I have found dNeero surveys to be all of the following:
- easy to complete
- easy to monetise
- fun to do
Compared to other survey sites I have had dealings with, dNeero knocks spots off them all. I am now officially DONE with Ciao surveys - I don't even open their emails any more. Ciao are in the habit of asking you a whole load of questions BEFORE you take the survey, each of these questions are related to information that Ciao already knows about me... then at the end of 10 questions which include my age, sex, employment status and earning bracket - they have the cheek to say 'sorry you don't qualify'. If they had any sort of system, they wouldn't be offering surveys I don't qualify for as they already know the answers to most of these questions. On top of that their compensation rates are lousy. So the new good guys are 'Pure Profile' (who pay a small amount even if you don't 'qualify' for the survey, and dNeero, who have the simplest surveys, and the best compensation scheme. The latest dNeero survey is one that I can do as a result of having completed fifteen surveys:

I have talked about commenting and am a big fan of commenting on blogs for many reasons. I still don't do it half as much as I should, in fact I do it considerably less that half as much as I should, but I have realised yet another reason why commenting is so good. When you blog on your best themes, your regular visitors will often respond sometimes just to agree, but at other times may take the subject on a different tack. At these times I find myself replying to these comments and I end up writing extensively in the reply... At this point I start to think - wait - there is another blog post here... and I go away and write a future post based on the reply to the comment I have just received. Coming up with new posts and subjects is not always easy, so listen to your 'audience' for three reasons:
- They will give you ideas that are related to your themes, but ideas that you either missed or failed to expand on.
- They will give you ideas on subjects and themes that they may want to read about
- Interaction is what WEB2.0 is all about, and interaction will keep your readers coming back for more.
...and if you haven't guessed, this post was inspired by a comment that I had recently....

I am not a great fan of jewelery, and am very pleased to report that my wife feels the same way (or is that just something they say when they actually WANT you to buy them jewelery..??). There does seem to have been a jewel and trinket explosion on the internet in recent years with many different sites offering rings, gold bangle, earrings and other jewelery. I guess this is because overheads in a jewellery store can be costly, and online services have few overheads especially if they are drop-shippers. My advice would be to use reputable sites and a credit card that offers good insurance if you chose to purchase any costly gifts on the internet.

Blogger has just launched a feature allowing you to delay the publishing of a post to a specific date and time in the future, read the full details here. This is a feature that I have been waiting for since seeing it on a Wordpress blog. Up until now, blogspot users could choose a future date for a post, but regardless of date, once the post was published it was instantly visible. I am in the habit as I assume other bloggers are, of saving up posts in draft form and then posting them at a convenient point. With the new feature, once you have written a post, you can decide the date and time that it will be published, schedule it and leave it to publish itself. One word of warning though, the publishing time does not match with the time you have chosen in your settings, it seems to default to CET or something similar... The system works as you might expect, you edit the time of the post in 'post options', choose your time and select 'publish post', the post now appears as 'scheduled' in the edit posts screen, and will become visible at the time selected. Blogger have also allowed you to make visible a future-dated post. In order to do this, you would publish your post normally with the current time, and then edit the post and amend the date after it has been published. They say that if you have post-dated posts already showing on your blog, then they will remain. This is a real bonus for when you take a natural break from blogging, but want your blog to remain regularly updated with fresh material to keep your readership interested.

Rehab seems to be losing the stigma that it always seemed to carry, almost seen as a measure of success and being the title of THE most successful song from drug rehab frequenter Amy Winehouse... For most people experiencing rehab, I am sure that they would not regard it as a glamorous place to hang out. The origins of the word have almost become lost in it's shortening, but in case you were wondering, 'rehab' is short for rehabilitation.....

For everyday applications running on your PC, the on-board graphics is perfectly adequate. On newer standard PC?s the video chips are integrated into the motherboard, so why would you need a new video card? In most cases, this would be desirable if you are using some high-end action games with fast-moving detailed life-like graphics, or if you were involved in the production of detailed graphics or digital photography/video. For these types of tasks, most modern motherboards have an ?Advanced Graphics Port? ? plugging a dedicated video/graphics card into this port frees up PC memory and speeds up graphics production.

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