Irwan’s

So it happens to be the time to get back to Malaysia again. I don’t have the time for Corelle hunt this time. So I thought of something that my mom would like, or might like (but I like it alot, lol). Guess what I bought for her? ROommmba.

What roomba suppose to do is to automatically clean floor without any human assistance. I get the one with scheduler. This version will on itself on schedule, clean the floor and get back to its home base to charge when it finishes. You have the freedom to schedule what day and when to clean. The scheduler can have unique schedule for each day for the whole week.

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Nuffnang is a new way to monetize your blog. It’s a Malaysia-based company and it’s just like adsense but with distinct personality.

After you have registered with Nuffnang, you’ll be provided with code to implement in your website. It can be anywhere. As for me I put it in my sidebar. However, you won’t get any advertisers banner yet. Nuffnang need to gather information traffic about your site first for about a week. After that you’ll get your first advertising and money will keep rolling afterward.

Nuffnang categorized user based on their unique visitors that your blog generate. The merrier your traffic, the merrier your wallet. After you’ve reached the threshold of RM100, you can check out your money. It’s that simple, register, implement code and blog like you always do.

Cypherhacks already got his first ads and it yields him RM50 for 7 day period. Not bad huh?I asked him about his blog traffic. He said it generates around 5-6K Unique per week. Last week, my blog got 4k uniques. I wonder how much I’ll got from Nuffnang.

For more information visit their kinda funny Blogger FAQ.

Don’t waste your time. Register now and start monetize your websites today!

So are you nuffnanged? I am!

Gary asked me about ASB rate for previous year. I got this from cari.com.my discussion forum. It’s just from 1990 onwards.

Tahun Dividen Bonus
1990 8.0 6.0
1991 8.5 4.0
1992 7.5 5.0
1993 9.0 4.5
1994 9.5 4.5
1995 10.0 3.0
1996 10.25 3.0
1997 10.25 1.25
1998 8.0 2.5
1999 10.50 1.5
2000 9.75 2.0
2001 7.0 3.0
2002 7.0 2.0
2003 7.25 2.0
2004 7.25 2.0
2005 7.25 2.0
2006 7.20 1.5
2007 7.30 1.25

I thought nobody would buy mine but I just sold 1 link recently! The link is titled ‘Credit Card Processing’ at my sidebar under ‘Sponsored Link’. Quite irrelevant to my blog, but I don’t mind at all.

What is Text Link Ads?

It’s another way to make profit from your blog or websites, just like adsense. What makes it different from Adsense is that the payment is paid monthly and fixed. So you don’t have to hope that someone will click your ads everyday.

Unlike adsense, there is no minimum payment if you use paypal as your payment option. You will get what you earned when the incoming month starts. Cool rite.
If you are ready, sign up here:

You will find some cool calculator there to predict how much you will get paid monthly, based on your pagerank and alexa rank. You don’t have to register to use the calculator. If you want to know how much maximum profit I could make in 1 month, you can put my blog address, irwan.biz, in the calculator. My blog category is Finance.

You already have Text Link Ads account? Please tell me your experience with it.

It’s dark day for me. Not as dark as the Massacre at Virginia Tech but still it brings gloom to me. I was playing with Mysql in my new blog. I was trying to move irwan’s blog database to dreamscenevideo.net hosting so I move to this bigger capacity hosting. What I did was try to import the Irwan’s database into dreamscenevideo.

What it did was overwrite my dreamscene database, deleting all my older post and replace with non-working database from Irwan’s blog.
To end it all, I never backup the dreamscene database. Now I lost all the posts along with information that take tens of hours to get.
Small percentage of adsense revenue also lost.

What to say, life has to go on.

Investing world is very personal. Some could take bigger risk, while some prefer secure investment like ASB. To know which side you are belong to, you can fill this short quiz and check the result yourself. Just make sure to be as honest as possible.

Risk Tolerance Quiz

Here What I got:

Your score for risk capacity is 34:
With a score between 30 and 38 you have the wherewithal to take selective investment risks that includes both stocks - which carry higher risk - and bonds, that have much less risk. You might consider a portfolio that is anchored by large company U.S. stocks — perhaps 40 percent — maybe in an index fund. Include small company U.S. stocks, too, at about 20 percent. International stocks should play a role — perhaps another 20 to 25 percent of your portfolio. The final 20 percent could split between short to medium term bonds and some type of hedge, such as a natural resources fund. This type of portfolio could lose about 20 percent in a year.

Your score for risk tolerance is 34:
With a tolerance of 33 to 41, you have a healthy tolerance for risk with the capacity to match. You have the wherewithal to take selective investment risks that could lose as much as 20 percent of its value in any given year

Now, go there and let me know how are you doing.