Pimp your picture

An increasing number of websites ask for a picture or avatar of you in order to personalise your experience, and therefore increase your attraction to their website. Pikipimp.com is a website that allows you to simply upload a picture of yourself (or anyone else) and “pimp” it.

You can add glasses, hairstyles, tattoos, body hair, jewellery, animals, hats, etc, you get the idea. Good fun, and free!

Where Are Your Manners?

We recently ran a small competition to win a Joost/The Venice Project invite. We’ve had quite a few entries, so thanks for those. However we’ve also had a lot of emails just asking for an invite. 27 to be precise.

That’s fine, no harm in asking. However only 2 of them said “please” and/or “thank you”. 25 emails just asking for an invite, with no reason WHY I should do as they ask. Why would I send those people an invite? We haven’t got any more spare at the moment, but if we did, what possible reason would we have to invite them? Some people offered something in return (a video blog idea as per the competition), and others asked politely. As they say, “manners cost nothing”.

Finally a big thank you to all who have entered our new Simpsons competition - please remember that this will sign you up for our weekly newsletter, and you must be subscribed to win. You will receive an email from feedBlitz [at] mail.feedblitz.com which might go to your junk/spam folder, so please look out for it.

Find jobs for people. Find people for jobs

Zubka is a site that allows you to recommend people for jobs and allows you to be recommended for ones too.

Based on the idea of social networking and personal recommendations, the site pays you financial rewards for finding people for jobs they have on offer.

Usually this is between 6% and 8% of the jobs starting salary, so can be a nice bonus for you. It’s relatively cheap for a company to advertise on the site and the fee is no more than a normal recruitment agency charges.

Source: Springwise

The Simpsons DVD Competition

Competition now closed

Win the first 4 seasons of The Simpsons on DVD, worth, oh, around £100 I’d say. You must have a multi-regional DVD player as the discs are not all UK. Also due to customs, only people within the UK can win, sorry!

• Season 1 - Region 1 (USA)
• Season 2 - Region 1 (USA)
• Season 3 - Region 2 (UK)
• Season 4 - Region 2 (UK)

Simply answer the following question:

What is the name of Springfields Police Chief?

By Friday February 9th. This will sign you up for our WEEKLY newsletter.

Your email address will never be sold, shared, traded, or spammed and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Whilst waiting to see if you’ve won, watch some classic opening sequences!

Conversations With The Girlfriend

Far be it for me to criticise anyone for the way they, but the latest conversation with the girlfriend (here on known as CWTG) has made me want to share it with you.

We have a lot of conversations - well as many as she can manage and more than I would like for a peaceful existence - and in almost every one there’s a special little something that makes her stand out from the norm.

Take the latest one as we were passing a Jewish temple.

TG (the girlfriend) says: “On the Sabbath my friends sees them climbing over the fence.”
I leave a pregnant pause both for effect and in vain hope of some explanation.
Reluctantly I reply: “What?”
TG: “She lives opposite a Jewish family and on Saturdays she sees them climbing over the fence.”
“Why?”
“Because they’re strict and won’t use electric equipment on the Sabbath.”
“So they climb over the fence to watch TV through someone’s window?”
(With a look of disgust on her face) “No, because they have an electronically operated one.”
“An electronically operated fence?”
“Yes.”
(With the lack of anything else to say, I repeat) “A fence?”
“Oh, no, I mean a gate.”

And the fog clears.

Great Money Making Links

This is Part 8 in our series “How To Make Money From Your Blog”. For some further reading on how to make money from your blog, there are some great resources out there. Try these three links and let me know what you think. There are still a couple of parts of our series to go, so keep reading!

http://www.stevepavlina.com/

http://www.masternewmedia.org/

http://www.problogger.net/

Song of the Perfect Day - Lou Reed

Covered for the BBC Children in Need appeal in 1997 by a load of famous artists, this is Perfect Day by Lou Reed.

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