New Logo from LogoMaker

Here's my new logo created for free by LogoMaker. I'll post more information on how to get yours for free tonight!

Preview - Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

I found this great article previewing the latest in Star Wars games. Check it out! Ooooowwweeee, I got goose bumps already. The pics look sweet and the game sounds hot.

"The Force Unleashed casts you as Darth Vader’s secret apprentice, tasked with carrying out his dirty work all over the universe and scouring the last remaining Jedi from their boltholes, all the while keeping your existence secret from the Emperor. That means no survivors, and since the game is set in the gap between Episodes III and IV while the Jedi scramble to escape the Empire, there are plenty of insufferable do-gooders to terminate."

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I have gotten this sample in the mail as well. It smells awesome and makes your hair super silky!

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Yes, I signed up too! So, if you register, you can probably find me pretty easy. And then maybe you can see real photos of me if you search hard enough! *LOL*

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G-Dots.com (Girls Do Over Time Shopping) is a new shoppers appreciation club that regularly mails free products, samples, and gifts from sponsors to their club members. Some Swag Bags require product feedback, others are just promotional.

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I signed up for mine a few weeks ago. I'll let you know when I get my first bag!

Ask A Ninja - Ninjas and The Matrix

Check out this video on my other site. Do you like Ask A Ninja? Of course you do! http://nctechnogirl.blogspot.com/2008/01/ask-ninja-ninjas-and-matrix.html

This video is a riot! It's brought to you by none other than the guys at Doogtoons.com.

WTF is Web 2.0?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2)

Recently, rich-internet application techniques such as Ajax, Adobe Flash, Flex, and Silverlight have evolved that have the potential to improve the user-experience in browser-based applications. These technologies allow a web-page to request an update for some part of its content, and to alter that part in the browser, without needing to refresh the whole page at the same time.

The sometimes complex and continually evolving technology infrastructure of Web 2.0 includes server-software, content-syndication, messaging-protocols, standards-oriented browsers with plugins and extensions, and various client-applications. The differing, yet complementary approaches of such elements provide Web 2.0 sites with information-storage, creation, and dissemination challenges and capabilities that go beyond what the public formerly expected in the environment of the so-called "Web 1.0".

Web 2.0 websites typically include some of the following features/techniques:

• rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax-based
• semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup
• microformats extending pages with additional semantics
• folksonomies (in the form of tags or tagclouds, for example)
• Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content
• REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs
• syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom feeds
• mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and server-side
• weblog-publishing tools
• wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content

So basically, Web 2.0 is this really neat thing that is definitely a sign of the times. 2008 is going to be a great year for Web 2.0 products and sites. I'm excited, R U?

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Win 'Guitar Hero III' Signed by Rise Against!

Rise Against and Guitar Hero III

They've got copies for the PS3 and the Wii. If you win, you also get 2 CD's with all of the music on the new Guitar Hero. Enter today!! The contest ends February 5th.

Win 'Rock Band' Signed by Trent Reznor!

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Do you want to win one of the hottest games of the season signed by Trent Reznor?!?!!!!! You better enter today - the contest ends February 4th.

Winter American Apparel Contest

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"It's January. The holidays are over, and it's cold out there! Before you curl up under a blanket and hibernate for the next few months, make sure you enter our Winter American Apparel Contest!

American Apparel is animal-friendly fashion at its best. Another reason why I am so in love with American Apparel is that its tees, thermals, hoodies, leggings, and everything else are all cruelty-free—meaning they don't contain any fur, leather, or wool.

For those reasons and more, I am happy to announce that peta2 is giving away two $50 certificates to American Apparel!

Yay! For a chance to win, just fill out the lil' form below! The contest ends February 7, and we'll let you know if you won by February 21."

Ami James - 'Ink, Not Mink' PSA and Giveaway

Find out more about Ami at peta2.com.

Enter his new contest now at peta2.com! Complete the form by February 25 for your chance to win original artwork by Ami James. One hundred runners-up will win five temporary tattoos featuring Ami's design.

What is Page Rank?

(Kimberly Bodane - www.helpmyhits.com

Page ranks are defined numerically, from 1 through 10 - 10, being the highest. Very few pages have a page rank of 10, and anything above a 6 is considered very good. There are many factors that determine a page's rank, but the main variable seems to be based on how many websites link to your page. The higher page ranked sites that link to your site, the better. In other words, 10 links to your page from high ranking sites like CNN.com, Yahoo.com, etc, will easily outweigh five times that amount of links from unknown sites with low page ranks. And, just to make it trickier, the amount of "credit" your site gets from incoming links, is also divided by the amount of sites you link OUT to.

Equally important, is your site's actual content. It needs to be information that people can use and take active interest in. Having content that matches your keywords should also go without saying.

Why Is This Important?
Page rank is extremely important, in that it determines how high you get on search engine results. And just as it's helpful to have your incoming links be from reputable, trusted, relevant sites, your outbound links will also be more valuable to those pages you do link out to. This is important when negotiating for link exchanges with other sites. The higher your page ranking, the more desirable a link from your page will be to others - Including those willing to pay for said link.

Are There Ways To Generate Better Page Rank At No Cost?
Absolutely! To follow are some of the simplest steps you can take.

Build more pages
The more pages your site has, the more content it is generally considered to have. If your site only has 3 pages, the maximum page rank would be a 3. Make sure to have at least 8 relevant pages including the main page, in order to have a healthy amount of content.

Avoid Dead-End Links
Let's say you've worked real hard to get 8 good pages. Your page rank ideally has the potential to be a page rank of 8. However, if half those pages are not leading anywhere, you've got a problem. When the search engines "crawl" your site, they want to go from one page to the next. You can have a really great page, but if it has no other link on it to go somewhere new, it will be considered by the spider to be a dead-end page, which will hurt your site's page rank. Make sure every page has a door out, other than a back button (which to the bots, will generate the equivalent of a good old "Nothing more to see here" type statement). Combat this by making sure you at least have a link back to the index - or better yet, a site navigator at the base of each page with choices between the main pages of your site (ie. FAQ, About Us, Contact Us, etc). Again, these are pages that add convenience to your human visitors as well.

Create Internal Links
Remember to make links to yourself whenever relevant. For example, on your About Us page, don't just mention your online ordering system - hyperlink to the page where your visitor would need to go in order to begin an order. Not only are you creating another link for the crawler, you're also making it convenient for your guest to find that page right then and there, if they so desire.

Utilize Free Directory Listings
They may not always be big high ranking sites, but they are an easy way to get your name out there. You never know when someone might end up using one, and thus find you in the most unexpected of ways!

How To Generate More At Cost Getting a high ranking site to link to you isn't always the easiest thing to do. Sometimes it is necessary to buy that privilege via ads. There are literally 100's of different options to choose from, however the most effective method these days is by purchasing text based links to your site. For the largest comprehensive list of quality paid link directories along with page rank statistical information visit: http://www.helpmyhits.com/paid-web-directories.php Some tips to stretch you advertising dollar as far as it will go would be linking to different pages of your website (not just the index) and also using different keywords in those links.

As you can see, page rank is a very real and vital aspect of web development that should always be kept in mind. Without it, your chances of being found easily on search engines is compromised. With it, you'll be on your way to a highly successful website.

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the geek test * v.3.1

I found the ULTIMATE in tests. Here's a screenshot of my score. I was ranked a Geek God(dess) with a score of 66.66667%. This was a fun test indeed! Take the test for yourself and let me know what your score was with a comment here. Oh and let me know M/F, k?

http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html

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NC*Techno.Girl - find your inner geek


Hi! This is Simone from NC*Techno.Girl; I have decided to venture out and truly find my inner geek. It is my hope that you will tag along and maybe, just maybe, you will find yours too.

So what exactly is a "geek"?
Here are a few definitions found on the wonderful wide web:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek

The definition of geek has changed considerably over time, and there is no longer a definitive modern meaning. Here are some of the many definitions:

• A person who is interested in technology, especially computing and new media. Most geeks are adept with computers, and treat the term hacker as a term of respect, but not all are hackers themselves.
• A person who relates academic subjects to the real world outside of academic studies; for example, using multivariate calculus to determine how they should correctly optimize the dimensions of a pan to bake a cake.
• A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity; one who pursues skill (especially technical skill) and imagination, not mainstream social acceptance.
• A person with a devotion to something in a way that places him or her outside the mainstream. This could be due to the intensity, depth, or subject of their interest. This definition is very broad but because many of these interests have mainstream endorsement and acceptance, the inclusion of some genres as "geeky" is heavily debated.
  

Persons have been labeled as or chosen to identify as mathematics geeks, engineering geeks, sci-fi geeks, computer geeks, various science geeks, movie and film geeks (cinephile), comic book geeks, theatre geeks, history geeks, gamer geeks, music geeks, art geeks, philosophy geeks, and literature/rp geeks.

I am definitely a member of the Geek Squad *giggle*. Tell me about your inner geek.