I’ve been doing some research on the best diet pill lately. I’ve been taking some Green Tea stuff, but I keep hearing about Acai Berry pills and hear they really work. The Acai Berry Diet is designed to give you the benefits of Acai berries (a supposed "super food") in pill form to help you lose weight. The pill also includes green tea extract. Not much publicity has followed this supplement, leaving consumers to speculate on actual results and capabilities.  After Acai berries were touted as being the #1 Superfood by Dr. Perricone on Oprah’s television show, more and more products are incorporating this supplement into their products.

There are a couple pills that are listed on a few websites as being "the BEST" - Anoretix and FentraPhen ..  While they both sound a little scary, not to mention expensive - they both are high rated for those who want to lose weight quickly.

Do you take diet pills? What ones would you recommend?

So, my friend Amy and I are working on a virtual tour type website. For this, I’m trying out a bunch of different panorama softwares in order to see which one is easiest AND most professional. Take it from me, I’ve never stitched a photo in my life, so this is going to be an interesting process. Here is a lazy idiots review of photo stitching software!

Easypano Panoweaver: I judge ease of software by whether I can do a basic something even if I haven’t read the manual. This software I couldn’t figure out on my own. There are tons of different options making this software extremely powerful and professional. But, I can’t figure it out and I’m too lazy to read the instructions. So, moving on!

TO BE CONTINUED …

As many of my readers know, I do some paid blogging in order to make some extra cash to pay off credit cards and do fun things with my kiddo. Well, I’m not ashamed! LOL! I’m pretty clear when I do a paid post, but now, since I signed up for SocialSpark it’s REQUIRED that I disclose! So all you disclosure freaks will be happy! (I’m teasing … but I know you all appreciate it when you are told you are viewing essentially a “commercial” on a personal blog). Anyway, Social Spark is pretty cool – it’s a lot like a Myspace or Facebook idea where it’s social networking, but, you can “network” with other bloggers right along with advertisers. So, if there is an opportunity listed that you aren’t “qualified” for (due to RealRank /site visitors, category, target audience, etc.) you can contact the advertiser directly and let them know why you think you’d rock their opportunity!

I’ve only done a couple opps for Social Spark so far – but they’ve been pretty nice. They pay around the same as opps from PayPerPost (by the same company who brought you SocialSpark) but they require disclosure (as I mentioned earlier), real opinions and it’s also search engine friendly (so Google *shouldn’t* have a problem here!!).

Another cool section of Social Spark (other than the “Post” and “Sponsored” opportunities is the “Sparks” section which offers you some ideas for blog posts. So, when you are running dry, you can check out the “Sparks” and get some ideas! You may even get “blogged back” by someone on their blog when you do a Spark they came up with! These aren’t “paid” posts, just a nice way of getting incoming links and helping someone else out!

I’m incredibly excited about Social Spark – I really enjoy blogging and I especially like making money blogging. I like the way I can “speak” with advertisers directly and form relationships with my favorites. It’s a great opportunity to supplement your income or even, if you are so inclined, make it your job. Networking is KEY – and Social Spark is making it easier!

The new PayPerPost Boards (or now known as all-encompassing “Izea Boards”) is live and raring to be “chatted” at with some obvious changes most likely brought on by the recent Izea customer survey. The slated changes that were to be made to the board were announced in the Izea blog back on the 29th of February. Some changes included adding in more Izea features including SocialSpark, Bloggers Choice Awards, RockStartUp and of course, PayPerPost. The other glaring change was that of the current moderator status - a good majority of the current mods were supposed to be removed (and set to “moderator alumni”) and those left would be “trained” on how to moderate the boards.

There were a lot of issues with the moderator “staff” that caused another board, Posties.us, to be opened by Robert MacEwan (of macewan.org) in hopes that the “posties” (the term that affectionately represents the bloggers at PayPerPost) could speak more freely with less fear of their threads being locked down by overzealous (and rumored non-welcoming) moderators.

There may be some tweaks left for the board to go through, but I was able to log right in with my old login/password. I noticed right away how much more “organized” the boards were, although they will most likely take a little getting used to. One thing that was obvious, as mentioned before, was that of the greatly reduced moderators - including the rumored “unwelcoming” mod. (Who, for the record - I never thought was “unwelcoming” just had a dry sense of humor which I could appreciate.) Gone now is the “Circle of Trust” status - replaced with a nicer and less daunting “Rockstar” status. Also, the Izea Team Members and Mods are obviously noted.

I only wonder now if they have enough Mods. Will there be more added? Will they be “trained” as mentioned by Ted Murphy (the CEO of the Izea company for those who live under a proverbial rock)? Only time will tell I guess!

My friends and their 2 kids (3 & 4) and the hubby, our kid (3) and I went to the Applebees near St. Johns Towncenter here in Jacksonville for some dinner. It took around 15 - 20 minutes to even have someone come and take our drink orders! The boys food came first (we ordered it with our drinks along with our food) and they were done quickly. The kids were done eating and we were still waiting on our food to get to us. It took around a 1/2 hour for that to happen.

The place wasn’t full, so there was NO reason for it to take that long. We both ended up giving 5% and 10% to our server. We weren’t pains (seriously, I brought plenty of toys) and we didn’t demand much. Sigh … ahh well. This won’t stop me from eating there, but seriously Applebees, don’t drag your ass. Those of us with kids (young kids) don’t mind the “turn ‘em and burn ‘em” attitude, lol …. Crayons can only go so far.

I opened up an AAFES (Armed Forces) charge card to buy myself a brand new PINK Sony Vaio! The one I have linked is a smaller, cheaper version (I think) of the one that I bought. I have the VGN-CR115E model. It came with a cute pink carry case and matching pink mouse. The computer has 120G’s of space and a 15 inch monitor. It’s super light and only 1.3 inches thick. The memory is lacking a little bit, I think it’s 1G. It will play my Sims2 game with most of the expansion packs, but it takes awhile to load. So, this isn’t a “gamer” laptop, but I didn’t necessarily want one. So, the only thing I think I want to do is upgrade the memory. It came with Vista which kinda sucks but I’ve learned it. It refuses to talk to my printer on a regular basis though. It worked one day, and now it doesn’t want to. I have to have my hubby look at it when he gets home (he’s the real geek in the house). But, I love her I’ve always wanted my own laptop.