for the Environment

There are many options available to us to help to reduce our carbon footprint and become more environmentally friendly. It can be tricky, however, to implement a lot of changes as they are expensive, time consuming and sometimes impossible. However, even small changes can help and so it is well worth having a look at our daily lives and see whether there are just a few things we can do to improve the impact that we, as individuals, are having on the environment. One way to do this is to look at the way that we are heating our house. It is expensive to install solar panels and wind turbines but there are other things that can be done. If you have an open fire or log burning stove you can replace what you are currently using with wood pellet fuel. The wood pellets fuel is made from biomass and so is much better for the environment than alternatives such as coal or wood. There are many companies that sell pellets fuel so it is easy to get hold of and is not too expensive.

Website Review : Bill Consolidation Direct

Bill Consolidation Direct is a company which can help you to combine your loans or bills in order that you can have just one monthly repayment. You can reduce the amount of money that you pay each month to make it easier to manage your loan repayments. All you have to do is to fill in your personal information including the amount of debt you have and the payment status on your credit card with your contact details and you will be contacted by them with a possible solution to your financial concerns. They will help you to plan an organized repayment plan in order that you know exactly how much you will be paying each month and how much the total amount to be paid will be. This means that you can more easily plan your future knowing what how your finances stand and relax in the knowledge that you can be debt free in the future. So if you are having financial difficulties then look into the option of bill consolidation to see whether it is something which can help you.

Website Review : Top WP Themes

Top WP Themes is a blog which features wordpress themes. You can view and download a huge variety of wp themes free of charge from the blog. The blog is updated with new themes regularly so it is well worth checked back often to see if there are any new ones to look at. The themes are sorted by category such as two columns or three columns and right sidebar and left sidebar, so you can easily find a theme which suits the requirements for your blog. Each blog post contains a screenshot of the theme and a brief summary of some of the features. There is a button that you can click to see a preview of the wordpress theme being used as well as a download button. So if you are starting a new Wordpress blog or want to change the theme of your existing Wordpress blog then it is well worth taking a look at what is available on this website.

Google is the Daddy

Reading through the new Adwords TOS and thinking of the position that Google occupies in the internet 'market' got me thinking again about how the Big G has far too much control in what 'should' be a democratic trading environment.
I don't wish to incur the wrath of Google since they host my blogs and occasionally send me a few dollars (especially since my account is up to about $110 at the moment...), but equally there is a lot of unjustified moaning aimed at Google which maybe we can also address.
The power of Google lies in the domination of Google as a search engine - there can be no doubt that it is the biggest and best, the problems only come when you start looking at all the other pies that Google has it's fingers in and you can't help but think about possible conflict of interests.
I can't see any problem with the social side of Google, Googlemail, Google Groups, Google Calendar and all the other apps that it has are a great idea complementing it's position as the top search engine provider. Adwords are a natural add-on to the search-engine business, we are beginning to get into conflict-of-interest territory now, but I think Google handles it well, with paid search results being easy to spot and the fact that you can get yourself highly listed without paying shows that the system basically works well.
The nitty-gritty of this post is, as you will have guessed, Adsense... How does that fit into the equation and is it fair??
First off, Adsense is the contextual ads that you can show on a website or blog and be paid by Google when the ads are clicked by your visitors. Naturally there are all sorts of rules about traffic exchange which I (now) understand, and obviously overtly encouraging visitors to click on the adverts is a no-no... I do have an issue however with the way an account is shut down. You hear of many instances of an account having amassed a half-decent amount before the account is closed for whatever reason - personally I have not had an account closed, but can see how this might happen to an innocent party who has been targeted by a competitor (for instance). In these cases, Google takes the spoils ie. the contents of the account. It's in the terms I am sure, but terms must be 'fair' for a contract to be valid. Does Google lose out if someone fraudulently clicks on adverts - Well no, because presumably the advertiser still pays Google per click? I am willing to re-think if someone can show me that they refund the advertiser for clicks identified as fraudulent...
So not only does Google have paid links within the search engine results (yet they reduce PR on a website identified as using paid links...), but they can show text adverts on sites that will also presumably show up in search engines too - all of these adverts are paid links. Here then is the dilema: Paid links are a means of making revenue for Google, yet Google (via Pagerank which is part of the hysteresis used to work out SERP - Search Engine Results Position) punishes any site that appears to accept or trade in paid linking. Once the PR of a site has been reduced (many blogs are now operating with a PR of zero...) there is seemingly no question that Google will continue to use that site for continuing to host it's own adverts (Adsense), and apparently in the case of blogger, they take a cut by rotating the adsense code with their own...
Now don't get me wrong, I am really not that concerned as long as I can continue to get my sites ranked with the keywords that I want for free and can make a bit out of Adsense here and there and can have my blogs hosted for free - I think I am getting a good deal especially when you consider all the site-stats and search-engine help that they provide for free. My concern is that here is a potentially huge monopoly that will surely not be able to sustain this hold on the internet in the longer term otherwise we are going to just end up with the Googlenet.

[follow-up post here]

Wood Pellets

Many people are looking for more environmentally friendly way to heat their homes. Some options are very expensive and take a lot of upheaval to incorporate. However, if you have an open fire or wood burning stove, then it is worth considering buying wood pellets to use a fuel. These are fine wood particles (basically sawdust) which have been compacted to make pellets. The sawdust used to make them is a by product of the wood industry so the fuel is being made from something that would otherwise have been thrown away. They have very low water content which means that the pellets burn more efficiently than wood or coal. As the woodpellets are made of compacted material they take up less storage space than wood and so are easier and cheaper to transport. They are also considered to be a biofuel so as well as not using up valuable resources and cutting down on the environmental damage cause by transportation you are also using a more environmentally friendly product.

Effective Home Heating

If dealing with rising heating costs each month is getting harder and harder, you may want to consider wood pellet stoves as a way to heat your home at a lower cost. You're probably thinking that this is no environmentally friendly, but it actually is. Pellet stoves are actually one of the most reliable, cost efficient, and environmentally friendly ways to heat your home. Pellet stoves have electrically controlled blowers which helps the pellet stove release as much energy as possible from pellets. Pellet stoves also have a feature which minimizes any smoke that may be created from the pellet burning process. Wood pellets used to fuel pellet stoves are produced from recycled sawdust. This sawdust would otherwise have been dumped in landfills, which is one of the things that makes pellet burning stoves environmentally friendly. Being easy to clean and easy to take care of, wood pellet stoves are becoming a more and more popular way to heat homes without the cost and worry of other home heating methods.

Home Equity Loan Information

Loan Guru is a website which helps its users find a loan that's right for them. With several different articles on everything from a how-to on getting home loans to tips on how to find out which home loan is right for you. If you've got bad credit and are still looking for a home loan, this site has a great article for you which includes consequences for not repaying loans on time. Want to know what a home equity loans are? Loan Guru has all the information on that too! A really handy part of the site is the article about online mortgage calculators which explains that you can find out how large of a mortgage you can qualify for without having to enter personal information. The best part is that you can do this right online and see in seconds how much you may qualify for. With handy tabs and categories to help you navigate around the Loan Guru site, you'll find all sorts of information that pertains to home equity loan needs that you may have. If you are looking for home equity loans that suit your needs, then Loan Guru is the one stop place for all the information you'll need to make an informed decision on one of the most important loans of your life.

Pesquisando por Cosmetico?

Um site interessante que nós pesquisamos é o www.cosmeticosinfo.com, um site legal para encontrar informação sobre Cosmetico. Tudo que você precisa saber sobre Produtos Cosmeticos pode encontrar neste blog: , que publica textos atualizados diaramente sobre cosmeticos e publica as noticias para Cosmetico. Achar dados sobre Cosmetico na internet é complicado pois a maioria dos sites não publica asuntos como cosmeticos. Você pode procurar mais e acompanhe as notícias diariamente para conseguir assuntos novos Produtos Cosmeticos. Fique à vontade para deixar comentários a respeito dos artigos que diponibilizamos neste blog, a respeito do assunto: cosmeticos. Por Final, queremos dizer que o www.cosmeticosinfo.com é um website muito interessante e o recomendamos a todos que se identificam com Cosmetico.

Website Review : Free Ring Tones

Free ring tones is a website where you can download free mobile ringtones in many different formats including key press, composer and rttl. All of the ring tones have full previews so you know exactly what to expect from your download. They can all be downloaded directly to your mobile phone from their WAP site or alternatively to your PC where you can then transfer the free MP3 ringtones to your phone using Bluetooth, data cable or infrared transfer methods. There is choice of mono or polyphonic ring tones so you can choose something which suits both your needs and the capabilities of your phone. There is a massive choice of tunes to choose from so you are bound to find one which you will love and as soon as you want a new one you can return to the site and choose another. The site is very simple to navigate and to use with a search bar so that you can more easily find a tune of your choice. So whatever phone you have and whatever your taste in music you are bound to find something suitable from the Free Ring Tones website.

Website Review : Credit Cards Club

Credit cards club is a website which rates and reviews credit cards. It is useful if you are looking for a new credit card, as you can read the reviews and find out what type of credit card and which particular credit card you want. The credit card reviews tell you all about that type of credit card. For example a review about no interest credit cards will tell you exactly how this type of credit card is different to other cards and the advantages and disadvantages of this type of card. They then have a list of cards which fall into this category all with a separate credit card rating so that you can see which one they consider to be the best. The categories of credit card that they review include no annual fee credit cards, business credit cards, cash back credit cards, bad credit credit cards, prepaid credit cards, student credit cards and instant approval credit cards.

Getting out of Debt

I have posted on debt and controlling your finance on several occasions as it is a subject that I feel quite strongly about. In many cases a few adjustments to spending patterns should be sufficient to bring finances under control and make them manageable. However, the longer we go on spending without budgeting, the worse the problem can get until an exterior solution is required. When things have reached the point where even with strict self-imposed controls, the interest you are paying is pushing your spending beyond the reaches of your income, it may be time to consolidate debt. Debt consolidation is basically a loan that will cover your existing debts under one account. This loan effectively pays off the individual debts that you have leaving you with a single payment which is hopefully within your budget. If you are considering this route, please note that this does not mean you can carry on spending more than you earn otherwise you will end up in even worse trouble. This type of step must be only undertaken if you have reached the point where you are ready to change your spending habits for the better.
Using a service like No Debt Today allows you to get a free consultation to discuss your debt problems and find the best way out of them. This website is clearly laid out, easy to understand and provides helpful advice about debt. Any expert can tell you that you need to pay off the most expensive debt first, but how do you work that out? No Debt Today will take care of working out the best approach to get you debt free at your pace.

Wood Pellet Stoves

It is becoming more popular to have wood pellet stoves in your home. They have advantages over central heating systems as they look very pretty and can form a focal point in a room. They are much more efficient then ordinary wood burning stoves and come in many elegant designs. The wood pellet stoves can even have a boiler integrated into them so they can heat hot water and run the central heating system. They are very easy to light – just a touch of a button and you can even program the stoves to come on at off at set times in the same way that you would program a normal central heating system. They have the added bonus of being environmentally friendly as the fuel has low carbon content. So if you are looking for a new clean, effective and efficient way to heat your home then it is worth taking a look at what wood pellet stoves can offer

Home equity

Home Equity Loan Store is a website where you can shop for a home equity loan that suits your needs. With different loans to choose from including home refinance loans, refinance loans, a mortgage, and second mortgages, this site has all sorts of options for those looking for the perfect loan. Besides viewing different loans to choose from, Home Equity Loan Store also offers articles packed with information about different loans to help you learn all about each type of loan so that you can be sure that you are getting what you bargained for. Also included are different tips including questions that should be asked when choosing home equity loans, and an article about the benefits and drawbacks of debt consolidation. If you want low rates on a home equity loan, there is a section listing places where you can get equity loans at loan rates in a very handy location on the site. Toward the lower section of the website is a very handy list of all the articles about loans that you can read to learn all about the different types of loans that are important for your life no matter what type of loan you need.

Make Money Online - then spend it!

I find myself using eBay again lately - it seems to go like that for me, I go a bit mad, use up all my PayPal funds and then take a rest. When funds are back up I'm back on eBay and I can't just restrict myself to one thing I usually have to buy a couple more things to go with it.
One of the great things about making money online is being paid by PayPal and being able to spend that money without it ever being 'real' money in your pocket....
Lately I have been buying Hi-Fi equipment on Ebay, really nice kit for very little money which is always great. Last year I spent a load of my paypal earnings upgrading my PC.
I have also been using my PayPal account for other purchases too. I have bought two domains recently (one for this blog and one for another which may be revealed later...), I bought them from GoDaddy as they have good prices, and they accept PayPal...! GoDaddy (no they don't sponsor me...yet!) also throw in free hosting with some domains, so you can actually get a really good deal - I have another idea for a site that I want to develop and I was thinking of buying a domain from GoDaddy, and the hosting from my regular hosting service. I am now considering using GoDaddy for my hosting too as their free package if you buy a dot com for $9.99 is an extremely attractive deal.

PayDay loans

I have been fighting my own battle against the credit bubble for a little while now, first of all by cutting out all extraneous spending that was not essential, and then by trying to raise a little income from the internet. Alongside these tactics, it is vital to find a way to reduce the cost of credit card debts and missing a payment through having a pay-check come in late will cost you dear…

If you have a cash-flow problem, one way to make sure you can pay on the due date is to get a short-term loan from payday loans.

The advantages of this system is the speed of response: if you fill in the on-line application, you can find out almost immediately if you have been approved (within a minute), you then enter your bank details and the funds will be transferred on the same day in many cases. You can borrow from £80 to £750 depending on your circumstances, the interest rates are fairly high, but clearly indicated and simple to understand (still not as expensive as missing a payment on your credit card or going overdrawn)

Please note that this is not a recommended tactic for reducing debt per se, but a way to avoid paying more for your credit than is necessary. I have always maintained that the quickest way to make money is to save money….

Procurando por credito para estudante?

Um site interessante que nós pesquisamos é o www.credito-educativo.com, um site legal para encontrar informação sobre credito para estudante. Tudo que você precisa saber sobre Emprestimo Educativo pode encontrar neste blog: , que publica textos atualizados diaramente sobre credito educativo e divulga o que é novo para credito para estudante. Dados sobre credito para estudante na internet é complicado pois a maioria dos sites não publica asuntos como credito educativo. Pesquise mais e registre-se no RSS para ter mais novidades Emprestimo Educativo. Você pode deixar sua opinião para os textos que leu neste blog, desde que seja sobre credito educativo. Para concluir, afirmamos que o www.credito-educativo.com é um site completo que vale a pena a todos que se identificam com credito para estudante.

Vocé também pode se interessar por outro portal que publica informação de credito para estudante, que e sobre Tributario!

Faça uma pesquisa noutro site sobre credito educativo que nós achamos ser interessante também consorcio contemplado.

OTC medicines and prescription drugs online databases

If you are looking for more information about pharmaceutical OTC and prescription drugs then drugs-about.com could help you. This site have information on various drugs such as Naldecon which oral capsules and suspension contains phenylpropanolamine as an active pharmaceutical ingredient; Obenix phentermine weight loss diet pills or Oxybenzone a lot of cosmetics and health products with mono- and many oxybenzone components. Drugs-about.com describes how the drug is taken, what its brand name is, what ingredients are in it and what companies sell it. It also has a list of the most recently added and updated items in the database which is great for people revisiting the site to see if what they are looking for has changed. The site is basically a huge database of drug names so if you are looking to find out more information about a particular item then this would be a good place to start.

IZEA rankings

I have had trouble with my IZEA ranking since I changed to a dot com, initially my IZEA rank was zero, which admittedly is a nice low number (??!!) but not one that was any use to me. I tried re-registering for IZEA rank, but kept getting an error from the URL in the confirmation email.
I then had to take the drastic step of completely removing the PPP script from the HTML of the blog (I tried this before but put it back after three days with no change...). This time, after a couple of days, my ranking went meteoric up to beyond 22,000 - not much use to anyone, but at least something was happening. I put the script back in and after a couple more days I am back with a respectable rank again... This has been a long hard struggle during which I have been relying on other sources of income and have even started a new blog...

Missing In Action?

Missing in action or 'Missing.... inaction??'. I admit that I may have been 'missing' for almost a week, I would like to say it was for a holiday but sadly, it wasn't...I certainly have not been inactive, just not blogging.
The task I have been so heavily immersed in, was one of backing up all my files, though to be truthful, I have actually been backing up my backup! I set up a 250GB external hard-drive a little more than a year ago to automatically backup selected folders on a daily basis. I watched it like a hawk for a week or more (when it was registering about 10GB of used space), before leaving it to silently get on with its' task, occasionally needing to kick it into life when it went off-line.
However, I noticed a few days ago that about 80% of the drives' capacity was full, it had been diligently backing up huge amounts of data in the background - out of sight, out of mind. I do a bit of work with large audio files and have been playing with video files, which accounts for large files in the backup, and means that I need plenty of free file space. A lot of the files that were backed up were duplicates or 'first drafts' or 'edits' that I no longer required, yet a large chunk of that data needed to be archived in case I needed it again. It took me TWO days of deleting masses of files before all the duplicates and files that were not needed were finally purged.
I hit on a plan to get the important files onto DVD's for storage, but it was the complexities of the plan that I thought would be worth exploring. These are the things that struck me that I hadn't really considered before I started backing up:

• Make sure that you have not backed up any 'temp' folders as these may take up huge amounts of file space whilst all the data in them is probably stored elsewhere
• Tidy up your hard drive AND your backup on a regular basis BUT make sure you clean the files from your PC hard-drive first because if you just clean up the backup, all the files that are still on the hard-drive will reappear as soon as the next routine backup takes place...

• Once you have cleared all the 'junk' from your backup, you need to catalog the contents of the drive before you end up with a load of compressed archives that give no clue as to what is in them.

For this final task, I googled for 'freeware to print folder directory' and came across 'PrintFileListPro' from James River Software. I was able to quickly print out a hard-copy of the files that I was about to archive, straight from the backup drive. Once the list of files has been printed, I would then be able to mark on the list which files were on which DVD archive - this proved essential as I managed to fill NINE discs each with over 4GB of compressed data.I recently bought an internal DVD writing drive which had NERO bundled - this has a backup facility which allows you to select files from any drive and back them up in compressed format onto DVD or to another drive. It is nearly 40 GB and another TWO DAYS later before and I am finally in a position to clean off the archived data from the backup external drive.
My backup drive now has a healthy 70% free space, and I have a healthier attitude towards backups, this includes the idea of routinely cleaning and archiving the backup, and ensuring that non-essential folders do not take up valuable backup space. In the days of cheap storage devices and excellent free software, there is no excuse for not having a backup system in place. My next step will be to see if I can find decent free 'mirror' software so that I can keep an up-to-date 'redundant' copy of my main hard-drive. Any ideas??

Confused by new Adsense TOS?

Well to be honest, I was kind of keeping my head down about this one, one of those things where you don't have to do it now, so it doesn't get done. Sometimes it's better to give things a shorter deadline if you want to see a difference...
Anyhow, I bit the bullet to day and went to see what it was all about - seems the main crux is that if you want to use Adsense, you will need a publicly viewable privacy policy. Well, I do use Adsense, only a tiny bit on this blog, however I don't want to jeopardise my Adsense earnings elsewhere so I'm, going to place my brand new privacy policy courtesy of Jensense right here:

Privacy Policy for munny4hunny.com

The privacy of our visitors to munny4hunny.com is important to us.

At munny4hunny.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit munny4hunny.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on munny4hunny.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

May I encourage you to do the same, and don't forget to provide a link so that the Google bots can easily find it...

Survey on digital photography

Today is another survey day...dNeero surveys are quick and easy to complete and designed to be shared on a blog. The surveys give visitors the chance to participate in the survey and the chance to learn a little more about the blogger. Today's survey is all about digital photography, which I must admit is something I really do enjoy...
Here's an example photo:
Taken in our local park with my mobile phone camera...

Spring is in the air

The sun is shining and I will be spending some time in the garden this weekend (my little one reminded me that I promised we would plant some potatoes...). Things are looking good and all is well with the world... things always look good on a Friday!
I visited feedburner the other day and was pleasantly surprised to find a good number of feeds were being read (well I thought 33 was good anyhow - last time I looked it was about 4...) so I placed the reader widget in my side bar so I don't have to keep visiting feedburner for my reader stats.
Pagerank also seems to have returned, so there's another reason to be happy - although I have had a lot of problems with trying to get an IZEA rank for this site since I changed to a dot com. I may have to delete the account and start again, otherwise I may not be able to do the PPP opps that I should be getting.
My livewyre.NET site has had a small PR hike from PR1 to PR2 and another blog that I have has gone from PR0 to PR2, on the other side of things my cassette to CD site seems to have dropped a rank from PR3 to PR2. Nonetheless, all in all, everything in the garden is looking rosy (today at least)

Internet for $10 – for life!

OK, so maybe you won’t actually get lifetime internet for $10, but you can bid auction-style to get the highest speed internet in your local area for life from 'Charter'. Bidding starts at just $10, there’s no knowing how high it will go – and there is no reserve, so technically someone could get internet for ever for just $10.00.

(see site for rules of participation)

The bidding starts on March 12^th, and will end on March 26^th.

Not only that, but registering on this site will allow you to be in with a chance to win a Wii, and not just a wii, but 5 games, and all the kit you will need to be up and running straight out of the box – there is no need to bid for the internet auction to take part in the sweepstake.

So there’s two things to do, visit the link and get your details registered in order to win yourself a Wii, then between 12^th and 26^th March, get over there and bid for a lifetime of internet – this even includes a router – nothing else to pay ever! What would it be worth you? I reckon I will be paying $250 this year alone for my broadband internet connection.

Looking back on February

February has been another slow month as far as paid postings go, with PPP dropping my IZEA 'realrank' to zero when I submitted my new 'dot.com' domain to replace my 'blogspot' domain. This has made the site ineligible for any opportunities from the best income generator. Hopefully, when the domain is a bit older, the realrank will be reinstated. I have had no opps from blogsvertise since pagerank was reassessed, but smorty allowed me new opps on the new domain, and I had another 'sponsored review' opportunity. These opps are the bulk of 'blog earnings' for this month, the total being: $38.66. Fortunately, my online earnings are not limited to blogs and adsense earnings alone are not far behind the paid postings... On top of that the Christmas and New Year lull on other internet revenue seems to be over and I am starting to pick up other 'jobs' which are helping to swell the coffers - I am starting to consider more revenue lines to maximise passive earnings, but nothing comes without some hard work and there is always ongoing maintenance on existing sites to see to. This internet earnings lark can take up a chunk of your time - don't listen to those that say you can earn thousands for a few hours work per month - if you could, they would be putting in full time hours and making some serious money....
Well I've been earning for about 12 months using blogs and did not quite make it to $1000 - Grand total for a years blogging has been $826.29 - let's see what can be done in another 12 months, I'll need to be back up and running with PPP first though...