$3.8 Trillion Budget – How Much is a TRILLION Dollars?

So What Does one TRILLION dollars look like Anyway?

trillion dollar guy

With all the talk about “stimulus packages” and “bailouts”, “economic recovery” and a “$3.8 trillion budget”…

A billion dollars…

A hundred billion dollars…

Eight hundred billion dollars…

One TRILLION dollars…

Email Scams and Internet Scams

What can You do to Verify Urban Legends and email Scams?

gtb logo Email Scams and Internet Scams I am one of the promo winners of $287,500.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS).

Wienerschnitzel • Zoomerang • DGWB Advertising and Communications

All I Wanted Was a Free Dog From Wienerschnitzel and I got Slapped by DGWB Advertising and Zoomerang

I got an email from Wienerschnitzel just the other day. I am on their “special” list so they promise to give me special deals.

Technorati Blog Claim Update

Technorati is Just Too Busy or Just Too Important to Even Send Me a Real email

As you probably know by now, back in July on the 29th, I tried to claim my blog in Technorati. This has turned out to be a project rather than a simple event. So far I don’t own my own blog and I haven’t placed the code “fcayphqgb7″ necessary to prove that I own my blog on it.
(Post from Search Engine Optimizician.)
I even titled a post with the verification number “fcayphqgb7″ and that didn’t even work. The site still tells me they cant find the verification number.

fcayphqgb7

Claim My Blog on Technorati > My Blog is Lost > Frustration Ensues

My blog isn’t lost to me but it must be to Technorati. They can’t find the code fcayphqgb7.
In my post yesterday I touted the ease of claiming my blog with Technorati. It appears as though I spoke too soon.
I claimed my blog all right but they can’t find the code they gave me.

Ninja or Zen You Decide

Can a company, especially one that is no longer in business, keep you from reporting facts about them on your website?

Here is an attempt by one such company. This ex-catering company wants to be perceived as zen but comes off as ninja.

LinkedIn | Does LinkedIn Even Care?

LinkedIn not only a Bully but Incompetent too!

Over a week ago I spent nearly 2 hours leaving 86 LinkedIn groups after they sent me an email stating that they were limiting the groups I could be a member of to 50. See my blog post LinkedIn Just the Neighborhood Bully.

LinkedIn | Just the Neighborhood Bully

I received an email from LinkedIn and it made me mad.

I wrote them back and here is my open letter. The original is at the bottom.

If you want us to leave groups on a mass scale why don’t you make it easy to do so?

Snake Oil SEO | Keyword Research

Yesterday I was sent a link to a video about a couple that traveled around the US for a year

My wife and I have been throwing around the idea of creating a mobile studio so we could take short trips to the Oregon Coast or where ever we’d like. The whole project is to be able to take our whole studio with us with out packing it up and unpacking it when we get to the hotel.

Aaron Wall disses Rand Fishkin

Shame on Aaron Wall and SEOBook.com

Microsoft Tries to Charge My Inactive adCenter Account

Today I got an email from Micro$oft that was extremely irritating.

You can’t even reply to it.

You have to go through the support on their website!

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