Hplanet@BlogSpot.com

Migration Migration Migration!

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 05:13:00 +0800

Today, I have to make an important annoucement...

My much beloved blog readers, if you've been reading religiously for sometime, I'd like to express my great THANK YOU! from the bottom of my heart.

If you're an avid stalker, I'd say :" You go mang...!" If you're an occasional reader, I'd like to thank you too! But maybe from the heart of my botttom. Good enuf k.. My bottom how pert.

If you happen to just drop by and if you like what you see, Sphankzz too!

HOWEVER, I've decided to move to a new address as I'd like to try blogging from my new phone. It's much more convenient as I am on the move a lot nowadays and my laptop is about to retire manggg..

NEW ADDRESS IS :

QiuSpot.net

I sincerely hope that you would still read. *fingers crossed*...

One thing I really treasure are your comments, good , bad, relevant or bo liao.. I love them!

However, bringing you on Bloggers/Floggers is a change toward my bloging on Food & Travel Guides, but please be patient for my lastest update, I think they're doing something about it. You can still email me for anything, or register with Bloggers briefly, to comment. I'd be over the scream if you'd do that fer me.

I will still blog with my warped, crooked alter ego QSpot and the silly side will try to churn out more silly stuffs, like the gulf war part II and rude random rantings...

In the new blog,the entries have been categorised into Floggers.Look under Topics, this way more organised also. =)

So, yeah... I'll be fyucking joyous if you continue reading ...

I hope it's all going to be good. MUax MuAxXXX...

BlogExplosion

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:52:00 +0800

Thought out the pass week i got a problem with the site RSS feedburner not working, due to the link.. I got it fix! I found BlogExplosion to exchange a grow my blog traffic and bloody hell they ban my site due to too much ads!!

Dear readers, do you think my site is too much ads? if you think so i will remove it.. I will like to know what do you think?

Humor - Japanese iPod Family

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:11:00 +0800

This is really going to be funny if you are a comic lover..

Please Click Here to see this movie!! Is done by the Japanese..
I really wish Apple Inc will see this and let me see what they think!!

Blog Starter

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:06:00 +0800

I just started my blog as my project for 3 months and I relies nobody read my blog I wish someone or somebody can read my blog and leave some footprints of comment and I will be happy...

If you have comment and review on my blog, you have just made my day of sleepiness night of doing Xhtml from the scratch for 3 months. Please kindly visit my website for my blog...

Hplanet@BlogSpot

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Weather - KL Haze

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:39:00 +0800

Malaysia should put the haze into the Guiness World Records or Malaysian Book of Records with KL being the capital of haze at nmore than 500 API. Let another city try to beat that.
Every year it's the same old story. Malaysians never learn. If Malaysia knows that forest fires in Sumatra is the culprit then Malaysia should make arrangemenst with Indonesia to ensure next year forest fires are handled differently.
US especially California suffers from forest fires every summer but the US Department of Forest and the Fire department are equipped with air tankers aircrafts and helicopters to fight the fires.

Human Love - Cloudy Sunday

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:36:00 +0800

Well, today was quite ok after a 3 hour of battlefiled 2 online in the morning then going to cloudland. I should have wake up at 4pm to meet my gf but end up forgot to set the alarm clock and miss the time. By the time i woke up, holycow is aready *5pm++ So i rang her and she seem a bit upset there i have foretime & does not arrive the place on time guy.

Actually, we did not set a time to meet up and we did not know what the exact time to meet up. She will be off work around 3pm to 6pm depand on her work load..

*Subject to Singapore +8GMT Time

Take Your Apple iPod Underwater

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:32:00 +0800

H20 Audio launches first underwater housing for Apple's iPod mini from surf to snow - H2O Audio enables iPod mini to endure all elements.

The SV-iMini includes a unique waterproof dial and push button assembly providing full access to the iPod mini's proprietary Click Wheel controls.

Watersports enthusiasts can now take their iPod mini with them while participating in sports such as wakeboarding, surfing, snowboarding, swimming and kayaking. H2O Audio's patented waterproof headset is lightweight and designed to stay securely fastened through the wipeouts, flips and turns endured by today's surfers, snowboarders and wakeboarders.

"Having music in the water is simply amazing," said Peter Mel, professional surfer and world-class big wave rider. "Big props to H2O for creating a product that could be the biggest technological advancement in surfing since the short board."

Designed for extreme wear and tear, the new H2O Audio SV-iMini includes H2O Audio's durable waterproof housing featuring easy-to-use controls and a comfortable waterproof headset. Patented technology allows the device and headphones to play clear music both in and out of the water. The H2O Audio SV-iMini is an accessory for Apple's hugely successful iPod mini, which stores up to 1,000 songs in its 4 GB of memory.

"Apple's iPod mini has made waves in popular culture," said Kristian Rauhala, CEO of H2O Audio. "Our SV-iMini lets customers enjoy their iPod mini in places they never before imagined, such as the ocean, ski slopes or swimming pool."

H2O Audio SV-iMini Key Features

… Waterproof housing for the iPod mini
… Waterproof speaker headset
… Unique watertight scroll-wheel control assembly … Impact-resistant design … Compatible with standard headphones for land use … Allows easy access to iPod mini functions
… Sleek, lightweight design

MSRP for the H2O Audio SV-iMini housing and headphones is USD $149.95.

**My review of this underwater casing, i wonder who will buy this unless you are a pro diver and yet is so freaking expansive. I

Singapore Commander EAT Snake ah!!

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:17:00 +0800

Singapore Commander EAT Snake ah!!, originally uploaded by hplanet.

Battlefiled 2 - Singaporean Commander EAT Snake ah!! Humm seen he not doing he work and i wonder what he is doing at the heli pad??

Air Combat - CLOSE CALL

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:16:00 +0800

Air Combat - CLOSE CALL, originally uploaded by hplanet.

Battlefiled 2 - As i was at the game i saw a very close call from the plane to the AH-11.. What a close call and goush i am still alive!!

Starhub -SCV

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:38:00 +0800

Today i just hear the news they are going to increse their price of Cable TV! I just got a phone call from Starhub MaxOnline Customer Service people. As i wanted to upgrade my MaxOnline 2000 to MaxOnline Ultimate.

Which is freaking fast or 30 Meg Internet line.. I hope it will lag when i play Asia Battlefiled ranked servers.. I wish the fucking ping is like 10 to 50 ping to me, when i playing overseas server.. Anyway just they dont lag can liao..

If you are playing FPS online game you need a good PC and good internet connection or else you will be frag by other people who have a higher internet speed then you.

As for cable TV wise i aredy cancel few month ago and i feel the cable TV is having repeated programe and as for Digital TV.. NahhhHh.. You are paying like SGD 30 - 50 for cable TV and ask yourself. How many time you watch your cable tv channel? Why wait where you can download the Drama, Movies, Musice online and let the Bit Torent run for 24 Hours!! Hello you are paying SGD 58 per mth for a 2 meg unlimted internet line way waste the money where you just surf the net..

Wan An for all who read this blog..

Home - Just woke up

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:13:00 +0800

Yarn, is 3PM and i just work up very blur & sleepy. I wonder stagger hours of work will be staggy hours of sleep.. Is very far from my work place to there Jurong.. Humm Hope for a better week ahead.. I will have 6-7 PC/Laptop for our team to backup & move to XP Service Pack 2 then..

Work - 2 Day@work

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:54:00 +0800

i now at Unilever Bloging my 2nd day at work report.. Backing up Laptop & PC..
Is 12AM now. I am at the office of Unilever Singapore Pte Ltd is emty and only fill with laptop to restoore and upgrade to WinXP Service pack 2 over their network.

Is very borning now and online bbc radio 1 to listen to will keep me awake through the morning until 7am. I wonder if there any extra wage fee for night shift. I going to find out tormorrow..

Back to work for now..

Battlefield 2 - screenshot - Promoted

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:13:00 +0800

Yuppie i just got promoted to Corporal on a EA Ranked Server!! It was quite hard to earn the rank, unless you are a chopper whore or C4 chaser..

My experience to Singapore National Day 2005 @ Yishun

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Tue, 9 Aug 2005 22:49:00 +0800

I just want to share my experince to celebrate Singapore 40th birthday within a stone throw away venue with your grassroots leader. But i will like to say my slipper eat more mud due to the slight rain during the morning.. My Feet was cover with mud and end up asking the SAF fitness instructor for New Water (Singapore National Recycle Water). Is not just my foot eating mud and dirt also with my gf sister's daughter. She only 9 year old i guess.

The weather was freaking HOT until around 5pm plus. Well it was damm pack and hot and fill to capacity by 7pm. Where Singaporean are the most Kiasu to book a fav spot to park there for viewing of firework lor!

7PM: all guest inculde the big shot VIP, PM & Singapore President arrive. You got those church stand and sit stuff of singing National songs, which is normal as usual.

8PM: You got the so call Singapore Wave from Padang, Marina South , Tampines, Yishun and Jurong then all the way back to Padang.. As what The New Age Jedi said "Kallang Wave already damn nice already, they wanted to do a Singapore Wave"

Around 8:30pm: The most exciting part of the event where you get you see Sinagpore Tax payer $$$$$ of fireworks. I think the low firework at the heartland is better then you see in the Padang due to the fact which is closer to you.

9PM: Time to go home where those Idol or celebrate follower/fan-es (read as Fans) will listen to HK Singer like Twins & etc.. To hold the crowd to stay on to party! You have to understand the fact today is Tuesday. Most of people need to study or work on wensday.

9:05PM: On my way back home. As i was walking toward Yishun MRT! It was FREAKING crowded with people on the way back home.. Lots of TP control the traffic and Police carry MP5 on patrol scare or bomb attack!! People was pushing each oter as we are on the way toward Yishun MRT. If you as me, What i want Singapore to Be? I will say i wish they can control the traffic flow of people on the way back home in the next NDP.

10PM: Home at last to go to bed and wan an to all.. I will post some photo of the NDP 2005 so do stay tune..

Do you think Swimming the English Channel is easy?

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Mon, 8 Aug 2005 23:00:00 +0800

Do you think swiming the English Channel is Easy wait until you read this!!

Q. Why is the English Channel the top open water swim and such a hard swim?
A.There are a lot of factors that combine to make the swim hard.
The English Channel is approximately -19 nautical miles (38000 yards) or 35 kilometres (35000 mtrs) - wide at its narrowest point (Shakespeare Beach, Dover to Cap Gris Nez, France). Most swims are a little longer to the land on either side.
The Tides are strong and change direction approximately every 6 hours.
They flow to the North East from about 1.5 hours before high water to about 4.5 hours after high water (Flood tide) - then turn and flow South West from 4.5 hours after high water to 1.5 hours before high water (Ebb tide). These tides can flow at up to 4 nautical miles per hour. The tide gets later every day by about 1 hour and change in height and flow speed every day. The lowest flow/ height range is known as the NEAP TIDES and is the time most swimmers try to swim. The highest flow/height range is the SPRING TIDES and require calm weather and good piloting for swims to be successful. (Good spring tide swims are usually a little faster the neap swims but require a lot more planning an skill from the pilot). See the channel chart on the navigation page.
The wind and the weather are an unknown quantity and the forecasts are only approximate. The Dover Straits are prone to local weather conditions that can vary considerably from that which is forecast and the weather can change very quickly (15/20 mins). When you combined wind and tide you can have some very sudden changes in sea conditions.
Wind and tide together give a flatter sea that is "long" and more settled than wind against tide. Wind against tide creates a "short" confused sea. The stronger the wind and tide the rougher the sea gets, (remember that the tide changes direction every 6 hours)
There are over 600 commercial ship movements a day in the traffic separation zone, (which is about the middle 9 nautical miles). To go from England to France you have to swim across the shipping lanes (at 90°T to the traffic) and it is the pilots job to stay out of the path of the commercial vessels. There are also 80 to 100 ferry crossings between Dover and Calais every 24 hours. It's very busy.
Put all these things together, include a large portion of mental tension, note that everything is "approximate" or "about" and you have the worlds hardset swims -- "The Everest of open water swimming". The success rate each season is usually less than 50% for solo swims.

I think Singaporean swimmer Thum Ping Tjin is swimming with a group of people.. It will be best for solo swim for more advance level of swimming.. When i saw on the newpaper today that he was the thinnest swimmer of all.. I think he can held a record of the "The Thinnest English Channel Swimmer"

Most of people swim for rasing charity..

Sound simmilar stories to here below
George Brunstad, who is the uncle of movie star Matt Damon, became the oldest person to swim the English Channel and raised at least US$11,000 for an orphanage in Haiti at the same time. He completed the fete on Sunday after celebrating his 70th birthday on Wednesday.

Read my my website using RSS 2.0

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:09:00 +0800

If you're new to RSS and syndication on the web, we hope this page offers a straightforward exploration of the purpose and promise these changes bring to Internet publishing and browsing as you know it now.

What is RSS?

"RSS" stands for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, and/or Rockdale, Sandow, and Southern (Railroad) (if you trust the good folks at AcronymFinder.com). Really Simple Syndication is probably the most widely agreed-upon choice. As far as we are concerned, all three acronyms do an inadequate job of describing what RSS actually is: RSS is a standard for publishing regular updates to web-based content. Using this standard, Web publishers provide updates, such as the latest news headlines or weblog postings. Meanwhile, consumers use RSS reader applications (or one of a growing number of online services) to collect and monitor their favorite feeds in one place (RSS content from a publisher, viewed in one of these readers, is often called a "feed").

Consumer Bottom Line: RSS makes reviewing a large number of sites in a very short time possible.

How do I read RSS Feeds?

If you want to collect and browse feeds you have many choices, but there are two primary categories of feed reading applications: installable desktop programs and online services. There are many desktop applications for Windows and Mac OS system users, but two of our favorites are FeedDemon (Windows) and NetNewsWire (Mac OS X). Both require a small purchase price but are tops for ease of use and ship with dozens of feeds pre-loaded so you can explore the syndication "universe" right away. Free readers are available as well; a search for "RSS Reader" at popular search sites will yield many results.

Please click on the FeedBurner button to read my page instead of bookmarking my blog. It will allow you to read faster and even can read offline..

Celebrate Singapore National Day @ 5 Star Hotel

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sun, 7 Aug 2005 23:11:00 +0800

Celebrate the nation’s 40th birthday with a panoramic view of brilliant fireworks at Fullerton Hotel from the comfort of your guest room. Take up accommodation in our elegant Quay Room at S$349 or luxurious Heritage Room at S$409 , inclusive of a hearty buffet breakfast at Town Restaurant and enjoy an early check-in experience from 11am.

I think this is going to be a Hell CRAZY idea for most Singaporean which can get a free NDP Tickets. Why Book a room to watch Singapore NDP 2005, where i can watch it for free or watch it at TV! I grew up & born here, and i planning to go down to celebration@heartlands where i can spend my time within a stone trow away. Mann is freaking expansive, where it cost you min SGD349 without GST of 5% on your bill yet!!

Battlefield 2 - Chopper Noobs

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sun, 7 Aug 2005 05:14:00 +0800

Just for Laugh on Battlefield 2 Online Raking Servers.. Maybe you got in this picture when you are playing it!!

Remove the Blogger NavBar

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sun, 7 Aug 2005 02:21:00 +0800

#b-navbar{

Past the code:

#b-navbar{ height:0px; visibility:hidden; }

between tags:

Promoting Your Blog

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Sun, 7 Aug 2005 01:52:00 +0800

In chess, promotion occurs when a pawn reaches the eighth square. At that point, your opponent is challenged because this simple pawn takes on all the powers of a Queen—the deadliest piece on the board. Of course, the pawn may be promoted to bishop, rook, or any other piece but why? This only clues the other player in to your secret plans. That being said, however, promotions to knight can often be strategically useful depending on the situation.

What the beelzebub am I talking about? Let's not get too lost in metaphor. Suffice to say, the circuitous game of promoting one's blog in the blogosphere (without the proper armament) can often seem as difficult and unrewarding as a day-long chess match that ends in a draw. If you play your game right, however, that pawn can hit the big time. Ideally, the simple act of blogging in and of itself would attract enough traffic to please the author but there are cases in which more is better. Whether you are participating in AdSense for Bloggers and would like to see a spike in your profits, or you just want more comments on your posts, increasing hit-count is beneficial.

Toward that end, I spent my Labor Day snooping around the blogosphere. While I should have been eating potato salad and lounging by someone's pool, I was slaving over my laptop pulling together a bevy of accepted methods for growing the readership base of your blog. I hope you'll find them useful. In practice, the procedures fall into three basic categories involving settings, techniques, and actual marketing tricks. Some are very obvious and others, more subtle. It appears that many bloggers have found success with these solutions—I've tried a few and found that they do in fact increase traffic.

Blogger Application Settings

Blogger itself has an array of settings, many of which work to your advantage in this endeavor. This first grouping is quite simple and just requires that you sign in to your Blogger account and flip a few switches.

Set your blog to ping weblogs.com. Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many individuals and services use to track blog changes. When this setting is activated, Blogger will notify weblogs.com that you have updated your blog. That means your blog will be included in various "recently updated" lists on the web as well as other blog-related services.

Activate Your Navbar. I did this and watched my traffic go up on the very first day (and continue to climb). The Blogger Navbar replaced mandatory ads a few weeks ago. One of the features on the Navbar is a button called NextBlog—click it to visit the next Navbar-enabled blog. It turns out this couch-potato like way of flipping through blogs is very appealing. As a result, the next blog button gets a lot of attention. So turn your Navbar on and catch some of that wave.

Install Email This Post. News sites like The New York Times Online have had a feature like this for years, it allows people to simply forward an article to a friend via email. If you use Email This Post on your blog, people will be able to forward your posts to friends. This may not have an immediate impact on your site stats but it enables others to publicize your blog for you. That's good stuff.

Turn on Post Pages. If you're still only archiving by day, week, or month you are living in the past man. You've got to make sure you are publishing every post as its very own web page with Post Pages. That makes your entries way more link-able and more attractive to search engines. Links to your blog means traffic to your blog. This is an easy setting in Blogger.

Turn on your site feed. When people subscribe to your site feed in their newsreaders, it means they are definitely going to read your post. The folks who subscribe to site feeds are the type of people Malcolm Gladwell calls "mavens" in his book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Long story short: these people will help you get more traffic so turn on your site feed.

Add your blog to Blogger's listings. This is a really obvious one but at some point during the blog creation process there's a chance many of you initially thought "Oh, I'm not sure I want to be public just yet. I'll mark that as 'no.'" Go back in there and mark it "yes." When you add your blog to our listings then it shows up in Nextblog, Recently Updated, and other places. It's like opting-in to traffic. Do it.

Blogging Technique Suggestions

This part of the traffic-grabbing techniques is a little more persnickety and not as readily activated. The basic gist of this section of methods is "If you build it well they will come." You'll need to incorporate the other aspects of self-promotion, but it's true that writing a great blog goes a long way towards repeat visitors and word of ~~mouth~~ blog.

Write quality content and do it well. Jen Garrett demands that you use proper punctuation, capitalize letters when appropriate, and don't overuse the ellipsis. She's being a bit of a grammar bitch, but she has a point. If your "style" is bad writing, worse grammar, no punctuation, and an ugly design, that might be okay for a niche crowd. But the idea here is to get a big crowd so fix yourself up a bit, pull it together man, have some respect for your readers, and discover a style that shines brightly through good blogging.

Publish regular updates. Danah Boyd once told me that she intentionally wanted to lower the traffic to her blog and she found the easiest way to do it was to stop posting so frequently. (Danah is an odd one, that's why we love her.) The reverse of her experiment is also true: the more you blog, the more traffic you will get. You've got to think about it like watering a plant—do it every day and the plant will grow. Hopefully your blog is not like the plant in The Little Shop of Horrors. That would be bad.

Think of your audience. A good way to build an audience is to cultivate one. When you keep your audience in mind, you are focusing your writing. This helps you develop a stronger voice and is instrumental in creating the brand that is you as put forth through your blog. Again, this is more of an overarching, long-term technique for building traffic and won't have immediate results. Nevertheless, focus goes a long way toward repeat visitors.

Keep search engines in mind. Note that sometimes your "audience" is whoever stumbles into your site from a web search. Search is a great way to bring in new visitors and there are a few things you can do to make your blog more search engine friendly. Use post titles and blog page title tags along with your post page archiving. This will automatically give each of your post pages an intelligent name based on the title of your post. Also, try to be descriptive when you blog. A well crafted post about something very specific can end up very near the top results of a search. For example, a Google search for "Book Cover Design" features this blog post by the illustrious Jason Kottke complete with reader comments.

Keep your posts and paragraphs short. Note the brevity of the aforementioned Kottke post. People will come back daily to read your fresh new work but spare them the one thousand word diatribes. Strive for succinct posts that pump pertinent new information into the blogosphere and move on. Keep it short and sweet so visitors can pop in, read up, and click on. Think of you blog as a cumulative effect. This doesn't mean you should never practice some long form writing now and then, it's just something to keep in mind.

Marketing Action Items

The third and final group of promotional techniques are simple actions you can take to publicize your blog. This category is theoretically unlimited. You could build your own blimp and spell out your blogspot subdomain in twinkly holiday lights across the side, that sort of thing. Instead, I've limited these suggestions to more obvious, grounded tactics. (If you do got the blimp route, please: use helium, not hydrogen.)

Put your blog URL in your email signature. Whenever I see a blog url in an email signature, I always click on it to see who I'm dealing with. Especially if it's someone I've never met. Email gets forwarded all the time so even if you only send out a five notes a day to friends, the potential number of people clicking over to your blog is in the thousands. (That is of course completely theoretical, but you get my drift—it's worth it.) I can't give you specific instructions on how to edit your email client's signature because I don't know which one you use, but poke around. It's somewhere in the settings.

Sumbit your address to blog search sites and directories. People look for blog content at Technorati every day, are you on their list? You should be. Submit your blog's url to Technorati, Daypop, Blogdex, Popdex, and any other site of that ilk you come across. With the exception of Technorati, many of these sites are hobby or graduate student projects but they continue to gain visitors looking for interesting blogs to read, bookmark, and revisit. Not all of them have the power to crawl ever blog in existence so you can help them help you by dropping your url in the appropriate field.

Participate in meme games. A meme is an idea transmitted from person to person like a virus. If the flu was a blog, it would get crazy traffic. With all the sickness and disease analogies, blog induced memes are actually fun and can win you some extra traffic. How do they work? Basically a blogger will propose an idea like "Hey, let's post the first sentence of our favorite book!" and it will catch on like crazy with people linking to each other's submissions obsessively until the game dies down. A favorite meme for years was the Friday Five, if you're looking for something new, try The Daily Meme.

Advertise. If keyword advertising were affordable enough, I'd say go for it. For now, free is a good way to go. BlogSnob is a network of free, text-based blog advertisers that you can join right now. Host ads, place ads, it's all traffic. BlogSnob ads blend right into your site and are fully customizable. Bloggers who join the network can place free ads, while sometime in the near future real advertisers will have to dish out to get noticed. It pays to be a blogger.

Link to other blogs. This is a great way to get traffic. Here's what happens when you link to another blogger: she sees you in her referral logs, checks out your blog, and then very likely links back to you or at the very least makes a mental note to do so. Links are the currency of the blogosphere and it takes money to make money so start linking. Don't be shy folks, it's not actually cash. Not yet anyway—who knows what bloggers will come up with.

Install a blogroll. This is similar to linking. Well actually, it's the same but different. Blog posts eventually drop off the front page and get archived. A blogroll is more of personal statement: these are the bloggers I like. Or, this is the crowd I'd like to be associated with. It's a very simple yet effective social networking scheme and it has the same result as a simple link if not stronger: traffic! So if you don't have one yet, sign up for a blogroll and get that link-list going.

Be an active commenter. Try to leave comments on the blogs you read every day. This is in the same vein as linking. Leaving a comment on someone's post can make their day. Nothing beats getting those email notifications that whisper tacitly out at you from the screen, "You're thoughts have struck me dead in my tracks. I simply must acknowledge you and your greatness." (Or something to that effect.) Most comment systems also provide a way for you to leave a link back to your blog which begs a visit at the very least. So if you feel inspired, leave a comment or two in your blog travels. It behooves you.

Pitch your posts via email to other bloggers. This is a touchy technique and should be approached with caution. Blogger Eugene Volokh has published a short treatise on how best to pitch one's blog via email and it's filled with great tips and advice. Assuming your blog is actually worth pitching (of course it is), here are some tips from Volokh.

Pitch the post, not the blog.
Include the full text and your URL.
Submit only your best posts.
Don't only pitch to high traffic blogs.

Print your blog URL on cards, stickers, etc. Basically, if you plan to have anything printed up, put your blog on it. These days, more and more business cards have blog addresses listed on them along with email and phone number. I wouldn't be surprised if I started seeing bumper stickers with blogspot addresses on them soon. There's a lot of traffic on the 101, that bumper in front of me is prime advertising real estate.

Speaking of the 101, maybe you've spotted the giant orange SUV with the license plate that says BLOGGER while driving south towards San Jose? No, that's not Evan Williams as you would suspect. It is, however, a nice piece of creative publicity. If there's one thing we've learned from my Labor Day investigation of blog promotion it's this: Don't be that guy with the BLOGGER license plate but think like him. That's the kind of take-charge technique you should open your game with. That's how you can turn your pawn into royalty.

Biz Stone works at Google on Blogger and writes books about blogging.

Battlefield 2 Comics

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Fri, 5 Aug 2005 01:14:00 +0800

The site orders Newest to Oldest Comic. Some of the content on this site may contain inappropriate language, unethical words and/or offensive to certain audiences. Viewer Discretion is Advised.

ALT Hosting Site

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Thu, 4 Aug 2005 05:40:00 +0800

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Battlefield 2 Stat Online Ranking

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Wed, 3 Aug 2005 07:03:00 +0800

National Day Parade 2005@Padang

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Tue, 2 Aug 2005 21:28:00 +0800

Humm.. Singapore National Day 2005

coming at 9 August 2005..Singapore turn 40 years old. Happy birthday Singapore my homeland!! My sunny island, some say Lion City ler!!

My wish to get a job and plan to take my gf, my gf's sis & her daughter to

the NDP 2005@HeartLands

So if you are free or born just watching the plain old TV the National Day just go down the nearby place around you and i hope they are not sell their NDP 2005 Tickets like a fews years back.. And Damm this guy is sell his tickets for SGD 240 at eBay.com.sg
I dun think anyone will buy that and unless you are damm desperate to enjoy the Singapore National Day experience..
Well i have to say NDP Tickets Free, 5 years one time at The Padang National Day Experience!Ah ya just wait another 5 year lor!! You dun live at Singapore Meh?? Wah Lau Eh!!

Blogs of marriage

hplanet@gmail.com (Qiu) — Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:36:00 +0800

I may find this very intresting and each partners have to blog their marriage to share with each other!! This one hell blog may bring relationship closer each day i guess or may it be lies ahead??

CHECK THIS OUT!!

The site notre-blog.com makes it possible to the future couple to arise on line, to account for the preparations or to post their list of marriage. A countdown shells even the days remaining until A the ceremony.