Buy cheap books online
Chris 
The other day I stumbled upon a great website to buy cheap books online.
Bookish.co.nz is a site that will compare something like forty four online bookstores when you search a title or author and show you who is the cheapest.
If you are trying to get a more hard to find book which isn’t available in New Zealand, it might surprise you to know there are other places at times cheaper than Amazon!
To buy cheap books online, try visiting www.bookish.co.nz.
ITIL Foundation certification
Just this week I sat and passed the ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management exam. What the hell does that mean?
ITIL is short for ‘Information Technology Infrastructure Library’ which is a set of best practice guidelines for an IT department to deliver better service to their organisation.
Some IT departments are known for not being very customer friendly or responsive when they are called upon and ITIL improves all this when adopted and implemented.
Most of the really big organisations that exist have pretty much adopted this approach to IT. Microsoft is one huge example.
I guess it was a bit geeky of me to find it interesting 
It’s basically business customer service principles where your customers are the internal organisation rather than external.
The course lasted for three days with an exam held on the final day which I’m stoked to say I confidently passed. Now I just need my special piece of paper and pin badge to arrive in the mail.
Find out more about ITIL at the official ITIL website.
SEO certified
Today I passed my SEO certification exam at Expert Rating. So what does being SEO certified actually mean? It means you understand how websites rank in search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing.
I’ve understood how SEO works for sometime but had nothing to officially show for it which was part of my decision to get SEO certified.
My SEO example
For a laugh, a friend of mine suggested I try and see if I could get my site to rank in Google for “hottest guy in the world”.
As you can see from this image, my site chrisyong.net is currently sitting in the third position out of 1,490,000 results according to Google, I took that snapshot today.
Besides this, I also have several other websites with first page Google rankings
2 Degrees – New NZ mobile network launching in August 2009
If you haven’t seen the ads on NZ tv already, there is finally going to be another telecommunications provider to take on Telecom and Vodafone who promises to shake things up by providing better value, lower cost mobile plans. Telstra failed, hopefully 2 Degrees won’t!
As part of their launch promotion ‘Join the Chinwag‘, they will send you out a SIM card with $5 credit if you leave your details on the 2 Degrees website.
I am eagerly waiting for August to roll round and see what they offer as I know New Zealand is one of the most expensive mobile usage countries in the world.
Let’s hope 2 Degrees is the big white knight in shining armour they are making themselves out to be. If they are, they should certainly give Vodafone and Telecom a run for their money!
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Finally understanding songs from the past
Have you ever listened to a song you loved from yester-year just to have its meaning click now and you can fully relate to it?
For me, especially when I was younger, it was the melodies and hooks that drew me into a song and at times I’d just sing along without really understanding what the lyrics meant or what the emotion was behind the song.
I recently listened to a Mr. Big track that I hadn’t heard in years. As soon as it started, the words came flooding back to me and I started singing along.
The difference this time was that as I started to sing along, the meaning of the words really hit me as I could relate to them now where as I hadn’t before.
Mr. Big are best known for their hit acoustic song ‘To Be With You‘ but the song I’m referring to is ‘Just Take My Heart‘, both are from their album ‘Lean Into In‘ released in 1991.
Mr Big. – Just Take My Heart
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