Vending machines in railway stations.

After I wrote about candy vending machines, I am seeing lot of vending machines ads. Vending machines that handle tablets, coins, cool drinks, sweets, tooth brushes and news papers.

There may be more but I know only this much.

But in India, platform tickets vending machines installed at the railway stations are total failures. They work only for a few weeks and then break down and remain so till they remove it from the place.

But I must appreciate the effort of railways. Even after repeated failures, they manage to install new ones that also meet the same fate after sometime.

Where have all the software engineers gone? Wake up India!

My own network.

Traveling in suburban train daily for work is an interesting experience. For many, it is a harrowing experience but for me, I love commuting everyday because I observe hundreds of things like new conversation among fellow travelers, vendors on the train selling eatables, pens, train timetables and so on.

I witness gracious dresses, courteous gestures among vegetables and flowers vendors, rude responses from educated youth and oh, there are literally one hundred interesting things that I enjoy on the train.

I wanted to write about all these things and I found an online place for this. Workitmom.com is created just for this purpose.

Come on working moms, share your life. I would love to hear.

The best gift for community dinner.

Oh! My luck deserted me. But it is alright, I believe whatever is happening, it is for my good only.

How else could I have found out about this beautiful baby gift basket that contains Boo-Bunnie Ice Pack to help with teething, a printed bottle, a gorgeous shawl blanket, a decorative stork box and the most adorable stuffed stork!

Due to a traffic holdup, I could not reach the downtown shopping mall where I was heading to buy gifts for an occasion in our community. I intended to buy two wine gift baskets or two baskets of beer. This is suggested by my husband.

Because of the traffic snarl, I opened up my notebook, opened my favorite online shop gourmetgiftbaskets.com and ordered what I wanted. Just then, another item caught my attention and it was the baby gift basket that I mentioned above.

When you send a baby gift basket from Gourmet Gift Baskets, know that you are sending the best! It is a family owned and operated company since 1940.

A shopping magazine for men.

Uncrate is a web magazine for guys who love stuff. They post the best gadgets, clothes, cars, DVDs and more. New gear is posted every weekday.

My heartfelt thanks to Uncrate. My husband is all complaints because he could never find an exclusive shopping guide for gentlemen. I can at last stop his murmurings and show this website.

What more, I am going to suggest a product for him that I found in Uncrate.




Hitachi Rotary Razaq

For men who are more used to the feel of a blade, but want to go electric, check out the Hitachi Rotary Razaq ($150). This imported wet/dry razor features an elongated body to more closely match the feel of a standard blade-based razor, as well as omni-directional, washable blades, a 3,500rpm motor, and a rechargeable battery.

Get your Wishpot.

At the outset, I like the name Wishpot.

Actually, I added a 'wishpot' button in my browser three days ago. Suddenly I remembered it today when I was shopping for an ideal birthday gift.

The Wishpot Browser button let’s you save stuff you find at any online store or website onto a personal online list.

Product name, image, price and website link are collected automatically. You can also add personal notes and tags.

What can you do with Wishpot?
Make a birthday or holiday wish list and share it with family and friends
Collect and compare stuff for a home remodel
Publish a list of your favorite Xbox accessories
Build a baby or wedding registry with items from dozens of different stores

Ask your techie friend which of the three laptops you are considering she would recommend
Create a list of recommended safety gear for a new baby
Organize your shopping lists for birthdays and holidays
Promote your shop or boutique


Browse your favorite online store or website and click the “Add to Wishpot” button when you find something you like.


You can also easily publish a Wishpot list on your blog, MySpace or Facebook profile with the Wishpot Widget.

What is a Multivend?

A multivend is a vending machine that stocks different products and spills out (have I expressed correctly?) the product after it accepts a coin from a buyer. Here also, I would like to say, ‘after it swallows the coin’.

In the United States, vending machines generally serve the purpose of selling snacks, candies, news papers, cigarettes and beverages.

The whole idea of getting into the business of selling candies or news papers through vending machines is extremely attractive to me. You can’t even call this a ‘work from home’ business. Just get yourself a vending machine from Multivend LLC, decide on the product, install it near a taxi stand or at a parking lot and collect your coins every now and then. This seems more productive than a slot machine.

Multivend, LLC, the exclusive manufacturer of the Vendstar 3000, provides a unique opportunity for individuals and entrepreneurs to start their own vending business.

Great idea to promote yourself.

Man, this is the brightest idea to promote your website, blogs and services. Absolutely brilliant!

Just sign up for free at SmallBuzz where you are given a page in which you can create your profile. To give you an idea, please read below:

"Worried about internet security?
I post at www.jhhansen.com look at critical news on the right. Take the time to search my site, you will find the information current and concise!!!"

You got it?

*Create a profile and use it as your own personal page to show off your work, skills, and experience!
*Talk to existing or potential customers/client live thru Meebo instant messenger.
*Build credibility and relationships with your customers and other SmallBuzz users thru feedback/reviews, and ratings.

Browse through various profiles neatly arranged under different categories.

Sell or buy without an agent.

Why? What is the necessity to involve an agent when you can buy, sell or rent out a place to those who are in actual need?

Blockhunter is a totally new way of finding a place to live. But don't get confused with a real estate website where you find properties for sale. There are no properties for sale on this site.

Normally, you use an estate agent to advertise your house for sale. You hope someone sees your advert and buys your house. Blockhunter works the other way around.

Buyers use this site to register their searches on a map and sellers can then register their house to see if buyers are interested

Registered sellers are NOT advertising their property; your property details remain private.

Blockhunter uses "Blocks" to make this work. A block is just an area on a map. It covers the streets a buyer wants to buy.

Hmm,, nice and new concept really!

Transcending the racial barriers.

An orphan left in the lurch as a baby has no means of finding its parents, their ethnic group etc-right? Does that curb his/her natural sense of love, sex and other emotions? Obviously no; nature will do its work irrespective of your racial affiliations.

Love or any emotion that one feels has no racial preference. Do we fail to feel sorry for a particular race of people just because we don’t belong to the same race?

I sincerely and honestly commend the concept behind the website of interracial dating that will surely pave way for an international generation after centuries. It is my ardent wish that interracial singles who are seriously looking for meaningful longtime relationship use interracialromance.com productively.

I hope luckldy75 who says she is looking for her husband will find her right man soon.

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Go ahead and get fat.

All those weight loss pills and exercises are only for those who don’t like their few extra pounds because they find it tough to get dates.

But not for ‘Lisunshinegirl’ ( photo at the left)from New York who is 42 years old (really?) who is not shy to say she is fat. In her profile at a bbw dating site, she says that she is looking for a little romance.

Here is an exclusive dating site for big men and women. Obese and overweight persons can register at bbw romance and seek out dates, chat with others before fixing up a date. This is a free web site folks, so don’t hesitate to register and have your fun.

For once, you really need not worry about getting fat.

Online library for e-commerce stores.

Before setting up an online store, it is essential to learn the e-commerce fully. There is no point in buying ready made store script without any knowledge of operating successfully.

Where one can access such educational information?

IMPress is a comprehensive online library containing valuable education that entrepreneurs need to successfully start, run and grow their own e-commerce stores. Members enjoy access to dozens of informative eBooks and up-to-the-minute articles on the ever-evolving business of website retail.

This website has the dependable BBB seal on it.

New Latina Community.

Why people date different people? Or should I say, why do people try to date different people?

Many reasons come to my mind but the most obvious reason should be to kill loneliness.
Ok, I will leave the matter at this point and talk about a latin dating web site dedicated to Latin.

This is the third website that is designed exclusively for a latina dating that I know of.Though I am not looking for dates (I can’t hide my age anymore), I love to look at the photographs of attractive females in the dating sites.

Latinromance.com is website with neat and simple design. I like the background color of their home page. The profiles dating singles are quite elaborate that will push a well written resume in the back.

Do you want non-reciprocal links?

Why go begging around for reciprocal links when there is a way to get non-reciprocal links.

We all know that one way back links are more favored by Google than reciprocal links.
With Links-Builder, we can get back links (Non-reciprocal links) from the category of our choice and we can select the appropriate website even.

For example, if you want one way links from websites under 'careers and Jobs' category, you can choose from Links-Builder.

Links Builder works as follows:
* Select the industry of your choice and place a link for a website on your site.
* Depending upon the Page Rank you link to this website from, links-builder.com will place 2 or more links on third party websites for your website.
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Lindsay Lohan may hire me.

“Is it a dental clinic?”
This is the question asked by several visitors to my office at my coaching center. The center table will be cluttered with several (about 50) magazines of fashion world, cine world and so on.


I simply love to see beautiful faces of Hollywood beauties, rock singers and models. Above all, I am an addict to celebrity gossip and they frequently appear in my blogs.

I am ardent fan of Lindsay Lohan and if she ever comes to know of my news paper clippings about her, she might hire me as her PRO.

Even now, I just subscribed to a free celebrity magazine at celebritygossip.com and joined thousands of celebrity gossipers all over the world. This website is the ultimate place for people like me who love to live on celebrity gossip.








Lindsay Lohan.
Isn't she stunning?


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A dating website for Goths.

I have sought the help of my husband on some interesting information about Goths because I am doing some promotional work for a goth dating web site.

It is usually my style to do a little bit of research on any topic that I am blogging about. Since I did not know anything gothic, I asked my husband for help. He is a post graduate in History.

He presented me a few facts related to their origin, customs. Of these, one fact was a bit strange and that is the original religion of the Goths remains largely unknown.

Ok, let me leave it to the historians and come to the topic. There is a new dating web site dedicated exclusively for gothic singles. The activities at goth scene wear a lively atmosphere where members upload their photos and give a rather detailed account of their profiles, communicate with like minded members through email and instant messenger.

Some of the profiles that I read (open to all) very frank about their personality and interests. I wish some one launch a similar dating web site exclusively for South Indians. (Smile)

Place a Wize widget to earn.

Wize.com is a website that features product reviews. They offer a widget for bloggers to install on their blogs.

I think I have come across a similar widget in the past but I can't recall it now. Too bad that I am losing my memory. I should have blogged about with proper tag.

Wize gathers user and expert reviews to make product research easier, quicker and more relevant for you. At Wize.com, you can research tens of thousands of products by price, brand, Wize Rank and buzz.

This is very useful for every online shoppers.

If you blog on TypePad, you can earn money by using the Wize widget. Widget is a targeted feed of product photos and rankings, designed specifically to increase conversion on product-focused blogs and web sites. The goal of the Wize widget is to provide customers with the information they need to make a good purchase decisions exactly when and where they need it.

Although this service can be used by anybody with a web site, it is especially geared towards bloggers who write about new products, products they love, or product quality. The widget is easy to set up, and will become more customizable over time.

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Capella student receives award from FBI.

I wish I know Tammy Alexander personally because of her expertise in cyber security. I have always wanted to undertake a training in cyber security since 1998. Unfortunately, there is no institute that offers this in India.

A student of capella university, Tammy Alexander is pursuing her master’s degree.

She has been awarded the 2006 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. Alexander is studying education with an emphasis on enrollment management at Capella, an accredited online university.

We must all acknowledge the fact everything now depends on computer and the Internet. This makes our system vulnerable to hackers.

Wait! I am coming back to Alexander who is the director for information assurance and cyber security training at Fountainhead College of Technology in Knoxville, Tenn., where her responsibilities include developing and conducting cyber security awareness lectures and workshops for the general public, academia and law enforcement.

Yes, this is what I meant when I said I wanted to undertake the training on cyber security.

100% placement record.

If you are interested in getting a well paid job immediately after you complete your professional diploma course, the visit now FMCCIndia.com

They offer the following courses:
One Year PGD in Marketing Communications
One Year PGD in Advertising
One Year PGD in Media Management
One Year PGD in Event Management
One Year PGD in Public Relations and Corporate Communications

Too bad that I have passed the age. But for that, I would have loved to take up that course on 'Event Management'. It is one field where I can certainly show my mettle because of my organizational ability.

FMCC's faculty encourages students to be self-motivated and self-directed, and provide guidance and support.

FMCC is very unique and different for the following reasons:
FMCC has a 100% placement record and all students of our previous batch have been placed in leading organizations like NDTV, CNBC-TV18, Dentsu, OMS (part of Mudra), Triton, exchange4media etc with an average salary package of Rs.14,000 a month. Placements are guaranteed on campus.

Movie saver.

I am slowly getting hooked to YouTube. Yesterday alone, I spend more than 40 minutes watching video clips on nature. Rarely I watch movie clips too.

But whenever the interconnection fails, I get bored. If there is a way to download movies and watch it later even if there is no inter connection.....

5star MovieSaver loads them down from the Net and stores them on your hard disc - for the hours and days without Internet connection.

5star MovieSaver is a so-called video downloader, which - once fed with a URL that links to a video - loads and stores it on the home computer.

But, we need huge space on our hard disc to save these movies and videos and we should have broadband connection. Even with it, it may take hours to download a movie.

By the way: one can use our 5star Mobile Video or 5star Movie Enhancer to convert all videos for Playtation PSP, iPod, PS3, Xbox 360 and many other devices!

I acknowledge the source bestfreewareblog.com

Get free 66 page color catalog.

Wait! This free catalog is only for those who are absolutely serious in earning online and not for casual internet entrepreneurs.

This catalog contains hot information that could reveal where you can sell you products or services. But this costs money folks; if you want to make money, then you need to invest in certain basic marketing tools. After all, won’t you engage marketing personnel to go out on the streets to sell your product?

So, instead of engaging field persons, contact lists brokers, buy or rent out a carefully compiled and well researched list of sales prospects and launch you your direct marketing campaign with confidence.

Martin Worldwide, one of the leaders in the direct marketing industry, has built a reputation by offering innovative mailing list products to its clients and their most successful, ground breaking product is ResponseCom.

Martin Worldwide possesses a database of over 290 million consumers and 14 million U.S.businesses and is one of the major list providers and they guarantee high sales conversion ratio.

Float the Zoom clouds.

For those, who are familiar with searching the technorati tags, this tag cloud creating toll will interest them.

Zoom clouds is a tool that lets you create a tag cloud based on an RSS feed and embed it in your blog.

A tag cloud is a collection of tags that you have labelled your blog posts. This tag cloud can organised in any manner you want and place it at the most appropriate place in your blog where readers can see and search for relevant blog posts based on the tags.

A blog post can be labelled under one or more tags.

With ZoomClouds you can put in a matter of minutes a tag cloud in your site, based on whichever RSS feed you like. You can also customize your tag cloud with the WYSIWYG tool provided by the Zoom clouds.

There are 394 cloud designs shared by many different users.

Open source curriculam website.

"What will you do when you want to replicate the encyclopedic knowledge sharing features of wikipedia within a web resource hat will helpfully provide universal access to free curricula and study material for students from kindergarten to 12th standard?
You call it Curriki."

Curriki, a play on the words 'curriculum' and 'wiki', is a nonprofit organization that is building the first and only Internet site for Open Source Curriculum (OSC).

This biggest and the best educational portal was made possible because of the efforts of Chennai(Madras) based Congruent Solutions, an e-learning organization and XWiki, authors of the software platform.

In this portal, anyone (teachers and students) can upload and download study material in any format of their choice.

From Vedic Mathematics to Gandhigiri, one can search for and get top class materials for their studies and research. This is soon going to be the most sought after portal for researchers worldwide.

Source: The Hindu

0% APR as an introductory offer.

If you are wise, you would grab this offer. Even if you already posses one or more credit cards, it will be financially beneficial to apply for a new credit card that offers 0% APR on purchases and/or balance transfers.

Spend some time in creditcardsearchengine.com and study all the offers from various credit issuing banks such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citibank.

Getting a Low Rate Credit Card is not all that difficult when you compare online the offers from different credit card issuing authorities.

Take your calculator off your computer table drawer, dust it and do some simple calculation:

What is the minimum amount due on all you cards?

How much do you intend to pay on the next due date?

How much you can save if you avail a 0% balance transfer on a new credit card.

In less than 10 minutes, you will stare at the positive figures on your calculator. Then what is stopping you to apply for a new credit card.

And don’t forget to say thanks to creditcardsearchengine.com

Are you a vegan?

First let us learn how to pronounce VEGAN. Say it VEE-gun. Thats right.

My help was wanted by one of my students to write an article on vegetarianism. She has to present it for her school annual magazine and it is a prestigious issue for her.

A vegan is someone who, for various reasons, chooses to avoid using or consuming animal products. While vegetarians choose not to use flesh foods, vegans also avoid dairy and eggs, as well as fur, leather, wool, down, and cosmetics or chemical products tested on animals.

Yeah, that I call as a pure vegan.

Veganism, the natural extension of vegetarianism, is an integral component of a cruelty-free lifestyle. Living vegan provides numerous benefits to animals' lives, to the environment, and to our own health–through a healthy diet and lifestyle.

Obviously I can't write the entire article here but have just given gist of it. For this, I owe my gratitude to Vegan.org

Fresh fruits buying tips.

My husband's blood sugar shot up to 302 mg after food.

The word food is not even appropriate for him as he eats less than a five year old kid. But still, he is not able to control his blood sugar. He takes tablets regularly, does a little bit of yoga that is specific for diabetics.

But he does have one bad habit. He eats a lot of fresh fruits. They are irresistible to him. The is very fond of a mango variety called "Banganapalli" that is really sweet, juicy and pulpy.

Recently someone sent him a link in which lots of fresh fruits buying tips are give. Since reading that, he is experimenting his fruit buying skill and I should admit he is fit to be a purchase manager for a five star hotel.

Would like to know those useful tips?
Then please visit http://www.ams.usda.gov/howtobuy/fruit.htm

Is distance learning a misnomer?

Yes, I would say so because the so called distance is actually the shortest physically. The distance between the computer chair and the monitor is the actual distance in e-learning.

I recall reading Ted Corbett in the local daily ‘The Hindu’; he wondered why it is called the dressing room in the pavilion when actually it should be called the ‘undressing room’-another misnomer.

So, distance learning should be actually called as e-learning’ but the meaning is conveyed-right?

A few years before, online universities were only a few but there are several options now. Students who are aspiring to take up e-learning should check if the university they have selected is an accredited one.

Capella University is an accredited online university functioning since 1993. It is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), ncahlc.org.

Very recently Sara Orem, faculty member of Capella co-authored a book titled ‘Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change’ along with Jacqueline Binkert, PhD, and Ann Clancy, PhD.

Unemployed youths in Bangladesh.

I know a person in Bangladesh and in fact I know only that man. We have been in touch since the year 2000 but suddenly lost touch.

He used to ask me to introduce career oriented web sites but I never could do that. Today, I found out one that is exclusively for Bangladeshis.

A Manpower recruiting agent supply skilled, unskilled and semi-skilled Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Brunei for overseas Employment.

This web site was submitted to my web directory and I had no hesitation in approving.

They are one of the leading Manpower agency of Bangladesh and well established and are registered under the act of Ministry of Labor.

They say that they outsource manpower through advertisement and official channels for semi-skilled and unskilled manpower.

What are Pasta Letters?

My brother-in-law's daughter is just 5 years old and the most intelligent in our family. It seems she is God's own kid. She possesses extraordinary creative skills. She is already learning, dance, music and art.

She asked me yesterday if I have time to hear story. I said yes and listened to a lovely story that was taught in her school.

I remembered Childstoryhour.com where kids are encouraged to submit their story in their section called Pasta Letters.

They specialize in kid's stories, crafts, coloring pages, finger food recipes and so much more fun stuff. In their parents' section you can find advice for parents and a lot of interesting ideas to spend quality time with your children.

Yes, I read a few stories there and as a teacher/parent, I can say that I am impressed with the stories and other useful information.

I would say, this web site is more for parents than kids.