Asian Tiger

If you an inkjet printer owner, you would have noticed how cheap it is to own the printer and how the printer is cheaper then its cartridges. I own an Epson printer and boy, those Epson inkjet cartridges are outrageously expensive. It does not help when those Epson ink cartridges comes in different vials of different colours.

I have seen some compatible Epson printer ink being sold at IT shops but am quite doubtful of their quality. These compatible inks are selling like half the price of genuine ones. I’ve never used compatible inks but am considering because of the price difference and if you have used one before, I would appreciate if you give me your views on the ink quality, ink durability and colours printed by compatible ink cartridges. Merci beaucoup…

Being a webmaster, I constantly build one site after another in search of that one niche that will bring me riches, like a casino jackpot that goes ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching spewing out winnings. Though I am able to develop many sites (read: non-spammy sites) in a short duration, I am hampered by my lack of creative skills. In short, I cannot draw and I cannot design.

I therefore had to rely on free website templates or blog themes to fill that void. But alas, free stuffs are not necessarily good. Why? Because of the following:

1. Majority of beautiful templates and themes require your site to link back to theirs. The number of links used to be one. Now, it’s like 3 or 4 links.
2. Your site would not look unique. Your site will be lost in the ocean of websites-using-free-templates
3. In extreme and rare cases, templates and themes are embedded with strange codes that may cause disaster

As such, I hire web designers to create nice sites for me but they don’t come cheap. I have to fork out hundred upon hundreds of US Dollars to pay them. Working with web designers can equally be as stressful as caring for a hyperactive child. You would really have to supervise them, provide feedback ever so often, remind them of the deadline, give in to their demands for more payment or upfront payment and et cetera.

I think I’ll just enrol myself in Collins College, get me a degree in Graphic Design, create my own templates and save me all the trouble.

Finally, the day I dreaded arrived. Curses upon curses, I was “bestowed” the honour of carrying a Blackberry with me for what reason, I know not. My master told me that this technological marvel allows customers to get in touch me on a 24 by 7 basis.

Having used it for about 5 days now, the BlackBerry is turning out to be like a cannon ball chained to my legs. Everywhere I go, that damned BlackBerry keeps beeping to let me know that my work emails are waiting for me.

Since it is also a mobile phone, I have no choice but to lug it everywhere I go. My freedom is gone. I know work 24 hours a day. How I wish that one day, I can cry “FREEDOM” just like William Wallace.

One thing that I really like though, is that I am able to connect to the Internet and surf about the Web at any time that I desire. That’s the cool part.

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