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.
Digital pricing tags may not be popular here yet but in Singapore and other parts of the world - like South Africa - already started digital price tags. Japan had digital price tags since 2006 - and some parts of USA has digital price tags. So what are the pros and cons of digital price tagging?
I say it makes everything easier for the night shift fellas - who needs to take stock and re - price everything if they needed to go on sale or not on sale. The cons - would be - the hacking part into the store - I haven’t heard of any yet - but we’ll have to see eh. So how much is changing everything into digital price tagging? I figured it must be a lot - but no one had reported the cost as of yet - but small businesses like ours - I doubt you will see digital price tagging anytime soon. Even Walmart may not go digital price tagging - since they won’t even chipped their debit and credit card machine.
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.
So someone asked me - how do geeks shop for Christmas? in which I had to laugh because we shop for all our gifts online - wherelse and how else right? how can one be called a techy chick when we don’t find the best things in life on the internet. I shop for cigars for the outlaws and the uncles on an internet cigar stores - there are so many internet cigar stores to choose from - and when you find one that you like - you order from them always. I have some internet stores that I rely on for all my gifts - whether for myself, for the spouse or the kid - I know I can count on these stores for the perfect gift that you can’t find elsewhere. I don’t know what we would do without the internet eh.
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.
I love the special shopping bags given to us by the supplier for the players at our store - in fact, I am really looking forward to custom making our own plastic bags for our customers too - but we are pretty el cheapo and don’t want to spend $0.50 cents for a plastic bag. While the spouse don’t think that it would boost our business - I think it just might give our business a better image but him being a man - don’t think a plastic bag would do a lot. So now I’m out hunting for someone who would do custom bags for very little money.
Every woman loves flowers - whether they are as geeky or techy as I am - they all loved flowers - and even though we say - don’t send flowers - or don’t waste you money - we still love the flowers. If you want to impress your girlfriend or your wife - make sure you send flowers to her at her office - or her work place. My co-worker uses Las Vegas flower delivery services to send flowers to his wife who was on a working trip at Las Vegas during her birthday - and guess what? it made her boss feel so bad that she was away from the family for her birthday - she was given a week off with pay - when she got home from her work trip. Pretty awesome right? and yes - girls of all ages feels really special when you send them flowers. But make sure you send the right flowers - because every kind of flowers means something. And you don’t have to wait for an occasion to send your special someone flowers - it can be just because - i loved the just because flowers.
I don’t know much about Restaurant System but I definitely know a lot about restaurants and because IJ helped a few restaurants in town and in the county to do their website. An example is a friend’s restaurant in town and I know they are using the best restaurant system for their POS, so they have little problems with running the accounts on a day to day basis.
As for web designing for the restaurants - the restaurant usually bring me in to taste their food and take pictures the food they are serving. I love doing the websites for restaurants for the owners are super good to me - and always gives me treats plus I do make a lot of money doing their websites.
Red box increased their rental by 20% as of today. So folks you are not getting $1 for 1 dvd now - sorry! no more cheap movies for you and in a few years - they will continue to raise their prices. And even though they reported millions in revenue - I think their overhead is just as high - and i’m sure there are people who don’t return their movies and they can’t just swipe their credit cards as easily as you think. So I don’t know how long they will continue to rent cheap dvds - we’ll just have to see.
