January 28, 2009

Exploit the Fanatics

It’s crazy when people are under heavy influence of fanatism. For example is this guy. This guy is just buying a DVLA number plates for his car. The big news is the price is about £65000. Wow, that’s sound crazy for me. And guess what? The plat number was: CR 7. It is an initial that usually connected to Cristiano Ronaldo, the Soccer player from Manchester United.

And then I do some little research on the internet. Surprisingly there are so many pictures shows that people tend to personalize their car plate number and even some site is providing their services to personalized the car plate number. They can even give you examples of what might be available or you can enter in what you like and see if it’s already taken. I think this is already became one kind of business on the internet. Pretty smart to exploited the fanatism of football nuts :D

Watch Indonesia vs Australia online!

Tonight there will be a match between Indonesia and Australia, so i try to search some link to the match on the internet,

i found this site.

http://football-livestream.co.cc

i hope for a good match with the good result for Indonesia of course :D

January 26, 2009

The importance of design

When we want to start a new blog or website, there are several things to do. If we just want to use free domain blogs like wordpress or blogger we can just choose from the list that available but the story will completely different if you use your own domain and use paid web hosting too.
First you should determine what engine you will use, but most of the blogs now use wordpress because it is very easy to use. And then the hardest part is determining what kind of the design for the website, because design can make a huge different. Even when a blog have good content but if the design is not appealing enough it won’t attract the visitors. That’s why design is really important.
The importance of design is not only in the world of websites and blogs, but also for office templates and application. For example, writing annual report for your company or just submitting task report for students will look bad if you only use plain or standard word templates. For the workers, using plain template will look unprofessional and it may disappoint the report reviewer. Also they will need good powerpoint templates for presenting the report or new ideas. For student, teachers tend to give better score if they saw a well-design report.
As I stated before, searching good design is not easy, but if you want to find all kind of design I stated above, you can found them on dreamtemplate.com

Should you buy life insurance?

Losing someone very important for us is one of the toughest things we will all have to deal with. And it will be much bitterer if that person has not properly planned ahead to cover the expenses they have left behind then they leave a tremendous burden on their loved ones. The grieving process is difficult enough but when complicated with financial issues can leave bitter feelings. That’s why buying life insurance is important.

Why Buy Life Insurance?
One of the main reasons to buy life insurance is to provide money in case of death. If you’re single and don’t want to leave money to anyone, you may not need life insurance. But as you take on more responsibilities and your family grows, buying life insurance is an easy way to protect your family. The proceeds from a life insurance policy can replace the income lost to your family upon your death. The life insurance death benefit can also pay off debts and expenses provide money to a charity or organization, and cover final and estate expenses.

Buying Life Insurance
Buying life insurance is really similar to buying car insurance or other vehicle insurance. You work with insurance agency that will help you considering the options and make the decision which type of policy you should have. When searching for life insurance agency, I suggest you to talk to at least three different agencies in order to make sure you get a good understanding of the options available.

Lastly, the very important part of having life insurance is to prepare for the worst case so anything happened won’t make things harder for the family.

January 24, 2009

Medicine online

With the fast growing internet around us, everything was started to be done through online websites. You can buy every single things you could said its name. One thing that surprises me is the availability to buy medicine online. It does surprise me because even in real world (I mean not online medicine selling, but just ordinary pharmacy or medicine store) there is so many cases occurs about manufacturers who use dangerous substances to the products to suppress the production cost and multiply the profits. That fact made the importance of choosing the reliable and trustable pharmacy and medicine stores.

With those criteria in mind, I thought it would be really hard to find reliable medicine seller in the internet. But fortunately I’m wrong, with the experiences on online medicine store since 2004; Drugdelivery.ca can give you the medicine you needed.
Are they some pharmacy online? No they are not a pharmacy. DrugDelivery.ca is an escrow service that connects you with reputable pharmacies worldwide, mostly Canada Pharmacy in a global effort to give you access to affordable medications from a source you can trust.

One more good news is the service fees for using this Online Pharmacy Escrow Service are already built into the product prices so there are no hidden costs - what you see is what you pay. so buying medicine online is no longer impossible and dangerous.

January 23, 2009

Present for my mom

After living in here for about five months, finally next month will be my last month living in this country. I feel happy and sad at the same time. I am happy about meeting with family, friends and also my “real life”. I also cannot wait to share my experiences in here with them. But I feel really sad for leaving this beautiful country with great experiences, friendly friends and beautiful cities. This is really complicated feelings.
Talking about coming back home is also talking about what present to give to my friends and family. I already finish buying all present for my friends because it is really easy to do (I just brought them all the same things :P ). But I haven’t brought anything for my family. A jumper for my big brother and a nice watch for my dad will do. The hard part is choosing the right present for my mom and my little sisters.
My mom loves pearls so much that she has a special drawer for her pearls. But most of her pearls are earrings, ring and bracelet. But I never saw her wearing pearl necklace. I thought of buying a necklace for her but the problem is i don’t know where to find that. I was in the middle of confusion when fortunately one of my friends suggests me to buy from Pearl Only. He said that Pearls Only is the place to go to if you want to save up to 80% off retail price. (nice one, I kind of short in budget :P )
So i visited the website and found myself amazed by its collections of pearls. No matter the type of jewelry that you are looking for, whether it is a pearl necklace, pearl earrings, pearl bracelet, pearl pendant or pearl rings, you can found all of those in the website! And my eyes caught by this black pearls necklace. What do you think?

Fleet GPS Tracking System: Useful or Scary?

Have you ever heard about Fleet GPS Tracking System? This is a surveillance technology that makes me a little scared because of its ability. Maybe some of you already heard and some others were not.

I think we all know what a GPS is; Global Positioning System is a device that can show you a precise place of an object, usually itself. It used inside a car to show which is the right way to go and sometimes people bring GPS when travelling to guide them. GPS has become a widely used aid to navigation worldwide, map making, scientific uses, land surveying, commerce and even just for hobbies. The basic concept of GPS is calculating its position by carefully timing the signal sent by the constellation of GPS satellite high above earth.

With some modification and additions of technology, we can use GPS as tracking unit. GPS tracking unit is a device that uses the GPS to determine the precise location of a vehicle, person, or any moving object and to record the position at regular intervals. Usually this tracking device is used for Fleet management.

Based on Wikipedia, Fleet management is the management of a company’s vehicle fleet. Fleet management includes commercial motor vehicles such as cars, vans and trucks. Fleet management includes a range of functions, such as fleet (vehicle) financing, fleet maintenance, fleet tracking, fleet diagnostics, driver management, fuel management and health & safety management. The main idea is to make sure the vehicles get to the destination safely and efficiently. Because of that, this tracking system called Fleet GPS Tracking System.

Some of the benefits of using Fleet GPS Tracking especially for delivery services company or taxi company are:
• Reduce rising fleet expenses.
• Raise fleet efficiency.
• Reduce the time your drivers are spending at unauthorized locations.
• Monitor the activities of your mobile personnel and reduce car operating costs.
• Reduce the downtime of field employees.

There’s nothing to be scared of when you read all the usefulness I mentioned above, but have you ever imagine if someone put this device on your car and then tracking you wherever you go and whatever you do? That’s scary, at least for me. I also tried the demo view at brickhousesecurity.com, and this is the picture. You can see the car in the bird view mode. Even you can recognize someone face in this mode.

So this technology is really useful for fleet tracking system include tracking your lost car but as long as this great technology used by the “right hand”.

January 19, 2009

The Symbol of Achievement

Everybody have different goal and achievement they want to accomplish in their life. Achievement is something that everybody persuades with all their might. And someone will be much more pleased when their achievement getting recognized and written in the history. Setting achievement can be a good motivation for people to be better and better. Trophies can also motivated people because it is more real and concrete goal that easy to be set.
Sports are perfect example on how huge the influence of symbol of achievement to life. Football club without great history of achievement and trophies would never be recognized as a big team.
Any other sport also uses trophies as their symbol of achievement. Wrestling trophies, swimming trophies and even for supporting act like cheerleading has its own symbol of achievement, that is cheerleading trophies. this is just show how much important is a recognition.
So to conclude, it is really important to give an enormous boost of motivation by providing the symbol of achievement in trophy or medal for the winner.

January 8, 2009

Is honesty the best policy?

qWhen life is going along well, there are rarely temptations. You have everything under control and there’s no need to cut corners. But as the household budget comes under pressure, you have to keep the cost of essentials like auto insurance under control. No-one wants to risk driving out on the public roads without insurance. Cars are essential to most households. You don’t want to be put in the situation of having to choose between food and insuring the car. Yet, if you have picked up a traffic ticket, there’s a temptation not to pass the news on to your insurer. You’re almost certain the result will be a premium increase, particularly if it was a moving offense - insurers tend to think people who drive too fast or without paying proper attention to the rules of the road are more likely to get into accidents. So what are the issues? Most auto insurance companies treat the ticket as “important” for between three and five years, and raise your premium. The amount of the increase will depend on the offense. A speeding ticket where you were only a few miles per hour over the limit will not have a big effect. But if you were driving under the influence of drink or drugs, the effect will be significant. For starters, in many states, you will be caught up in the SR-22 scene. This is a certificate issued by your insurance company to your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. It certifies that, even though you are a “problem driver”, you’re carrying the minimum liability covered required by your state. Except that many insurers are unhappy if you have a drink driving or DUI conviction and either refuse cover or charge a deterrent premium. That means getting the SR-22 can be expensive. So you’re tempted to keep quiet and hope your insurer will not notice the ticket(s). That keeps the premiums affordable. But, as and when the company finds out, your auto insurance policy will be cancelled. Your failure to disclose facts that were material to assessing the risks and setting the premiums can, if deliberate, be treated as fraud and you could find yourself the subject of prosecution or civil suit. Worse, no other insurance company will then insure you. It’s not that honesty is the best policy. It’s the only way you can get and keep a policy in place.

January 6, 2009

Family health insurance policies

When you’re young and in good health, you often live for the now. Some have the qualifications to find employment including health insurance in the compensation package, but most take what is available and let things drift until responsibilities come along. Then you start asking questions about what you want in the future. It starts with a partnership or marriage. It gets more urgent when children appear on the scene. If you found a job with a health insurance package, you can usually add your new partner or spouse to the plan. The first issue is whether that plan gives all the cover you need. Should there be gaps, you buy top-up cover. Then as the family grows, does the plan include children and any other dependents? Overnight, you become experts in the detail of the employer’s plan and carefully research what the private health insurance companies offer to give the additional cover. If your job has no health plan, but one of you had the wisdom to begin a private health policy, it is usually possible to upgrade to a family policy. Because you have track record with a company, this is less of a hassle than finding a completely new company for the family. If you’re starting with no health cover, you will find there are major differences in the premiums quoted. Through sites like this, you get instant quotes from multiple health insurance companies. By using two or three sites like this, you can rapidly accumulate a daunting array of information about different policies and quoted prices. This makes choosing the right cover a real challenge. The first step is take a cold-blooded look at the family finances. This is not a time for sentimentality or blind hope. You need hard figures on what you can afford to pay not just now, but in the foreseeable future. Remember your credit score drops if you start a policy and then find you cannot afford the premiums. The next step is to decide exactly who is to be included in the policy and what range of cover you want - just basic treatment options working up to long-term care insurance. Remember the larger the group and the wider the age range of the people to be included, the more the premium is likely to be. The more conditions, illnesses and injury possibilities you add, the more expensive the policy is likely to be. This drives you back to your financial calculations. The way to lower the premiums is to accept a higher deductible or copayments. But this needs a careful calculation. How much will you pay each year as self-insurance through the deductibles or expenses, against the saving in the annual premium. Weigh the benefits against foreseeable costs to make the right decision on which family health insurance policy to buy.

Mything in action - hair loss explained

It’s estimated there are 160 million people around the world who are losing their hair. With such a large market to aim at, there are a vast number of different miracle cures. Take this tablet, rub this into your scalp, stimulate your head into life with electrical current, etc. There are as many treatments as there are suckers to buy them. The reality is that there’s only one product that works. It’s called propecia and only helps men. So far, there’s no treatment to cure hair loss in women. One of the reasons why the scams get so much traction is because of the various myths. Now’s the time to tell fact from fiction. Myth: you inherit hair loss from your mother and her family. Modern research confirms a probable genetic cause for hair loss, but it applies to both sides of the family, sometimes missing out a generation (or two). Myth: women do not lose their hair. About 25% of women in the US have the genetic trigger for hair loss. Unlike men, there is no fixed pattern. It tends to be a general thinning across the head so it’s slightly less obvious. Myth: hair loss is color-blind In theory, you inherit baldness regardless of race or ethnicity, but there’s some evidence that African-Americans and Asians lose hair slightly less often. Myth: stress does not cause hair loss Physical stress, say from going through a surgical operation or a difficult child birth, can cause hair loss. There’s also evidence that soldiers can lose their hair during combat. At a slightly lower level, some students can shed hair as they approach important examinations. In almost all cases, the hair grows back. Myth: massage and stimulation with electricity prevents hair loss Vigorous massage can damage hair and pull it out. Further, the fact that the flow of blood may improve has nothing to do with the growth of hair. Blood is not fertilizer for hair. Myth: washing your hair every day increases hair loss. Every day, a human sheds an average of one hundred hairs. If you wash, this can prompt most of them to fall out at the same time so it looks worse than it is. You can damage the hair with the wrong chemicals for dyeing or straightening your hair, and vigorous rubbing with a towel can pull hair out. Using a hair drier with the heat too high can leave the hair brittle. Pulling the hair into a tight ponytail can pull hair out. Other than that, there’s no effect. Myth: too much dandruff is a sign your hair will fall out. Dandruff is actually a fungus and there’s no link between the itchy irritation it causes and your hair falling out.

Spam remains profitable, but only just

One of the more fascinating things you can think about when you’re bored is why the spam is so different depending on where you have accounts. Perhaps I’m just lucky, but I get very little spam through my ISP. Mostly, it’s just to persuade me to buy viagra and other more obviously fake ways of producing sexual enhancement. I suppose the way I trawl the web to find stories to write about here sells my name as someone desperate to find a way of overcoming sexual inadequacy. But, when it comes to Gmail, my inbox is more evenly divided between viagra and gambling sites. And then come the yahoo accounts (I have several for different purposes). Almost without exception, I am flooded by the Nigerian scam mail. It seems the spammers target different user groups depending on the mail servers they use. A research team based at the University of California has been digging into the problem - it’s completely fascinating to see how some research teams spend their time. Anyway, this team decided to try estimating how much money the spammers made out of persuading people to buy Viagra. Their guess? $3.5 million a year. How did they come up with this number? Well, like cunning hackers, they wormed their way into the Storm botnet. For the uninitiated among you, this is one of the control centers for all those hacked computers around the world. Storm lets you send out millions of e-mails. To monitor responses, they set up two websites of their own to promote. One offered to sell viagra. The other was designed to mimic infecting the users with trojans - the same little bits of code that allow spammers to hijack machines in the first place. Both were actually harmless but counted the traffic and downloaded benign bits of code. Now comes the exciting bit. They sent out almost 470 million e-mails. There were 350 million to promote the viagra site with 10,500 people responding and 28 people attempting to buy Viagra in quantities worth more than US$100. So the low conversion rate did not mean low profits. By scaling up this hit rate, the research team arrived at their annual estimate for gross revenue. But it’s actually quite expensive to send out all this spam so the only way the operation pays is if the spammers also run the sites they promote. The infection site was more efficient, converting an average of 6,000 PCs a day to clones. OK, so now you know who to blame for some of that spam you have been receiving, you can all get your own back by e-mailing the research team which is based at the campuses at Berkeley and San Diego.

January 5, 2009

What to do about jet lag?

For some, flying is a routine. No matter how much security we have to go through to get on the plane, it’s still quicker than all the other land-based systems of transport. For others, it’s an adventure. We have saved our dollars and now we get our reward - a flight to the holiday destination we have been dreaming about for months. Except that, the further we fly, the worse the effects on our bodies. Some flights are nicked-named, the “red-eye” flights because of their timing. When they land, the people leaving the plane look and act like the cast out of Night of the Living Dead and shamble through the rest of the day like zombies. When the flights take us across different time zones, the effects can be just as devastating. One of the reasons for this is sleep (or the lack of it). Our bodies have natural circadian rhythms. We have a body clock that automatically tells us when to eat, to sleep and so on. If something disrupts that daily cycle, all the body’s processes are disrupted. A theory has recently taken hold that the body clock can be reset by using ambien. The idea is a simple one. If you are going to fly forward or back twelve hours, you will be expected to function at full alertness at a time your body clock tells you it’s night. Without intervention, your body’s temperature will drop slightly, your metabolism will slow and you will feel tired. But let’s say you take ambien on the plane. Now you sleep out of synch with your old time frame, but in the right frame for your destination. This is thought to be taking the first step to resetting the clock. In fact, there have been many confirmed stories in the media of sportsmen and women using ambien to get themselves to sleep so they match the local time zones. Some physicians can be persuaded to prescribe ambien for this purpose or you can just buy the ambienonline as you need it for your travel. However, although everyone agrees that it’s the most effective drug to combat insomnia generally, its use for this purpose is more controversial. Forcing the body to sleep is not the same as getting good quality sleep when your body is expecting it. Merely making you perform the activity of sleeping at the local time, is not resetting the clock that regulates your metabolism. Most informed physicians prefer people to live through the change and adjust naturally.

January 4, 2009

Health insurance from the employer’s point of view

There has been a sad trend since the turn of this century. Health insurance costs have been rising so fast that even large sections of the middle class now find it a struggle, if not impossible, to pay the premiums demanded by the insurers for private plans. The fact is that, although in the last one or two years, there have been some increases in average take-home pay, these increases have not kept pace with inflation. People today are more poor than they were ten years ago. For a time, people compensated by using their credit cards and borrowing against the positive housing equity on their homes. With the bursting of the housing bubble and the credit crunch, people must now confront the size of the debt they carry. Articles like this are not supposed to feel sorry for employers. They are the ones who take our work, pay us as little possible and buy big houses to live in. Sometimes, we only put up with this exploitation because of the health plans some offer as part of the compensation package. But they have also been feeling the strain. The national statistics show that, in the period 2000-2007, there was an average 80% increase in the premiums payable by employers for the health plan offered to their employees. As a cost, this has increased five times faster than the cost of wages and salaries. Because consumers have come to expect that prices will not rise, it has not been possible to pass these increased costs on in the wholesale and retail prices. The result has been a reduction in the profits earned by the employers. Hence, wages have not risen fast enough to keep pace with inflation. This has real significance for the future health of the nation. Slightly more than 30% of the workforce is less than 30 years old and the majority of them are not insured. This because more employers have given up the unequal struggle to keep up a health plan for new employees, and more younger people who still have their health do not see it as a priority to use more and more of their take-home pay to fund private health insurance. They feel they are paying against the risk of sickness that might never come. This has an unfortunate knock-on effect. Health insurance distributes the risk so that the fit and health subsidize those who fall sick. If too many of the healthy refuse cover, the cost must be born by the older population more likely to make claims. This forces the premiums to rise. It would be better if everyone had a policy because this spreads the costs and keeps everyone’s payments low. You can make a start by using sites like this to find the cheapest possible policy, but nothing will change unless government policy changes.

January 3, 2009

Mailboxes

Back in my country especially my hometown; Mailbox is not really common thing in houses. But in South Korea where most of the people living in apartment, mailbox is like one of main features for housing. Most of the apartments always have mailboxes for their residence.
Mailboxes are ideal for apartment and any kind of shared building like university dormitory. Mailboxes are ideal for sending and receiving letters because they are secure and easy to maintain. Most mailboxes such as apartment mailboxes have locks, which ensure that the letters or bills are received safely to the right person. Mailboxes have the capacity to hold many mails thus making it very convenient.
There are also commercial mailboxes and cluster mailboxes, which resemble rental mailboxes and are suitable for use in offices. The commercial mailboxes are not private and hence come in different shapes and designs such as slotted mailboxes, drawer-like mailboxes, locker or cabinet mailboxes. Commercial mailboxes normally have two major compartments; the ‘in’ compartment where people place incoming mails and the ‘out’ compartment where people place mail that they want to send.