Project Heavy Traffic

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Retro1: What was your favorite childhood cartoon?

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Spiritual Sunday: Empower me

Why do some of us not living victoriously as is intended by God?

Why do some still feel miserable and suffer cycles of defeat even though we are given the seal of the Holy Spirit upon our Salvation.

Why are we not experiencing the joy as promised?

It is because we have not been constantly filled with the Holy Spirit. To be filled with the Holy Spirit constantly is to abide in Christ, everyday.

It is a command and not a choice.

"Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." Ephesians 5:18-20

A good way to start is:

To confess your Sin (we do not experience the fullness/filling of the Holy Spirit if we allow Sin to dwell in us) , read Bible passages aloud in your own quiet time and "Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."

until

"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer." Psalm 19:14

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Nobody knows, how weak I am
Better than You
Nobody sees, all of my needs
Better than You

And nobody has, the power to change me
To what I was born to be
Jesus be strong, in my weakness
Empower me

Chorus:
Empower me
Like a rushing river flowing to the sea
Lord, send your Holy Spirit
Flowing out through me
Till I'm living as Your child
Victorious and free
Send the power of Your love
Empower me

Nobody's eyes, see through my soul
Better than Yours
Nobody's love, can make me whole
No love but Yours

And nobody has, the power to lift me
To reach for eternity
Jesus break through all my defenses
Empower me

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Another way to increase targetted visitor to your site

I knew of this quite a while ago but did not have the time to try it out. I have decided to give it a try and tell you whether it is useful.

Meanwhile, if you can't wait for my review result and want to experiment it yourself, watch this video for explanation

http://www.blogrush.com/

Thursday, July 24, 2008

COUNTDOWN TO BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC

15 Days

BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The reply from Nuffnang

I have received an email reply from Nuffnang.

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Our server experienced a technical error and went down a few days ago and our service provider couldn't even figure out the reason why. However, our programmer and technicians did our best to bring the server up as soon as possible. We would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Rest assure that in the future we will be conducting more regular check ups with our servers to prevent such circumstances from happening again. We do realize that your decision is entirely up to yours and we do not wish for you to change it merely based on our apology. However, we are glad that we have responsive bloggers under our community such as yourself to improve our services.

Thank you.

Nuffnang

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A typical customer service reply.

It further cements my decision not to continue with Nuffnang's Ads.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

The bane of Blog advertising

The bane of Blog advertising is that when you allow blog advertising on your blog, you are subjected to it's loading speed, but worse of all, the non-loading of it. I had a few experiences of it.

EXPERIENCE: I have been patient thus far. But tonight the Nuffnang Advert widget causes my blog to load so slowly (it was stuck at the Nuffnang Widget for so long) that it has the effect of a 'computer hang'. It was about the time when i published my post "Embracing your fear"! Talk about timing!

The last time that happened was a few weeks ago (recall my previous post- traffic jam) when "One of the servers in Nuffnang is experiencing problems..." and an apology email was sent to us swiftly:

"You may have noticed that you have trouble accessing Nuffnang Singapore and our ads today. One of our servers in Nuffnang Singapore is experiencing problems. There was a hardware-related failure while carrying out an upgrade in the morning. Our technical team is working with our hosting provider to get things back to normal. At the moment we do not specific ETA on when the issue will be resolved, but we will keep you posted.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for bearing with us."

I accepted and beared with it but this time it is too much! It has happened quite a few times already! I wanted to lodge a complaint with them but their sg website loads so slowly, i can't even do that.

DECISION: I am going to take down all Nuffnang advertising on my blog until they resolved their technical problems completely. I cannot let their problems affect my blog traffic. Nuff Said.

Updated: I managed to lodge a complaint with them via their problem ticket system. Awaiting their reply...

Embracing your fear

I like the movie "Batman Begins". I watched it tonight when it was shown on our local free channel. I missed it when it was shown in the cinema sometime back.

It was not simply about beating the villians and the high-tech stunts.

It is about confronting your fear and embracing it...

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Analysis of Asian Blog Celebrities 1

Starting from today, i am going to introduce a few of our local asian blog celebrities and analyse why are they so successful. We can all learn from them and modelling successful example can propel us further. Most of the information i gathered are from newspaper reports & interviews and from their blogs.

Asian Blog Celebrities #1

ok. i start with Benjamin Toh, a young blogger (19 years old only) who started blogging only late last year (oh dear! that's 'later' than me) and he already achieved the following traffic. He is presently a final year student at a local polytechnic in Singapore.

Total unique vistors: 407,222
Average Per Day: 1,462

Technorati Rank: 4,978,471
(learning point: Technorati rank may not have direct impact on traffic)

His blog: http://typicalben.blogspot.com/

Unique Selling Point: I visited his blog. He blogs about anything in his daily life. He blogs about his friends and rants about his school work and part time jobs. He uses lots of pictures to describe events and points. He even writes about Pepsi latest product (not sure whether that was a sponsored post but how i wish big consumer product company will ask me to write a review). He writes with feeling and energy. I think that's why it attracted a lot of youngsters to his blog.

Main target audience: youth (do not underestimate the power of youth traffic)

Visit his blog to see it for yourself.

Do not miss the next Analysis of Asian Blog Celebrities...

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Which Superheroes are you?

I found this fun Quiz. Take the Superhero Personality Test and see which Superheroes are you?

My results:
You are Spider-Man

You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

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BTW, if you are creative and able to create a program like this, it can drive massive traffic to your site. Need not be too complicated. It can be as simple as the above quiz.

Celebrity Blog rankings

I am curious about the relationship between celebrities and their blog ranks. So i did a bit of research (all public information) and the conclusion is quite obvious. The more popular you are, the more traffic and link you will have for your blog (of course that also depend on whether they write often in their blogs). It is thus an easier task for the celebrity to propel their blogs. It is a matter of whether they want to or are interested in doing so.

It is however, harder to be a celebrity by blogging. I will write about blog celebrity in my coming post. Stay tune.

Local Celebrities' Blog (Singapore)

MediaCorp Artists

Qi Yi Wu
http://blog715.wordpress.com/
PageRank: 5
Technorati Rank: 36,939 Authority:152

Dasmond Koh
http://dasmondkoh.com/
PageRank: 4
Technorati Rank: 11,118 Authority:367

Bryan Wong
http://bryanwong.sg/
PageRank: 4
Technorati Rank: 12,058 Authority:345

Fann Wong
http://blog.sina.com.cn/fannhy
PageRank: 4

Quan Yi Fong
http://quanyifong.com/
PageRank: 4

Cruz Teng
MediaCorp Radio DJ
http://cruzteng.com/
PageRank: 4

Lin Pei Fen
MediaCorp Radio DJ
http://crazycoolcute.blogspot.com/
PageRank: 4

Jack Neo
http://blog.omy.sg/jackneo
PageRank: 3

Mark Lee
http://markncat.blogspot.com/
PageRank: 3

Jeanette Aw
http://jeanette-aw.blogspot.com/
PageRank: 3