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Cool looking ergonomic office chairs

September 20, 2008 by Tricia

I’ve just been visiting a website with really nice chairs. The store is called Designer Seating and they carry a wide range of Hag and Capisco chairs.

These designer chairs would be perfect for the office or home office.

I’d love to get one! The chair that I use in my home office area (the dining room table) is an office chair, but it’s so old that the arm rests are starting to fall apart! LOL … yeah, I do need a new chair.

Both the Capisco and Hag Chairs are modern in design, but in addition to looking cool they are ergonomically designed.

Capisco Chair
Capisco Chair

I guess the best way to tell about these chairs is simply to show you a picture of one. The one that I’ve added an image of, to the right, is a Capisco Chair model 8127.

You can click on the picture to see a large image if you want to read the descriptions beside each major component of the chair.

The chairs have been created to constantly adjust to your body’s center of gravity. So if you shift to one side the chair will adjust to your position.

Isn’t that cool looking?  You can sit in it  the way you normally would sit in a chair or sit so that your chest faces the back rest (that’s the way I understood the description on the website anyway).  It gives you great support no matter which way you sit on the chair.

It looks like the majority of the Capisco chair styles are adjustable, so if there’s a head rest it’s adjustable, arm rests – adjustable and so on.

One thing that I really like about this company is that they are environmentally conscious.

The seat of the HAG Capisco is made from recycled bumpers and plastic packaging from household waste. The plastic components are labelled by type for at-source-sorting. Both the production process and the choice of materials satisfy the most stringent environmental requirements.

I believe that this company is located in the UK. The prices are in pounds.  Unfortunately I can’t find any shipping information on the site so I don’t know if they ship outside the UK.  Either way, if you like the look of these chairs why don’t you visit the site and see all of their designs? I’ll bet you’ll find something that you’ll like!





Filed Under: Cool stuff, Decor, Health Fitness and Beauty, Shopping Tagged With: adjustable, adjusts, armrest, Capisco, Capisco_Chair, circulation, constantly_adjust, design, Designer Seating, environment, ergonomic, ergonomic_chair, Hag, Hag_chairs, headrest, home_office, modern, office, office_chair, range, recycled, selection, Uk, variety

Win a trip to the World of Coke Museum in Atlanta with iCoke

September 10, 2008 by Tricia

If you are a Canadian resident and you enjoy drinking Coca Cola products I have a contest for you that might be right up your alley.

How would you like to Win a trip with iCoke.ca ? Ok, maybe you want to know what the prizes are first?

You could win a trip for four to Atlanta Georgia – where John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1886. If you win your airfare to Atlanta will be paid for as well as 3 days, 4 nights hotel accommodation, plus 2-day Coke Museum passes for four and to top it all off you’ll also get $1000 US cash to spend as you please.

Secondary prizes that you could be eligible to win include Best Buy and Cineplex Odeon gift certificates.

The contest is in celebration of John Pemberton and his lasting invention! I honestly didn’t know that Coca-Cola was invented in 1886! I thought it was invented in the 1920’s. 122 years – isn’t that something?

Ok, so as I said you must be a Canadian resident to enter the contest. Plus, you’ll need to register at iCoke.ca in order to enter the contest.

The contest started August 31, 2008, and it ends at 11:59:00 a.m. EDT, October 31, 2008. During this time period you can enter up to five times a day if I read the rules correctly. So you can amass quite a few entries!

Of course you need to have 500 Coke coins per entry.

What are Coke coins? Well .. you earn them buy submitting the special alphanumeric pin code that you can find beneath the cap on 591 ml and 2L Coca Cola product bottles or on special promotional materials like iCoke contest cards. Usually each pin code is worth 500 coke coins, but for a limited time you can earn 1000 Coke coins on specially marked 591 ml Coca Cola product bottles. So when you’re out shopping watch for those specially marked 591 ml bottles as the pin numbers will be worth two contest entries if you choose to use them in that way!

I entered the contest last night and I plan on making more entries. Why not? I’ve never been to Atlanta and I think visiting the World of Coke Museum would be kind of cool.

Are you going to enter?

Filed Under: Canada, Contest, Cool stuff, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation Tagged With: 1886, accommodation, airfare, Atlanta, Canada, canadadry, canadian, cash, celebration, Cineplex, CocaCola, code, Coke, cokemuseum, Contest, cool, daypass, drinking, entry, Georgia, gingerale, hotel, iCoke, invented, invention, JohnPemberton, Money, museum, October, Odeon, passes, pin, Product, resident, Shopping, sprite, trip, win

I won a prize!

August 29, 2008 by Tricia

Guess what? I won a fantastic prize!

Big Jason from the Big Marketing Online Blog started what he called “The largest blog contest ever” sometime in mid-July. I entered the contest at the end of the month by doing several of the requested tasks in order to build up my entries and earlier this week Jason informed me that I was a prize winner.

Not only did he write to tell me that I’d won a prize, but a few days later he wrote to me again to list my top five choices. So I kind of picked out my own prize from the huge assortment of goodies he was giving away.

I decided that I wanted StoreStacker. It’s a program that allows you to build multiple affiliate stores. What does that mean? Well … you can set up an online store in minutes that will sell products from Amazon, Ebay, Overstock and several other large companies. You can set up a store (or stores!) that sell a wide range of products, or if you have a niche site, like say my gardening blog, you can set up a store that sells products that cater to your sites niche.

I downloaded my prize and all of it’s components yesterday, but I haven’t had a chance to install it or set up a store yet. I’m dying to try it!

I’ve just been too busy. Chris is on holidays and that’s kind of taken me out of my routine, plus our dogs been so hyper lately! It’s crazy here. With Midnight jumping around on the furniture and up at us I just can’t get anything done. Even worse, she managed to make a little rip in our leather couch yesterday! Grrr. Well … maybe with the new stores that I’ll be setting up I’ll make enough affiliate income that I’ll be able to got to a home furniture and pick out a new couch? Nah .. the rips only tiny .. I’ll spend my earnings on other goodies or better yet pay the bills!

Filed Under: Contest, Cool stuff, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Internet, Our Puppy, Software, Web and Technology Tagged With: affiliate, amazon, assortment, Chris, Contest, couch, Ebay, furniture, home, income, Jason, leather, marketing, Midnight, month, niche, online, prize, program, store, StoreStacker, winner

Comment Relish- the WP plugin that greets new commentors

August 10, 2008 by Tricia

What would you think if I added a plugin to my site that would keep track of new commenter and send them a personal greeting?

The plugin is Comment Relish and it identifies new commentors and allows the blog owner to automatically send out a pre-defined message to that new visitor.

With so many new blogs being created daily sometimes you need an edge to grab that first time visitor or well in this case commentors attention. They’ve already like what you posted enough to leave a comment. Why not send them a greeting welcoming them to your site and thanking them for their visit? While you’re at it you could also list your RSS feed and email newsletter subscription link or possibly introduce your new visitor/commentor to another similar blog that you write.

I need your opinion

If you were a first time visitor to this site and you received a warm welcome visa email that also promoted the sites RSS feed and newsletter would you appreciate the message or be ticked off that you got yet another unwanted email? Mind you, this would be a one time email.

My other concern with this plugin, or well for that matter any new WP plugin that I add to my site is whether it will be a CPU hog on my hosting account. A plugin that makes too many calls to the MySQL database or behaves poorly in other ways can get your hosting account shut down as fast as a blink of the eye! I’ve had hosting problems in the past (not with current web host – Hostgator – thankfully!) and I don’t want those issues revisited just because I tried to enhance my visitors experience with a new WP plugin.

  1. If you’ve used or if you currently use this plugin I’d love to hear from you.
  2. Have you had any problems with this plugin?
  3. How do your visitors like it?
  4. Is your site fairly busy or do you have a number of other sites on your hosting account (this is where hosting issues come in on shared hosting accounts)?

Please help me decide whether I should use this plugin or if you know of another one that does something similar (but definitely doesn’t cause problems) please let me know which one you use.

Filed Under: Blogging, Computers, Cool stuff, Internet, Software, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Web Hosting, Website Promotion, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: appreciate, blog, comment, comment relish, commenter, commentor, Commentors, computer, CPU, database, email, feed, greet vistors, help, hog, hosting, hosting account, Internet, introduce, keep track, leave a comment, mySql, new blog, new commentors, new visitors, newsletter, opinion, personal message, plugin, post, problems, promote, RSS, RSS feed, send message, shared hosting, subscription, Technology, visit, visitor, visitors, warm greeting, web, web host, welcome visitors, Wordpress, WP, wp plugin, write

A new way to network and promote your sites

August 1, 2008 by Tricia

Yesterday I read a blog post about keeping your Twitter and Plurk accounts functional and it caused me to revisit a site that I’d been to in the past, but dismissed as not being what I needed at the time.

The site that I visited and subsequently signed up for was Ping.Fm. Perhaps you’ve heard of this site?

Ping.Fm allows you to update your social networks quickly and virtually from anywhere. Best of all, you can update all of your social networks at once!

In my last post I talked about how I think Twitter might be a waste of time for people because some of the bloggers I follow seem to always be sending out Tweets. Now add other social networks like Plurk, Pownce, Tumblr, Facebook, Friendfeed and a multitude of other social network sites and you could literally spend your whole day posting messages on these sites just to network and keep in touch with your friends. There are so many social networks popping out of the woodwork these days that it’s becoming overwhelming! So you can see why the idea of being able to post one message to one site and then have that message delivered to all of your social networks at once might be beneficial.

I think I originally dismissed Ping.Fm when I first came across it because I wasn’t yet a member of Twitter or Plurk or some of the other sites that Ping.Fm interacted with at the time. However now that I’m a member of at least half of the sites that work with Ping.Fm I can really see the advantage!

Ping.Fm is very easy to use. Just sign up and activate your social service. You can post your Ping.Fm messages directly to Blogger and WordPress.com blogs, Social sites such as Bebo, Brightkite, Facebook, FriendFeed, hi5, Identi.ca, Jaiku, kwippy, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Mashable, MySpace, Plaxo Pulse, Plurk, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, and Xanga. You can also use Ping.Fm to post message to the following services – AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk (GTalk), Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, iGoogle Gadget, Facebook, iPhone Web App, and Mobile App (WAP).

BTW all the links in the paragraph above are to my social network profile pages if you’d like to visit them and add me as a friend.

Imagine how much time you’ll save by being able to post message to your friends and contacts on several of those sites all at once?

Now, if you happen to have a WordPress blog on it’s own domain there’s a WP Plugin called PingPressFm that will allow you to notify your social network sites about a new blog post. The WP plugin only works with WP 2.5 and higher so if you are a Ping.Fm member and want to use the plugin on your blog make sure your installation is at least WP 2.5 or higher.

Unlike some I don’t post a lot of messages to my social networks, but I do like the idea of being able to notify all of these services of new blog posts. Up until now I’d only been using Twitterfox to post blog post updates to Twitter. If the PingPressFm plugin works well I’ll use that instead.

Ping.Fm is in Beta right now and you need an invite before you can become a member. So consider this your invitation. The invite code is currently pingscompany. Oh and speaking of invites if anyone has an invite for Jaiku I’d love to get one so I can explore that site.

If you know of any other handy services that make it easier to network I’d love to hear about them.

Filed Under: Blogging, Cool stuff, Internet, Services, Socializing, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: advantage, AOL, Bebo, beta, blog, blogger, Blogging, Brightkite, easy to use, facebook, FriendFeed, friends, hi5, Identi.ca, Instant, interact, Internet, Jaiku, keep up, kwippy, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Mashable, MySpace, network, Ping, ping fm, PingPressFm, Plaxo, Plaxo Pulse, plugin, Plurk, post, post messages, posting, Pownce, profile, promote, promote your site, save time, send message, service, Services, sites, social network, social services, social site, Technology, traffic, Tumblr, Tweets, twitter, twitterfox, update, updates, web, web 2.0, web traffic, Wordpress, Xanga

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