It may be time for a new computer this one has been acting up like crazy. I’m thinking about getting a laptop, I am so far behind the times. I really have to laugh at myself because I have mentioned before that I am not very technical. I can’t even work a cell phone, yeah I know, pitiful right? That’s the first thing children learn about anymore.

I have heard lately about a lot of people submitting their websites and blogs for reconsideration and have actually gotten their page ranks back and I think that is great. I am not planning on asking for reconsideration because as sad as I was when they took my rank away I would have no respect for myself if I told Google I thought I had done something wrong.

I don’t hate Google, but I do think that they have a few conflicts of interest and need to sort those out. I still use some of their tools as I mentioned before because I like them. I have been using Yahoo search more, but can’t say I like it as much as G. I know there are others such as Ask, but I’m getting too lazy in my old age to bother and even though I like change, sometimes it isn’t always for the best.

I dropped over at tech crunch and read a post that had been done about bloggers that contract through ppp losing their rank. I thought it was very sad that people can laugh at someone else’s misfortune when they are doing the same thing, but on a larger scale. I really don’t think it was just paid bloggers that got hit, but it seems to make a lot of people happy to see it that way.

Are you a stay at home mom or someone that likes to get free samples and try different products and print out money saving coupons? Then you might be interested in Startsampling.com I just signed up there and it was an easy process this is a legitimate online survey/sampling company. If your like me you’ll have fun sampling different products that are delivered straight to your door and there’s nothing to be afraid of if you participate.

This site is free to join and they don’t give your information to telemarketers, your information is strictly private and they don’t try and make you buy anything. Besides getting samples and print out coupons you can also accumulate points to redeem for gifts. When you first sign up according to your answers you will be shown the products that they think will suit you best, try and answer yes to as many as possible so you can get the most points and products.

You can’t make any money on this site, but it’s fun to try samples that you might not otherwise try and it doesn’t take that much time and like I said you can use your points to get some nice gifts and save money with coupons. Products you can sample range from beauty products, music CDs, household items, pet supplies and personal hygiene items.

You don’t have to pay shipping fees or ever send anything back and all they ask you to do is fill out a short survey and give your opinion of the products and that only takes about 10 minutes of your time for the fun of trying free samples and some of the samples are the full size.

The gifts you can win range from gift cards and household items plus other stuff. Just thought I would mention this place if you like to get free samples in the mail. You can get FTM’s= frequent tryer miles for the prizes it’s fun with different contests and things to participate in.

Ok since it’s Friday I’m sure everyone has some great things planned for their time off and lots more shopping to get done so I’ll wish everyone a safe and happy weekend.