What to do to enjoy your time on the internet…
When you browse the web, you can read interesting magazines, enjoy personal stories like on Fuknus, watch videos, check pictures and last but not least play games!
There are thousands of opportunities on the web to play and have fun for a few hours (instead of watching TV for example…). Some of the possible games are blackjack, bingo, poker, scratch cards or roulette. You can find some of those games online like Bingo sites online or poker sites or virtual rooms where you can play with people from all over the world. This is a lot of fun and on top of that you get to meet different cultures and different nationalities… Very fun, right?
However, there are so many sites out there that it is always complicated to find the right site for you. That’s why you want to ask your friends, or check specialized forums or magazines in the field. It’s always a pleasure to do this investigation to realize what would be the right site for you: the site where you would feel comfortable playing, the site where you have a good time and the site where you want to come back!
It’s like a retail store. If you enjoy the experience in a retail store, you want come back! Otherwise, you decide that this was your last trip there! Too bad…
At the end of the day, what matters in life is to find out the right place for you to hang out and have fun. The internet is so diversed that you can find out many sites that will make you happy… Enjoy the web and be happy!
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Top 20 Hedge Funds 2009
When you look at hedge fund performance so far in 2009, it seems that some of them have been making a lot of money while others are still losing their jobs… Is life unfair?
Top 20 Hedge Funds 2009
1/ Turnberry Capital +130.69%
2/ Palomino Capital +114.43%
3/ Henderson European ABS +110.66%
4/ Pentwater Event Fund +81.10%
5/ RAB Energy Class +74.96%
6/ Redwood Capital Masters +70.38%
7/ Pharo Master Fund +68.25%
8/ Henderson UK Equity +66.23%
9/ Delta Fund Europe +64.96%
10/ Dorset Energy Fund +59.66%
11/ Templeton Emerging Market Fund +58.65%
12/ Element Capital Fund +58.43%
13/ Pars IV Offshore Fund +56.97%
14/ Canyon Value Realization +54.78%
15/ Zadig Fund Class +51.68%
16/ Stone Liond Fund +51.37%
17 Forest Glib +51.23%
18/ GLS Offshore +49.47%
19/ Feingold Okeefe Capital +49.14%
20/ HSBC Distressed Opportunity +48.94%
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U2 is a legend!
U2 has been around for so many years but the show is still there! I can’t wait to see their next concert!
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10 most downloaded WordPress plugins
All of these plugins have been downloaded at least 500,000 times. I guess it means that these plugins are useful for WordPress…
1/ All in One SEO Pack – Useful for SEO purposes
2/ Google XML Sitemaps – Create a Google sitemap useful for your blog
3/ NextGEN Gallery – A fully integrated Image Gallery plugin to offer you lots of pictures
4/ WP Super Cache – A fast caching engine to provide static html files
5/ Contact Form 7 – A contact form
6/ Sociable – to add links to your favorite social networkds
7/ WP-DB-Backup – You don’t want to lose your data!
8/ Google Analytics for WordPress – Integrates Google Analytics
9/ WP-Polls – Adds an AJAX poll system to your blog.
10/ podPress – A plugin for podcasters
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California resorts not what they used to be
Recession got you down? Need a vacation? Think you can’t afford one? Think again! I would go one step further though, if you sleep on the couch on someone’s porch and leave before they wake up you don’t have to pay anything!
There are always ways to save money and reduce your travel budget.
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) � For their one-and-only family getaway this year, the Billingtons checked in to an upscale San Diego resort on Sunday with many of the usual vacation accessories — bathing suits, board games and golf clubs.
But they also brought flashlights, sleeping bags and an inflatable mattress because the pool-side room they booked for just $19 comes with a tent where the beds normally would be. They even had to pack their own toilet paper.
While many of Southern California’s luxury hotels are battling a severe slump in business by offering extra services and more amenities, the Rancho Bernardo Inn is luring guests with the exact opposite — no frills and barely any basics.
Called the “Survivor Package,” the hotel’s deeply discounted promotion lets patrons trim its standard $219-per-night rate on a sliding scale of deprivation, lowering charges with each amenity stripped from the room.
The most basic version: a room for $19 with no bed, toilet paper, towels, air-conditioning or “honor bar,” and only a single light bulb in the bathroom for safety. The next level up adds in a bed — sans sheets — for $39 a night. For a bed plus toiletries and toilet paper, the rate is $59.
Maureen Carew, assistant general manager of the four-star inn, called the promotion “clever marketing in a downtime.”
THRIFTY VACATIONS
Herman Billington, 39, a personal trainer who owns his own business, says it’s the only vacation he, his wife and their two sons, aged 9 and 10, plan to take this year as they concentrate on “keeping it lean.”
“The boys get to feel like they’re camping, and I get to go to the spa,” said their mother, Erica Billington, 37.
Luxury hotels and resorts have fallen on hard times during the recession, as corporate travel planners shy away from lavish spending and consumers plan thrifty, if any, vacations.
Across the industry, occupancy rates have dropped about 10 percent Carew said. The slump has pushed room rates down, with many of California’s more luxurious properties throwing in a breakfast, a round of golf or extra night’s stay for free.
The outlook for the rest of 2009 is bleak, according to Smith Travel Research, which predicts that U.S. hotel revenue per available room will fall 17 percent and demand will drop 5.5 percent by the end of the year.
Carew said Rancho Bernardo’s promotion drew more than 420 reservations, including 240 bookings at the $19 rate and 116 at the $39 rate.
Like the Billingtons, mortgage banker Brian Sciutto, 36, is watching his pennies. His Sunday night stay at the hotel is his first getaway in two years, though he brought his iPhone and mail from home to keep busy.
“I feel like I’m on vacation but I’m not,” Sciutto said as he enjoyed the cool breeze blowing in from the golf course outside. “I feel like I’m being spoiled for 19 bucks.”
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