March 2008
Monthly Archive
Don’t cut out the middlemen
Moving houses can be a challenge if you were to try to achieve everything by yourself. That is why we have real estate agents to help us. It’s not worth trying to save some money and cutting these middlemen out of the equation. What’s more if you’re moving into a new territory that is totally unknown to you.
For example, those moving into New York will benefit from the services of Prudential Douglas Elliman, which is New York’s Largest Real Estate Company helping people explore North Fork real estate property as well as housings in Long Island and the Hamptons.
By using an experienced real estate company, you can be assured that all procedures are followed through and you won’t have too much to worry afterwards as well.
Wordpress 2.5 is out
The latest version of Wordpress 2.5, said to be a state-of-the-art publishing platform which focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability is now available for download or upgrade.
I wonder why they skipped 2.4, because they were talking about it last year. Has it got anything to do with the digit 4 which is considered a taboo in certain Asian cultures?
Anyway, I’m so tired of these frequent upgrades. It always happen that once you do an upgrade, they’ll then come up with another security alert version and that’s really irritating.
Well, let’s see. Perhaps I’ll just upgrade one blog first and wait.
Earth Hour
There are a couple of international events but one is particularly interesting.
Earth Hour, a global campaign that calls on the world to raise awareness about climate change by asking households and businesses to turn off their lights and non-essential electrical appliances for one hour on the evening of 29 March at 8 pm local time until 9 pm to promote electricity conservation and thus lower carbon emissions.
Apparently, it coincides with the beginning of National Dark Sky Week in the USA.
I wonder if we’ll honor our pledge that day, or rather that hour.
Cosmetic surgery of the nether kind
When we talk about plastic surgery, many of us will immediately associate with cosmetic changes to the face or body. However, it could also be referring to cosmetic enhancement of the female genitalia which many women are reportedly going for.
So instead of going for laser facial rejunvenation, these women are going for laser vaginal rejuvenation to enhance the vaginal muscle tone, strength, and control. It will also effectively decrease the internal and external vaginal diameters as well as build up and strengthen the perineal body.
Largely, such a procedure is for women after having had children and have found their vaginal more “relaxed” and most probably want to rejuvenate their vagina and achieve the best sexual experience possible, especially since many complain that sex isn’t the same again after childbirth.
In fact, some women are even going for labiaplasty to reduce their enlarged labia due to aesthetic problems and a feeling of not feeling feminine because of the extra tissue in the genital area.
So the next time you hear of cosmetic surgery, don’t just think of the face and the body.
Google Analytics does not offer detailed IP records
Due to a requirement of a network I belong to, I have to install Google Analytics on one of my sites. I noticed that the traffic indications are slightly off from the Statcounter that I use. It is about 10% lesser, both unique visitors and pageviews. I’m now wondering which is more accurate. Surely Statcounter cannot be measuring traffic that my blog doesn not have right?
In addition, though Google Analytics is good for reporting, it does not drill down to the individual IP addresses which I’m rather obsessed with. So I still prefer to track my traffic via Statcounter.
But I have to concede that with Google Analytics, I can tell at a glance where are my top 5 sources of traffic, whether it has increased or decreased, as well as the top 5 keywords. If I want more detailed information, I can choose more options from the dashboard. Network location, geo location, new vs returning, visitor loyalty, visitor recency, language and more.
And the best part is that it employes graphs and charts, instead of just listing those information.
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