Amazingly HOT giveaway site worth checking out

Sorry for the screaming-for-attention headline I’ve here. Don’t worry I’m not going to sell you anything. So put your itchy wallet away. I just want to give you a heads up on an amazing resource site I came across.

I’ve been to number of free giveaway sites, and it is fair to say that a lot of them are filled with junk and thrash. Simply put – a waste of time!

While surfing around aimlessly the other day, I stumbled upon yet another giveaway site. I was skeptical at first, but nevertheless, I decided to check it out.

And boy am I glad I did. This is definitely the real deal. The site I’m talking about here is Giveaway of The Day. Basically this site offers FREE softwares for give away. It’s not your thrashy kind nor are the products just merely trial versions. These are licensed and fully functional softwares that are useful and handy. They are available for download for a day (hence the name), but quite often, this period stretches longer than that (only when the publishers are agreeable).

A visitor from Google I never expected!

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Recently, I was taking a look at my visitor statistics via MyBlogLog, and I realized that I got a visitor that came through Google Search.

I’ve been getting some visitors through Google from time to time, especially on some very targeted key phrases. Okay, so there is one more courtesy of the Big G. I’ve to say I was pretty glad though, and decided to check out the the exact keyphrase which the visitor keyed in.

To my great surprise, the keyword phrase isn’t in English!

It was Arabic!

If you are curious to know what is the phrase, there you go - ?????? ??????

For a moment, I was stumped. But my site is in English! I do not understand Arabic at all, much less write it! So how did someone who typed in an Arabic phrase in Google end up on my site?

It was then that it hit me. Yes! I’ve actually installed a little plugin two months back that can translate my blog to nine other different languages. This nifty little plugin make use of the Google translation engine to translate the content of my site into Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Italian, German, Spanish and French.

Useful WordPress resources that will come in REAL handy!

In the previous post, I talked and raved about WordPress, being a great blogging solution.

To complement that post, here are a list of WordPress related resources that will come in mighty handy should you ever decide to utilize the power of WordPress (which you should!).

#1 Official WordPress Homepage

- Where you get the WordPress download, documentation and support.

#2.1 WordPress Plugin Database

- All the plugins are in here. A whole load of them from administrative tools to WordPress fixes. Please be sure to check out this page. Some of these plugins will put your WordPress on serious steroids.

#2.2 The big list of Plugin links to put your WordPress on turbo-boost!

- I can’t elaborate on all of them, as there are just too many! Going through them one by one will probably drive me mad! You will find some real gems in there. I personally used of these, and quite a fair bit of them are mighty useful especially with regards to search engine optimization which I really sucks at! So happy exploring on your own.

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/

http://www.semiologic.com/software/

http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress

http://mattread.com/projects/wp-plugins/

http://mightyhitter.com/main-page/plugins/

Mr Market claimed yet another victim!

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Today I read a report in the newspaper that got me shaking my head, half in pity and half in weary resignation.

It seems that there are always such cases happening!

The report was about how a student lost $700 000 trading in shares during the recent market slump! In the process, he wiped out his dad’s life savings, lost his girlfriend, and possibly also his family’s house!

Imagine $700,000! That’s not very far off one million! More money that most of us can ever dream of!

I find such cases really sad. Tragic even. Seriously, such cases can be avoided, and I hope this story serves as a wake up call to investors/traders who are living dangerously on the edge.

Some important lessons we can learn here

1. Firstly, he wouldn’t have been in such a predicament had he invested money which he can afford to lose. That is to say, even in the worse case scenario of 100% loss (assuming he doesn’t leverage), there will be minimal disruption and adverse impact to his financial health. He will still be able to carry on the normal lifestyle that he is leading. Alas, this is not the case here.

Giving up?

Ever been in situation when you thought that all hope is gone? That there is nothing meaningful and worthwhile left fighting for? That everything is futile and just not going your way?

Before you throw in the towel, clear that mind of yours.

Sit back and reflect.

Reflect hard!

Have you given your absolute all? Have you exhausted all avenues? Have you even taken action?

Sometimes we are just too affected by the negative things other people say. I say take the constructive ones and learn from them. For the just plain nasty comments, screw them!

Most importantly, you cannot give up on yourself even when the whole world has given up on you. Maintain the faith and keep going!

Just take a leaf out of King Leonidas and his small band of Spartan warriors who battled to the death against the overwhelming Persian army in the film ’300′. Now that is what I call COURAGE and PERSEVERANCE. That’s the never-say-die attitude worth emulating.

Absolutely Outrageously Hilarious

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I recently caught the highly controversial but humorous anti-Bush documentary ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ by Michael Moore, and it seems to me that George Bush can do nothing right.

Despite the provocative nature of the show, Fahrenheit 9/11 still managed to bag an academy award and the best film in the 2004 Cannes film festival. Just goes to show the whole Bush-bashing looks to be the new in-thing. Sure is a good way to garner attention!

Given the whole lot of conspiracy theories about September 11 and Iraq circulating around, the video I’m going to show you isn’t about to boost his popularity ratings further.

We often hear how George Bush screw things up and questions were raised about his intelligence level. This spoof takes this notion to a whole new level.

You get to see George Bush and Condoleezza Rice engage in some real wickedly humorous banter.

Who? Hu?

Enjoy!

Warning: Can be absolutely devastatingly funny! Don’t drink anything while watching this unless you want to risk spurting everything out from your mouth.

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