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EXPIRED DOMAINS v2.1 PRO

In swap251 Andy listed 18 ways to get traffic to your site. He forgot an
important one: Expired Domains. These are domains that the owner did not pay
his yearly registration fee. Normally the owner is given a 7 week grace
period in which he can still pay. These domains are expired. Afterwards the
domain is removed from the registry. Then we talk about deleted domains.

Allthough nobody is using these domains, they often have serious traffic on
them.

There are three ways expired domains will bring you traffic:
1) Being listed on searchengines and directories as Yahoo! Dmoz, Looksmart.
2) Type-Ins: people will directly type the domain name into the address bar.
3) High link popularity; many sites still link to that domain.

Expired Domains Pro v2.1 covers all these kind of traffic and will find the
expired and deleted domains for you. Expired Domains v2.1 Pro consists of
three subprograms:

ad 1) Seek Domains will find all the domains listed on Yahoo! Dmoz,
Looksmart and Altavista for the search word of your choice. For instance you
are interested in hosting. Seek Domains will generate a long list (often
1000's) of all the domains that show up on Yahoo! when you do a search for
'hosting'.

ad 2) Type-In Domains uses Overture's suggestion tool to generate a list of
domain names. For example with the keyword 'hosting' Type-In Domains will
generate a list as 'webhosting.com' 'freehosting.com' etc... All the
searches that are popular on Overture and people are also likely to type
directly into the address bar.

ad 3) Superb Whois will check the lists generated by Seek Domains and
Type-In Domains on availability and expiration date. You can also run your
own lists of domain names. You can check the Link Popularity with major
searchengines.

E.D. v2.1 Pro has a lot of extra features I did not mention that makes it an
excellent tool for the professional domain hunter.

Learn all about E.D. v2.1 Pro:
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Or go directly to the download page (feature limited demo):
www.warp9hosting.com/html/expired_demo.html

Ask me a question:
peter@warp9hosting.com

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Large and turbo charged is how I will described this week news =) Piles of stuff going on so let me hit you with some fast previews of what is below. There are more comments and stories on the Visa - 3rd Party Billing fees this week. There have been more articles and ideas sent in on the always popular Brute Force attack. There is the more news of Yahoo going with google results. All Yahoo has now is a name and some good will. Did you hear that Afternic shut down? Hey...I forgot to mention a month or two ago that DaveCentral is gone...man I dug that joint. I think there is a story or two on cheap domain registration. This week I also start off with spewing about spider freindly blogs and message boards. If you plan to spam the engines with a blog or board, you better buy the right one or you will not get indexed mon frere. I have just started trying to install a few blog and message board packages and am having fun. I got UBB running and had GreyMatter almost running. I should have some test stories on this next week. I plan to purchase a UBB licence this week as well since I like that product.

I got an interesting snail mail letter today from a lawyer. He wrote "did you know someone has the domain name wwwlips.com and could be stealing your business. We can take a domain name theft for a flat fee of $5000.". It looked legit. Seemed like an interesting way to drum up domain squatter client lawsuits. I am sure fortune500 people lose sleep over domains like that but I think in the small biz and adult world, every combo of every name has been done 600 ways from sunday and it would be easy to drop a pile of coin fighting suits like that.

ok, enough bla bla bla. here we go

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YAHOO NOW USING GOOGLE RESULTS from Craig the Programmer
Craig writes
www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82522
Such crap...it also destroyed my great listings hehe...but it seems that now. Yahoo and google have merged but using Yahoo's engine....

Andy writes
interesting and I saw a little about this last week. shows yahoo is dead in the water as I have said for years. Google is the king and Yahoo is only lucky they have a name and goodwill. This is instant income for google as well.

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NEW VISA MC RULES COULD CHANGE ADULT FOREVER from Jim
www.avnonline.com/issues/200210/newsarchive/101002_lead.shtml
www.avnonline.com

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NON SPIDER FRIENDLY BLOGS AND MESSAGE BOARDS
This week I have been fiddling around with UBB classic demo. I was able to install it with the help of young Craig the programmer. The only snag I hit was that I had to add the following line to my apache httpd.conf in the virtual host paragraph where I was testing the site
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/lib/apache/htdocs/pokerlads/cgi-bin/"

If you want to try and set up the demo on your box to start a blog or message board, you can find it here.
www.infopop.com/products/ubbclassic/trial.html

Now I know there are many other great message boards systems. My compaint is with ALL of them. The problem with all the new message boards systems is...they are all php and mysql based, which is very robust BUT this sucks dry turds when trying to use a blog to spam search engines. Let me give you some examples

Here is an older UBB board back when they stored all posts as .html
bbs.simonsays.com/bbdocs/Forum15/HTML/003749.html

I can now search that link on google and actually find it
smlnk.com/?0T2HQSI5

Now let's try a a modern board using php like gfy
www.gfyboard.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42042&highlight=ia2000

now let's go to google and the page is not found
smlnk.com/?V6H7BX8Y

ok, more proof...here is a sentence from the first example on that star trek board
"There are some Unreal/UT maps which "fake" ladders"

Google finds it
smlnk.com/?Z5YKEMG4


Now a sentence from the gfy page above
"guys from the UK industry looking to meet new players in the US"

Google finds nothing
smlnk.com/?FUZZ7DY3

I want to BLOG and I want to SPAM the heck out of the engines....HOW DO WE DO IT?


1. Do any of the robust modern blogs and message boards have a feature to archive old posts as html static pages?

2. Are there any blog or bulletin board packages that are cool, robust and html based?

Yes php and mysql are superior to perl and cgi...but the goal is often to "make money" and spamming the engines via blogs and boards etc, if a fine way to get traffic. give me your thoughts =)

(2 days after writing the above questions, I discovered some solutions. Here they are in the next 4 stories)

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WHAT IS A BLOG?
I know most of you now know what a blog is. 12 months ago I bet most of us had never even heard the term. Any week I write about blogs I get emails asking "hey, what the hell are these damn blogs". Here is my favorite definition

"Simply put, web logging, known as blogging, is an easy way of updating a web page via a browser without the hassle of launching an FTP client or HTML editor." ...Biz Stone

A blog is just an easy way to write stuff on a webpage. You do it with your browser, rather than breaking out GoLive, FrontPage, or DreamWeaver. You can access your blog from any computer and update your site remotely very easily. So websites have not changed...a blog is just a software tool to make adding content to a website very fast an easy.

I would also add that a blog is often a story from one person to many people. Where a message board or bulletin boards is many to many. Some message board packages can be used as blog software and some blog software can sort fo be used as message boards.

Why am I so fired up about blogs?

1. EASY. They make website maintenance very easy. You can add to your site in the blink of an eye. This means you post more stuff more often

2. TRAFFIC. These are a simple way to make lot of pages that get spidered and you then get a lot of traffic to your site

3. HOT. Blogs are the hottest thing since sliced bread and the biggest web innovation in the last 1 months.

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WHAT IS A BULLETIN BOARD OR MESSAGE BOARD?
A message board is a site where many people share ideas. Before message boards were usenet newsgroups and list servs. Message boards are just the latest devlopment for having many people communicate with many people on the web. Message boarsd have gone through three stages of evoltuion.

EARLY BOARDS
remember the old ynot. you would post a message and then next message would appear over that, and the next message would appear over that. This all started probably because Matt's Script Archive had WWboard 1.0 which is gone now
www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html

That board had posts that looked a lot like Kid Slick's Amateur Master's Board
chat.amateurmasters.com/public/ChatView.cgi?T=0

THREADED BOARDS
thing then evolved. People wanted categories. People did not want to read every message, only certain ones. Categories appeared and boards got threaded. Here is an example of threaded topics....this is not really a message board but google's representation of usenet groups
smlnk.com/?J81UIADO

DYNAMIC THREADED BOARDS WITH DATABASE BACKENDS
and this is where we are today. Many message boards are threaded, produce pages in php, and have mysql backends. They are tough as nails and can handle mega loads. The trouble is...they suck dry turds when it comes to search engine spidering. GFY uses one of these modern excellent message board systems
www.gfyboard.com

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2 SPIDER FRIENDLY BLOGS
Holy lighting mud. 2 days after writing the above gripe, I have been researching like a wild man and have some great finds! Wooo Hoooo. Peeee Poooo! Here are two blogs that are spider friendly. The first is a very old blog package that has been used on thousands of sites.

GREY MATTER
open source weblog blog journal software
www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/

and here is a much fancier package that takes a slightly different approach. The nice thing about this package is that you can output the pages many ways suck as static html or php mysql xml etc.

MOVABLETYPE
weblog blog journal software
www.movabletype.org/

and again, the nice thing about these two blog packages is that they store pages as pure html. Google loves html. If you are going to all the effort to set up a blog, you might as well get listed in the engines and get traffic since it is a subtle or subversive way to spam a modern search engine.

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SPIDER FRIENDLY MESSAGE BOARDS
It was a little tougher finding spider friendly message boards. I thought I had found 5 of them but they all quickly seem to be abandoning static pages which is disappointing. I would love to see them all add an option to convert archives to html just for spidering purposes.

the one board I found was good old Matt's, but it is really kind of old =)

MATT'S WWW BOARD
www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html

if you know of any others, please let me know andy@lips.com

Now I did find one more and plopped my pants when I found out it was still available. You can actually get old versions of UBBclassic in their members area. This means that for teh fee, you have access to the last 6 versions. The version wanted is 5.47c I went into a live chat session with their tech support people to find this out

Please wait for a site operator to respond.
You are now chatting with 'Jeff'

Jeff: Hello, how can I help you?
you: yes. I like UBB, but I dont like the new version....do you sell the old version 5.54 that is spider friendly and writes pages as static html
Jeff: We offer the last 5 series in our Members area.
Jeff: which would have been 5.47e
you: ah..so if I buy a licence...I am allowed in there?
Jeff: That is correct.
you: and so my pages whould be stored like this UBB
you: bbs.simonsays.com/bbdocs/Forum15/HTML/003749.html
you: that is great!
you: thank you
Jeff: No problem

and so to make a spider friendly message board, I will be trying UBB 5.47c

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SPEAKING OF BLOGS - FUCKED WEBLOG from Shep
www.davezilla.com/fucked/

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EVIL CHRIS AND THE WEBMASTERS DEBATE NON NUDE SITES
Evil Chris writes
info... I would like to see this shit outlawed in the adult webmaster community
www.xnations.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=458

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BAG OF SALT TABLE O' TRIX CONTENT

STARTUP MONITOR from Alex
RE: DOMAIN REGISTRATION from Stefan
RE: BRUTE FORCE AND BRUTE PASSWORD TEHFT from Stephen
RE: BRUTE FORCE PART III from Stephen
COST OF MERCHAT ACCOUNTS VS 3RD PARTY from Peaches
PAYSITE MARGINS TOO THIN from Wow Pictures
REGARDING PAYPAL from Darin
CANADIAN WEBMASTERS STRUGGLING WITH NEW 3RD PARTY RULES from John
WHAT IF BIBLE PUMPERS WENT WILD from Wildcard
AMAZON BETTER from MojoMoney
BLOG TRICK TO MAKE .HTML RUN AS CGI from Craig the Programmer
POST ON THIS WEBMASTER CHAT BOARD AND GET 25,000 HITS from Craig The Programmer
KNOW ANY GOOD TOP LISTS from Dave
TUCOW'S 216 WEBSAFE COLOR CHART from guru-O-gif
PRIVATE NETWORKS AND IP MASQUERADING BY Shep
WAS IT WORTH BECOMMING A PORNMEISTER from Greg

MORE NEWS
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THE ONCE TAUTED AFTRNIC CLOSES SHOP
www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/1469711

HYJACKING AND FRAUD PLAGUE EBAY USERS from Tara
www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/1480591

BIGDOGGIE ASKED TO REVEAl JOHNS from Charles
tampatrib.com/floridametronews/MGAFVI2817D.html


POSSIBLE GOOD NEWS ON THE ECONOMY from Richard
www.msnbc.com/news/817614.asp?pne=msn

EBAY'S TOUGH TALK ON FRAUD DOESN'T WITHSTAND SCRUTINY from Sign_bldr
www.msnbc.com/news/809148.asp?pne=msn


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I MADE OVER $8000 FROM NASTY IN SEPT (SEXSWAP)
The SexSwap traffic continues to do well with asty. I am not only write ads about Nasty, I freaking send my traffic to them. I love the NastyDollar sites. The girls are awesome and the guys go out of their way to give the customer excellent vaue. I plan to talk more on this next week. Watch for an article in the future SECRETS OF THE MODERN PAYSITE. Nasty does all these secret keys. This is why they can payout $35 a signup. Here is the SexSwap blind banner traffic (again, remember this is blind banner, heavy TGP traffic and this is why the ratios are low)
trix.sexswap.com/nasty_sept.gif

Now some of you have sharp eyes and have stated "Hey, you said you make $10,000 in May, so why did it go done". You are a sharp one Wile E Coyote. Here was May
trix.sexswap.com/nasty1.gif

There are two main reasons we have dropped a little

1. Banner Click Rates dropped
In may my average banner was pulling 0.7 - 0.75% and last month it had dropped to 0.65 range. I since have been testing and got that back up

2. Selling Traffic

You may recall that I've state in my many traffic selling blurbs that we make X amount on our traffic and if anyone will pay me X+1, well hell, I will sell. We sold a good chunk of traffic in May and continue to sell quite a bit today. Today for example, all SexSwap1 and SexSwap2000 traffic is sold to buyers for the next 2 weeks. These two reasons caused the drop.

I MADE $3990 FROM NASTY IN LAST 15 DAYS (PERSONAL)
Now you are saying "Andy, those ratios you showed me earlier were low. I am scared. I want my mommy." Don't have a conniption fit their young Yolanda. In this world, there exists all types of traffic. I also use Nasty on my personal lips.com traffic tricks, and can show you the other side of the ratio spectrum. How does 1:440 work for you.
trix.sexswap.com/nasty_2.gif

I ain't just givin' you the business. I do send my traffic to NastyDollars. Weak or Strong, Nasty works for me.

Click here to join NastyDollars today
www.nastydollars.com/?wm_refer=gammaent

I think you will be pleased with the results. I consider their best three sites to fire traffic at are BIG NATURALS, MILFHUNTER, and TRANNY SURPRISE. But always test test test.
www.nastydollars.com/?wm_refer=gammaent

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TRIX
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STARTUP MONITOR from Alex
Alex writes
Over the years you've been going on about how to get rid of programs that are in your Startup, well this utility alerts you before something sneaks in.
www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml

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RE: DOMAIN REGISTRATION from Stefan
Stefan writes
www.onlinenic.com

$6.99/year. Not a fancy page. You are required to have your own DNS server. I'm using them as a reseller and never got any complaints on their service.

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RE: BRUTE FORCE AND BRUTE PASSWORD TEHFT from Stephen
Stephen writes
I think I didn't explain what I meant when I said "effectively blocks 100%
of brute force methods"...The point of using picture validation is to make
it impossible for a cracking program to ever get a valid username and
password combination. So I assumed that crackers at least most of them would
see, or after a while see, that they will never get a valid username and
password combination without entering what's in the picture and stop or not
even run their program in the first place.

Any post-attack protection like Pennywize is going to work but you are
stilling being attacked...

Picture validation is a visible protection its not a backend protection a
cracker has eyes and would move on...at least if he's not blind.

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RE: BRUTE FORCE PART III from Stephen
Stephen writes
Johnny finds a website he wants to brute force

Johnny sees that this website uses picture validation and Johnny knows that
his autologin thingamagig is useless because it can not parse the image so
it will never get a valid username and password combination

Johnny does not even try to brute force this site and moves on to another
site not using picture validation

That's the difference between picture validation protection and post-attack
protection...

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COST OF MERCHAT ACCOUNTS VS 3RD PARTY from Peaches
Peaches writes
As a reminder CC services costs about $1900 to start with renewal fee each year and they are raising their per transaction rate again by another few pennies this month. ugh..

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PAYSITE MARGINS TOO THIN from Wow Pictures
Wow writes
big news in Sexswap this week. I will probably
take all day just to read it and respond.

Regarding the new Visa rules: Reading the boards and
seeing how many people say they will have to stop
taking VISA speaks VOLUMES about how little money many
paysites make.

Even the tiniest brick and mortar store run by mom and
pop has to take credit cards and paid 2 or 3 thousand
dollars to get a merchant account, and pays a couple
hundred a month in fees.

Paysites that can't afford a few hundred dollars to
continue accepting credit cards are not really in
business. They are just someone's hobby.

Raising the barrier for entry into this industry is a
good thing. Everyone should have to get a merchant
account.

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REGARDING PAYPAL from Darin
Darin writes
In response to this newsletter someone mentioned PayPal is affected by the
Visa issues. This is NOT true. I have confirmation direct with them. Each
transaction using Visa through pay pal requires a pay pal account and
therefore are only transactions between pay pal users. They are not
affected.

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CANADIAN WEBMASTERS STRUGGLING WITH NEW 3RD PARTY RULES from John
John writes
I imagine you have heard a lot about this, here's some more. You can't imagine the despair Canadian webmaster's have over the new Visa regs. We are setting up a Nevada LLC and hoping for the best. I had to put it in
my wife's name as I can't get a passport to register for the tax number in time for the Nov 1 deadline!

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WHAT IF BIBLE PUMPERS WENT WILD from Wildcard
Wildcard writes
Now my question and fear is....what is to stop the crazy church go'ers (you know who I mean) from getting a card hacker guy and going from one site to another signing up 50 times then charging back.

Andy writes
there is nothing to stop that....but they would need a lot of credit cards I believe...but yes, that certainly could happen anyway

Wildcard writes
That way giving the webmaster a bad ratio and getting him kicked off of Visa? that point I would assume the big guys would then run to Globill or a few of the others you mentioned in your last news letter.

Andy writes
yes, that could happen but is kind of unlikely because
1. they would need several cards
2. they would start getting a lot of charge backs on their cards after a while and Visa would drop them for being crooks
3. they would have to want to break the law and few do

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AMAZON BETTER from MojoMoney
MojoMoney writes
also...as a tidbit...Amazon.com has changed it's affiliate structure and payouts and it has become a real money maker for lots of mainstream folks...

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BLOG TRICK TO MAKE .HTML RUN AS CGI from Craig the Programmer
Craig writes
BTW if you want to make the .html extention run as cgi add this into the pokerlads virtualhost

example

<Directory "/var/lib/apache/htdocs/pokerlads/cgi-bin">
AddHandler cgi-script .html
</Directory>

Warning Note
You may want to mention in the newsletter...that what I gave you to make .html cgi based MUST be used in a <Directory "/path/to/somewhere/"> setup and be in a virtual host....they also can't expect to use normal html in that directory or in any subdirectories of that directory...any attempt to do so will show an Internal Server Error.

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POST ON THIS WEBMASTER CHAT BOARD AND GET 25,000 HITS from Craig The Programmer
Craig writes
It's a fairly new webmsater board run by a few adult traffic brokers. They offer 25k+ uniques for every 100 posts you do on an upward scale.
www.adultwebmastervillage.com/index.php?referrerid=166

100 posts = 25k
200 posts = another 35k
etc.

it's kind of like the boards that offer prizes for people who post, or give away t-shirts...but this is something everyone can earn and it isn't time restricted... I actually have 25k waiting for me to use but haven't really had a place to test how well it works yet...the traffic they offer though is the same traffic they sell in their services so it should be fairly decent quality =)

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KNOW ANY GOOD TOP LISTS from Dave
Dave writes
One quick and easy tool I like for promotion is the use of top lists. There are tons of them everywhere and they usually offer a free listing. I watch the traffic from the lists and I monitor how my site rating is going up or down, and when they become inefficient, I drop them and look for new top lists to join. The big drawback is usually that clicking the links at any top list almost always provides a site that's just another top list, so finding a good list to join that actually sends traffic is a time-consuming process. I'd be interested in seeing if your readers could share an accumulation of "working and useful" top lists.

Andy writes
if anyone has any favorite top lists, please email me andy@lips.com and I will add them to next weeks newsletter

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TUCOW'S 216 WEBSAFE COLOR CHART from guru-O-gif
darn handy
html.tucows.com/designer/colorhexchart.html

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PRIVATE NETWORKS AND IP MASQUERADING BY Shep
www.linuxgazette.com/issue51/nielsen.html

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WAS IT WORTH BECOMMING A PORNMEISTER from Greg
Greg writes
Okay I've known lots of you for years now. I remember when many of us first
started especially at AC. I just checked my statistics from the time I
started in relation to other industries I'm in. What suprised the heck out of
me is the overhead/net ratio for pornmeistering is so far ahead of the pack
it's astounding. I got into this business as a lark because the regular comic
book/animation industry was full of such shit I wanted to have the freedom to
do what I wanted. Now the regular comic book/animation industries are FUBAR.
Now the years have gone on and I've noticed a consistency in those of us
pornmeisters still here. Basically two traits:

Tenacity and 'fuckitalltohellism'

So after all the hoops you've had to jump through, all the system crashes, cc
changes, public rants etc. the big questions remain:

Was it worth it becoming a pornmeister? Are ya better off now than you were
then? What things occured that made you successful while others hit the skids?

INTERESTING
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BIZARRE SEX TOY TOUGUE JOY from Craig the Programmer
Craig the Programmer writes
Now here's a bizaree sex toy....
www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/10/1034061260831.html

BUILDING A RICER
www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~attse/honduh.htm

KEY ECONOMIC DATE SITE from Smell
www.briefing.com/FreeServices/fs_markcal.htm

O'REILLY'S ESSENTIAL BLOGGING
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596003889/taunt

GURU OF GIF
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BUGBEAR HELP
this nasty virus has nabbed a few of my friends. I get about one infected email a day. Here is a mcafee report on it
www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/bugbear/

and the mcafee stinger removal tool
vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

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WHAT'S THAT FONT
a free resource
www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

and if that doesn't work...toss the gif into the forum members and see if humans can solve the riddle
www.myfonts.com/FontForums/list.php?f=5

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those are my stories this week. Next week more thrills and chills on blogging I hope. Maybe some PaySite secrets. Maybe a google secret or two. Maybe I better shut up and keep a few secrets under raps =)

don't pee your panties


Andy
andy@lips.com