It's time for some Sex and the City

From a half hour cable show, to the BIG screen. On TV, SATC wry look at Manhattan's dating scene that was more about female friendship than sex, though there was plenty of that. Will the movie live up to the series?

Use FREEBIES to LURE visitors to your site

Freebies always work. Most people love a freebie and what better than a freebie to lure someone to your site? A freebie can be something relatively small and insignificant yet troublesome or time-consuming to make. Take a simple example: you are running a site on cooking with lots of your own recipes. Consider making a series of downloadable pdf calendars showing 1-2 recipes per month that visitors can print out. You can even sneak in a way to make money here - offer to send visitors a printed color version for a nominal fee. Before you know it, you can even start selling printed copies of your online recipes. A freebie can also be something a visitor normally has to pay for but which he might not want to. E-books would be one category example. It might be an e-book you write yourself or even one of those you buy. Many of those you buy give you resell rights and instead of selling them, you can choose to just give them away for free (if it is allowed). But of course, if you can put together something neat yourself, that would be most ideal. E-books are so easy to make - you just need to spend some time writing them. A freebie can also be a product or a sample of your product. For instance, you are selling coffee beans. Visitors normally need to buy them from you in packets of 500g or 1kg. You can consider giving out small packets of 3g each so that potential buyers can try out your beans. You might even get creative here and put them in pretty sachets - so that instead of using them to make coffee, they can choose to use them to make the room smell better. A freebie can also... well, there is really no hard and fast rule to a freebie. Strip it down to the bare bones, it must be something you can offer and something a visitor to your site might want. Time for you to get innovative! =)

HammeRuler ... Short-Measure Acceleration for You!

The HammeRuler is built on the notion of Short-Measure Acceleration (SMA). By cutting down on tool switching time when doing short measures, the HammeRuler makes you more efficient. You probably don't realize how much time you spend putting down your hammer to pick up your ruler.

2008 Presidential Election and Celebrities Part 2

Many wonderful questions from dNeero-ites about the role celebrities play in politics ... we've chosen a few to continue this conversation ... please excuse us if we haven't chosen yours. "In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins." ~ Newt Gingrich ~

Google, I am NOT a bot!

Google has been getting on my nerves quite a bit in recent times. See the screen shot above? I get that today every time I search for something and that is right from my first search of the day. In case you are wondering, no, I am not running any script or whatever. Just plain googling as a google search user. I get such interruption once in a while but I have got that "enough" times to feel irritated. Google, you really shouldn't slack. Don't think you are invincible just because you beat Microsoft. Before you know it, Google No. 2 will come along and replace you like how you replaced Microsoft. So wise up, yea? I still like you but my patience is running out. For a start, please get your act together. I am obviously a human, not a clone, script or bot. So please, treat me as a human and stop throwing those captcha verifications at me. And secondly, if you do insist on throwing those verifications at me, at least make sure that I can decipher the text. Many times, I simply cannot figure out what I am supposed to type - like the one above. Did you provide those captcha for bots who can break the code? Or for humans who have less than extraordinary eyesight? I already told you this and I am repeating myself here - I. AM. NOT. A. BOT. I can't read those text that only bots can. Now, be a good boy for me again. Thanks.

Are WORRIES edible?

I was watching a show just now and several lines from the script were really electrifying. A young man was drowning his sorrows in alcohol while he confided in an old lady who had gone crazy. Young man: I am so stressed. I have so many worries! Crazy lady: What are worries? Are they edible? Young man: No, of course not. Crazy lady: Then why are you paying attention to them? Any comment? If no, read again. The Chinese have a saying that outsiders who are not involved in the situation can see things relatively clear. Conversely, when something happens to you, you are usually too blinded to extricate yourself from it. To the crazy old lady above, she took the young man's comment literally. The young man said that he had many worries so it seemed logically for her to ask if those "worries" were edible and food for the stomach. If they are not, why pay attention to them? Why even bother? Few of us can honestly claim that we are free from worries. When problems are pressing themselves on our consciousness, how do we deal with them? Do we keep thinking about them? Do we accept them and try to think of solutions? Do we ignore them? Do we push to others? Or... ? See what myLotters have to say at "Are WORRIES edible?"

2008 Presidential Election and Celebrities

Do celebrities campaigning for candidates make a difference at the polling booth? Hmmm ... it does help the candidate grab headlines ... we have seen more in the news about Oprah campaigning for Obama, than his health care plan. And there seems to be a resounding lack of celebrity supporters for McCain.

Customer Service or Customer No Service - Part 4

Online customer surveys are used for various reasons, to include your evaluation of general site experience and evaluation of online customer service. Let's call them "online pop-up surveys".

Customer Service or Customer No Service - Part 3

It is fair to say that customer service has changed since the web 1.0 days. Empowered customers of today want to make their own choices in the way that they interact with companies they do business with.

Customer Service or Customer No Service - Part 2

Some questions from dNeero-ites.

Customer Service or Customer No Service

Is customer service rare in today's capitalistic society? According to a survey in USA Today, Customer Service is the #1 reason people choose to stay with a company long-term. Customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction ? that is, the feeling that a product or service has met the customer expectation.

Extra Cash

Give us cash, and we will shop. That's the idea behind the U.S. government's save-the-economy tax rebates, which are starting to hit checking and savings accounts of cash-strapped consumers. What are you going to do with the money? "He who does not economize will have to agonize." ~ Confucius ~

Identity -- You

Ain't it grand ... we're all different and all alike ... and as we move through our lives we have magnificent changes ... we are what we are ... and we change when we change ... and just maybe our networks of peeps help guide our progress. The following is for those that have been dNeero-ites for a while ... we hope that your answers will make your social networks a little bit more active.

Get me there

We move around a lot to get from one place to another -- walk, car, bus, cab, bike, motorcycle, plane, train ... let's talk about your commute. "Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. " ~ William Ruckelshaus ~