Looking for binoculars

What do you use a binocular for?

The first thing that comes to mind are usually nature related activities such as bird watching. However, there are other several other uses. For site seeing, at theaters and concerts, for astronomy as well as for sports.

Just found the perfect site to look for binoculars. Eagle Optics has a great selection of binoculars.

I was so surprised to learn that there are binoculars specially designed for viewing insects, plants, and any other wildlife you can watch from very close range. The brand I am talking about is the Pentax Papilio 6.5x21 Binoculars (means butterfly in Latin).

You should definitely check out their Hot Deals with unmatched price offers on several products.

For your information, Eagle Optics gives 90 days free financing on all orders over $200.

So now you know where to go if you are looking for a binocular.


Sponsored post.

Tags: Binoculars Eagle optics

Walking my girl to school

My wife was at the University the whole day for invigilating some exams.

Had to walk my daughter to school today - the first time I had to do that. Previously, I used to drop her off by our car. In a previous post, I had mentioned that the school was a walk away. I never realised it was a 15 minutes walk with me pushing a stroller and my daughter in tow. Thank God! we invested in a good stroller.

It was bright and sunny today but there was a chilly wind blowing around. By the time we got to the school, I couldn't feel my ears. Getting back was faster - 10 minutes. Had to go and pick her up again but my daughter enjoyed the walk. Well! I got some exercise too.

Walking her to school and back again tomorrow as my wife has classes. I just hope it doesn't rain.

UK phone comparision site

One of the first things we did when we first arrived here in the UK was get a pay-as-you-go line. We already had mobile phones and all we had to do was buy the SIM card. It was necessary to buy a phone because we didn't have phone line nor did we have an internet connection. It was our only means of communication with other people.

Unfortunately we were not aware about the different call rates and sad to say, we later found out that the network (not named here) we selected, was one of the costliest. At that time we were using like £30 in a month. That roughly translates to around a pound a day.

We only found out later that there were several cheaper alternatives and that we could even get a brand new handphone with a line by paying as low as £15 per month.

Just found this site which allows us to Compare Mobile Phones in the UK. It compares over 20,000 deals from all leading UK mobile phone retailers ever day. So if you are living in the UK, I would recommend you to go over to mobile360.co.uk to find the cheapest deals on all the latest mobiles and buy online.

Never knew that mobile service providers were giving away free gifts including the Nitendo Wii when you buy a contract phone. Check out the deals here.


Sponsored post

Tags: Mobile Phone Review

Melayu Boleh

The Bahasa Malaysia phrase Melayu Boleh can be loosely translated into 'Malays can'. Unfortunately searching for the term on various search engines would inevitably lead to porn sites.

Mohd. Suhaimy, a netpreneur and founder of the Wangcyber forum came up with a challenge - anybody who reaches the highest ranking possible on Yahoo and Google search engines results for the phrase melayu boleh using legal SEO methods, will win a prize of RM100. Runner-up and second runner-up will get RM60 and RM40 respectively. It's not much but I am taking up the challenge as well.

BTW, learnt about this challenge from the Eches Blog.

You can also help me in this project to overthrow porn sites, by linking to this particular post. Inform me and I will link back to your post too.

Tags: Melayu boleh Malay SEO

Never forget a birthday

I am sure that at one time or the other you must have forgotten the birthday of a friend or family member. I have.

Well Card-List.com is a company with a great idea. You sign up and enter in the birthdays of your friends/loved ones. You then buy some cards online.

Here where the interesting part comes in. Their database will track the date of birth of your loved one and a week before the individual’s birthday, you will receive a birthday card and an stamped and addressed envelope (to the individual) in your mail early enough for you to sign and send it off.

Yeah! It's up to you to send it on to the birthday boy/girl.

Companies can also use this service to let employees and customers know that you care about them.

I am not really sure about the pricing but they have mentioned that the cards are as low as $4. I didn't sign in so I am not sure whether the prices depend on the location of the recipient. For example, my sister lives in Australia. Will it cost more to send a card to her as opposed to someone living in New York. They have not mentioned that it is limited to residents in the US. So I assume that it guys in Malaysia and in the UK can sign up too.

Sponsored post.

Tags: Birthday cards Review

Review Businesses in UK

Just wanted to introduce a new UK site.

Some guys who wants revolutionise the way people find local UK businesses online have come up with a site, which they plan to launch early march.

For your information, there are currently 1.5 million business listings in London alone.

Their goal is to create a new web site where everyone can share their views on the businesses they love and hate. Whether its a restaurant, local barber, plumber, halal butcher shop or street market - anything really.

Go over to the Localreview.co.uk and sign up to review as many of your favourite shop and services. You may even win a prize.

Tags: Business Marketing Review

G-Man Marketing tips

"What does SEO mean?" asked a lady friend who has just entered the exciting (and some say addictive) world of blogging.

Well, I tried to answer as best as I could but I could see from her blank expression that she has a long way to go.

In case you are one of those who did not know, SEO stands for Search engine optimization. It is a part of search engine marketing, which seeks to improve the ranking of sites on search engine results thus increasing the number of visitors to your site. This is big business today and there are a number of consultants out there who charge a lot to "optimise" your site.

SEO involve a number of strategies and techniques, including changes to a site's code (referred to as "on page factors") and getting links from other sites (referred to as "off page factors"). Over the year, I have learnt quite a bit. For example, if you type ah ok lah in Google and click the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, it will take you straight to my blog. Not really sure how many people actually search for those key words but at least my close friends know how to find me on the Blogosphere.

I also have a respective page rank (pr) of 5. However, I have been stuck here and my efforts to breach this barrier and climb to a pr of 6 has been without success.

Trying to learn the SEO secrets lead me to Look What G-Man Found. The G-Man is a software developer who has written over 200 software installations in his career. His site discusses SEO and other interesting topics.

One of the categories of interest on the site is the Marketing category.
When I last checked, there were 10 posts in the archives of this category. I found two posts particularly interesting. The first one titles Simple, Repeatable Method Generates Traffic To Your Website is his latest article and according to him, a simple method to get hundreds or even thousands of free clicks to your website is to give a testimonial. If you want to read more go here.

The other post is titled If Content is King, Then You’ve Just Been Crowned! He introduces a software, which helps you write articles - on almost any topic, including topics you "know absolutely nothing about".

The implications are enormous. Almost anyone can write an article on almost any topic. And Professors are going to have a tougher time evaluating students. In the end, it gives a real meaning to the saying "Work smart".

Anyway, check out the site for other great articles from the G-Man.

Sponsored post.

Tags: G-man Marketing SEO