StreamSend Marketing - A Review

StreamSend is a website that is dedicated to helping users create and distribute mass, quality-looking e-mails. The main audience for StreamSend consists of business owners and/or event planners who have a mailing list or a substantial clientele. StreamSend offers services such as e-mail templates (ready-made and custom made), management tools to care for subscribers and clientele lists, and analytics tools for marketing management. The website also offers services to users to audit the quality of e-mails that are sent to subscribers and groups.

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How Sex can Affect Your Relationship

Sex in a relationship is about more than just some fun bumping in the night. Many people don’t realize just how much sex can affect their relationships. With media projections and social pressures all around us, it’s hard to separate the facts from widely accepted beliefs.
Let’s take, for example, young people in their teens. Teenage boys are often of the opinion that the more sex and the more partners the better. Multiple partners make these boys “cooler” or more manly, because that is what the peer pressure is all about. Women tend to be the exact opposite... From: How Sex Can Affect Your Relationship

Become a Big Brother/Sister!

Volunteering to be a Big Brother/Sister is not as easy as it’s made out to be on television or in books. Someone who is interested in becoming a mentor cannot simply walk into the agency and say, “I want a kid.” It just doesn’t work that way. The Big Brother/Big Sister agency is responsible for matching a mentor with a child in a safe and controlled manner. Unfortunately, the process is rather long and discourages a lot of prospective volunteers from getting involved.

Here is some information about the first steps of becoming a Big Brother/Big Sister:

1. The ... From: Volunteering to Be a Big Brother or Big Sister - Part I

How to Help Fight Human Trafficking

Most people who have heard about human trafficking have heard most about sex slaves, and while awareness of that one aspect of trafficking is important, more people need to realize that human trafficking extends past the sex industry. Human trafficking includes slave labour, the selling of people to pay off debts, the use of people to maintain compliance amongst other trafficked individuals, et cetera. In short, human trafficking is the purchasing, selling, and using of people to perform tasks without proper pay or recognition. Human trafficking is a monstrous industry that is estimated at ear... From: How to Help Fight Human Trafficking

Five Points of Unusual Advice

While these points of advice may come across as silly and ridiculous, do not be fooled into thinking that the advice is worthless. Each point on this list has come from real-life experiences, and you just never know if you, too, will one day be faced with these tales of horror.
1. Do Not Make Bread in Small Spaces
Already, I can see the looks of confusion as this one, very small point gets read. Bread in small spaces? Oh yes. Please, allow me to explain this awesome piece of advice. Bread is a wonderful substance and smells absolutely delicious as it bakes, but unless a person has made brea... From: Five Points of Unusual Advice That You Just Wouldn't Think About

Fable II

Anyone who has ever played the first ‘Fable’ game knows how much fun it can be to choose between being good and evil. It can be exciting to have all of the villagers be terrified of you, or to admire you for being so virtuous. Whether the player chose to be a sappy do-gooder or a demon in training, there was a fun and innovative storyline to follow each moral decision.

‘Fable II’ follows the same principals of the original ‘Fable’, except ‘Fable II’ has so much more to offer. Not only is the world (and game overall) bigger, but there are mo... From: Reasons Why You Should Play Fable II

Before I Fall - A Book Review

There are so few books that can leave the reader feeling a profound sense of sadness and realism, yet also give feelings of hope and acceptance at the same time. Few books can really drag a person back to childhood, back to high school, while giving a realistic glimpse of life and the circumstances that so many people face daily. The intense sensations granted by the book, Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver, are almost as impossible to describe as the incredible story itself.

Before I Fall is the story of Samantha Emily Kingston. She’s super popular, a bit mean-spirited and immature, ... From: Before I Fall - A Book Review

Classic Computer Games: The Ones that Should not be Forgotten

 With all the technology available in today’s video games it can be easy to forget where such brilliant masterpieces truly began. Very few people remember the old DOS based games, where all there was on the computer monitor was an endless stream of text. The user would type in the desired move for game progress, and the text story would tell the result. Nowadays, such games have been completely forgotten. Let’s take a moment to travel back and time and reminisce about the extraordinary games that have since transformed into graphics, speech, and interactive environments.
... From: Classic Computer Games: The Ones That Should Not Be Forgotten

Is Buying an E-Reader Right for You?

If you're a book lover you can understand the difference between reading text on a computer versus reading text in print.  You can understand the way that the words slide into your brain and either remain seated, or proceed to slither away into some unknown abyss.  As an avid reader, you know what the term, "eye strain", really means, as you devour word after word, sentence after sentence.  At the end of the day, do you really want to be hooked to another electronic device in order to do the thing you love most - reading?  Are e-readers really just mini computers, waiti... From: Reasons to Buy an E-Reader and Some Facts You Should Know

Wake Up Call

Daylight savings time. I just don't get it. The other side of the world doesn't do it... why do we? I understand that some countries have the sun rising and setting at just about the same time all day, every day, all year long, whereas our time in the sun varies from day to day... but there has to be more to it than that. I've heard environmentalist theories, consumerism theories, government conspiracy theories.... but what is the REAL answer?

This morning I woke up to a backup alarm that I had set on my cell phone in case the power was to go out in the middle of the night. Did the power go out? No! It was daylight savings. What if I hadn't set my cell phone? What if, say, I completely forgot about daylight savings time and had slept in, was late for work, and then spent the rest of the day with my face on the floor trying to avoid my boss?
No one would care.
Yeah, I know.

There's also the issue about sleep patterns. It is now almost eleven o'clock at night, but I'm not nearly as tired as I should be. Why? You guessed it - daylight savings time. My body says that it's really only closing in on ten o'clock. Boo.

Earning Money Online

Ugh, it's just about impossible, isn't it? There are so many scams nowadays... Who the hell knows what's real and what's not?

Anyway, here are a couple of links for anyone interested in some sites that do actually pay up. You can just click on the links and they'll take you to the respective site. Keep in mind that you do have to put quite a bit of effort into these sites if you want to make any money from them.

1) Factoidz - Write factual articles for ongoing revenue opportunities.
2) Reviewstream - Write reviews about anything and get paid per review.

Playing an Ocarina

Do Re Mi Fah Sol La Ti Do

I started playing the ocarina a few weeks ago. I have to admit that it's not as difficult as I would imagine a traditional flute to be, or any other instrument that requires tons and tons of practice just to play one fluent song; however, I also wouldn't say that the ocarina is the easiest instrument to play, either. It takes a lot of memorization, and it takes a lot of effort in learning to move hands independently of each other. I lucked out a bit there since I'm a bit ambidextrous.

There are tons and tons of different kinds of ocarinas. My hope is to get up to something really advanced so that I can play tons of different music. I hate being limited!

If you would like to know more about ocarinas in general, see: About the Ocarina

Laundry Room Etiquette

Article about Laundry Room Etiquette

I write for a few different websites, mostly just to get feedback and to read what other people are talking about. You wouldn't believe the material that can be written about. The writing world is so vast that everything and anything can be put into words... with a few exceptions when it comes down to TOS.

Anyway, I noticed a very strange trend on one of the sites that I write for. Of all the topics, stories, and blurbs that I've written for/about, the topic that has received the most views has been about laundry room etiquette. Seriously! I didn't think that it was going to be much of a topic when I posted it... I was just mad because I waited half an hour to use a washing machine because some fool wouldn't get his clothes out when the timer was done. Hence, an article about laundry room etiquette was born. Who would have guessed that it would be the article to reach over 1000 views in about two months? I'm not much of a marketer, so for me to get that many views is pretty nice.

If you're interested, take a look: Laundry Room Etiquette

Onward with Strikes

Everyone is still on the verge of striking! It's absolutely ridiculous. Fanshawe College in London just barely avoided a strike. The faculty was demanding more money (of course), a smaller workload, and smaller class sizes. So basically they want to get paid to do less work. Confusing.

Yeah yeah, I agree that teachers are given way too much work and the class sizes are ridiculous... But you know what? Just work toward a small workload. Forget the extra money. There's just none to be had.

The MTO went back to work, so that's nice. Hopefully now I can upgrade my motorcycle license.