Have I ever mentioned how much I love EntreCard? Anyways, for those of you who are new to EntreCard, there is one absolutely fun way of browsing EC members’ sites, other than the usual card-dropping technique. I’ve been using this tool the second day after I registered for EC. Developed by Createlf.com, the EntreCard Browser lets your visit random blogs of EC members with just a click of a mouse button. Very easy to use, and if you’re a frequent EC blog hopper, you should immediately add this tool in your browser bookmark or favourites. Not only is this a great way to let time fly, but you collect points from every card you drop, too.

I’ve been slacking away lately from visiting my EC card droppers due to my flu and all, but don’t fret, I’ll return your visits pretty soon.

1. Take advantage of single letters and numbers. Bah. Surely you know of this already. Free4u.com is a domain that is simple and easy to type. While that may look good in writing/typing, it is when you have to spread the domain name via word of mouth that the horror begins. I can only imagine the effort it takes to explain to another person, “no, not ‘for’, but the number four… oh, you mean freefouryou.com?… no, the number four… you know, the character four that you draw with three lines… three? you said it was four….”

2. Take advantage of subdomains. It’s so easy for many web sites to implement this technique. Case in point — del.icio.us. Or, my Blog of Rugrats, which is mainly a blog about my babies, may get away with having a cute domain name like ba.byblogging.com. I know, it kind of sounds awkward at first, but so did Del.icio.us, Google.com, and Wikipedia.com at one time or another. The more important thing is what you do with the site and how you brand them that matter in the end.

3. Take advantage of IDNs. Who needs those boring domains like lorna.com or lorna.net when you can get a groovier domain name like lor.na? In fact, I really would have registered for lor.na if Namibian domain names weren’t so expensive. Like approximately USD385.00 expensive. But that’s beside the point. Checking out different international domain names can be fun and may even help you out in branding your web site more prominently than others.

I don’t really follow astrology as much as I do feng shui, but it’s fun to play around with those online horoscope tools once in a while. Among the astrological methods I’ve ever seen, I find the astral chart reading to be the most surreal. I played around with one at Top Synergy, and one of the things I’ve tinkered with is a relationship analysis with famous people.

Luckily enough, one of my favourite actors, Wentworth Miller, is listed, so I gave it a try. Awesome doesn’t even begin to describe the result! According to its relationship quotient it looks like if I ever hook up with Wentworth, it’ll be a match made in kickass heaven! I tried one with my husband and the result is no less impressive, either. Both my results show that they’re highly above average than the rest of the people who tried the analysis out.

Overall, I have a good laugh out of it — it’s pretty amusing, really. If you decide to give it a try, do share!