Relevant Ramblings

Instant Messaging has come an awful long way since I began using it six years ago. Now, the programs that you spend hours on chatting with friends, colleagues, family and lovers no longer has to be boring.

This amazing tool that can be used to correspond with whomever, wherever, and whenever, can now be customized to different colour schemes, backgrounds, and even sounds, all to your tastes. Usually this is free, but many of the IM services want you to pay for their best emoticons.

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As a fellow addict of alterative, undergound,indie music, it's so hard to find good posters... or... ANY posters.

Well, I found one place in the U.K. that has an absolutely enormous collection of posters, from blacklight and canvas to actual, rare, limited edition (i.e. they only made, say, 50) concert posters of almost any band you can imagine. Seriously.

That's why I featured them on the [url=http://www.blogcharm.com/calicokat/48855/Band+Posters+-+Rare%2C+Limited+Edition%2C+Amazing%21.html]C.K.

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Jewellery - especially body jewellery - can be overwhelmingly expensive. I often look through racks thinking "well I like all of them...". I've also found that my upper ear piercing has always been an expensive little devil. $40-$50 for an earring???

Little did I know I was naive. Just because all of the shops sell them for that much doesn't mean that they cost anything over like 25 cents to make. Yep. Websites abound that will sell them now for a dollar or two, because when they buy them wholesale, they pay so little.

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From the latest, hottest fashions to the more unique, inspired pieces, to the downright fun, quirky and cute, Torrid has it all. I love this store, and their online counterpart. They honestly have one of the biggest selections of clothing, shoes and accessories that you could want.

Best part? Most of their site is plus sizes. I mean, okay; they have shoes, hats, belts, and knick-knacks. Yep. But the clothes are amazing; ranging from stuff you'd see on any celebrity to actual stuff from Lip Service (a huge goth/underground brand). It, at the very least, needs to be checked out.

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Winter is fast approaching. Don't get stuck for dreary month after dreary month with plain, boring outerwear. Hey, we have to cheer ourselves up somehow!

Check out my picks for some of the coolest alternative styles in winter outerwear out there! All available online, and at prices that won't break your budget.

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Anyone and everyone with a MySpace account knows that there is a lot of pressure to make one's profile 'hip'. This often translates to flippant comments, controversial opinions, sexualized dialogue and photos, and even gross unprofessionalism.

Now, U.S. public officials are even getting sucked into MySpace, and they aren't all behaving the way the public, and their superiors, would expect. Rob Smoke, the Boulder, Colorado Human-Relations Chairman, has not been portraying himself, or his job, in a professional manner.

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One of the most helpful, but least talked-about, tips for finding what you want and selling your products, is knowing the proper keywords.

Buyers:

Unless you want to sift through thousands of entries under "clothing" or "home decor" then you need to use keywords. Chances are, the ones you come up with will only show a fraction of the results that actually contain products similar to what you want. Also, they may be selling for higher prices, because you are likely using more popular (obvious) keywords.

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We all know that guys can be pretty hard to buy for - especially if you can't afford a new high end laptop or other such gadget.

Fortunately, if you know where to look, you can find some incredibly unique and fun items for very reasonable prices!

ThinkGeek.com

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The much-anticipated new console from Nintendo, the Wii, is almost available in stores. Nintendo finally announced the release date as November 19th, 2006, at a price of roughly $250 USD. Although this is significantly more expensive than any of their consoles to date, it is much cheaper than the wildly popular X-Box 360. In addition, each of its new games are expected to run at an average of $10 less than a new X-Box 360 game. Nintendo has also promised to release more than twenty-five unique games this year alone. Among the most eagerly-anticipated new games will be the newest installment in the Legend of Zelda series, entitled Twilight Princess.

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This painting by Jasmine Becket-Griffith is only one of her many beautiful fantasy pieces. She not only has a fairy collection, but also a gothic, fairy-tale-inspired, spiritual, and mermaid collections. She even has a series devoted to Alice in Wonderland.

This young, but ambitious artists is among one of my favourites, and you can see some of my favourite works of hers featured at C.K. - The Goth and Punk Resource. Her work is vivid and emotional. It truly captures beauty in darkness and sadness in hope. It becomes almost impossible to peel one's eyes away from her works.

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I have a few blogs now, but I post the fewest blogs on Bloggerparty. Why? Because whenever I'm here, it seems like well over 50% of the content is SPLOG.

Some of it is just duplicate content. In fact, much of it. I see the exact same articles, word for word, by the same people, here and in my other blog communities. This wouldn't be such a big deal if it didn't pull the community down by lowering the ranking with Google. Also? It's just really annoying. I don't really want to comment on copy-pasted material, especially not to articles that are probably just paraphrases of news stories.

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GO HERE for updates to my niche blog about alternative shopping and lifestyles.

GO HERE for my most recent poetry.

GO HERE to hook up, link, network, etc with me on MySpace!

[b]Do you dress alternatively? I do... and e-Bay is by far the easiest and most interesting place to acquire such a wardrobe. You can find anything, in any style, including some absolutely amazing DIY stuff, and often for quite the reasonable (or unbelievable) price.

Here's my list (feel free to add to it)

e-Bay Sellers/Stores:

13TEARS Boutique

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My housemate and I own a website (mine/his/ours) and hence my Goodle Adsense ID is also his. If he wanted a blog here, would that be an issue? I mean, obviously I can't click on his Adsense ads nor he mine but aside from that. Any input would be appreciated! Thanks :)