I just received mass email from our HR in Europe HQ, to invites all employee to become an Olympic volunteer in Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Some of the Beijing 2008 Key Facts & Figures

The Largest Sporting Event in the World
17 Days of competition from August 8 to 24, 2008
28 Sports with 38 Disciplines and 302 Events
7 cities which are Beijing, Hong Kong, Qingdao, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenyang, Qinhuangdao
Over 60 Olympic venues, including 37 Competition Venues
200,000 Accreditations to be issued the participants
Estimates of more than 1 million INFO2008 pages accessed by day

The People
4,000 member of IT experts managed by my company
21,600 media people of journalists, photographers and non-rights-holding broadcasters
10,500 Athletes
70,000 Volunteers
5,500 Team Officials, like coaches, assistants, medical teams, etc
650 Referees & Judges
203 National Olympic Committees
2,300 Members of the IOC, National Olympic Committees, and Federations
4 million spectators
Billion of television and internet customers

The Massive IT Infrastructure
1,000 servers
1,000 network & security devices
10,000 Computers
4,000 Printers
4,800 result system terminals, including:
2,450 CIS terminals (commentator information systems)
2,350 Intranet terminals (INFO2008)
200,000 hours of testing

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As I frequently mentioned in my Chinese language blog on doing online business. There are many different online businesses that you can start easily, for example selling on eBay, doing affiliate marketing by selling Amazon products or open your own shopping store using shopping cart software.

The first thing you can do in creating online business is to make sure that your website is properly designed. I suggest getting a good tool that can help you to manage your online business.

Using good software to can help you to create efficiencies in your business that will truly benefits you when running the online business. Good online business system not only easy to install, must be also user friendly.

As a new online business startup, spend money to get good software can help to free up more time, so that you can focus in doing critical and important tasks, for example sourcing popular products to sell, running marketing campaign or promotion to push the sales, manage your inventory, provides good customer services and ensure quality assurance.

As the Chinese proverb saying goes: 工欲善其事，必先利其器, roughly translate as Good tools facilitate good works.

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Previously, I shown you How To Integrate Amazon aStore in Your Wordpress Blog. Actually, you can do the same to integrate your eBay listing into your blog too.

Do you wanted to bring your blog readers to your eBay listing to boost your sales? Or bring your eBay customers to your blog? According to statistics, eBay brings in 8.5 million visitors every day, making the largest online marketplace in the world.

Integrate your eBay store and your blog would benefits both traffic of your blog as well as your eBay store.

How To Integrate Them?

Step 1

You need to use RSS Feed Generator to generate RSS feeds of your products on eBay.

Enter your user ID at the From specific sellers field.

Ensure you select the country of your Items located in field. Also, you might want to arrange the sorting order (Sort by) and Results per page.

Once you satisfy with your search criteria, click the Search button.

If you didn’t get the desired result, you can always tweak your search criteria again.

Now, go all the way down to the lower section of the search result page, until you see the RSS icon.

Continue To Read: How To Integrate Your eBay Store in Wordpress Blog

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Last week, I attended a workshop organized by a software company that provides backup and recovery tool for Microsoft SQL server.

After the workshop, the organizer gave each of us a small gift.

It is a folded cutlery set

Expanded to fork and spoon.

This folding stainless steel set comes with fork, knife, spoon and can/bottle/wine opener.

It’s so flexible and practical, especially for camping or traveling.

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Stamp collecting has become one of the world’s oldest and most popular hobby in the world.

You can view some of my stamp collections, Dinosaur theme and how to start collect stamps.

Over the years, as stamps age and their rarity increase, the value of the stamp can increase tenfold or more, especially Classic stamp. Classic stamp is postage stamp that considered distinctive.

This is some of my classic stamp collection of Malaysia.

It’s quite hard to find stamps issued of Malaysia pre-independent days (Malaya).

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