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Stop and smell the flowers

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Wordless Wednesday

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There once was a kitty,
Who climbed up a tree,
I thought oh what a pity
and for help I did plea.

But as it turned out
The kitty was just fine
I should never have doubt
Oh how I wished that kitty was mine

There was only one reason
that the kitty climbed the tree
The blossoms were in season
while smelling the flowers kitty looked down at me.

Ok not the best little rhyme but I thought I’d do something a little different. Isn’t that kitten cute?

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Emoze Free push email service

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It’s about time a true “push” email service like emoze 1.30 came along. If you are interested in such a program you can download it for free at www.emoze.com. The program is easy to set up and you’ll using a Real “push” email program in no time.

In the past, this type of service was only available mainly in a very costly package and mostly restricted to a specific hardware and software platforms such as Blackberry.

I didn’t fully understand what exactly real push email was until I did some reading on it. I’ll explain how it works in case you as as clueless as I was to begin with. Emoze automatically pushes your email and Personal Information Manager (PIM) data. Data such as contacts, and diary scheduling are “pushed” to your mobile phone as soon as it is sent to you without you having to go through the process of connecting to a service every time you want to send or receive your emails or PIM data. Was that easier to understand? Can you see now why a service such as this would come in handy and how useful it could be?

You need to have an email account, and a compatible device – mobile phone – and that’s it! The current release works with all Microsoft pocketPC applications/ devices.

In the very near future a new release of Emoze will be released. This new version- 1.2 – will be compatible with the vast majority of Smart-Phones and symbian devices such as Nokia S60 and S70. Hmmm I wonder if it will work with my Nokia Smart phone 6882? That would be great if it does. Email and calendar reminders all the time no matter where I am? Great!

The Emoze technology is focused around personal and corporate privacy, providing one of the best security solutions available for mobile email. You can feel safe using emoze as they don’t gather or send information from your PC or in-box. Type freely as there are no cookies, no spyware and no duplication of user data on emoze servers. It will be interesting to see where this new technology takes us in the future, won’t it?

Singapore Swingers hit Feverishthoughts.com – HARD

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My dear friend Mr. Fab started a campaign a few months ago to try to get more people from China to visit his site. Why I’m not really certain. I think it was just an interesting challenge for him. He really only tried on and off for a few weeks and from what he said he didn’t have that much success.

I, on the other hand, have been having lots of visitors from China. Mainly on my reptile related site but I do think I get more visitors from China on my Feverishthoughts network that Mr. Fab does right now.

Why am I writing about this? Well the other day, last Saturday I think, my husband Chris wrote a story on Odd Planet about how Swingers clubs are becoming increasingly popular in Singapore. We both thought it was an interesting story, but lets facing it, there have been a lot more interesting and funny stories on Odd Planet than the Singapore Swing story.

To our surprise, when I was checking the site stats for my small feverishthoughts network of sites I noticed a huge increase in visitor rates over at odd planet beginning on Sunday. I investigated to see what was going on and I found that over 800 searches for Singapore Sg or Singapore Swingers had brought people to Odd Planet. Monday there were about 600 similar visits. Tuesday maybe 300. So it’s slowing down, but that’s a huge increase in visits for just one simple little post.

Right now, the top search terms for all of the feverishthoughts blogs combined are:

united sg swingers 636
united sg swinger 182
sg swingers 35
sg swinger 16
united sg swingers website 13
hugh laurie snl 78
hugh laurie 14
lucious 17
maniquins 14
photo scavenger hunt 12

Now, the Singapore swing post went up on Odd Planet at about 7 am on Saturday, and the stats are for the whole month, but obviously all the swinger search stats have occurred between Saturday and 6 am Tuesday morning … so four days, there were 882 swinger searches, and even more hits between reading the post and visiting comments etc.

Why did I bring up Fabs quest for China earlier? Well, I also noticed an increase in visitors from Singapore, malaysia, Hong Kong and China – so fab if you want more visitors from China you’d better write something controversial and maybe Kinky about china and see what happens. Ok?

One other pleasing benefit of looking at my stats? The four sites that are live on Feverishthoughts.com – Tricia’s Musings, As the Garden Grows, Breath of Life and Odd Planet are getting bookmarked a lot! A full third of the visitors to these sites are adding them to their bookmarks. Thank you! You like us, you really like us!

Thinking about buying a used car

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I’m starting to think that we might need to get a new car sometime soon. Our Ford Contour has been acting up a lot over the last two years. It’s only 10 years old, but I think it’s starting to tell us that it might not last that much longer. I said new car, but we can’t afford a new car right now so I’m starting to think about finding a place to purchase reliable Used Cars. I think I might have found the ideal site to search for used cars over at lemonfree.com.

My husband has always been a fan of Honda. We had a Honda Prelude in the early 90’s but this car eventually gave out on us. It did however live to be 14 years old- not that we had it the whole time. It was originally his parents car. So with that in mind I’ve been looking at the Honda area’s of the site, particularly the Honda Accord section.

As I’ve been looking through the site I’ve noticed some features that I really enjoy. When you find a car model that you like you can read a article of the type of car model, crash test results and ratings, you can also read stats on the estimated fuel economy, and recall notices for the make, model and year as well. I really like that part. When we were looking at cars back in ’98 I was reading reports on the models that we were interested in – like recalls and crash test results … so to have it all in one place so easy to find as I’m looking at a car that I’m thinking of purchasing is wonderful. LemonFree.com has made finding a used car, and learning more about the make and model so easy. I’m really impressed.

Another thing that I like about this site is that it has listing for both Canada and the US. As a Canadian I’ve found many sites geared towards American Consumers (even Canadian sites!) but not as many that have items for both countries. I found listing for a 2002 Honda Accord that might be suitable. At least it’s in our general area so we can contact the current owner and possibly go to see the vehicle.

Wish us luck!

I’ve been a poor visitor lately

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I’m sorry that I haven’t been around to visit the many sites that I usually do visit lately. I haven’t been very active in my own meme- Green Thumb Sunday, or the others that I participate in like Wordless Wednesday, Thursday Thirteen or the Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt for a number of reasons.


I haven’t been feeling all that well over the last two or more weeks. Not that I ever feel that well but I’ve felt worse than normal and haven’t been getting out to visit my friends or the meme sites. Please forgive me? I know you guys are coming here, but perhaps some of you have dropped off a bit since I’m not returning the visits. For that I’m sorry. I just haven’t been up to it lately.

Not only have I not been feeling that great but I’ve been working on a few side projects for a friend and for myself. I will have more time to visit others when I get these projects done.

Just wanted you guys to know what’s been going on.

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