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Its no secret that I get paid for certain posts on my blog. Its my blog, I post what I want to. I have to pay the bills and its nice having a source of income. From my standpoint there’s nothing wrong with monetizing your website so that its more than just a place on the web where you post darling photos of your kids (have you see Grace and Emms lately?) or spew about your boss, job, spouse, car, the jerk who cut you off on the way home tonight or the incompetent fools we have running things in washington. Your blog is your blog and no one should tell you what to post or how to post or when to post.

There’s been (of late) a lot of chatter on one of the boards for one of the paid blogging communities I belong to about order of posts. An abnormal amount really, that has lead to several of the more seasoned members of the community to totally abandon the program they helped build. Something thats disheartening to see.

This all stems from a sudden change in the TOS (with out warning, which seems to be one of the big areas of disagreement) regarding the way sponsored posts are posted. The change in the TOS (the way it is written now makes it against TOS to have ANY sponsored posts back to back as opposed to just their specific sponsored posts) means more over all blogging for the blogger and contradicts one of the other paytoblog sites tos. Its a tough line to toe.

The problem as I see it comes in determining what is a sponsored post and what isn’t. There’s a lot of gray area there. If I link to Gruntled’s Blog and get traffic back in return, is that a sponsored post? Who’s to say that in writing about my weekend, I can’t link to a cd I bought on Amazon (using my aff code of course) that I want to share with my readers? If I can work in sponsored links to my every day posts about Grace, Emma, Amy, our Dogs, work, cool things I’ve seen, who cares?

For the time being, I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing. If someone comes up and says “Hey you, Mcangeli, we don’t like how you’re running your blog” well, I’ll look at it then, but most likely, I’ll tell them to shove it.

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I was invited to a vendor sponsored Golf tournament this past week. Which is cool, I play golf (if what I do is considered golf…), I even took it as one of my required Phys ed electives in college. I have a mean slice. My problem is that when I attempted to register for the tournament, they wanted to know my handicap. Outside of some slight mental retardation (according to my wife that is ) I’m not sure what my handicap actually is. So I went in search of some golf tournament software.

What I found was Nethandicap.com. A site totally devoted to helping you keep track of your handicap. I think this rocks. I tried to read and understand the wikipedia entry on Golf Handicaps (which was like reading a physics book) and I was more confused than before. Of course, its been a while since I’ve played a round of golf, so I have nothing to compute my handicap with (I selected 26 - 35 on the registration form…) but you can bet once I do, I’ll be figuring it out.

The Tournament is coming up at the end of the month, I’ll post some photos if I can (good old crackberry camera!) and let you know just how well I do…

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There’s a new stream of virus’ going around ye’ old net trying to infect unsuspecting people. I came across it at work yesterday. Symptoms include constant rebooting. If you think you have this, when you boot windowsXP hit the f8 and select the option that says do not reboot upon system error (or something like that). When the system crashes, you’ll end up with a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) that actually has some good information on it. What you’re looking for is a message about spooldr.sys. If you have that, you’re infected.

“But how?!?!?” you gasp in horror? Well, its apparently being sent around the web in the form of an email greeting card or other crafty disguise for example:

Greetings,

Are you ready to have fun at Web Joker.

Account Number: 775152935455
Temp Login ID: user1160
Your Password ID: px259

Please keep your account secure by logging in and changing your login info.

Use this link to change your Login info: http://74.64.28.xx/

Enjoy,
Confirmation Dept.
Web Joker

I actually received a couple of these last week, but as I didn’t remember signing up for “Web Joker” I deleted them right away. A good rule of thumb is never click anything with IP addresses in the body Another form as I said, is being sent as an e-greeting card. If you get anything from a source you do not know, don’t open it.

adaware picked up on it right away once I was able to get the box up enough to run, however both Mischel internet Security and PC HELL have ways posted online to correct the issue. Please be careful when dealing with this and remember its often a good idea to just delete mail like this (let your friends know you won’t open it…)

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And a coke. Any one know the movie thats from? Well, its not important. What is important is that my brother, Eric, passed along an amazing deal from chick-fli-A. Free Chicken and a Coke!. Pull up the site, register and get your coupon today!

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Imagine, you’ve just boarded a flight to say, Denver (its my favorite destination at the moment) and you hear the captain come on the PA system “Attention ladies and gentlemen, we will be departing after a brief delay. We need to sacrifice a pair of goats in order to get the flangie working on the throttle control.”

Thats pretty much what passengers on Nepal’s National Airline heard this past week. According to the AP:

Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft.

I don’t know about you, but if any airline I fly has to sacrifice a goat in order for the plane to work, I’ll make other plans.

Original article HERE

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In keeping with Amie Street Wednesday (thanks Mouseclone) here’s my next recomendation. Tara MacLean was featured on their frontpage this week and I had a listen. Her cover of Mad World (see below) absolutely rocks!! Nothing is cooler. Her voice is awesome, the music rocks and all of her stuff is just as good.

Take a listen and let me know what you think.

Two for the price of one!!

Also, I came across one of my FAVORITE comedians on Amie Street (which just proves how much the site ROCKS!). George Carlin has been telling jokes longer than I’ve been alive. Take a listen and find out why he’s a main stay of modern comedy…

If you have an amie street wednesday post, leave a link in the comment so I can check it out!

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