Asides

• Voi voi

  It's really Finnish, and nonsense (it translates to "butter butter"), usually used when aggravated. It's so much going on now, my son doesn't want to get to sleep, I need to finish the bath room in the basement - and that's a lot, from putting in a floor and doing the walls to the plumbing - after that I have to change my car insurance, we get it cheaper if we have both cars at the same place as we insure our house. On top of that is the training of the dogs... how on the world am I going to get the time over to train them.

• Our community is dying...

  Sadly our town/county is dying, since I moved here some seven hundred people have left (either moved or passed away)... that's like 100 per year, and still we have sort of a baby boom here. Just by going to the "platsbanken", it's where the stately job center lists available jobs... let's just say that it isn't quite up to Boston resumes, when it comes to listings...

  Luckily those that leave for college or work usually seem to move back when it's time to raise their kids.

MommySpark

As I've mentioned earlier, I'm a member of SocialSpark, it's a great way to earn an extra buck - without loosing your good graces with Google

All your opportunities comes with a nofollow tag in the link required, thus Google won't eat you for selling links.

Then it's up to your own ethics if you want to sell your words. I personally don't mind as long as they don't require a certain tone to the entry, I will never recommend something that I haven't even tried - paid or not paid.

For me SocialSpark is "just" another way to earn some spending money. The money I raise from my online ventures I buy gadgets and gizmos that doesn't fit in to the petty cash.

But I can imagine that this would be a great thing for single or stay-at-home moms, even though you're wiped out after a full day with your kid(s), I find it relaxing to sit a while in front of the computer - and blogging for SocialSpark is a great way for me to relax.

It works like this, you have a "market place" where you can scout for opportunities that fit your mood and blog niche (if you have one), attached to that is a minumum word requirement and a sum that you will get paid one month after the entry is approved.

Why a month? It's a part of the deal, since they're out after spreading buzz, they want the post to stay online for atleast one month, and I personally find it to be really bad manners to delete blog entries, paid or unpaid.

But now in this equal society of ours, all you stay-at-home mom and dads, head on over to SocialSpark and make a buck or two...

Moving Habari

I've just moved my Habari powered blog away from NearlyFreeSpeech.net to SliceHost, if everything works as planned you shouldn't have noticed anything at all.

The reasons for my move

• One login to rule them all, NFS lets you host as many domains as you want - but you get a separate user for each and every one of them


• Be my own dictator, SH is a VPS host - ie. they let you build your own server from scratch. ...

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Microsoft is in to Franchise?

Found the Small business for sale by a fluke, and got a little confused. It's a rather nice site, listing different franchise business opportunities (so the name is a bit misleading), you just enter an industry, how much you're prepared to invest and where you want to set up shop, and they find a franchise that suits you. But what caught my eye was...

Welcome to SmallBusinessSale.com, owned and operated by Microsoft Corporation.

a template leftover or something left behind ... Read more

Gangsta's Paradise

In the movie Boyz n' the Hood (from -91) there's one scene in particular that I remember when they're home at Ice Cube's character Doughboy's house they had these plastic slipcovers over the sofa's... I was amused to see this, and after that I noticed these slipcovers in almost all American movies. Slipcovers doesn't exist in Sweden, in that way anyhow - especially the plastic ones. What's the idea of to buy a sofa if you're not going to take ... Read more

Invitations

It's nearing the time when my wife doesn't get older... trying to be somewhat diplomatic here ;-) Of-course this adds to my never-ending list of rants of Sweden, when it comes to cool stuff in the stores. Just take a simple thing like party invitation cars - you only have stock here, if you want to have professional one-off cards it'll cost you big bucks! Stores like thepartystartshere.com is non-existent in Sweden - and you can't just not love their ... Read more