Since I have been putting up small reviews of the latest Pepsi promotions, I thought I would follow suit with the newest, known as OldSchoolOrNew.com.  I was somewhat excited to see the caps on my Mountain Dew change color after thinking “why would Pepsi not have a promo for BOTH sodas?”.

So, the Mountian Dew caps changed to green and a new promotion was born.  OldSchoolOrNew.com is another type of promtion where you enter the code from under your cap on the website.  From there you can try your luck to win some cool prizes.  This time around, which I think is pretty neat, they offer prizes from the Old School and the New.

Prizes for old school include a Classic Arcade Game, Adidas Superstars Shoes or a Vintage Corvette.  On the flip side, prizes for the new school, which match up with the old school, include, an XBox 360 & TV, Adidas Response 16 Shoes, or a 2009 Chevy Corvette.

It’s kind of a neat setup, but the “games” aren’t anything to get excited over.  At least with CallYourPlay.com you got to at least watch a football play.  With OldSchoolornew.com, you basically will pick what prize you are trying for and watch a little flash episode.  Within 5-10 seconds you know that you are the loser, or winner, if you could get so lucky.

I wouldn’t mind the smaller prizes of course, but I can’t help but mention that I liked the way Pepsistuff.com is setup.  At least there it feels like you might get some of your money back for buying tons of soda, when you can purchase something on Amazon.com with your points.

I haven’t won anything with this promotion, but I do have a bunch of people that drink the soda that don’t mind collecting caps for me :) which is nice.  The other thing that is nice about things like this is that you can almost always find an eBay auction actually selling un-entered caps.  Most promotions like this will limit the amount that you can enter, so people will put the rest on eBay to maybe recoup some fo the cost they incurred buying soda for months.

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Web design is very important when you are trying to make a good first impression.  Some people teach themselves how to use graphics design programs like Photoshop and even programs like Microsoft Frontpage.  I think that some people forget that there are options for you to design a website online.

NetworkSolutions.com has a web design service that allows you to create an entire website online with NO software to buy or download.  With easy-to-use web design and publishing tools available online, there is no need for any technical knowledge or skills.  This makes things a lot easier for the beginner in all of us.

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George Carlin died on Sunday and a little, or large, part of the comedy world died as well. We all know George Carlin as a rash comedian who didn’t stop even though he knew he was over the line. There was a point to be made and he made it, no matter how long it took.

If you haven’t seen any of George Carlin’s comedy, take a look on YouTube.com. There you should be able to find bits and pieces of his most famous acts. Some online radio stations like LaunchCast.com even have some of his albums in their libraries.

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For those of you that have been reading my blog, you know that I have been with HostGator hosting for a couple of months now and I have nothing bad to say about the service.  I host about 20 domains there and have had ZERO downtime in over 6 months.

Webhosting is an obvious need if you are looking to start a blog or website. What WebHostingGeeks.com does for you is gather information about all the leading webhosts and jams into one place. You can read reviews, see ratings and get connected with each host right from their website.

Right now on the site they are rating BlueHost as the number one in the Top 10 webhosting companies.  I think that if you go there you will find the service they provide is very important especially for webmasters that have multiple websites and need to save on hosting!

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