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Improve your Karma

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Have you heard of Karma? That’s when you do something good and somewhere a long the line good thing happen to you. Some people actively work towards building their Karma – I know you are thinking of the TV show “My Name is Earl” aren’t you? Well yes, Earl has changed his life by righting wrongs that he’s done and seems to be improving his Karma, but so has a man named Sven Goodsson.

Sven started a site ImproveYourKarma.com to chronicle his path towards improving his own Karma and I must say – just from my first glance at it I think it’s hilarious. You must see him running in place a la exercise and diet guru Richard Simmons.

The site offers ways to improve your own Karma, plus a way to boost both his and yours too. For the latter – if you purchase a Motorola Red phone through his site a portion of phone use and the purchase price goes directly to the RED charity started by Bono of U2.

The Karma site also features a Monitor that you can place on your site that analysis your site looking over the words you’ve used in your posts and comes up with a page Karma rating. There is also a feature that analysizes photos that you upload and it scans for key colors and then provides a aura analysis of your photo.

The site looks fun, has ways for you to contribute to good causes and ideas on how to improve your own karma rating. Check it out for yourself.






Gardening Tips forum created at GoBoardz

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GoBoardz is a newish site where you can go and create your own GoBoardz Forums absolutely free of charge. GoBoardz is sponsoring this post so that I can tell you how to create your own free forum for your website.

It’s very easy actually. You just visit the site, create an account and then go to the forum set up area. Some of the things I like about the forums at GoBoardz is that users can upload photos or link to ones on other sites. Members can also have avatars to uniquely express themselves when posting on the boards. If someone creates a really good post on the board you can even save it to Del.icio.us or Digg it.

So I went ahead and created a forum for gardeners and I called it Gardening Tips. I’ve only created one category so far – General – but if you’d like to sign in and begin a topic that would be nice.

Is your computer protected?

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I get emails from people all the time who are having trouble with their computer, relatives phone me and ask me to walk them through a problem they are having with their computer … you know what the problem is half the time? A computer virus or worm that they’ve accidentally downloaded onto their computer when they’ve visited a link sent to them by email.

Come on people- get some antivirus protection on your computers. Why am I saying that? Well, 90% of the time when people ask me to help them out with their computers it’s because they didn’t have an antivirus program on their computer to block or delete virus’, spyware and worms as they came in, in their email.

If you don’t have antivirus protection on your computer go and download Norton Antivirus software. it’s a fact, you need to protect your computer. If you haven’t had a major problem yet- you’re lucky. I know so many people who’s computers were so messed up there was nothing left to do but wipe their hard drive clean and re-install windows and all their other computer programs. Most of these people never back up their files on their computers either so they end up losing precious files, photos, all their favorite music etc. Don’t be one of those people, get protected.

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