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New Kind of Blog Comment Spam?

May 31, 2010 / / 0 Comments

I just got a comment to my safari entry on my personal blog which I think may be a new type of blog comment spam. Spammers have taken to make comments on blogs with links to their websites. Sometimes these comments are just links, but other times they try to be sneaky and they comment praising your blog and saying how useful it is. Here is an example:

“You made some really good points in your article. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with you.”

But I just got a new type of spam that it’s even sneakier – directly addressing the topic of your blog post, and of course, providing a link to a commercial site. In the case of my “safari” entry, the comment basically provided a dictionary definition of the word safari. I actually thought of approving the comment when I saw it – though after looking at my entry I realized that such comment was completely unrelated to what I’d written.

So anyway, this is a warning to other bloggers who might be wondering whether those types of comments are legitimate or not.

20 Questions for Kids Game – Review

May 31, 2010 / / 0 Comments

20questions.jpgI just got an older set of the 20 Questions for Kids game at Thriftown (for under $2 – it retails for over $28) and Mika and I was surprised at how enjoyable the game is. Basically, the game has 150 cards, each with the name of a person, place, thing or year. There are 20 clues as to what the item in question is – the quicker you guess, the more you score. The game comes with a playing board, chips and playing pieces – but they’re not that useful when just playing with two people. The fun part, after all, are the questions.
I was quite surprised at how even Mika and I were in our play ability. It was just as easy or hard for me to guess as for her. I love games in which adults don’t have too much of an advantage.

Purity Mineral Science – Good foundation, slimy company

May 21, 2010 / / 1 Comment

A few weeks ago I won an auction on listia.com for foundations and I have to say I’m quite pleased with what I got (specially because I paid the equivalent of $3 for quite for a bunch of foundations and blushes). So far, the foundation I like most is Purity Mineral Science in color “buff”. It’s a powder foundation and it seems to blend well to my face and cover the redness quite well. It also is easy to apply over sunscreen.
The problem with this makeup, however, is twofold. For one, it’s extremely expensive. A 2 gram container, which is not very much at all, retails for $25 at their website (though I saw it for $6.50 at e-bay).
For another, the company that sells it seems less than honest. If you go to their website, you see an offer for a foundation starter kit for $1 plus shipping & handling (which is $8), but it’s not until after you put the item on your shopping bag that you see a link to the “terms & conditions”. And these are that you are actually signing up for a “membership” that will oblige you to pay $80 for their supposedly “free” product. If you don’t want the product (and you have 3 weeks to make up your mind) you have to both call the company AND return the products, plus pay an $8 restocking fee (in addition to the price of shipping back the product). So, that $1 kit is basically costing you $24 for a 3-week supply. In addition, once you order this starter kit, you will automatically receive a 2-month supply of product for $36. And it seems they make it *very difficult* for you to cancel your membership, by not answering e-mails nor the phone – plus they make you agree to not dispute payments with your credit card. How slimy can a company be? And given how nice their products are, why do you they have to be that slimy?
Needless to say I won’t be shopping from them, though I’ll be sad when I run out of this foundation.

Paint & Peel Window Art Kit

May 19, 2010 / / 0 Comments

paintpeel.jpgMichaella got the Paint & Peel Window Art Kit for her birthday and so far it’s been a big hit with Camila and I (Mika hasn’t really tried it yet).
It’s a very simple concept. You put a sheet with pictures inside a plastic sheet cover. Then you outline said pictures with black acrylic paint, and once it dries you color inside the lines with colored acrylic paint. After that dries, you carefully remove the pictures from the plastic sheet and you can just put them on the windows. They stick easily and they come out easily.
The kit also comes with some googly eyes that you can paste on the pictures.
The kit works surprisingly well. The decals (to give them a name) are very colorful and the process is fun to make. The one thing that I don’t like is that it came with just one plastic sheet cover – that means that only one kid can use it at the time. I found another regular plastic cover, and we’ll see if it works just as well.
I also don’t know if regular acrylic paint would work – or if this is some kind of special paint. We’ll try it as well and report on the results.

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