When I saw this cartoon - I said to myself - OMG! this is the spouse and I. Well, truth be told not so much I - but the spouse. Can you imagine watching tv with him and he turns to his netbook and does his own things or he would fall asleep? Yes! very frustrating - sometimes I wished I could smack him on his face and shock him up. So has technology turned couples into strangers? I did mentioned many a times to the spouse that I communicate better with him on MSN messenger than personally because he always sounds so darn grouchy - I rather not talk to him at times.
I can’t say it’s a bad thing the internet because I met my spouse online - else we won’t have met - but the almost hanging on to the internet for 20 hrs a day - just is not good practice for anyone - even the ones who doesn’t have a family, spouse and a kid. But I don’t want to be his mother and tell him what he can do and what he cannot do - so what do I do ? yes! i’ve tried arguing with him - I’ve tried mocking him - I’ve tried ignoring him - now what else can I try? I mean it works and he stops for a while and then 2 days later - he goes back to doing what he does best - either on the internet or the tv playing games.
It’s not the WWW - it’s not the games or the console - the problem lies on the person - the spouse is addicted to these things. Sure a big part of it has to do with work - but really - sleeping only a few hours a day and eating junk all day ? mannnn!! this guy is going to have not only a health issue - he will have some social issues when he is old. I just hope he has a lot of insurance and a good health plan.
I never pretend that I am a SEO expert because I rarely looked into things like that - I blog because I love all techie stuff and being an owner by association to the spouse’s business - being a computer store - with games and consoles and anything gadget - I have to know some techie stuff right? But yes SEO stuff is just as important if you are a blogger and wants people to come visit you and of course you want to be noticed by advertisers too right? be it a private one or a long term advertiser - you not only have to write a good post - you also have to make sure that your blog is highly visible on the search engine.
So you asked me what are search engines? they are like google - yahoo or anywhere on the web where you to go - to look for something - that’s a search engine. And when people are looking for something or anything - they always say - lets google it - or they tell you - go google it - like my ex-doctor’s secretary told me - when I had asked what do I have to take for my low blood. Yes! go google it is a famous and favorite phrase of a lot of people - so when a favorite food blogger wrote that she had spent the entire day adding google author authority to her site - I had to find out what it is. So what is Google Author Authority?
In short and simple words for the ordinary blogger - Google Author Authority is a formula used by Lord Google know that you are a real person and not writing spam and what you write is genuine - thus Lord Google will then reward you with a higher PR. As you all know that a good PR can bring in more money - and private advertisers but there are other factors that advertisers consider before picking your blog. Contents is important but so is the age of your blog - the longer you have been writing on the same blog - that is where your blog credibility comes. Not one year or two but more than 7 yrs - I lately noticed because a blog of mine which just turned 8 yrs old had been having a lot of private advertisers looking to place ads in it.
Now Google Author Authority is not only for bloggers it is also for small business with webpages as well - that is why when I do a website for a customer - they always asked - do you do all the SEO thingie as well? because they want to be first in the search engine when someone is looking for something they carry - so for those who have added Google Author Authority to its website - than you stand to gain because it will help your site appear in more relevant search engine - without you having to do more work.
So how do you add the Google Author Authority into your site? Stay tuned for another post on it.
Pink is definitely pretty - but you must be wondering what do they do right? I wondered too - I walked around Staples the other day and saw these on sale. So I looked at it - and it didn’t really tell me a lot. These buckyballs has 216 neo-magnet balls and are made with nickel finish. Well, I found a video on youtube on it - and it looked pretty fun - basically - you just turned them into things and shapes you want. Apparently, these are made to relieve stress but not for kids to play with - guess they are afraid that kids may swallow them - and I won’t rule that out - because I pushed an eraser into my nose when I was a kid. What was I thinking right? Pretty amusing - and it would cost you like $30 for them - after shipping.
My daughter had her own computer to watch tv shows when she was 3 years old - she wakes up in the morning and sit in front of the computer and eat her breakfast there - because the computer room warms up faster. Some people may frown on it - because they think it is wrong to put them on the screen so early in life - but I don’t feel the same way.
In this age and time - kids are bound to learn computers - sooner than we did - and if as parents we keep a close eyes on what they do online - that is good for me. My daughter is aware of what are good sites and bad ones - she wouldn’t even watch movies that are not meant for her - she knows so - consciously. At 8 yrs old in a month - she asked before she can watch anything or play anything online. She loves to draw and she loves her cartoons and webkinz. But that doesn’t mean that she is on the computer the entire day - in fact during the summer - she is out playing all day - the computer doesn’t even come to her mind at all. She only uses it to watch tv shows while eating.
But of course, having said all the above - she may change as she grows older - and that means we have to watch her more closely. And also talk to her about using the computer responsibly and since we use the computer so much for work and pleasure - I feel she knows it better than most people. She don’t play violent games - she detest hearing “bad” words. So for now - we are quite safe.
Thought I would share with you the box of the video card that I had written about a few days ago. Gary was so kind to bring it down for me. Thanks - Gary!
Our good friend - Gary just upgraded his computer and this was the video card that he had ordered ! pretty cool looking right?
The spouse said that Gary’s video card is much better than his now.
Now Gary can play his war of world craft properly. As per Gary - when your character go into the water - you can see the water ripple. It’s 10 times better than his previous video card - HD3450. Gary paid $260 for the card.
Gigabyte shows off a custom-design Radeon HD 6870 graphics card with slightly overclocked frequencies and the company’s WindForce 3X cooling solution. The card has a custom PCB with Gigabyt’s Ultra Durable VGA+ design and is equipped with the WindForce 3X - a GPU cooler with three 80mm fans and a large aluminium fin array.
The factory overclocking is quite limited, the GPU core received a 15MHz boost to 915MHz and with a frequency of 4200MHz the 1GB GDDR5 has the same clockspeed as the reference card. Display outputs include dual-DVI, dual-DisplayPort and HDMI.
So we were in the city during the iPad 2 launch and yes there is a Mac store in Halifax and I have to say that the sales dept at all Mac stores are one of the best that I’ve seen. But having said that I bet Apple pays more for their sales jobs more than anyone in the city. I hear that at the Future shop - the guys there just earns a commission and they are not paid an hourly rate.
We own our own small business too - and know how important customer service is for any sales job - knowing your customers by name is very important for it makes them feel really special. But in a small town - it’s hard to give personalize service when you know just about everyone - and where they come from. And so doing a sales job in a small town requires a lot of tack and a lot of patients. Plus in a small town - you can’t afford to loose any customers. Not everyone is into do a sales job and for those who are doing it - I know for sure it cannot be an easy job - like my boss used to say - it takes a very special person to do a sales job.
Fanatic over anime characters? This is the Rei Ayanami USB thumb drive and since I know a lot of you are the Neon Genesis Evangelion - being the first child - you must have it - if you are a fan. Store up to 4gb - not much in this day standard - but what the heck right? we just want it because it is Rei Ayanami. $70 - is a bit pricey for some - but oh well - I need it!
While most people would use a video conferencing software for their businesses - I think it can be marketed to be used for people with long distance relationship (LDS). Did you know that my spouse and I had a LDS for 6 years before we met and got together? Now if only they had this video conferencing software that is so reliable than the free ones we used back then 17 years ago - it would have save me tons of money. Every month I would pay $1000s of dollars just for long distance phone call - because the free software was pretty crappy. Had the technology been like now - it would have been perfect - we won’t have to worry about the lapse in connection time and getting disconnected constantly. Plus chatting with his family and friends would have been so much easier and he wouldn’t have to worry when he had to travel for work. Now paying $39/month is a lot cheaper than the 1000s i had to pay in long distance call and by the way there are a lot of people in United States who moved away for work - husband in one place and the wife in another - a blogging friend of mine - just did that - she is in Chicago - while he is in North Carolina - now they could use a reliable video conferencing software eh.
This is obviously a Acer Gaming machine - but I don’t know for sure which model this is - for this belongs to a customer. Apparently, this has gone back to Acer twice already for repair - and now he had brought it in for us to take a look for virus purpose i think. It’s a nice machine too - and that customer had paid good money for it.
It opens up and changed it’s cover color to black.
This is the side of the computer. This computer sure looks like the Acer Predator - and if it is anything near it - it would have a Core i7950 CPU in it. and a DDR3 ram which is not a huge deal now - as it was in 2009. The graphic was really nice in it - when we power it up. And if i am not wrong - the customer paid like $1600 or more for this machine.
