Today, we launched our newest site Word Spin.

Word Spin is a unique site, you can use it to help find words that can be used for creating domain names or just finding defitions and their uses.

You type in a word to search and it searches the English Dictionary and returns a list of words that contain your chosen word inside them.

Give it a try

Egg Rolls, are a favourite appetizer ordered by people everywhere, and now, we willl show you how to make them in your own kitchen.

Preperation Time: 10 min
Total Time: 30 min
Makes: 10 servings.

You need:

• 1 lb. chinese cabbage
• 2 stalks celery
• 1/2 lb. cooked pork
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. sugar
• Liberal dash pepper
• 1/2 tsp. light soy sauce
• 1/4 tsp. sesame oil
• 1 beaten egg
• 10 egg roll skins
• 3 cups oil

Preperation

1. Boil cabbage and celery until very tender.
2. Drain and squeeze out excess water.  Shred very fine and set aside to drain further.
3. fry pork.
4. Mix all ingredients but egg together.
5. Beat egg.
6. Wrap filling in egg roll skins and seal with egg.
7. Heat oil in wok or deep fat fryer to 375 degrees and drop in egg
   rolls.
8. When skin turns light golden brown, remove from oil and drain.  (At
   this point restaurants refrigerate them and finish the cooking process as
   needed.)
9. When cool, drop again into hot oil and fry until golden brown.

Shepherd’s pie is one of the all-time favorite ‘comfort’ foods. On a cold winter’s night, nothing is as welcome as a big plate of well made shepherd’s pie, with some crusty bread.

Preperation Time: 10 min
Total Time: 90 min
Makes: 4 servings.

You need:

• 500g Leaned Beef Mince
• 1 white Onion – diced
• 1 red Onion – diced
• 1 Carrot – diced
• Portobello Mushroom, 1/2 large diced
• Worcester Sauce – few dashes are needed
• Ketchup - 1 table spoon
• Tabasco sauce – 1 tablespoon
• Stock Cube x 2 Beef in 1 pint hot water
• Salt & Pepper
• Mash Potato for topping

Preperation

1. Fry off the onions in a little sunflower oil until transparent – probably around 8 minutes on a medium gas flame. Once cooked put to one side.
2. Fry the mince
3. Once all the mince is cooked put into a shallow saucepan, add the diced mushrooms & carrots plus all the juices from the pan you used for the frying.
4. Add 2 beef stock cubes. Cover and leave to simmer.
5. Check about 45 minutes into the cooking, and if it has cooked, take it off the heat. Add a little flour fixed in water to the mixture to make sure the shepherd’s pie has a thick sauce.
6. Put into your ovenproof dish. Add mash potatoes to top and use a fork to make swirly patterns.
7. Place dish in a preheated oven to 220 degrees for 45 minutes – check the pie is piping hot before serving.

I love christmas, every year it has always been one of my favourite holidays.

Giving and receiving gifts each year is always fun.

There’s just always other factors about christmas that always tend to be stressfull.

The first thing is that my family are on the other side of the country and I miss not being able to spend christmas with them. I spend it with my girlfriend and her family so it’s not like I spend christmas alone, but it’s not the same thing.

Growing up, christmas was the one time that our family was all together. It was one of the few times that my grandparents came to visit, and we saw relatives who we had little to do with during the rest of the year.

The other thing is the same old thing…. money. You end up choosing between paying a bill or buying a gift for someone.

The third thing is the thing that has always stressed me out and probably always will. It’s figuring out what gifts to get people. I don’t want to give someone a gift that they’ll exchange the next day for a better gift, or worse, regift it the next year.

People will say that these aren’t things to be stressfull about, but people who say that have never spent every christmas away from family, or have never dealt with the other two factors.

The other stress factor right now is snow. I hate it when it snows out, it makes the roads slippery and lots of drivers become idiots.

I’ve been having to get new tires on my car for a while, but haven’t been able to because of money, and the snow falling makes needing tires that much more important and also adds more stress to not having them.

I guess what I’m saying is Merry Christmas and Bah Humbug at the same time and that makes no sense.

Yesterday, I posted a new plugin for sale on my forum at Affiliate Developer, this plugin is a cart that can be plugged into any Amazon script. Mostly written for my own scripts, but easy to adapt to the other scripts that are out there.

I’ve put it on a few of my sites, so let’s see what type of returns I get from using it.

Other than that, things have been pretty quiet / busy. I got my new backup server up and running this week from home. Gonna clear out a storage room in the basement and wheel it in there shortly so it’s out of the way.

The server isn’t very powerful or anything, and it’s only got a 20 gig hard drive, but it was built to be a backup server and only a backup server. Data gets backed up to it and that is it.

On another note, slowly getting my christmas shopping done. I’ll be sending the presents I bought for my parents and my brother back to Newfoundland this weekend and then I have to finish shopping for Patsy and her family.

Two new sites launched this week.

First Site:

123 Send It, this site is designed as a sort of sister site to my image hosting site. People can upload files up to 2 megabytes in size and send the download link to friends. Friends receive the link in the email, download the file and that is that.

Second Site:

Affiliate Developer, this site is still in progress, but it’s primary purpose is to serve as a home to my affiliate scripts and the forum. I upgraded the version of the forum it is running and once I get time, I’ll change the template on the forum to match with the rest of the site.

This morning, we launched our latest site 123 Send It, this site is a sister site to our image hosting site, and allows for securely sending files to others.

A user uploads a file to our server, and an email is sent to the person he is sending the file to containing instructions to download the file.

Fast, easy, and simple. Just the way these sites should be.

Ok, after a few months of work building a site that can take any datafeed and add it’s product to the DB, I finally launched Need 4 Deals this week.

The site launched with 10 merchants and over 15,000 products.

I’ve still got more to add to it before I’m done.

On another note, I’ve set up a few of my sites to do tracking via google’s new analytics site. So far, the reports back have been pretty useful and interesting.