Infolinks Is Over

After some years as a publisher on infolinks I have to sadly say that today infolinks is over.  I'll remove all the links and code of infolinks.  Infolinks now turn to adsense-like....ho ho hooo good luck infolinks!

Farewell to BlogUpp!

To improve the traffic quality of my blog I use free service of a traffic generator provider called BlogUpp!.  This type of traffic arriving from other referrers – all visits from other web sites, emails and banners.

An important part of the debate that’s largely ignored is the quality of organic versus paid visitors. Do visitors from organic listings behave differently than those who arrived at your site via a PPC ad? In general, which type of visitor is most likely to buy? Is there any demonstrable and consistent relationship between how a visitor arrives at your site and their likelihood to buy?

I do not know exactly the result from the use of this blogupp!. It's just that lately I feel disturbed by the presence of ads on BlogUpp!  slot. These ads appear must be because I am a free-user of blogupp!, not a premium one. This is the main reason why I stopped using free services from blogupp!.

Monitoring Children’s Online Activities

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of NannySoft. All opinions are 100% mine.

Left uncontrolled the Internet can be an extremely dangerous place for a child. Unknowing children are often the target of bad intentioned adults who often try to arrange for physical meetings after gaining the trust of the child online. Children also can accidentally stumble upon adult oriented content including pornography or can intentionally visit these sites in an act of rebellion.

Excessive use of the computer for game playing and such is also a prolific problem amongst children especially teenagers who typically spend hours upon hours on Chat/IM and at social networking sites. Inappropriate and unethical use of computers is also on the rise by children which includes but is not limited to cyber bullying, alcohol and drug abuse and sex.

Traditionally the approach has been to try blocking access to all the potentially harmful content, illicit activities, and bad intentioned adults that a child may come in contact with on the Internet. The problem with those traditional approaches is that they do a poor job of determining what should be prevented and often block content that should be allowed in the first place.

In reaction, parents are becoming more proactive in the monitoring of their children when online to ensure that they are being safe and presenting themselves appropriately to their peers while using the Internet. The NannySoft approach allows the child’s behavior to be monitored affording the parent the opportunity to provide the guidance for what is appropriate. This leading provider of computer monitoring software, offers several consumer products to assist parents in enforcing Internet safety for their children.

Specifically, the screenshots empowers parents to monitor their children’s online activities, including their emails, Chat/IMs, Website visits, File Transfers and more to ensure that their Internet experience is positive, healthy and safe. Other product features allow parents to isolate their children from potentially harmful content and other inappropriate sources and to alert them when the child deviates from what is deemed acceptable as established by the parent.

Pluto and Saturn for Your Déjà

Pluto and Saturn are square in the sky now, and it’s likely to stir up long-standing issues for people born with the Pluto-Saturn conjunction, square, trine, or opposition in their charts. The angle formed by the transiting planets doesn’t have to be the same as the natal angle in order for it to have an impact.

Over 40 years as a practicing astrologer, Donna Cunningham also found that when strong transits like the current conjunction form in the sky, clients who have that aspect natally crowd into the consultation room. It’s given her plenty of opportunity to observe the dynamics of particular aspects in action. It’s even true, oddly enough, when the transiting aspect isn’t touching strongly on natal positions.

Outer Planet Transits and the Tuning Fork Principle

Donnas' teacher, Richard Idemon was the one who noted that transiting aspects bring out the aspects’ qualities in the lives of people with that same pair of planets in aspect in their natal chart.

He said that the aspect in the heavens seems to stir up related issues and life patterns in those who have the natal aspect, as though it were a cosmic tuning fork vibrating to their own personal chord. (A tuning fork is a device used in tuning musical instruments.)

Her explanation of the tuning fork effect involves the climate of the times and how aspects between the outer planets go along with dramatic historical events and powerful social and economic developments that create a pervasive emotional climate. When an aspect forms in the sky, people with the same aspect strong natally can be set off emotionally by a repetition of the same or similar astrological, social, and global conditions.

It registers as an, “Uh oh—it’s coming around again!” (feeling of déjà vu). Thus, they might be impelled to take strong action to relieve the renewed internal conflict or to express the higher potentials of the natal aspect. It can be a pivotal moment in which they decide to let go of an undesired pattern for all times.

(Incidentally, you who were born with a conjunction, square, trine, or opposition between Saturn and Uranus may have experienced a similar sort of quickening in recent months as transiting Saturn opposed transiting Uranus, although the set of issues would have been different.)

What is the Déjà vu for You?

Below are some of the types of issues represented by Pluto and Saturn. If you’re a Pluto-Saturn person, it’s important to consider whether you’re doing too much or too little about those planets’ concerns. If you fit the description under “Excess,” you’re probably overdoing it and need to ease off. If you’re a Pluto-Saturn type, it’s unlikely you fit the description under “Deficit.” However, the people you’re trying to fix might fit it all too well—they’re your opposite number.

•SATURN ISSUES: Structure; discipline; desire for quality and accomplishment; maturity; authority; perseverance; realism.

•EXCESS: Rigid, perfectionistic, hypercritical, authoritarian; fearful, depressed; workaholic.

•DEFICIT: Lack self-discipline, structure, goals, and planning; irresponsible, give up easily.

•PLUTO ISSUES: Power and control; trust; to analyze what lies beneath the surface and eliminate the undesirable; separateness; holding on to things or feelings; death and rebirth.

•EXCESS: Alternates isolation/symbiosis; controlling; mistrustful; overly intense; bitter, vengeful.

•DEFICIT: Unable to look deeply within; lack of psychological insight; insufficient desire for transformation; stuck.

Many Pluto-Saturn people have faced hard times like these before and gotten through them with sheer grit. Though they may be heartily tired of being in the trenches, they have qualities that others can learn from. She always say they have the strength of diamonds.

During this transit, Pluto-Saturn people may learn that sometimes being a “survivor” isn’t such an admirable quality—sometimes it’s just plain dumb. There’s a time to quit while the quitting is good and to know when the situation is just never going to get any better, so you’re better off pulling out. Living on the edge gets really old, the older you get.

What You Can learn from this Transit–Make it the End of an Era!

How long do you have to beat your head against that particular wall? In particular, you may need to let go of trying to rescue or fix irresponsible people who aren’t pulling their own weight.

It’s time to quit enabling, and make them take responsibility for themselves– time for some tough love. (The Bach remedy Centaury is for those who allow others to take advantage, and Red Chestnut helps those who worry more about others than others worry about themselves.)

Those who have learned how to use a natal Pluto-Saturn aspect well have an advantage in responding to the transit because of their track record in blending the energies of the two planets successfully. When the natal aspect involves the career houses (2nd, 6th, and 10th), many of them seem finally to have found their life work and come into their own.

People who have a pattern of using the combination in dysfunctional ways may be triggered into an upsurge of the less desirable qualities of the aspect, even under a trine. The transiting aspect can precipitate a bottoming out on the natal transit’s self-destructive expressions, so even when the transit seems negative at the beginning, a healing of long-standing patterns can occur.

In any aspect, the planets involved are more important than the type of angle. A Pluto-Saturn square like the current one can actually be better than a trine between those two planets. Despite what you have been taught, a trine is not always a great thing—it’s just too easy to slip and slide into a self-defeating circumstance.

A square like the current one, on the other hand can be just the thing to create the tension needed to break an undesirable pattern. The confrontation with conflicting forces and needs can mobilize you to get to work on a chronic issue. She have seen people do very well under a square but go into a meltdown under a trine.

Britney Spears—a Phoenix Risen Again?

A prime example would be rock icon Britney Spears, who has a Saturn-Pluto conjunction in late Libra in her 1st house natally squared by Venus in Capricorn. During the Pluto-Saturn trine that went on during parts of 2006-7 but especially the fall of 2007, she made headlines with her wild behavior, which culminated with losing her children, several abortive stays in rehab, and several psychiatric hospitalizations before she apparently stabilized.

(Incidentally, in Donnas’ research into Pluto-Saturn aspects, she found them in the charts of several child stars like her and Danny Bonaduce who went through troubled adult periods. Apparently the pressures of wealth, power, and stardom at such an early age were crushing to them.)

As the current Pluto-Saturn square forms, Saturn is conjunct her Libra Ascendant and Pluto has been squaring it for some time. The tuning fork effect seems to be in effect already, though it will eventually set off the natal Venus/Saturn/Pluto aspect—this being her Saturn return. She appears to finally be back on track, stable in her personal life, deeply in love, and back on top in her career. We can hope it will continue–if not, she’ll have to bring out an updated version of , “Oops, I did it again.”

Raise Your Hand if You Want

As usual, I took myself to explore business opportunities available on the internet.

When reading the jargon “raise your hand if you want” on blogadvertisingstore.com there is a sense that is very familiar with the phrase.  Yes, its deja vu all over again!. Not long later I recalled an advertising service provider in the internet where I come and participate in it as a blogger.

Although the address is different but the overall page lay-out just totally the same with the old one. After some time exploring the site I realized it was only the same site, but the address changed. Perhaps the site manager has to evaluate their business performance well so decided to change its domain name to further enhance service to its customers, both advertisers and bloggers.

Nowadays the Internet plays a vital role in the purchase decision process for virtually all product and service categories, regardless of whether the purchase transaction happens on a website, over the telephone or in a store or other physical location.

Official company websites, for example, showed up among the top-four most influential factors in eight out of 10 product/service categories as a source of “further learning” in the decision process.

Even relative to TV and print advertising, the Internet shows great strength in influencing purchases. Asked which points most influenced their purchase decision, respondents cited websites collectively (official company sites plus third-party retailer and other sites) as more important than TV advertisements in seven out of 10 product/service categories. Web marketing programs collectively (web ads plus opt-in email programs) also outranked TV ads in three categories (Travel, Banking and Credit Cards, and Investments and Mortgages).

In fact, blog advertising is emerging in online marketing. The last several years of online ad spending have been a rollercoaster ride, with a boom, a bust and a new resurgent boom. For the first time, the advertising industry is now experiencing a significant transformation of pricing dynamics, given changes in the supply and demand of ad inventory. At least for premium inventory categories such as auto, tech and business, what once seemed destined always to be a buyer’s market is in fact turning into a seller’s market.

First Impression can Make Bad Judgements Constantly

A good first impression is the beginning of an opportunity, decisions and good relationships. Conversely, a bad first impression can be a source of trouble for the next. The good news is, we only have one chance to make a good first impression. And the bad news is, a bad first impression can make bad judgments constantly, even generalized to the aspects of the other, even though we've tried to fix it.

On many occasions, we often judge people by first impression created. When interviewing prospective employees, ninety percent of HR professionals place more importance on being well-groomed than even a firm handshake.

A clean-shaven face was identified specifically as a critical grooming cue. Human Resource professionals cited facial stubble as one of the biggest red flags when meeting a job candidate for the first time, while 83% percent said that being clean-shaven is at least somewhat important in making a good first impression. Other major areas of concern for HR professionals include body odor or sweat stains, and wrinkled and inappropriate or ill-fitting clothing.

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Deja Wackadoodle

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Spacey was telling somebody about this today and she think she sounded like a nutcase. But she have had many experiences of intense deja vu. Very specific moments, a place, movement, words, people, that are correlating with something she already knew.

And she swear, she download visions. She had a lot of them in her late teens, and then a few sporadic events. It happened again a couple of months ago and was quite distinct, felt like part of her brain was receiving an update (like when Microsoft gets a bee up its butt and makes part of her computer go brrr-brrrr-whrrr). Her brain felt that way. Brrr-brrr-whrrr.

This sounds totally wackadoodle.

She swear, she do NOT do drugs.

An occasional gin and tonic is her vice.