A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2008 to all my reader, passerby and people who are not here to read this. Wishing you all the best for year 2008.
This is quite a good start for this blog and I hope that year 2008 will be even better with more reader and visitor.
Cheers and enjoy!
Black friday is one of the day I missed the most as a student studying in United States. It is the day after Thanksgiving, which is this Friday. Black friday is basically a shopping day whereby we start lining up in front of the stores a 3am for the store to open. Most major electronic stores, including Best Buy, Circuit City, Staples, Office Depot, Walmart and much more are all on sale. Some electronics are limited to 50 people, therefore we are there to grab the best stuff at the lowest price. Even after that, you could sell them at eBay and earn some money.
United States buying habbit is different from Malaysia. We have the mail in rebate discount (by manufacturer and retailler), whereby we cut of the bar code from the box and mail them back to manufacturer or retailler, after around 3 months we will receives a check.
Best stuff I have get is some free CD-R Disk after mail in rebate, USB Thumb Drive and Network card.
There is a trick to this Black Friday which I tend to learn, you will have to get the list of discount you would want to buy before the stores open, as you could only be at one location at one time (unless you have them plan with your friends). Go to the store with the item on your highest priority and continue down.
I manage to buy something even before going out of my appartment, I buy them online after 12am and use some coupon code. It makes them even cheaper compare to buying online. FatWallet is the best source to get coupon code and stack them to get even bigger discount.
A list of discount for your to prepare yourself for Black Friday Discount stores:-
http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/
http://www.blackfridayads.com/
Also, I heard from a friend that things had change, shop starts to open at 12am. This will change the buying habit of people, people would not need to hang out in the cold night outside the store.
Happy Shopping!
After trying all methods to get a @live.com email. I finally found out that it is useless. I have a few Live.com email registered but I can’t login into my account. 
So, what is the use having a web-base email when you can’t access them overseas. Microsoft seems to limit the registration to geographical limitation. As a result, Malaysian could only register for username@live.com.my email. I manage to get @live.com email because I have friends who did that for my in the United States. I was happy that I am able to get my username before everyone else in the whole world manage to grab some good name. Unfortunately, I have found out that I can’t login to my account. Hilarious to say that, but nevertheless, I have that account until Microsoft free up its geographical limitation.
Anyway, I snap up 4 username with @live.com and some useless username at @live.com.my. Although I do not have intention to use them, but it is always nice to keep them aside as you won’t know how many @gmail.com will be available. Most probably by now, you could hardly get your name and ending having username like adiwong2020@gmail.com.
This is a pretty good moment for RiceBlogger as the first time I had been StumbleUpon for compiling the list of Blogs with Top Commentators Wordpress Plugin. Although the traffic is still low compare to big blogs, my traffic went up tremendously, and it feels great.
I never knew those buttons helps, but luckily I gave it a try and code them into my theme. As you can see from the traffic chart below, before this the traffic averages out about 20-30+ users but Oct 29th it hits 243 visits.
As a blogger, the aim is to provide quality post, but it is hard to figure out what is consider quality for other users. Therefore, we give each article some good thoughts before publishing them.
After few round of PageRank reduction, PageRank Major Demotion and some delays in PageRank updates, Google have finally come to some sense. I had some PR juice at last. Actually, I am pretty fortunate as the PageRank process was delayed and I manage to claim a humble PageRank of 3 for this blog after blogging for about 2 and a half months. Not bad for a newcommer although I have much to do for my Alexa Ranking.
Although it will not necessary stay there, a high majority 72 datacenters are showing a PR3. Checking with more datacenters for Pagerank is important as some datacenters is not updated as fast as the others. Although Google may have more than 72 datacenters, this is a good place to start checking and does not take a whole lot of time if you are planing to check each and every servers Google had.
Cheers!
