Every day at work I listen to internet radio from di.fm, either the techno, classic techno, or minimal channels are sure to give me something I want to hear for a few hours.

Today I heard a techno mix by “technics2000″, looked him up and found his blog where I didn’t quite get the mix I was after but he has a shiteload of other mixes that are cool, I am listening to the vocal house vol1 while I update my laptop to vista SP2.

Another artist I heard today is Tadox, although that will be too hard for some of you :), some MP3s are there for free too. Remember the good old days of audio galaxy when you could search for almost any music and find it on mp3…

Wonder when my new keyboard will arrive from china for my Dell 1520 after I spilled some Beer on it one night, managed to flip it over quick enough to save the bits inside but a sticking enter key can be a bit distracting :), ebay is the best place to buy little tech bits n’ pieces.

Edit: next day, and I find myself remembering I like the Classic Rap channel too!, I like listening to this while painting the house…

I don’t wear a uniform but if you work in the UK and would like a few hundred quid back from the tax man then the tax allowance is now £60 to £140 per year from April 2008

See list of what you can claim here > http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/eim32712.htm it is not limited to those listed but that is a guide and customs will choose the most suitable catogory based on your job

Wash your uniform at home ?

Then write to your tax office and tell them, i got a extra tax allowance and it is backdated 6 years which its better than nothing and better in your pocket

It only costs the price of a stamp so worth a try !

All you need to do is fill in the blanks and send it to your work’s tax office……………

Your Name
Your Address
Date

Inland Revenue
Tax Office Address
Details available from
Your employer/pay roll dept
…………
Postcode.

Dear Inland Revenue

RE: Expenses Allowance

I have been employed at Company Name, Location since (Date of Starting at Employment). I am obliged to launder the uniform, which is supplied to me by the company. I therefore wish to claim an expenses allowance of £xx for each year since the above date.

Yours Faithfully

Your Name
Your Tax code

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/employers-bul…in27/freas.htm

Step by step guide, just follow along!.

This method will earn you at least a couple of hundred pounds a month direct to your bank account every month with very little effort from you. First you need to get a couple of things to be up and running:

A domain name, the cheapest place to get this is GoDaddy, all providers are pretty much the same so why pay more than the cheapest?, use this tool to find your ideal name, generally go for a .com, but if you are in the UK it’s probably best in my experience to get a .co.uk domain nam

You then need reseller hosting, I recommend EUK Host, I find them very reliable with great online chat support and nice and cheap. I have a coupon code that will get you a 10% discount with EUK host, to get that enter 10%new when you order.

We have hosting and a domain name now what?, we research a niche. Now there are 4 ways I go
about researching what is hot and what people are buying.

First you check out Google trends, find out if the trend is stable enough to actually make a blog on e.g. if it was swine flu You can generalise it and make a
website on flu remedies.

Another great source for ideas is yahoo buzz . This never fails to give me an idea for a niche to crack, there is an “upcoming” section that can give brand new ideas to work on.

I head over to sitepoint and see what niche

blogs are selling and for what price. Sometimes you are lucky and find a niche where people are paying a fortune. These you want to get into as fast as possible or else you may miss the opportunity.
Then lastly if all else fails I take a trip down to good old Digital Point and find out what the people there are
buying. The people buying will be your customers so you MUST give them what they want!, this will help you beforehand :)

By this stage with these free online forums and research tools you should have a niche by now!! so let’s us bring this idea TO LIFE. To start this process we will need our first domain. Once again I recommend GoDaddy. Now there are many ways to actually get a nice keyword rich domain name. I personally do not like to spend all day on this so my choice is yahoo domains, just type in a keyword and go as long as it has at least one targeted keyword in it, it should sell. When you register your domain DO NOT forget to point the domain name to the nameservers that your host gave you.

Alright we have the domain & hosting now what?, time for a nice over view of Web Host Manager.
Some of you may not know how to operate it so here is a short guide for you .

• Log into cpanel – different host may vary but this is if you host with me this is how it is set up .
• At the bottom of the page you will see a section entitled advanced . Do not let the name fool you . I am gonna make this simple for you . Click on the ICON that says WHM Web Host Manager .
• Logged into your WHM panel you should see a link entitled account functions . Scroll down that section until you see the add new account function . Click that .
• Input domain name into the domain name field .
• Choose a username
• Choose a password
• Choose a package as I set one up already for my hosting clients . It is called NEW .
• cpanel theme – Leave this ALONE
• Language – English
• Leave the DNS settings alone .
• Hit Submit – Congrats you just made your first account .

Now let us log into the cpanel we just created, simple steps I know but as a new person
some may not know these steps so I am listing them here for convenience .

• Log out of WHM
• Log on to you newly created domain’s cpanel located at domain.com/cpanel.
• Input your information that you created into the prompt .
• There you do all logged in now .

Now we need to install WordPress.

• First we want to go down to where you see the section called
  SITE SOFTWARE, go there and there you will see a icon entitled “site software” – click that.
• Next you will be brought to a list of software available for you to install that is on my server, click blog from the list and then you will have 2 choices, pick WordPress and click install.
• Now while installing the blog you will see some options since we
  are flipping this (flipping is quickly making a blog then selling it on as a product) we want to get rid of the default install directory which is yourdomain.com/wordpress, we want this installed directly on the main domain which is yourdomain.com so the search engines will love it more. Erase everything in that box. Now it talks about database just clean out that box as well as it is not
  needed, fill in all the other input fields and click install .
• Now congrats if you did it right
  you can go to domain.com and view your hello World post !!

Now Let us clean this default content up a bit so we have a clean base to work with.

• Go to yourdomain.com/wp-admin and enter the username and password you set up for it
• Go to edit post
• Delete the hello world post
• Go to pages .
• Delete the About Page .
• Now go to your settings .
• Enter a Keyword rich name for your BLOG
• Enter a catchy Tagline that is easy to remember .
• That is it close that out for now .

Now for a nice little FACE to our BLOG, go to google, type in google yourkeyword wp theme, there are literally thousands of wordpress themes out there just run a search in google.

We have a nice design face for your blog now we have to put it on your blog .

• Log into cpanel.
• Go to file manager .
• Look for wp-content folder .
• Inside that folder you will see another folder called themes,
  go there and upload your zip file with your theme to that folder .
• Now go back to yourdomain.com/wp-admin
• Login and click on the appearance tab .
• Click themes, find your theme, click on it, then activate it.

Go to your blog, take a look at it and see if it is really what you want . Ask yourself “would you buy
it?”, if the answer is yes then you are ready for the next step.

Content ohh who was that that said CONTENT is KING, they are correct as the more and better your
content the higher the price you will get for your blog . So there are a few ways to get this. The quick and easy way – and the right way . Choice is yours .

RIGHT WAY!

Write about 10 or 20 articles yourself and post them on the blog .

THE GREY WAY

Find some articles and rewrite them .

THE QUICK AND EASY WAY !

Switch on the auto pilot!

Yes auto blogs make cash for people who are pretty LAZY. They do not want to keep finding new content for
there blogs all the time . They want a blog that updates all buy itself on auto pilot.

There are a few ways you can get content quickly and automatically, my recommendation is Caffeinated Content. Another helpful
plugin is pingcrawl, lets have a look at those.

CC or caffinated Content

One of the best plugins in the world it can pull data from 3 diffrent places.

• Yahoo Answers – not good for blog flipping .
• Youtube – this is ok for blog flipping on some blogs like gaming and anime .
• Free article directories- Best for Blog flipping .

Pingcrawl is a very powerful tool it finds blogs that have track back urls and leaves pings on them, which gets you a free link.

Now for some reason it only works with CC if the post are set to post in the future . But anyway it
goes you can still sell it as a self advertising blog!, I recomend you BUY CC and pingcrawl is free just run a search for it in google.

Now we have these plugins downloaded on our hard drive we ned to get them on the blog.

• First log into cpanel
• Go to file manager
• Go to wp-content folder
• Go to the plug-in folder
• Upload the zipped plugins there,
  extract them,
  delete the zip file
• Now go back to domain/wp-admin
• Go to plugins
• ACTIVATE the plugins.
• There ya go now follow the read me in the plugins set them up you are ready to roll.

Now let us simplfy this as much as possible.

• Log into your cpanel file manager .
• Compress the file wp-content
• download the compressed zip file .
• Now every blog you make from now on just delete that folder and upload your compressed file and extract it .

How easy and fast is that ?

Now the next part is selling your blog, there are many ways to do this.

• Digital Point is free and has some chance to make sales.
• Sitepoint costs but you can make a lots of money there.
• Ebay you can unload numerous websites there at once.

There are others but those are the main ones, but I like sitepoint so let me talk a little bit about that.
Your title MUST BE CATCHY, go to sitepoint and check out some auctions browse startup auctions . Which title catches your eye?,
Why did it catch you eye?,
How can you do the same ?,
Make sure title is in caps as you will get a better response rate.

Putting special characters in title also catches the eye.
Keep It Simple Stupid!.
Make sure that you do not go into great detail just give them just enough to buy.

I have been thinking for a few weeks to change our huge 32″ dolby la de daa bass subwoofer thingy on top built in JVC telly to something a little more LCD, same size is OK as we are modest people and don’t have the hugest of houses.

Week and a half ago we had a walk around the big outlets to see what the picture looked like on the main brands, I thought Toshiba looked good with their “regza” thing (current buzzword BS), samsung looked shite, and LG looks wooOooO very nice. But the ones that looked good enough were around the £500 mark which I wasnt prepared to spend on a 32 inch telly nowadays. I told my mum and wife that it would be pretty easy in this economy to get a £500 telly for around £350, in the following week low and behold the group that encompases currys, PC world, pixmania put the 32LG5570 that usually retails for £499 for sale for the bank holiday weekend for £348, 32 inch full HD rated 8.9/10 overall by shitloads of reviewers across several sites and I knew this was the perfect upgrade. I placed my order online quickly from work that day as I knew this would be a  sellout once the word got out (I find out about good deals pretty early with my network of sites and retailers contacting me directly).

I was expecting delivery the following thursday, after bank holiday weekend and all was set, just sit back and wait for free delivery. Then I thought to go to PC world and see what this set looked like for real to see if the stats matched up with the real deal, and yes it is indeed a great box with a really nice picture. I got home then thought hmmm why not go to the store cancel the online order by phone and just take the thing home today… then I read about people getting stuck pixels on TVs and such and it’s far easier to get your money back without the hassle of testing etc if you just get it delivered.. so I left it for Thursday.

Right at the end of the bank holiday weekend (one hour high street trading left) I got an email from PC world saying there was a problem with payment… ring your bank… which I did.. they said nobody attempted to take payment.. so I called PC world and the show begun… ending up me realising I typed by credit card number into their site incorrectly (FFS a little verification would have noticed that on the spot, hole in the website me thinks..).

So I went to PC world once the guy on the phone confirmed there were still 3 in stock there. Now if you are in the UK and have ever graced a PC world store with your presence then you will realise they are painfully understaffed, all of them… if you ever get to speak to a sales assistant in PC world you are in the minority.

20 minutes of stringing along begun that I wont bore you with except to say that they did not have 3 in stock (centralised stock control fail) but they had “4 on display”… now WTF would convince a store manager to take so much stock of a great deal and stick it on the friggin shelves on display….

I got this guy to check currys and to cut a long story short I drove over there like a maniac and snagged the last one in west London.

Had it resting on the other telly all week enjoying the crisp clarity of the LCD picture and ordered a  wall mount from ebay, which arrived thursday… today I drilled the wall and mounted the telly… and it really is a nice sight :), now all I have to do is flog the JVC, I put an ad in the loot.com website for £150, seems that is towards the upper end of the second hand market pricing scale for this type of TV… so I can see myself dropping the price to just £100 to free up some space in the living room this week when I try to resell… damn that seems like such a cheap price for a big TV with great sound.. but then we as humans must constantly upgrade…

If you are considering getting the 32LG 5570, go for it the picture, even standard non HD broadcast is great!

Want to know how to improve your workplace and infact make the world a better place, absorb what Barry Schwartz is trying to get across in this TED presentation.