The Sheraton Hacienda del Mar Resort & Spa. This place has it all, it’s right on the beach, has 3 pools, 4 restaurants, a beach bar, and even internet access. Ashley and I plan to spend a week here sometime in August. Now we just have to save up the money! It’s going to be nice to get away, and to Cabo San Lucas!!

We all went out before the game to Applebees before the game. I had a Perfect Margarita, which equals about 4 Maragarita's, because it is served in the shaker tin, so you can keep on filling up your glass! So I really did not drink that much at the game. I did enjoy a Barcardi Silver, John got me hooked on these things at CES. Now my Perfect Maragita was $5.75, at the game a Bacardi Silver served over ice is $5.50, you can see how you could spend ALOT of money at the game.

Anyways the penguins played the NY Islanders. It was a really intense game, there was alot of action. It was tied 3 to 3 at the end of the 3rd period, so we went into overtime! In overtime Sidney Crosby scored the game winning goal. Beating the goalie on the short side, it was the perfect goal! The hockey game was alot of fun and I hope to go again sometime soon!

I was really impressed with the system and graphics.  Finally I have something to use my HDTV for instead of just cable.  The whole XBOX live and gamerscore thing is really cool.  To increase your gamer score you have to get certain achievements in games.  Another really cool thing is that you can download movie trailers (in HD), game demos, and even old school arcade games.  Microsoft really did a good job and made this a really good system.  The only con I can say about it is that it runs REALLY hot!

This is the kitchen area, all of the appliances are brand new, and also notice the marble countertops. All of the sinks and countertops in the apartment are marble. The kitchen also has a high countertop as you can see so it's a place to eat as well!

There is a dining room space next to the kitchen, I will probably use this for an office.

This apartment has a fireplace which is awesome! It is a wood burning fireplace too! No using gas! This saves a ton of money!

Here is a little sink area that is connected to the master bedroom, this will be used to get ready to go out etc. We also have a full size bathroom. I did not get pictures of my walkin closet, master bedroom, 2nd bedroom, and the bathroom, I will have pictures of everything with all of our stuff moved in soon!

Here is a picture of the the living room and kitchen. As you can see we got some nice stools for the bar area. We have a small TV in the living room, the bigger TV's are in our rooms.

Here is a nice picture of the kitchen. It is probably my favorite part of the apartment because I love to cook, as you can see I'm cooking up some breakfast now! I love the marble countertops! Also all of the appliances are brand new, the microwave, stove, refrigerator, even the toaster oven!! In the secound picture you can see the stove has a glass top, this is great, and causes less mess.

Beside the kitchen there is a dining area that I have converted into my office. It works really good too, and if im hungry I can walk 2 feet and make something.

I'm really enjoying this new apartment, It gives me a better work enviroment than my last apartment. Check back soon to see pictures of the rest of the apartment!

Wake up
Finish what I didnt get done the night before
Eat
Update ThinkCE and ThinkGaming
Send E-mails etc
Check ThinkComputers Forums
Lunch
Write for Either ThinkComputers or ThinkGaming
Proof and edit review to be posted on TC
Dinner
Post review on TC and send news E-mail 

Thats not all I do all day but thats what I hope to get done each day.  Remember the more you get done the more money you make.  So hopefully I can stick to this new routine! 

Wake Up
Post A Review
Eat
Update ThinkGaming / ThinkCE
Shower
Go the the pool
Write a review while at the pool
Go back to the apt and eat
Catch up on what I didn't get done during the day

Well everyone is seems to be having a great time so far in Taipei. Above is a picture of John and Cam at Ruby Tuesdays in Taipei. Everyone is over there for Computex. It is basically Taipei's version of CES. I was going to go on the trip with everyone, but the trip was just to damn expensive. I'm glad to see that everyone is having a good time without me though!

Well yesterday I actually had the time to make myself a nice lunch. If you didn't know I LOVE salad. It is one of my favorite foods, but unlike most people I do not like dressing on it. I made an italian salad mix with mozzarella & asiago cheese with roasted garlic. I also added some cheese and garlic crutons. To top it off I cooked up some chicken on the grill that was marinated with Italian garlic marinade. It was delicious!!

The way the service works is it install’s a viewbar at the bottom of your browser that displays ads.  Before it was a pain to get on and surf the web, but now it is a much more common thing, especially since I spend 6-8 hours a day on the computer.  The viewbar is in BETA right now, but it will be released soon so what you want to do now is build up your network, because the more people that you refer the more money you make!  You can signup here, and make sure to put in my referral ID which is BBBB1166.  The viewbar will be released very soon so build up your network so you can make easy money!

ThinkCE
Yes ThinkCE is back. I will be concentrating more on just news not as much on content. I have added the site's RSS feed to feedburner and only after a day I have 6 readers. This number could go up and down depending on what is posted etc. I am still using the Joomla CMS and I am having not problems at the moment. I will also be looking into changing some of the advertising setup as well as updating the shopping.com ads.

ThinkGaming
I have been keeping up with this site more. It has hard to get content, but I have been posting news as well as writing a few articles here and there. I'm trying to squeeze a few buyers guides in before the holiday season, because they do very well with traffic and bring in some good revenue. I am also thinking about buying a Wii to review and just to have, any thoughts on this? Let me know.

ThinkComputers
Just the regular here, keeping up with reviews and everything. I am also looking a writing more buyer's guides here too. My first one of the holiday season was a big hit and generated a good bit of traffic as well as some nice extra revenue. If you haven't noticed I have added a small 125X125 banner advertising TWERQ. TWERQ is a really cool search engine that you must check out. If you go to their page, check out the videos of all what you can do with it, it is very powerful. The ad gave me some extra revenue, which was nice, hopefully they will renew.

MyProfileResource
Ok nothing big here, but I did make some simple Happy ThanksGiving graphics. There was a small traffic spike from these graphics. I will be making holiday graphics soon. Also my experiment on indirect Myspace advertising has worked very well. I will be explaining this later this week after I do some final tests.

New Site!
Ok I have not announced this new site, but I have been doing some work on it. I got a really cool layout from Rocket Theme and have been tweaking it. I have also come up with ad placements. I just have to fill it with content and hopefully watch it take off. We will see how it turns out.

On another note, Starbucks has the Peppermint mocha's out now and they are awesome! Make sure you go down to your local Starbucks and check them out.

Well today I was surprised to see that I received a package from Google. After opening it up it was a Holiday gift from them. As you know I use Google Adsense on many of my sites, and it is a major source of income for me. This gift is something they give to their publishers each year. Last year I did not receive a gift, probably because my volume was not as big as it is now. I'm not sure how much you have to make to receive a gift, but it's nice for Google to send something out their their publishers. This years gift is a digital photo frame! I would say it's better than last years gift. I already have a digital photo frame, which I reviewed a while back. I have that one in my bedroom, so this one will probably sit at my desk, especially since it is smaller. Thanks Google!!

/end rant

What I wanted to talk about today is in-direct marketing. You basically want to advertise a product, or website in our case without “really” advertising it. I actually got this idea from the 15K challenge. Basically this is how it works; you create a Myspace profile that you want to look real. Some things when wanting to make the profile look real you want to use more than 1 picture of the person. I’ve seen a ton of fake Myspace profiles that use the same picture over and over again. If you want people to think you are real then find more than 1 picture of someone. Next fill out the profile completely, people will be able to spot a fake profile if it isn’t filled out at all. The last thing that you want to do is make sure the person you have created is from a major city. This will get more people to add you as a friend. It also helps if the person you create is good looking.

Ok now for the marketing part. My Myspace resource site is MyProfileResource, which has layouts, graphics, etc. So basically on this fake profile will be comprised of a layout from MPR, graphics from MPR, and maybe a blog entry about how “I found all of these cool layouts at MPR”. This will draw some traffic to your site, but we want more! Here are some more things that you can do. Well first you want to get some friends, you can easily add people from your area and they usually won’t wonder why you have added them. If you want to accumulate a lot of friends fast you can use a program like Badder Adder. The next in-direct thing you can do is leave comments to people with comment images from your site. Those images will link back to your site. So if you have 100 friends and leave comments on all 100 of them and say 10 people view each one of their profiles that’s 1000 people that you would be advertising to. Some other things you can do is send bulletins or messages to people talking about your site or things like that.

So does it work? YES! On MPR I was averaging around 700 unique visitors a day. After creating 3 profiles like this and doing some work on each a month later I am averaging 1300-1500 unique visitors a day. A lot of the traffic is coming directly from Myspace too. Now imagine if I had made 100 profiles?

The $500-million Hydropolis Undersea Resort is said to be the world’s first underwater hotel. A sprawling 1.1-million-square-foot complex—with lavish suites, a ballroom, a shopping mall and a missile-defense system to ward off terrorists—Hydropolis is an ambitious vision of luxury at 60 feet underwater. As of press time, though, the project had stalled in the preconstruction phase. According to Mansoor Ijaz, deputy chairman of the board for Crescent Hydropolis Resorts, LLC, Hydropolis is on hold pending “land acquisition” and probably won’t be finished before the current opening date, set for 2008.

Money, naturally, is the first hurdle facing any large-scale endeavor. In the case of Poseidon, private investors and an American merchant bank have anted up nearly all of the $105 million that Jones needs to complete the resort. Clearly, they are optimistic that Poseidon can lure enough celebrity guests and high rollers to be a financial success. Meanwhile, Jones has inked a deal with the owners of a privately held South Pacific island. If all goes well with construction, the Poseidon Mystery Island will soon be submerged in 40 feet of water in a 5,000-acre coral lagoon near the coast of a narrow, 225-acre isle located in northeastern Fiji.