November 30th, 2009
There are dozens of internet poker sites on the internet today, but a small number are really worth playing poker at. With of websites trying to point both and experienced online poker players to download specific online poker websites, what advice can you bank on? How do you ascertain the best places to play? What is the optimal online poker web site?
Choosing the top online poker web site to download is determined by looking at the pros and cons of several of the top online poker web sites and determining what is important to you. If you are a serious poker player, you should choose a online poker web site that makes it easy to play many tables at once, as well as an online poker room that keeps track of your stats and makes it easy to use a stat tracking program such as PokerOffice. It is imperative to find a a poker web site that has great software and smooth game play without glitches or downtime.
Also, rake back is another important feature to consider when choosing your poker room. Most poker rooms that offer rake back generally offer about 32% rake back to players. A great rakeback online poker web site to choose is Playersonly.com rakeback. You get 33% rakeback from Playersonly.com and it is credited directly into your Players Only account every Monday.
Online poker bonuses are also very important to get when you sign up for your new online poker website. With a good online poker bonus, you can make an extra $1,111 when you signup for a online poker room. That is nothing to sneeze at! Make sure you get a great internet poker bonus code so that you can get the maximum amount of free money possible when choosing your online poker site.
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November 30th, 2009
Before you get behind the wheel, it is imperative that you hire a driving instructor to help you become an excellent driver. Aspire to become a good, well practiced driver as driving itself is a big responsibility.Endeavour to find a good, professional instructor. Finding the right driving instructor is crucial for your learning. In the UK any instructor should be registered with the Driving Standards Agency. Any instructor not registered with the DSA cannot legally charge you for lessons. Registered instructors are known as Approved Driving Instructors (ADI’s).
A professional will teach you and ends and outs of driving. This should include such basics as hill starts, reversing around corners and emergency stops. Recent driving surveys indicates that a student driver that was taught how to drive with an Approved Driving Instructor pass their driving test the first time, unlike those who have not practice with an Approved Driving Instructor. Any ADI will have a green certificate on their windscreen. A pink certificate indicates a trainee ADI. The DSA has rigourous standards and tests to pass before approving any prospective instructor. The trainee must posses a clean four year driving record, pass a rigorous driving test, and much more to prove that they are capable of training you to become a motorist.
With a good instructor you should quickly pass your test. However you must make sure you are properly insured and this can be costly. A new type of cheap car insurance for young drivers is Pay as you drive insurance. Coverbox offer a service that you only pay for the miles you driving with driving at the most dangerous times like the middle of the night being much more expensive to reflect the higher risk.
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November 29th, 2009
Copyright Theolonius McTavish 2005.
BRING OUT YOUR INNER ROMEO OR Juliet!
– Or, where to find a romantic rendez-vous to reconnoiter? -
By Theolonius McTavish, currently a ribald roving reporter (with an abiding interest in arcane topics like curious, odd, or downright postively playful placenames), and part-time errant carpet knight, (a left-over piece of Karma from a previous lifetime)
Valentine’s Day is rolling around again. What would February 14th be without all those wretched little red, cinnamon-flavored candy hearts and calorie-laden chocolate candy kisses?
Well, if you’re not into any of these sumptuous “sweet nothings”, maybe a Valentine vacation might do the trick. If so, you’ve got plenty of “hot” spots to choose from in North America.
For the benefit of mapless folk, North America includes the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and that cold comfort country (on the other side of the 49th parallel, just a tad due south of Santa’s hangout at the North Pole lies an off-the-beaten track place) called, “Canada”.
For the digitally-inclined, a quick peek at any road atlas or an on-line GPS geo-locator service will certaintly whet one’s appetite for a romp in the hay with a sizzling “Voluptuous Vixen” or a secret rendez-vous with a “Rudolph Valentino”, far away from the madding crowds.
Let’s see, my list of romantic reconnoitering retreats includes these humdingers and doozies. They may look a tad over-the-top, but I’ll have you know these little gems actually exist.
So Don Juan, Casanova and Romeo, not to mention the damsels-in-distress like Juliet and all the other divas …what are your waiting for? Just grab your gear, step on the gas and hit the highway of life. And don’t forget to stop off at these delightful destinations to get in the mood and set hearts a flutter!
On second thought, perhaps you’d like to think twice about your last-minute libidinal travel plans. After all you, may have to blow some serious coin in all these pleasure palaces filled with all manner of decadent indulgences or at the very least how to cope with the red heart-shaped balloon-filled events.
Hmmmm…let’s see where to begin…
Bella Bella (British Columbia - Canada)
Bigger (Saskatchewan - Canada)
Bird-In-Hand (Pennsylvania)
Bliss Landing (British Columbia - Canada)
Blue Ball (Pennsylvania)
Bummerville (California)
Camelot (Texas); Camelot Beach (Ontario - Canada)
Climax (Colorado, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Saskatchewan - Canada)
Clo-oose (British Columbia - Canada)
Cockeysville (Maryland)
Comfort (Texas)
Conception (Missouri)
Conception Bay (Newfoundland & Labrador)
Cupids (Newfoundland & Laborador)
Dildo (Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Dixville (Quebec - Canada)
Dropmore (Manitoba - Canada)
Eden (Texas)
Fannie (Arkansas)
Fanny Bay (British Columbia - Canada)
Fertile (Saskatchewan - Canada)
French Lick (Indiana)
Garden of Eden (Nova Scotia - Canada)
Glasscock (Texas)
Goochland (Virginia)
Groom (Texas)
Halfway (Texas)
Happy, Happy Union (Texas)
Heart’s Content, Heart’s Delight, Heart’s Desire (all in Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Hitchland (Texas)
Holdfast (Saskatchewan - Canada)
Hoo Hoo (West Virginia)
Hoop & Holler (Texas)
Intercourse (Alabama, Pennsylvania)
Kinkora (Prince Edward Island - Canada)
Kissimmee (Florida)
Little Paradise (Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Little Heart’s Ease (Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Little Seldom (Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Lolita (Texas)
Love (Saskatchewan - Canada)
Love Ladies (New Jersey)
Lovelock (Nevada, Utah)
Loving (Texas)
Matador (Texas)
Needmore (Texas)
Nippers Harbour (Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Nuttsville (Virgina)
Ochiichagwebabigoining (Ontario - Canada — if anybody can pronounce this one, let me know!)
Ogle (Kentucky)
Paradise (Nova Scotia - Canada)
Peel (New Brunswick - Canada)
Plum Coulee (Manitoba - Canada)
Point Comfort (Texas)
Red Head Cove (Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Ripples (New Brunswick - Canada)
Romeoville (Illinois)
Sackville (New Brunswick)
Sexsmith (Alberta - Canada)
Shag Harbour (Nova Scotia - Canada)
Smackover (Arkansas)
Smuts (Saskatchewan - Canada)
Snag (Yukon Territory - Canada)
Snooks Arm (Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Snug Harbour (Ontario - Canada)
Spread Eagle (Wisconsin)
Sugar Tit (South Carolina)
Sweet Bay (Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Sweet Lips (Tennessee)
Tickle Cove (Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Tiger Lily (Alberta - Canada)
Toogood Arm (Newfoundland & Labrador - Canada)
Trophy Club (Texas)
Truth or Consequences (New Mexico)
Valentine (Nebraska, Texas)
Wink (Texas)
Wolfe City (Texas)
Yum Yum (Tennessee)
Now the real question is, just how many folks really admit to residing in these “hot” little communities, and how many just visit to regale their friends with titillating trivia at the next “show and tell” Valentine’s party?
– May the Power of the Pucker Be With You and Your’s On This Auspicious Occasion! –
About the Author
Theolonius McTavish, currently a rambunctious roving reporter with oodles of time on his hands, and precious little to ponder except eccentric things happening over at the Court of the Quipping Queen — www.quippingqueen.blogspot.com
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November 29th, 2009
Sydney Botulinum therapy (BoTox for short) is now a must amongst stylish Sydney society and now it has become a beauty routine essential for those in the Harbour City. But I never cease to be surprised when I listen to the variety of myths that surround this procedure.
Be sure you inspect our superb source for Sydney Botox clues.
Here I have listed some of the more falsehoods often encountered at Star Cosmetic Medicine located in Pyrmont, Sydney.
Misunderstanding no. 1: BoTox may freeze my expressions!
There are about sixty muscles in the human face. Their continual use may cause lines to form. The overuse of Botulinum Toxin have the effect of the face becoming over relaxed. Most doctors would use relatively minute dosages to make you look ‘refreshed’, nevertheless your face will remain just as expressive.
Thus by using a carefully calculated dosage of the preparation in exactly the right spot you can accomplish a reduction in the fine lines and wrinkles without reducing facial expression.
Misunderstanding no. 2: BoTox is a toxin!
There is some truth in this assertion. Its scientific name is Botulinum Toxin Type A. An overdose may relax facial muscles that you do not want loosened or may even make you extremely ill.
Chemists have a famous phrase that states ‘everything is a poison - it all depends on the dose’. A large quantity of any medicine will result in illness. Water can kill you if too much is taken.
Misunderstanding no. 3: BoTox hurts!
Your hairs are thicker than the needles we have at Star Cosmetic Medicine. Quite a few people have said that the treatments aren’t worse than mosquito bites. It for certain is not as sore as a procedure like a blood profile.
Misunderstanding no. 4: I might lose feeling in my face!
False. BoTox affects the neuromuscular junction, and not on the nerves of sensation. BoTox just targets the relaxation of muscular tissues.
Misunderstanding no. 5. Once you start BoTox you must continue or the lines and wrinkles become even worse!
Once Again this is simply untrue.
The first BoTox treatment lasts around 3 months. Later injections tend to last a little longer. Eventually as muscle strength returns to normal - the lines will slowly reappear. However they will certainly be no worse than when you began.
Even if you never had BoTox injections again - those lines will in all probability be a little less pronounced than if you had never been treated. Primarily due to the fact that your facial muscles and skin have had a rest whilst the treatment was effective.
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November 29th, 2009
By now, most bloggers have heard the announcement that the Big 3 search engines - Google, Yahoo, and MSN - have united in support of a new tag that will supposedly combat comment spam. The new tag is a nofollow attribute that can be added to links. When added to links in comment tags, the search engines will ignore them.
An excellent discussion of this new tag and how it works can be found at Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Watch:
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728
Google announced the new tag in a 1/18/2005 post to their own blog: http://www.google.com/googleblog/
And Microsoft added their support to the new tag in this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/18/nofollow_tags.aspx
At first blush, anything that can help cut down the comment spam that most bloggers are daily subjected to would seem to be a good thing. It can be pretty upsetting to access your blog in the morning and find 50 junk comments with links to casino, adult, and pharmacy sites. If your blog has any PageRank, you can expect to find more of this garbage polluting your site every day. Fighting the spread of comment spam has become a necessity.
But after first cheering the proactiveness of the search engines, many bloggers have stepped back and taken a closer look and they don’t like what they see. You can read a sampling of their thoughts at Search Engine Watch Forum:
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=3797
Brian Turner’s incisive article “New Nofollow Tag Cheers Bloggers but Fails Blogs” discusses some of the potential abuses of the new nofollow tag:
http://www.platinax.co.uk/news/archives/2005/01/new_nofollow_ta.html
And Jim Pryke’s article “Bloggers Cheer Google As Their Search Rankings Plummet” makes it very clear that not only will this NOT stop comment spam. But it will actually hurt bloggers as a community:
http://netinstitute.com/archives/2005/01/20/bloggers-cheer-google-as-their-search-rankings-plummet
For an hilarious take on the new tag and how it will get abused, be sure to take a look at Link Condom: http://www.linkcondom.com
I have to agree with these bloggers that the nofollow tag won’t even put a dent in the problem of comment spam. You have to realize that the comment spammers who cause the most problems are the ones who use automated bots to spread their spam onto every blog they find. The fact that they find a blog using the nofollow tag won’t stop the bot from posting. If you have a popular blog, you’ll still wake up every morning to find 50 casino/pharmacy/adult ads on your blog. You’ll still have to spend the time deleting those posts to clean up your blog.
You see, the problem to bloggers isn’t that those comment links pass PR. It’s the fact that those spam posts make your blog look like garbage. Whether the links pass PR or not isn’t the big issue for bloggers. It’s the time it takes to get rid of unwanted comments and the detraction to their sites. The nofollow tag won’t do a thing about that problem. You’ll still have the problems, even if you use the tag.
Think about this: how effective have email filters been in stopping email spam? As most of us know, they’ve hardly done any good at all. Email spam becomes a bigger problem every day. Spammers really don’t care if some of their emails are blocked. They just send more of it to compensate. The same will be true of the automated comment spam bots.
The fact of the matter is, there are already much better tools in most blogging software to fight comment spam AND save the time and effort of the blogger at the same time. There are already a number of plugins for WordPress, Moveable Type, and other blogs. There will undoubtedly be more in the future. These tools are already more effective at fighting comment spam than this nofollow tag will ever be.
What is unfortunate is that the people the nofollow tag will really hurt is bloggers themselves. Traditionally, bloggers have read and commented in each other’s blogs. And these comments have added value. When I write an article for my blog, I love it when other bloggers take the time to add their insights on the topic I’m discussing. These comments add content to my site and continue the discussion. This is one of the reasons blogs are so easy to grow into topic-specific information-rich sites that are popular with readers. Unlike static sites, they offer two-way communication between reader and blogger. They become communities.
When someone adds this kind of value to my blog, I am more than happy to give them a link to their blog that passes PR. That will help them build the readership of their own blog, grow the community even larger, and add to the richness of the discussion. These are exactly the kinds of links that any webmaster should want on their site!
Adding a nofollow tag to comments can only quash this discussion. It can only discourage commenters with the most to contribute from taking the time to add to the discussion. After all, if the time I spend on another blog doesn’t contribute to the growth of the blogging community as a whole or aid in the visibility of my own blog, am I going to spend as much time and effort doing it?
Anything that decreases the open flow of discussion currently enjoyed in the blogging community is a bad deal for bloggers.
The question that should be asked is this: why is comment spam so profitable? After all, if it weren’t profitable, so many people wouldn’t be going to such ridiculous lengths to do it.
The answer to this is obviously Google’s link-heavy PageRank algorithm that forces webmasters to get every link they can to get their site’s indexed and ranked. Most webmasters know that in order to get ranked in Google, they had better have a ton of links to their site.
That’s the problem with PageRank as an algorithm. It encourages artificial linking between sites that no longer has any relevance whatsoever to the goal of providing good resources to visitors. Do we really believe that most reciprocal link directories provide a resource to our visitors? Not likely! If websites are real estate, reciprocal link directories are the slums, the seedy bars and tattoo parlors on the edges of polite society.
Whole businesses have sprung up as a reaction to PageRank. I’m talking about the link auction and link selling sites. Under the PageRank system, sites aren’t being ranked by who provides the best content, but by who has the deepest pockets to buy the most links. Or, in the case of comment spammers, whoever wants to spread their bots all over the internet spamming blogs. This system has over time totally skewed the natural linking between sites that once dominated the internet - the very thing that Google’s PageRank system is supposed to reward.
Ironically, blogs are one of the few places left on the web where linking is actually about providing good content to visitors and rewarding value provided on other sites. Bloggers as a group are the most likely to link to sites because of the content value to their visitors. Their links are very likely to be very topic specific. You don’t find that on other sites. These are the kinds of links that I would assume Google would want to encourage through their PageRank system, not those junky reciprocal link directories or purchased links.
It would seem to me that the only effective way to cut down on comment spam and all the artificial linking techniques Google purportedly wants to thwart is not by making life harder for bloggers - the very people who link in the most relevant fashion. But at taking a second look at their own PageRank system and whether it is really serving the usefulness of their own search engine and the whole web in 2005.
For more tips and ideas on how to make money blogging, be sure to visit my “Why Marketers Should Blog” weblog at (what else)
http://www.WhyMarketersShouldBlog.com
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November 29th, 2009
As you know podcasting is simply an audio file that is placed on a website. If it is combined with an RSS file — people can subscribe to your feed, and listen to your words of wisdom at their leisure. This is a good thing, it is getting your words –your voice — your identity to the masses.
Podcasting — Getting Started
Publishing your podcast is simple as well — look to Blogger, TypePad, and then use Feedburner to convert your podcast into a feed.
Simple Way to Make A Podcast
The simpliest way to get setup and to start experimenting with your own podcasting– is to simply get a microphone and of course, free software from Audacity.
Okay, as we all know, not many are comfortable with hearing their own voice — but hey, it’s your voice — and the voice allows your listeners to know that, yes, I am a real human, and not a machine.
Once done, you will need to upload your podcast onto your server. The only limitations I see would be how much, or little space, you have on your server– as well as the bandwidth usage.
Submitting your Podcast to Feeds
To get your podcast out to the masses, you will need to hit the directories that cater to podcasting. Well, one of the quickest way to get this done, is through Feedburner. Just check the “Podcasting button” and you will be directed to a page with all the information you need. In fact, they have a site called “PingShot” that will automatically notify the directories and web-based aggregators when you publish new content — I mention this one, because it is free. No sense, paying for something if you are in the experimental mode, right? But . . .
There is still a learning curve here, and you will need to take a little time to devour some of the info on the different sites to get the information you want, as well as, how to use it. But it looks like podcasting is now the in thing. Will it last? I think it may. But it looks like the next, new and great thing coming to the Internet is the Video Casts. The only thing I see that may keep some from partaking in this media is the bandwidth and storage. But we will see.
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November 28th, 2009
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November 24th, 2009
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November 21st, 2009
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November 19th, 2009
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