Saturday, April 14, 2007
Since the launch of My List, I've had the privilege of getting to know my fellow Malaysian bloggers better and being exposed to so many of their experiences. This truly have been the highlight of these past few days. I strongly urge you to participate and make this the largest bookmark of Malaysian bloggers ever!

Also remember to take some time and visit these participating blogs for you will surely be entertained for hours on so many areas which might be of interest to you. I for one surely have been.

Visit the My List dedicated page for more information on how to participate and support this noble cause!

My List Participants - updated at the time of writing

Snapshots
kahpengBlog
I am Who I am
yung . silent whisper
Simple Life
One blog.One girl.One story
The World Through My Eyes
Why Malaysia?
Etcetera~Etcetera
Giddy Tigers
Make Money Online: Exploring The Dark Side of Blogging
Xilly's Blog
Malaika Xiao Yu
My Home Recipe
SQKIKI’s Simple Tech
Nukilan Jejari Azhad
ITCHY HANDseng
Just My Lil' Organic Life
Oooh La La...
Weird World of MerapuMan
Fibre Art
The World at My Fingertips
Organic Income
Organic Parade
Shopping Flavor
Daily postings of a chung ling student
Something about LAI
KennyP’s Technology Blog
Women Mumbles
KuKuJian.com
Lyon & Wien
Under The SUN
Crumbs In Life
SotongZai's Flow In the Ocean
allthingspurple
Christene's Kitchen
toxicle.org
[ Wood ] [ Earth ] [ Cheap ] [ Flight ]
COMtech
Ah Ling's blog
Memoirs.:*CRoSs mY hE@Rt
~WoOLaLA~
vivivava Design
My Mothering Corner
Shoppingmum’s Home Office
My Filling Station
Shopping Mum
All about Beauty
Shoppingmum and Kids
datotalrandommessy.grey
Notes from my heart
Joy Montessori
wahlau's online hut
Cedric’s Asylum
mott’s mutterings
Just My Thoughts
delephant
Incoherent Ramblings
HOT STUFF
Make Money Online with Malaysia Love AGLOCO
MONTESSORIMUM.COM
Funky Cookies
Earn Money Blogging
PabloPabla's Whatever
Make Money with Blogging
Paris Beaverbanks
Free Links Giveaway
Free Blogger Templates
Blogsreview.Net
Making a Living
5xmom
How to be a Better Blogger
My Women Stuff
Hochiak! Delicious Asian Food
Best Recipes
Champagne Tastes on a Beer Budget
Daryl's Discovery Journey
The fluff must go somewhere

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
The wonderful people at PayPerPost.com started a new promotion which is '1k Tuesdays' whereby there will be a total of USD 1,000 value in opps or tasks to be taken by members every Tuesday for the entire month of April between midnight and 11:59PM EST. Now this is by far the best earning platform for blogging if you ask me!

This USD 1,000 is split into one USD 500 Opp and five USD 100 Opps for this particular week after many members request. Initially they wanted to have only one opp valued at a mind boggling USD 1k but that would mean only one member would benefit from it. This for me is a much better plan and I do hope they continue to do so for future Tuesdays as well, until the end of this month that is.

How is this possible you ask? Well this '1k Tuesday' promotion is sponsored by the lovely people at Zookoda which provides email marketing to us fellow bloggers to improve stickiness and readership to our blog. The unique features includes customization of your newsletter and being able to view detailed reports on your newsletter performance.

I just hope a new advertisers would take up this awesome promotional slot for future months. In the meantime though... Thank You Zookoda and PayPerPost for giving Tuesday a totally whole new meaning!


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Sunday, April 8, 2007
As in everything else we do in life, all of us desire to be admired for the hardwork we have done may it be in academically, career, as a parent or in sports. Now this time around comes blogger awards which is one of the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a Blogger.

If you frequent a particular blog and think that the author deserves the accolade, then by all means register at blogger awards and nominate for him or her. If in the case your favorite blog is already nominated, then just cast in your precious vote.

There are so many categories from the obvious to the hysterical such as Best Geek Blog, Most Obnoxious Blogger and Worst Blog of All Time. God knows I wouldn't want to ever see one of my blogs in those categories. One of the key thing I like about this contest is being able to view what readers or viewers like about a particular blog and learn from their success.

It is really enlightening to see some nominated blogs which are so well done not only in terms of their design elements but also how they use the latest tools to make their blog really stand out with great functionality. Although I must say in some categories, its the usual suspects sitting right on top of the pile but who knows, perhaps an upset is in the cards.

Winners will be announced on 2nd June, so watch out and keep track of the very best or the very worst in the entire blogsphere. This should be fun!


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posted by Daryl W.T. Lau at 00:32 | 0 comments
Monday, January 29, 2007
I've been so busy setting up my blogs these few weeks and did not have the opportunity to interact with people outside my blog topics which is one of the main reason I revived this blog. But recently I've stumbled upon a great community site called MyLot which pays you for babbling about your interests and expertise from cooking to relationship to anything you can think of.

Its a great concept indeed and I find there are only less than 30 Malaysians participating which is quite shocking. Its truly sad to see so many Malaysian topics going unanswered with little or no participation at all. So I hope to introduce this to all of you who have a lot to say and get appreciated not only in terms of money but also making new friends and building a network.

Don't expect to make a lot of money here going solo as you can generally make about USD 1.00 - 2.00 per day from your own postings and comments. I think its great tho as it would help me pay for my domain name and register a few new ones every month. If you are keen just sign-up from the link below:

http://www.mylot.com/

Well... hope to see you guys in the community!

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Sunday, January 28, 2007
I would like to give a HUGE THANK YOU to Lizzam from Bluqube for assisting me on setting up my blog's brand new navigation. I simply love the simplicity and how it eases the content placement on my sidebar especially since I'm only using 2 columns template. It took me 5 hours (I'm kinda noob when it comes to codings and javascript lar) to set it up today but its definitely worth the effort.

If you guys wanna learn more about it, check out his tutorial at Bluqube | IT Lah! blog. Oh yeah... don't let his avatar scare you... he's really a very helpful fella.

So Bro Lizzam... Ribuan Terima Kasih man for everything!

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posted by Daryl W.T. Lau at 18:59 | 2 comments
Well... after nearly a month of neglecting this blog, its time for a revival. I would be changing the theme of course more towards Malaysia context and reality singing shows like American Idol, Malaysian Idol and perhaps others if they catch my attention.

I assure you guys will be hearing much more from me on this blog... so stay tuned!

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
I have been searching all over the internet for a good and easy solution to adding categories to my Blogger site and it seems there are many techniques available although some are quite complicated to say the least for a noobie like myself when it comes to html and script editing.

With the launch of Blogger BETA, they have implemented Labelling to each post where you enter them at the bottom panel each time you create a new post. So far I think this is the simplest solution till Blogger develop a more comprehensive one in the near future.

Here is the step-by-step way of doin it:
1. Set the Labels for each post in the bottomframe of the post editor
2. Publish post
3. Add Labels to sidebar via Page Element tab under Template tab

* Important to Note
- You have to be using the new Beta version of Blogger
- You might have to edit all your previous posts in order to make it work well


You can have a look at how I implemented it for my Travel blog site. I had to edit the old posts to accomodate this feature and rename it Countries which is more applicable to the site:

http://asian-travel.blogspot.com/

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posted by Daryl W.T. Lau at 23:43 | 0 comments
Saturday, December 16, 2006
After toying for hours to turn this blog into a more comfortable home... I've finally found the solution in Pannasmontata. His free templates are truly awesome and easy to install although I had to convert to the classic format unfortunately. I do like the flexibility of the new drag and drop editting feature but with it is quite a daunting task to change the look and feel.

I will try to add other important elements like site tracker later today if time permits.

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posted by Daryl W.T. Lau at 14:42 | 0 comments
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Well I guess all Blogs must start somewhere huh.. so here goes with a short and sweet introduction about little old me. I was born in Penang, Malaysia to a very loving and supportive parent but at the moment am residing in the capital city of Malaysia. I've been through a lot and would just like to pen down my thoughts where I can share it with the world and also have a place to come back to for reflection in later life.

Thank you for stopping by... and make yourself at home!

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