Day In The Life of Baz

If you are like me then you LOVE to read. Why not get some Audio Books online? You can check out Books On Board to get a wide selection of over 190, 000 eBooks from a variety of publishing houses.

The books are available in Adobe, Palm and Mobisoft formats so you have a number of different ways to access your favorite titles.

I just went over to the site to check on the price of Four Blind Mice by James Patterson and it is a low $4.59. The other prices on the site do not look too bad so this might just be a site that I check out more in the future.

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I had never thought about using rope lighting for Christmas before until I realized the savings you could potentially have with them. Face it, most of us are going to have decked out houses for Christmas…but then we will have to face the electric bills in January.

I have previously written about saving money by using solar lights and CFLs so why not pass on that same money saving advice when using Christmas lights.

According to the sellers this lighting consumes only about .47 watts per foot so you can immediately start to calculate how much cheaper it would be to run the LED Christmas lights, as opposed to the traditional lighting.

Traditional lighting consumes about 6 watts per foot, which is about 12 times what the LED lights use. Convert that to the price you pay for electricity and you can figure out the cost for yourself.

These lights last a long time, about 50,000 hours and since they generate a small amount of heat they are generally thought to be safer than traditional lights. Deck your halls this Christmas and save some money on the electric bill in the spring.

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What Happens On The Internet Stays On The Internet

I have a few friends who gamble. Personally I don’t really get it, but they love it. Since the advent of the internet, everything is made easier, even gambling. You can now sit home in your underwear and shoot craps.

With so many options out there, how are you supposed to pick who to shell your money out to? Check out the top united states online casinos.

Design - They Had Me Fooled

As usual, I’ll start with the design of this site. I must say, they had me fooled at first. The design looks nice and simple. A basic centered layout, CSS tabbed navigation menu, and a nice gradient background. The page layout even started with a centered DIV. Nothing to shout about, but simple and clean right? Or so I thought.

Looking at the code, the main content section consisted of a big ugly table. Even though the data is tabular by design, they could have gotten away with some DIVS, floats, and clears. Oh well. Also the About Us page is a broken link, but that’s a minor issue.

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One thing that I’ve found especially hard since I’ve move up here is keeping in touch with friends and family back home in Dominica. Yes, there’s always email and there’s alway instant messaging, but sometimes you just need to hear there person’s voice on the other line.

The best solution that I’ve found, so far, was Skype. When I went home on vacation for Christmas of 2005, I decided to hook my Mom up with Skype on her computer. I purchased some credits and even subscribed to a SkypeIN account for her so that I could call her whenever I needed to. This has worked great until yesterday.

I got a call from my mother saying that she’s lost her internet connection for an indefinite amount of time. As such, it’s time to resort back to the old faithful phone cards. The one thing you need to remember about phone cards is that there is always a connection fee when calling internationally. The cards that do say no connection fee simply mean that the card does not charge an additional connection fee. The number of minutes on these cards assume that you use the entire card in one shot. Making multiple calls in the easiest way to kill your card quicker than you intended.

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Here we have another one of the “Get Paid To Blog” family: Smorty. It is quite similar to most of the rest of these services: they serve to connect Advertisers to Bloggers and make a lil’ bit of commission on the side.

Signing up was a breeze. You enter your blog details and boom, you’re in. Well, not exactly. There is a short period of time that your blog has to go under to be reviewed. Your blog has to meet some minimum requirements, or else everybody would be doing it and soon enough the service would become a joke. Your blog must be indexed by Google and Yahoo, needs to be active for at least three months, etc. If you can’t meet these requirements, frankly you have bigger problems.

After you’re approved, you sign up and start blogging away. That’s it. One thing that is interesting, is that there’s something called a “Smorty Rank”. This consists of your Google PageRank, Alexa Rankings, return rate of given tasks, approval/decline ratio of completed tasks and the number of completed tasks. This is interesting, since most of the other blog for money sites go solely off of Google’s Pagerank and we know how Google gets flaky with Page rank every now and then.

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