An Age of Magic

Take your blog for a walk

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We all know about the importance of marketing when it comes to promoting our blogs online. It creates great PR and turns us into successful bloggers. But have you ever considered about the percentage of people who don’t spend a lot of time online or maybe browse in areas not relevant to your blogging activities.

The solution is the take your blog for a walk outside cyber-space and get word out about your blog in the ‘real’ world. Business cards have been used for many purposes and now it is time to make use of 100 free blogger cards. Be as original and imaginative with your design as you are with your blog site - make your blogger cards take your site out and beyond your computor and the www.

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Say aaaahhhh

To those of you who are scared of the dentists drill you may wish to block out all images as you read this. But then again, it could be of real benefit to you. And I promise it wont hurt…

The latest invention out of Japan is a robot ‘person’ who is designed for use by dental students. This robot is programmed to say ‘ouch’ when the student pokes and prods too close to a nerve or goes too deep with the drill. Stay in there, we’re nearly finished…

This robot, named Simroid, can alert the dental student when it feels discomfort as each tooth contains nerves just like our own. The whole venture is designed to teach students how to be more gentler with the focus on patient comfort rather than technical expertise.

Ok, how was that then?.

Now rinse and we are finished.

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Is borrowing money too easy these days?

I am of the opinion that it definately is. You only have to read the newspapers nowadays and never a day passes without some article referring to the record numbers of people declaring bankruptcy, losing their homes, defaulting on their mortgages. And what is frightening is that these people who are losing all they own are getting younger. No real suprise though as the borrowing mentality is ingrained in young people before they even leave school these days.

Have you seen how many teenagers own mobile phones? here’s an easier question, find one who doesn’t have one! and who pays the phone bill?….usually Mum and Dad but it has been known for teens to secure phone contracts for themselves and run up enormous phone bills. Another example - students. Students have loans pushed at them from every direction even before graduating. Given that these are often personal loans in order to pay for their studies they still start their working lives in serious debt.

The problem facing many families is trend toward secured loans given that they own a home, car and other assets. These situations work out fine until unemployment strikes or illness, or a new baby arrives. It is very easy to fall behind. Perhaps a return to the days, not too long ago, when you really had to prove you could repay what you wished to borrow is the way to stem this problem. It may not be of too much assistance to those already in financial straits, but it just may prevent the next generation from falling into the same trap.

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