<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986</id><updated>2011-04-21T11:55:38.584-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Buy-a-Groupie</title><subtitle type='html'>Tired of surfing Blog Explosion, Blog Soldier, and other traffic exchange sites? Tired of posting comments on bloggers' sites hoping to a click-back?  Tired of not getting enough insightful comments on your postings?  I was too....but now I am offering to do the dirty work for YOU! Services can be bought for as low as $1.00 per month.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>61</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-116630936550947909</id><published>2006-12-16T14:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-16T14:49:26.780-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Light Show</title><content type='html'>Rob's site just released a &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;clip&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;of a Christmas light show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's probably the first multimedia post Rob has ever made!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The video is about 4 minutes long.  You can let your children watch with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christmas is becoming less and less to do with Christ, but more to do with consumerism.  I can imagine a future where people no longer put up Christmas lights. Rather, children can watch videos of past Christmas lights at home!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-116630936550947909?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/116630936550947909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=116630936550947909&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/116630936550947909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/116630936550947909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/12/christmas-light-show.html' title='Christmas Light Show'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-116511242021512873</id><published>2006-12-02T17:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-02T18:20:20.533-08:00</updated><title type='text'>China's Environmental Problems</title><content type='html'>For the past four mounths, I have been volunteering with an &lt;a href="http://www.gvbchina.org/EnglishWeb/index.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;environmental NGO group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; based in Beijing China. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The decision to help was prompted by a four part documentary series on CBC, which shed light on China's current environmental problems.  For some more details on this widespread issue, visit &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_robchina_archive.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Rob's webpage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Traditional villages which were heavily dependent on fishing and farming are now facing extinction.  Manuafacturing factories are springing up everywhere, and they conduct business without following government regulations.  The culprit is not only the factories, but also the Chinese government.  China has always had a history of corruption and bribery, and the government cannot resist the temptation of making taxes from foreign owned factories.   As a result, toxins are released into the rivers and the air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Protecting the environment really has nothing to do with protecting plants and animals.  It has everything to do with protecting humans.  People fail to realize that everything is connected.  I have heard a lot of people making negative comments about tree huggers, that they go to the extreme.  Sometimes, their tactics do seem extreme, and the average person can never understand why some people want to sacrifice so much for a few ferns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cascading chain of events from the death of a few ferns may mean the extinction of a village.  Villagers who for centuries lived off the land no longer farm or fish.  They do not know any other way of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rob's &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Rob in China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; page offers some excellent news articles on critical issues in China.  For those of you who can't handle words, he also provides content driven funny pictures!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-116511242021512873?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/116511242021512873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=116511242021512873&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/116511242021512873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/116511242021512873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/12/chinas-environmental-problems.html' title='China&apos;s Environmental Problems'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114919345154777380</id><published>2006-06-01T13:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-01T13:24:11.926-07:00</updated><title type='text'>On Vacation!!</title><content type='html'>Hello All,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just letting you know that the groupie is on vacation until June 21st.  All services will be resumed after my return.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am going on a camping/diving trip to Belize.  Happy Bubbles!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ultimate Groupie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114919345154777380?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114919345154777380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114919345154777380&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114919345154777380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114919345154777380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/06/on-vacation.html' title='On Vacation!!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114845152134114267</id><published>2006-05-23T23:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-23T23:18:41.500-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Importance of Comments</title><content type='html'>If you have a blog and your main goal is to &lt;strong&gt;gain readership&lt;/strong&gt; (rather than making money from ads), then you should take&lt;a href="http://www.aspenleafhosting.com/cat/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Cat's advice&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and start commenting on others' websites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't stress how important it is to comment. You can surf the blogs and find interesting posts to comment on, and you will surely see an increase in your readership and overall traffic. I am not just saying this because I offer this service. I think it's something that all bloggers can do on their own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normally, for a 'customer', I do &lt;strong&gt;25 comments a day&lt;/strong&gt; for the 100 comments service. It really doesn't take that long. What you should do is to post your &lt;strong&gt;genuine thoughts&lt;/strong&gt; and not just something like "I like you site, check out mine!". This doesn't work. If you are going to post, at least take the time and read the blogger's articles and take an genuine interest in it. Doing 25 comments takes me about &lt;strong&gt;30 minutes or an hour&lt;/strong&gt;. It is really a small portion of your day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can start by going to the &lt;strong&gt;Cat With a Pen website&lt;/strong&gt; and follow&lt;a href="http://aspenleafhosting.com/cat/?p=302"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; her instructions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It is a really neat way to &lt;a href="http://aspenleafhosting.com/cat/?p=302"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;start your "commenting" campaign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. At the same time, you will even end up learning something new everyday by reading others' blogs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114845152134114267?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114845152134114267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114845152134114267&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114845152134114267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114845152134114267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/importance-of-comments.html' title='The Importance of Comments'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114845070293025082</id><published>2006-05-23T22:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-23T23:05:03.080-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Men's Underwear</title><content type='html'>Women's underwear gets too much attention, and men's underwear is often overlooked.  Aside from Hanes, I can name.......hum....well......I can't name any other brands.  Come to think of it, I can't name any other women's underwear brands except for Victoria Secret and Hanes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;N8ivWarriors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has just purchased some brand &lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-underwear.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;new underwear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  Before reading his article, I had no idea that men's underwear can be so complicated.  I mean why not?  It's presumptuous of me to say that only women have difficulties with underwear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;N8ivWarrior&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s point is to buy new underwear often!  It makes perfect sense.  My husband has a sock fetish - he loves wearing brand new socks.  Instead of washing old socks, he normally tosses the socks away and just buy new ones.  At first, I thought it was just lazyness, but now I know that he just loves the feeling of new socks.  I wish he has the same fetish for underwear.  The last pair of new underwear he bought was about a year ago, and they are getting that thrift store item look...yuck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On another note, N8ivWarrior is trying to write a story.  You can check out the new author's work &lt;a href="http://techno-underground.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114845070293025082?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114845070293025082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114845070293025082&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114845070293025082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114845070293025082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/mens-underwear.html' title='Men&apos;s Underwear'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114844919267885740</id><published>2006-05-23T22:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-23T22:39:52.746-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Jesse at &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/"&gt;The Future of the Web &lt;/a&gt;is organizing a &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/5/the-carnival-of-the-web"&gt;blog carnival&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will showcase the best posts in the wide world of web professionalism. The first carnival is on Sunday, June 18th, 2006. His carnival will target web professionals such as web designers, web masters, SEO experts or anyone who creates web sites. For additional details, visit his blog carnival page and&lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/carnival/info"&gt; send in your submission&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a funny note, Jesse also has a link to the guy who gets to lose his virginity if he gets 5 million links by the May. You can get to the &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/5/there-is-no-virgin"&gt;guy's website &lt;/a&gt;through The Future of the Web. It's pretty cool, so you should check it out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114844919267885740?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114844919267885740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114844919267885740&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114844919267885740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114844919267885740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/jesse-at-future-of-web-is-organizing.html' title=''/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114844849611811451</id><published>2006-05-23T22:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-23T22:28:16.363-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Collection of the Funniest Pictures on the Web</title><content type='html'>The &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;Rob In China&lt;/a&gt; blog has by far the funniest pictures on the web. There is a few samples below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/ebaypicturefunny.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/rob-in-china-protest.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt; For additional pictures that will make you laugh and sometimes blush, check out the &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;Rob In China Blog&lt;/a&gt;!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114844849611811451?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114844849611811451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114844849611811451&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114844849611811451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114844849611811451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/collection-of-funniest-pictures-on-web.html' title='Collection of the Funniest Pictures on the Web'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114775830022662766</id><published>2006-05-15T22:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-15T22:45:00.360-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dandelions of Television</title><content type='html'>In case you thought Maureen was only kidding in her article &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/11/23/die-brady-die/comedy/sit-coms/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Die Bardy Die&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, she is back with another one titled&lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2006/05/08/die-brady-die-and-i-mean-it-this-time/television-memories/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Die Brady Die And I Mean It This Time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the previous article, she compared the Brady Bunch fever to such endearing things as: &lt;strong&gt;phlegm&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Legionnaires' Disease&lt;/strong&gt;. In her new rant, she compared it to&lt;strong&gt; dandelions&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I never watched &lt;strong&gt;The Brady Bunch&lt;/strong&gt; when I was young, but I did have the pleasure of watching &lt;strong&gt;A Very Brady Sequel&lt;/strong&gt;. It was my first taste of why some people are such bradymanias. They are just a super happy family....almost to the point of nausea! It was okay in the 70s, I guess, but it just doesn't cut it for the new generation of TV audience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every once in awhile, I see something about the actors of the original Brady Bunch on &lt;strong&gt;Entertainment Tonight&lt;/strong&gt;, or a Current Affair, or other entertainment/celebrity gossip shows. Then, I realized that the Bradys is sort of a &lt;strong&gt;"filler"&lt;/strong&gt; - the foods that make you full yet have no real nutrition. It is not a centerpiece, just a filler. When&lt;strong&gt; Lindsay Lohan&lt;/strong&gt; has not lost 20 pounds due to &lt;strong&gt;anorexia&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;strong&gt;Paris Hilton&lt;/strong&gt; has not released a &lt;strong&gt;new sex tape&lt;/strong&gt;, you can always count on the Brady Bunch news, shows, or whatever to fullfill your needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My thoughts were provoked, what are other &lt;strong&gt;dandelions of television&lt;/strong&gt;? You know, the shows and characters that &lt;strong&gt;just won't go away&lt;/strong&gt;, even after all the sequels, prequels, reunions, sequels to sequels, and Christmas specials? The Brady Bunch definitely ranks very high on my list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you think of any other shows, &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/category/comedy/sit-coms/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;sit-coms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, actors, etc that just won't go away?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114775830022662766?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114775830022662766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114775830022662766&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114775830022662766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114775830022662766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/dandelions-of-television.html' title='The Dandelions of Television'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114775682589759215</id><published>2006-05-15T22:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-15T22:20:26.006-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Start a Sports Blog</title><content type='html'>I don't see enough &lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;great sports blogs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;in the blogosphere.  Why is this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not a huge sports fan, in fact, I &lt;strong&gt;ban hockey&lt;/strong&gt; in my household.  My husband is a huge hockey fan, and the fact that he sits on the couch, &lt;strong&gt;screams at the TV&lt;/strong&gt;, and expect me to go along with it is completely out of the question.  Yes, I am Canadian, and yes I don't like&lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?cat=4"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; hockey&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; it's an &lt;strong&gt;oxymoron&lt;/strong&gt;, I know...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do enjoy a good read, so some entertaining articles that a non-hockey fan can relate to would be great.  The article doesn't need to be only related to hockey, any sport is great, as long as you can &lt;strong&gt;grab my attention&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=21"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;longer than 2 seconds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  How about starting an article with "Gymnast On Steriod!", or "Women Eats 50 Hotdogs!"....eating is a competitive sport now, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am tired of hearing baseball, basketball or football players on &lt;strong&gt;steriod&lt;/strong&gt;. It would be more entertaining to talk about one who is not.  But, how about steriod use in other sports like &lt;strong&gt;swimming or gymnastics&lt;/strong&gt;, how about writing an article on the German's use of steriod in the Olympics during &lt;strong&gt;Hitler's reign&lt;/strong&gt;, how about the woman who can &lt;strong&gt;eat 50 hotdogs&lt;/strong&gt;?? (I am not sure if this is true, just making a point).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114775682589759215?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114775682589759215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114775682589759215&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114775682589759215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114775682589759215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/start-sports-blog.html' title='Start a Sports Blog'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114775600885559262</id><published>2006-05-15T21:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-15T22:06:48.956-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Your Logo Working for You?</title><content type='html'>A&lt;strong&gt; logo&lt;/strong&gt; is not just a nifty design with your company name. In reality, it goes so much further than just a pretty picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/mcdonalds.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/mcdonalds.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at&lt;strong&gt; this logo&lt;/strong&gt;. Regardless of whether the language is in English, Chinese, or Hindi, etc, you will recognize the name of the business. In a sense, a successful logo is a part of your&lt;strong&gt; branding technique&lt;/strong&gt;. So, what makes a logo successful? According to most successful CEOs and brand managers, a successful logo is something that the &lt;strong&gt;end user or customer identifies with&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/groupiead.5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupiead.5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, this is my&lt;strong&gt; banner&lt;/strong&gt;, which is different from a logo.  Although, the end result should accomplish the same thing: &lt;strong&gt;end user's connectivity&lt;/strong&gt; with the business.  I should design a logo as well!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are looking for&lt;strong&gt; logo designers&lt;/strong&gt;, you can visit&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blog4logos.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;www.blog4logos.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  It is a market place of logo buyers and sellers.  You can &lt;strong&gt;submit your design&lt;/strong&gt; to the webmaster or buy a logo from a designer.  I am sure that you can also work with a designer to get what you want, but just let the webmaster know.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114775600885559262?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114775600885559262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114775600885559262&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114775600885559262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114775600885559262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/is-your-logo-working-for-you.html' title='Is Your Logo Working for You?'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114775524486885608</id><published>2006-05-15T21:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-15T21:54:09.816-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Search Engine Optimization Woes</title><content type='html'>When I first started blogging, I read everything on the net about &lt;strong&gt;search engine optimization&lt;/strong&gt;.  Some people say the &lt;strong&gt;success&lt;/strong&gt; of SEO can determine the future of your website.  I realized that the more I read, the more confused I became....so I gave up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not so big on where to put my keyword, whether to make something bold, italic, or how to name the title of my article just to attract more hits from search engines.  The search engines probably don't like me, but that's okay.  As long as I am &lt;strong&gt;having fun&lt;/strong&gt; blogging, I am not too worried about SEO. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, with that said, I have no doubt that there are &lt;strong&gt;numerous benefits&lt;/strong&gt; to becoming an expert in &lt;strong&gt;search engine optimization&lt;/strong&gt;.  For starters, you can be a step ahead of the search engines and be prepared when the&lt;strong&gt; algorithm&lt;/strong&gt; changes.  There is a lot of on-line businesses who look for SEO specialists to help them stay ahead of the competition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I know about SEO is very basic.  I know to insert meta tags, submit my site to the search engines, and beyond that, everything is a blurr.  If you are interested in &lt;strong&gt;SEO news&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;SEO tips&lt;/strong&gt;, then &lt;a href="http://www.2blogseo.com"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;visit 2BlogSEO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the latest information in the &lt;strong&gt;SEO world&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114775524486885608?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114775524486885608/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114775524486885608&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114775524486885608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114775524486885608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/search-engine-optimization-woes.html' title='Search Engine Optimization Woes'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114775481378993590</id><published>2006-05-15T21:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-15T21:46:53.993-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Combating the Blues</title><content type='html'>Over the past few years, I have found a way to &lt;strong&gt;combat the blues&lt;/strong&gt; - keeping a list of &lt;strong&gt;inspirational quotes&lt;/strong&gt; from various sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By far, my favorite one is related to exploration and living a life with &lt;strong&gt;no regrets&lt;/strong&gt;.  This quote from always hints to me the correct direction of my life when I am faced with &lt;strong&gt;confusion&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My suggestion would be a &lt;strong&gt;keep a list&lt;/strong&gt; of your favorite quotes in planners, on computer desk tops, attached to the bathroom mirror, etc so that you can refer to them throughout the day.  For a list of quotes you might like, visit &lt;a href="http://www.blog4quotes.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;www.blog4quotes.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114775481378993590?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114775481378993590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114775481378993590&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114775481378993590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114775481378993590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/combating-blues.html' title='Combating the Blues'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114759212440708278</id><published>2006-05-14T00:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-14T00:35:24.483-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Blogs with Groupie: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;19&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Total Articles Written:&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; 47&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Total Comments Posted: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1100&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Why You Should Buy-a-Groupie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***Bloggers and sponsors, feel free to contact me with any questions about the services at &lt;a href="mailto:buyagroupie@yahoo.com"&gt;buyagroupie@yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt;. Media/Press inquries can also be direct to the aforementioned email address. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114759212440708278?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114759212440708278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114759212440708278&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114759212440708278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114759212440708278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/blogs-with-groupie-19-total-articles.html' title=''/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114759190190756865</id><published>2006-05-14T00:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-14T00:31:42.010-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Help Serra to Leave Her Boyfriend!</title><content type='html'>How can you help Serra, the author of &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Whiplashsmile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She is in a jam! And, please help her out by &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/2006/05/13/donations/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;donating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a few dollars or a few hundred dollars (if you are that generous) so that she can &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;LEAVE HER BOYF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;RIEND&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a little background on Serra's "dilemma", check out this &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/dilemma/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;posting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all need a little support once in awhile, and she is really in NEED.  So, please please go to her &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;site&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and show some support!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114759190190756865?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114759190190756865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114759190190756865&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114759190190756865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114759190190756865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/help-serra-to-leave-her-boyfriend.html' title='Help Serra to Leave Her Boyfriend!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114758907859220826</id><published>2006-05-13T23:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-13T23:44:38.720-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Too Much Technology</title><content type='html'>As I sit here in front of my computer, absolutely&lt;strong&gt; MAD&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Blogger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;....how can I&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; have&lt;/span&gt; anything &lt;strong&gt;positive&lt;/strong&gt; to say about having technology?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about, &lt;strong&gt;let's take life slow&lt;/strong&gt;. Recently, I have been reading the 2BlogGadgets&lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; blog&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;for Geeks. At first, I was fascinated by the different types of gadgets out there, such as the tools that help you to &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/?p=36"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;type with your mind&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/?p=41"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;get drunk without booze&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;solar powered retinal implants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I mean, how cool would it be to type what you are thinking!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, I started to think about this article - &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/?p=39"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;"Around the World in 2 1/2 Hours". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay.....why would anyone want to see the world in 2 1/2 hours? Sure it's fast and a little bit cool, but what happened to travelling the world to see &lt;strong&gt;incredible sceneries&lt;/strong&gt; and meet &lt;strong&gt;different people&lt;/strong&gt;. This can never be a &lt;strong&gt;substitutio&lt;/strong&gt;n for the experience of &lt;a href="http://www.fullpassport.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;travelling around the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology helps us to save time, but it takes away a lot of learning opportunities. Instead of typing with your mind, why not write in journals so that you can practice your spelling. We are becoming very dependent on spelling and grammar checks. Someone just asked me to spell "Contest" the other day!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114758907859220826?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114758907859220826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114758907859220826&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114758907859220826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114758907859220826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/too-much-technology.html' title='Too Much Technology'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114758551964225988</id><published>2006-05-13T21:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-13T22:45:19.836-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Differences in Thinking</title><content type='html'>The&lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/05/hola-o-si-yo.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; N8ivWarrior Blog&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;sparked the following thoughts....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you support having a &lt;strong&gt;national language&lt;/strong&gt;?  Do you think that it should be&lt;strong&gt; English&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not against it.  Having a national language can help businesses and the government to have a &lt;strong&gt;consistant&lt;/strong&gt; way of communicating with customers and tax payers.  It costs less money than to have forms in every language out there.  They don't have to hire multi-lingual employees, and the employees can communicate with each other easily.  So, it's common sense that every country should have an official language...for communication purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I am against is people who want French, Mandarin, Punjabi, etc speakers to go back to where they came from!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/05/hola-o-si-yo.html"&gt;N8ivWarrior &lt;/a&gt;agrees with me! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have ever said such a thing in private, in public, or anywhere, &lt;strong&gt;please feel ashamed&lt;/strong&gt; that you don't understand fully the history of your country, the meaning of the word "opportunity", and the concepts behind evolution and migration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;N8ivWarrior&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; talks about why the United States does not have a national language, and concludes by saying &lt;strong&gt;"Suggesting a national language does not embrace our heritage, but dismisses it"&lt;/strong&gt;.   The U.S is often called the land of opportunity for immigrants.  However, the people who don't consider themselves as immigrants often don't understand the term "opportunity".  Let me clarify.  It does not mean that if my parents go to America,&lt;strong&gt; they will take the opportunity away from you&lt;/strong&gt;.  What it means is that  there are opportunities for &lt;strong&gt;EVERYONE&lt;/strong&gt;, as long as you are &lt;strong&gt;willing &lt;/strong&gt;to compete fairly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For those of you who have ever said "So and so should learn English and go back to where they came from if they don't".....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has it ever occured to you that maybe it would be a great opportunity to&lt;strong&gt; learn another new language&lt;/strong&gt;?  Why should you when everyone in the world wants to learn English?  &lt;strong&gt;Well...I have news for you&lt;/strong&gt;.  English is becoming out-dated. Yep, it's &lt;strong&gt;not as hot&lt;/strong&gt; as you would like it to be.  See, everything goes back to making money.  Originally, a lot of people in non-English speaking countries wanted to learn English, because major businesses were conducted in English, and the money is in North America and Europe.  And, if you want&lt;strong&gt; a piece of that pie&lt;/strong&gt;, well, you have to learn English. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now, it is different&lt;/strong&gt;.  The money is in &lt;strong&gt;China and India&lt;/strong&gt;, and you will find more and more people wanting to learn Mandarin or Punjabi.  By the way, there is a &lt;strong&gt;difference&lt;/strong&gt; between Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese.  To make things even more complicated for you, some people even speak Shanghainese, and Mandarin alone has 70 something different &lt;strong&gt;dialects&lt;/strong&gt;, each is unique.  So, please don't say that all Chinese people speak Chinese; it's just not the case, and you look uneducated when you say it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, please, learn another language, &lt;strong&gt;go beyond your comfort zone&lt;/strong&gt;! &lt;strong&gt;You can do it&lt;/strong&gt;!  The next time you have the urge to tell someone to go back to where they came from, remember that the &lt;strong&gt;Americas is the New World&lt;/strong&gt;, meaning that pretty much everyone here is from somewhere else.  Remember that you are living in the land of opportunity and should actually take advantage of those opportunities sometimes (and for God Sakes, don't get mad at other people when you don't make the effort and others do).  Remember that even the &lt;strong&gt;Natives&lt;/strong&gt; can be traced back to &lt;strong&gt;Japan&lt;/strong&gt;, and if you want to go back further, then back to &lt;strong&gt;Africa&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114758551964225988?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114758551964225988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114758551964225988&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114758551964225988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114758551964225988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/differences-in-thinking.html' title='Differences in Thinking'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114758136988569158</id><published>2006-05-13T21:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-13T21:36:09.960-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Granny Sex</title><content type='html'>If you want more 'interesting' mental pictures of all sorts of &lt;strong&gt;weird sexual situations&lt;/strong&gt;, then visit &lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;2BlogHumor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  Between this blog and &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Blog4Humor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I have a healthy dose of information that I just don't want to know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, you might think you want to know the&lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?p=111"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; secret to great sex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but do you really?  I was curious enough to scroll down the page, but it was a bad idea.  See, the real secret is that if you think you can't handle the joke, then just don't scroll down the page...right?  &lt;strong&gt;Wrong&lt;/strong&gt;.  You can't help it.  I mean, doesn't everyone what to know the secret to great sex? I couldn't help it, and now I am paying for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What made matters worse was another &lt;strong&gt;senior sex joke&lt;/strong&gt; titled "&lt;a title="Permanent Link to Oh, Oh Here Comes Granny" href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?p=110" rel="bookmark"&gt;Oh, Oh Here Comes Granny&lt;/a&gt;".  Once again, if you think you can't handle it, it's probably not true. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I am not sure why there are so many of these pensioner/senior sex jokes on the blog, and I am beginning to suspect that the author might be fascinated by it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114758136988569158?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114758136988569158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114758136988569158&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114758136988569158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114758136988569158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/granny-sex.html' title='Granny Sex'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114757983016771833</id><published>2006-05-13T20:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-13T21:24:18.376-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A New Meaning to Mommy's Wash Cloth</title><content type='html'>There are even more&lt;strong&gt; jokes&lt;/strong&gt; now for your entertainment at &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Blog4Humor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Initially, the jokes there were quite ... um.. &lt;strong&gt;tame&lt;/strong&gt;. It is getting more risque by the day! One of the latest ones is "&lt;a title="Permanent Link: Mommy’s wash cloth - Old but Still Good" href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=43" rel="bookmark"&gt;Mommy’s wash cloth &lt;/a&gt;". Now, although I was &lt;strong&gt;turned off&lt;/strong&gt; by the jokes, you might might it funny! I am quite proud of my ability of creating great &lt;strong&gt;mental imageries&lt;/strong&gt; in my head, but the punch line to that particular joke is not something I want to think about ever again. So, if you happen to be the type who enjoys these....um...&lt;strong&gt;no-so-clean jokes&lt;/strong&gt;, then by all means go to &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Blog4Humor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, if you want to know about &lt;a title="Permanent Link: What do kids know about sex anyways" href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=42" rel="bookmark"&gt;What do kids know about sex anyways&lt;/a&gt;, you will be surprised to find out that they know &lt;strong&gt;QUITE&lt;/strong&gt; a bit more than you think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the bright side, there is a&lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=45"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; cool picture&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;you should check out. It is a &lt;strong&gt;genius&lt;/strong&gt; hair cut!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114757983016771833?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114757983016771833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114757983016771833&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114757983016771833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114757983016771833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-meaning-to-mommys-wash-cloth.html' title='A New Meaning to Mommy&apos;s Wash Cloth'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114757600273700247</id><published>2006-05-13T19:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-13T20:06:42.836-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rob Is BACK!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/rob-in-china.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/rob-in-china.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, Rob is back!  The author of &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Rob in China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has been '&lt;strong&gt;missing'&lt;/strong&gt; for the last months or so, and he has finally returned from his travels from rural China to bring the latest news and gossips to his web audience.   It is also reported that he is now 20 pounds lighter, but still as good as before in posting great blog entries and pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to admit that while he was gone, life was not the same.  There was no laughter, and I am just glad that he is back!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The interest thing is I found this great cartoon on his &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and you can actually get it as a business card on &lt;a href="http://gapingvoid.streetcards.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;this site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to Rob's blog and &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;see for yourself&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;what an interesting and entertaining site he has created.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114757600273700247?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114757600273700247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114757600273700247&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114757600273700247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114757600273700247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/rob-is-back.html' title='Rob Is BACK!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114757536287549197</id><published>2006-05-13T19:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-13T19:56:03.056-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How to be Productive</title><content type='html'>I used to believe that I was the quite &lt;strong&gt;productive&lt;/strong&gt;.  You know, I would read a lot of articles on &lt;strong&gt;productivity&lt;/strong&gt;, and I could cite you many great &lt;strong&gt;tips on improving productivity&lt;/strong&gt; from &lt;strong&gt;time management gurus&lt;/strong&gt;.  I even had all sorts of time management tools, such as day planners, PDAs, a calendar on Yahoo, and other tools to help me become more productive.  Boy, was I ever good at to-do lists.  I write them out, sometimes twice or three times, making sure it is nice and pretty and on the best paper possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, I started to wonder why I wasn't getting much done, yet was &lt;strong&gt;exhausted&lt;/strong&gt;.  The answer is that I was exhausted from all the time I spent on researching time management and productivity! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a &lt;strong&gt;vicious vicious cycle&lt;/strong&gt;!  I want to accomplish something, research it over and over again, then by the time I am ready to start, my mind could not handle any more thoughts and I am physically tired. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since then, I am much&lt;strong&gt; better&lt;/strong&gt; at being productive.  The key is to &lt;strong&gt;just do it&lt;/strong&gt;!  &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Future of the Web blog&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;has an &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/4/getting-things-done"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;excellent article&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;on productivity and time management.   I like Jesse's point #4 on the list of tips.  It was my weakness.  The more time I put into reading productivity tips, the less time I had for actually&lt;strong&gt; completing a task&lt;/strong&gt;.  The most annoying thing was when I had to reschedule the same task over and over again because I would not get to it.  This also was not very good on my &lt;strong&gt;self-esteem&lt;/strong&gt;, as I constantly felt like a &lt;strong&gt;failure&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key, as &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/about-me"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Jesse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; mentions too, is to &lt;strong&gt;JUST DO IT&lt;/strong&gt;. I think ultimately, we all know how to be more productive.  Sometimes, it's just pure lazyness....which was true in my case!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114757536287549197?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114757536287549197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114757536287549197&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114757536287549197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114757536287549197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/how-to-be-productive.html' title='How to be Productive'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114715371688598270</id><published>2006-05-08T22:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T22:48:37.063-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cat Poop Coffee</title><content type='html'>My cat&lt;strong&gt; poops a lot&lt;/strong&gt;, and my puppy loves to &lt;strong&gt;eat his poop&lt;/strong&gt;. I am not sure if this is just a puppy thing or if all dogs love by-products. My cat is literally a&lt;strong&gt; food dispenser&lt;/strong&gt; for the young puppy. No matter how he is disiplined, he continues to sit by the &lt;strong&gt;litter box&lt;/strong&gt; waiting for his favorite food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would you ever eat cat poop&lt;/strong&gt;? No seriously...would you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Palatable blog&lt;/strong&gt; intr&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/kopiluwak.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/kopiluwak.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;oduced me to &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2006/05/would-you-like-cup-of-java.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cat poop and monkey poo coffee&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to find out where this coffee comes from, how it's made, and why it is so expensive, then visit the Palatable&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cat poop coffee (hehe...that just sounds funny) is the&lt;strong&gt; most expensive coffee in the world&lt;/strong&gt;. Technically, it's called &lt;strong&gt;Kopi Luwak&lt;/strong&gt;. And, look, it is even sold in UNCLEANED form (Picture to the left, yew!!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even &lt;strong&gt;Oprah Winfrey&lt;/strong&gt; is endorsing this coffee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/oprah_kopi_luwak.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/oprah_kopi_luwak.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She looks a bit concerned holding the Kopi Luwak Coffee.  I guess she has every right to be considering that it is literally poop!  The funny thing is a lot of the dealer sites guarantee authenticity. So, what happens when it's not authentic.  &lt;strong&gt;Is it just straight poop&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114715371688598270?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114715371688598270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114715371688598270&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114715371688598270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114715371688598270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/cat-poop-coffee.html' title='Cat Poop Coffee'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114715263536896966</id><published>2006-05-08T22:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T22:30:35.663-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sex, Drama, and God</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/molliedayicon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 106px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 176px" height="223" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/molliedayicon.jpg" width="125" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/molliedayicon.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/molliedayicon.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of those things is completely out of my life.....and I hope you guessed "Drama"...ha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the &lt;a href="http://day-without-rain.org/mollieduvall/wordpress/wordpress/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Banana Smoothie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;blog, Mollie talks about her remembrances of junior year - it is a chronicle of the lessons she has learnt. I have to say that it is quite wise for someone so young. Often, it takes a lifetime to just realize that drama is unnecessary and we can choose to not allow it into our lives. &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005NHJS/103-4890680-9375835?v=glance&amp;n=5174"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;Mary J Blige&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; just realized that a few years ago!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a few of the items on her list and my responses to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;1. Taking sign language, probably the best thing I have EVER done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Learning sign language is a great idea! I plan to teach &lt;a href="http://www.signingbaby.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;baby sign&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;to my future children, so that I am not guessing what they need all the time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;3. Changing my attitude. Being a bitch got me no where. Dressing like one didn’t either.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Yeah....it's good that Mollie is not going to dress like a b**** anymore, or act like one for that matter. People react to us to how they preceive, and usually acting or dressing like a b**** invite undesirable outcomes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;4. Sex, drugs, drinking= no no for mollz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;You can drink in moderation, as long as it's not excessive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;6. Coming back to God….Every thing that happens, he always comes to my mind. It’s a habit now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Great idea. I am working on this one too. Just missed church this Sunday, and I guess that's the work of the devil ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see Mollie's full list &lt;a href="http://day-without-rain.org/mollieduvall/wordpress/wordpress/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114715263536896966?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114715263536896966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114715263536896966&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114715263536896966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114715263536896966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/sex-drama-and-god.html' title='Sex, Drama, and God'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114706553920708859</id><published>2006-05-07T21:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-07T22:18:59.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Children Should Have Pets</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/groupie%20ad.2.10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.2.9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, you should give me $1.00 a month to promote your blog!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;biggest heartaches&lt;/strong&gt; from my life did not stem from men, rather from the experience of raising pets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My father was &lt;strong&gt;fanatical&lt;/strong&gt; about three things: &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/646/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;cats&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, goldfish and a type of plants called Clivia. So, growing up, I was equally fanatical about them. Even being on my own, I have tried raising cats, goldfish and assorted plants. My experience with goldfish and plants were tragic, and I still have memories of goldfish floating on the water surface &lt;strong&gt;struggling to stay alive&lt;/strong&gt; and don't even talk about plants with me, because they never live long. I know to water them, it's just that I am usually &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/675/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;accidentally&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a few weeks late.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cats, on the other hand, are easier to keep alive. It could be the fact that they can constantly bug you until you replenish their food suppy. So far, &lt;strong&gt;I have not killed any cats yet&lt;/strong&gt;! This could also be because I am determined to keep them alive. When I was younger, one of my father's beloved cats died in my arms. Because we did not have &lt;strong&gt;pet insurance&lt;/strong&gt; and did not have &lt;strong&gt;extra money&lt;/strong&gt;, we could not afford to take the &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/645/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;cat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to the vet. Ever since, I have been &lt;strong&gt;determined&lt;/strong&gt; to raise healthy cats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My cat's health and dental insurance is better than my own. People think I am&lt;strong&gt; crazy&lt;/strong&gt;, but honestly, I just don't want to take that chance again. I mean, it would be a shame to not be able to save my cat's life because I don't want to spend the money. So far, the insurance has been beneficial. I already dipped into $1200 when my cat had an intestinal infection, where he almost died. It was a &lt;strong&gt;close call&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would recommend any type of pet insurance if you own pets. They are not only &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/646/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;cute little furry toys&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but also an&lt;strong&gt; important part of the family&lt;/strong&gt;. If you have health insurance for your children, why not your pets?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Koolcat from &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;My Life as a Pre-Teen&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;blog has some pictures of her &lt;strong&gt;cute furry family members&lt;/strong&gt;. I think it's great for pre-teens to take care of pets and go through the &lt;strong&gt;joy &lt;/strong&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;heartaches&lt;/strong&gt; of their life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114706553920708859?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114706553920708859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114706553920708859&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114706553920708859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114706553920708859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-children-should-have-pets.html' title='Why Children Should Have Pets'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114698145868144576</id><published>2006-05-06T22:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-06T22:57:38.693-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Weird Ebay Items</title><content type='html'>I am becoming increasing annoyed with the people selling on Ebay.  Little by little, the quality of Ebay merchandize decreases and the number of &lt;a href="http://www.verystrangeauctions.com/?p=9"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;scams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; increase.  It's hard to tell whether something is legit, and there is more crap than real products for sale.  Then comes the really really weird Ebay items....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like the&lt;a href="http://www.verystrangeauctions.com/?p=28"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; margarine that looks like breasts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  I am surprised that no one has reported seeing Jesus' face in the margarine yet....it will come...just be patient.   Most of these items are just for a good laugh, or is it?  This woman who claims that Jesus visits her is putting her "lessons" up for bids.  For a cool $35,000 AU, she will speak to you for 2 hours (privately or publicly) and tell you the cure for cancer, the future, etc.  I wonder &lt;a href="http://www.verystrangeauctions.com/?p=20"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;how her auction is doing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.verystrangeauctions.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weird Auction Blog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; lists some of the weirdest and disgusting Ebay auctions.  You can either a) Visit the blog to get a good laugh or b) shake your head in disbelieve and annoyance.   I did (b) when I read about the &lt;a href="http://www.verystrangeauctions.com/?p=7"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Fart in a Bottle item&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  Hmm...who would buy a "fart that has never been smelled before"?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114698145868144576?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114698145868144576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114698145868144576&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114698145868144576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114698145868144576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/weird-ebay-items.html' title='Weird Ebay Items'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114698025689746792</id><published>2006-05-06T22:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-06T22:37:36.910-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome 2BlogPoker!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Celebrities, millionaires,&lt;/strong&gt; and&lt;strong&gt; fantasy cars&lt;/strong&gt;, oh my!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other day, my boss invited me to his home to play poker with 2 others.  I declined due to my schedule, but it reminded me of how&lt;strong&gt; popular&lt;/strong&gt; poker is becoming.  How did it happen?  I mean, a few years ago, no one &lt;strong&gt;obsessively&lt;/strong&gt; played poker.  Overnight, &lt;strong&gt;desperate housewives&lt;/strong&gt; are hosting poker parties with margaritas, employees are playing online poker at work,  millions of &lt;a href="http://www.2blogpoker.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;poker blogs&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;came out of no where, and every channel seems to show &lt;a href="http://www.2blogpoker.com/?p=12"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;poker tournaments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I read about news of huge winnings or celebrities losing luxury cars at poker matches.  It's just too much for me!  &lt;a href="http://www.2blogpoker.com/?p=15"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Paris Hilton lost a $150,000 bentley&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;at a recent poker match.  Now, an online poker site is giving the opportunity to win a brand new bentley if she beats &lt;strong&gt;Mike Sexton&lt;/strong&gt;, a poker legend.  Humm...I wonder who will win, and what she has to give up if she loses ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing that this Poker craze has created is the chance for common everyday people to &lt;strong&gt;walk away with millions&lt;/strong&gt;.  You can register for a tournament with $25.00, and walk away with a cool 2 million.  &lt;a href="http://www.2blogpoker.com/?p=18"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Take this guy for example&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, he registered for the tournament with $25.00 at Paradise Poker, and moved up the ladder to come second place.  Luckily for this guy, the winning is in &lt;strong&gt;cash&lt;/strong&gt;.  What happens when you win  something like the new &lt;strong&gt;Lotus Elise&lt;/strong&gt;?  &lt;a href="http://www.2blogpoker.com/?p=17"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;This woman&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;took her winning and headed directly for &lt;strong&gt;Ebay&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114698025689746792?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114698025689746792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114698025689746792&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114698025689746792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114698025689746792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/welcome-2blogpoker.html' title='Welcome 2BlogPoker!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114672995307093686</id><published>2006-05-03T22:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-04T01:07:53.950-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Top 10 TV Shows of All Time...at least for me</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupiead.4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, you should give me $1.00 a month to promote your blog!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Awhile ago, I was challenged to come up with my own&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/10/17/top-ten-greatest-shows/cartoons/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Top 10 Shows of All Time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. The challenger was Rick Stabile, the author of the &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Just Watch TV blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and I am going to accept that challenge today by posting my &lt;strong&gt;Top 10 TV Shows of All Time&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forgive me, as this may seem very &lt;strong&gt;immature&lt;/strong&gt;, and you can see from my list of shows that I have not fully grown up yet. I still &lt;strong&gt;mock&lt;/strong&gt; black and white television programs and can't understand why people ever want to watch seniors on television. Born in 1979, I watched mostly Japanese &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/category/cartoons/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;cartoons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, animes, popular eighties &lt;strong&gt;teen series&lt;/strong&gt; like "Saved By the Bell"(which is still one today!), "21 Jump Street" (filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia), "Full House", and "Who is the Boss?".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the nineties, television programming trends moved towards &lt;strong&gt;daytime soaps&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;trashy talk shows&lt;/strong&gt;, and "Beverly Hills 90210", "Cheers", "Friends", and "Melrose Place" dominated primetime programming. Boy, this is bringing back memories of &lt;strong&gt;teenage angst&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we move into the millennium, &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/category/realitydocumentary/"&gt;reality TV&lt;/a&gt; arrives! As hard as I try to avoid watching reality TV, I am deeply drawn to it and it just can’t be helped. A typical week starts with &lt;strong&gt;“The Apprentice”&lt;/strong&gt; on Mondays, &lt;strong&gt;“American Idol”&lt;/strong&gt; on Tuesday,&lt;strong&gt; “America’s Next Top Model”&lt;/strong&gt; on Wednesdays, and &lt;strong&gt;“Survivor”&lt;/strong&gt; on Thursdays. I feel a bit lost on Fridays, and that’s when I resort to Star Trek reruns and&lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/category/realitydocumentary/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; documentary movies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I often compare my affinity to reality TV to that of Britney Spears. I mean, come on, her songs are cleverly marketed and they are just so catchy! In spite of what people say about her, she was a giant in the music industry and the product of some very smart branding and marketing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, I am deviating from the original topic, so here we go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) &lt;strong&gt;The Smurfs&lt;/strong&gt; – I am a sucker for&lt;strong&gt; nostalgia&lt;/strong&gt;, and I consider my smurf watching days the most relaxing, stress-free, and problem-free time of my life! It’s an animated series about small blue creations who live in mushroom houses, deep in the forest somewhere in Europe. My fiancé says they are actually the by-product of a bad acid trip, but that’s yet to be confirmed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) &lt;strong&gt;The Dream of the Red Mansion&lt;/strong&gt; – Based on one of the four classic Chinese novels of all time, this series was extremely popular in China in the eighties. It was our version of dramatic soap opera at its best! Who wouldn’t want to watch &lt;strong&gt;cousins falling in love&lt;/strong&gt; (but kept a part by evil people!), corruption and blackmail, rich blue-blood heiresses frolicking around, all leading to a &lt;strong&gt;tragic end&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) &lt;strong&gt;Star Trek Voyager&lt;/strong&gt;– Great &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/category/science-fiction/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;science fiction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. You can’t go wrong with&lt;strong&gt; sexy Borg drones&lt;/strong&gt;, a holographically projected computer program doctor with attitude, &lt;a name="q"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;powerful omnipotent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Qs, &lt;a name="8472"&gt;and species 8472&lt;/a&gt;, oh my!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) &lt;strong&gt;The Oprah Show&lt;/strong&gt; – I try to catch 45 minutes of her show daily, even sacrificing my nap time between jobs. She opens up people’s eyes to what’s going on in the rest of the world, and I deeply appreciate the daily reminders of how&lt;strong&gt; fortunate&lt;/strong&gt; I am to be living here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) &lt;strong&gt;Darwin’s Nightmare&lt;/strong&gt; – Actually, it is a very recent documentary on the effect of perch fishing in Victoria Like (Tanzania). After watching the show, you will think about the implications of &lt;strong&gt;foreign involvement&lt;/strong&gt; in Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) &lt;strong&gt;The Long Way Round&lt;/strong&gt; – 2 men, 2 bikes and 20,000miles. It’s a little documentary series on &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2006/04/28/outdoor-life-network-returns-to-dish/sports/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;OLN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;strong&gt;Ewan McGregor&lt;/strong&gt; and his friend &lt;strong&gt;Charley Boorman&lt;/strong&gt;. .They traveled 20,000 miles around the world on motorcycles. You really get to see some great places in the world and the strength of their friendship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7) &lt;strong&gt;The Amazing Race&lt;/strong&gt; – Adventures, traveling, and a lot of &lt;strong&gt;money&lt;/strong&gt; all in one show!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8) &lt;strong&gt;American Idol&lt;/strong&gt; – I enjoy the first few shows where they screen all the contestants. Yes, I do like some bad singing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9) &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/12/20/christmas-in-south-park/cartoons/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;South Park&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; – Clever cartoon with great political messages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10) &lt;strong&gt;The Office&lt;/strong&gt; – It’s outrageously &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/category/comedy/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;funny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!!! “A smart, tongue-in-cheek documentary-style look at the humorous, and sometimes poignant, banality of the 9-to-5 white-collar work world.”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114672995307093686?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114672995307093686/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114672995307093686&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114672995307093686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114672995307093686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/top-10-tv-shows-of-all-timeat-least.html' title='Top 10 TV Shows of All Time...at least for me'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114672199733527374</id><published>2006-05-03T22:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-03T22:53:17.356-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome 2BlogSports!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/canadahockeypicture.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/canadahockeypicture.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit&lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; 2BlogSports&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;for some of the&lt;strong&gt; most interesting news in sports&lt;/strong&gt; from around the globe. There will be&lt;strong&gt; gossips&lt;/strong&gt; about trades, news of accomplishments, &lt;strong&gt;olympic updates&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;strong&gt; hockey news&lt;/strong&gt;, and others that will make this blog your &lt;strong&gt;number one source&lt;/strong&gt; for commentaries into the sports world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;2BlogSports&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; features the following categories:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Olympics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the author is &lt;strong&gt;Canadian&lt;/strong&gt;, there is a lot of news on hockey. During the last winter &lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?cat=3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Olympics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 2Blogsports, like any true Canadian hockey fan, was tracking the progress of our Olympics men and women hockey team and brought&lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=12"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; highlights&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;of the matches. The Canadian women's team took home the &lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=16"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;gold&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, while the men's did not even&lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=18"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; make it&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;into the finals. It was a very sad day :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hockey&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find the latest news on&lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=27"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; major retirement announcements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, such as Luc Robitaille's retirement in April, &lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=19"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;world hocky headlines&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and even opinion pieces on Wayne Gretsky's &lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=9"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;gambling scandal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All Around Sports&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find the latest rumors and even &lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=21"&gt;Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Reunions&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Sports News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One artcle here talks about the &lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=28"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;purchase of Muahmmad Ali’s name&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and likeness for 50 million dollars! It is an interesting read, considering that the purchaser is also the same company that owns American Idol and similar TV shows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Baseball News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this section, you can read opinion articles on the&lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=26"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Blue Jays&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the direction they are going this year, &lt;a href="http://www.2blogsports.com/?p=22"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;controversial steriod uses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, speculations on winning teams, and other related baseball news.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114672199733527374?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114672199733527374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114672199733527374&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114672199733527374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114672199733527374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/welcome-2blogsports.html' title='Welcome 2BlogSports!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114664371016220001</id><published>2006-05-03T00:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-03T01:08:30.193-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Logo Designers and Buyers Wanted!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/untitled.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you need a &lt;strong&gt;logo &lt;/strong&gt;for your blog or even a business????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jay is looking for &lt;strong&gt;logo designers&lt;/strong&gt; and&lt;strong&gt; logo buyers&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://www.blog4logos.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blog4Logo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea is simple:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are a logo designer, please submit your design to &lt;a href="http://www.blog4logos.com/?p=3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Jay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; . Showcase your talent and let everyone see your &lt;strong&gt;creative designs&lt;/strong&gt;. Who knows, someone might buy it at a cool price!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are shopping for a blog or business log, check out some of the samples submitted, and pay via paypal to get your very own logo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it is another creative business idea: a platform for designers and logo buyers to meet and do some business!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114664371016220001?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114664371016220001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114664371016220001&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114664371016220001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114664371016220001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/logo-designers-and-buyers-wanted.html' title='Logo Designers and Buyers Wanted!!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114664268175769540</id><published>2006-05-03T00:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-03T00:51:21.770-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome Blog4Quotes!</title><content type='html'>Visit&lt;a href="http://www.blog4quotes.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Blog4Quotes&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;for &lt;strong&gt;quotations&lt;/strong&gt; you usually would not find anywhere else!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I love quotations&lt;/strong&gt;; in fact, I have a sheet of personal favorate quotations that keep me motivated and &lt;strong&gt;inspired&lt;/strong&gt; throughout the day.  Everytime I feel as if life is a little bit too much, I can always read a quote by say&lt;a href="http://www.blog4quotes.com/?p=15"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; these guys&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and instantly feel better. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog4Quotes has some&lt;strong&gt; interesting quotations&lt;/strong&gt; such as:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                  - &lt;a href="http://www.blog4quotes.com/?p=17"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Family Guy &amp; The Simpsons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                  - &lt;a href="http://www.blog4quotes.com/?p=18"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Sex and the City&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                  - &lt;a href="http://www.blog4quotes.com/?p=10"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Lindsay Lohan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ( Her thoughts on marraige)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or how about the poor fellow who lost a TON of MONEY by saying &lt;a href="http://www.blog4quotes.com/?p=4"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114664268175769540?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114664268175769540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114664268175769540&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114664268175769540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114664268175769540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/welcome-blog4quotes.html' title='Welcome Blog4Quotes!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114664182009993660</id><published>2006-05-03T00:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-03T00:37:00.113-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Difference Between Sexes</title><content type='html'>In a recent posting at &lt;a href="http://2bloghumor.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2Bloghumor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I came across a joke about the different conversations men and women have about hair cuts.  Sure, women often have lengthy conversations about hair cuts, and we are pretty defensive about what people say about our hair.  So, the conversation usually goes like&lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?p=106"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, I started to think about whether this is still true.  After thinking about it, I decided that the times are changing!  &lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?p=85"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Men&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are becoming more and more comfortable with products, purchases, and services that were once only &lt;strong&gt;designed for women&lt;/strong&gt;.  Decades ago, men did not go to spas, and now, they are becoming a large portion of&lt;strong&gt; spa&lt;/strong&gt; customers.   They are even getting their &lt;strong&gt;eyebrows plucked&lt;/strong&gt;, threaded and all sorts of weird things only women do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may say "Sure, &lt;strong&gt;only gay men do that&lt;/strong&gt;!"...but that's not true.  A lot of professional heterosexual men are becoming more picky about their appearance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another thought I had after visiting &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;2Bloghumor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was that advertisings are still &lt;strong&gt;not daring&lt;/strong&gt; enough today.  I'd like to see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;ads that shock me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!  Perhaps, I need to move to Europe for now (there seems to be quite a few daring ads coming out of Europe).  Now, why can't &lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?p=102"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; be made into a TV commercial, it would be a riot!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114664182009993660?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114664182009993660/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114664182009993660&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114664182009993660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114664182009993660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/difference-between-sexes.html' title='The Difference Between Sexes'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114664064636042878</id><published>2006-05-02T23:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-03T00:21:58.920-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome Whiplashsmile!</title><content type='html'>Visit &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Whiplashsmile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for a dose of no-nonsense, harsh-reality, &lt;strong&gt;naughty&lt;/strong&gt;, and no-holding back postings on life, &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/tag/pop-culture-on-parade/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;pop culture&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/tag/other-bloggers/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;blogging&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/tag/funny-shit/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;funny stuff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and even &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/tag/recipes/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;recipes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. But, don't be fooled, this is no granny teaching you have to make pumpkin pies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blog is maintained &lt;strong&gt;Serra&lt;/strong&gt;, who is a &lt;strong&gt;soapmaker&lt;/strong&gt; with two dogs, a cat and lives with “enlightening” people. My first impression after visiting her blog is : Gosh, there are so many &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/2006/03/21/114295824184933491/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;profanities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;! Then, you realize that the profanities are necessary to make a point!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her&lt;strong&gt; Pop Culture&lt;/strong&gt; entires are the best, in my opinion. She talks about everything from American Idol's &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/why-not/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Paula Abdul's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; lack of talent, to&lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/2006/04/18/rbw-like-we-didnt-know-already/"&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;TomKitten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Brangelina, and Fetus Spears (hehe...fetus...ha). In an entry titled &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/2006/04/29/stupidity-breeds-stupidity/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Stupidity Breeds Stupidity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a simple equation is presented which sums up how it is that &lt;strong&gt;there are always stupid people&lt;/strong&gt; in the world. I didn't have the heart to tell her that unfortunately, stupid people breed a lot faster and more often then smarter people....so we are at a disadvantage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What does &lt;strong&gt;Tom Cruise&lt;/strong&gt;, a youth minister, and Julie Carpenter all have in common?  They were all&lt;strong&gt; raised by wolves&lt;/strong&gt;!  What is that, you ask?  "Have you ever wonder where some people get their strange, distorted, erroneous, dumbassed views on some subjects?". Then, visit Serra's &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/tag/raised-by-wolves/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Raised by Wolves Post Child of the Week&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; section, where she talks about some&lt;strong&gt; truly delusional&lt;/strong&gt; people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While you are there, you should also check out the &lt;a href="http://whiplashsmile.wordpress.com/tag/soaping-and-knitting/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Soap and Knitting category&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Since Serra is a soapmaker, she has a &lt;strong&gt;little side business&lt;/strong&gt; where she makes&lt;strong&gt; scented soaps&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;hand-knit washclothes&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;cute soap sacks&lt;/strong&gt;, all hand made! They are &lt;a href="http://scentedbusiness.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;very reasonably priced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114664064636042878?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114664064636042878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114664064636042878&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114664064636042878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114664064636042878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/welcome-whiplashsmile.html' title='Welcome Whiplashsmile!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114655687571609321</id><published>2006-05-02T00:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-02T02:03:26.290-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Would You Sleep with George Bernard Shaw?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupiead.3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Why You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month to Promote Your Blog!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, the question of the day is,&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;would you sleep with George Bernard Shaw for a million pounds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? If yes,&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;then would you sleep with him for a dollar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you answered yes to the first question, then&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=39"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=39"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;to find out what kind of woman you are!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most people would not answer differently from the socialite. It seems that everything has a price when the offer is genuine, and everything is just about price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HA, HA! It was a very funny incident that happened, and you can read about it and other daily funnies&lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114655687571609321?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114655687571609321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114655687571609321&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114655687571609321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114655687571609321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/05/would-you-sleep-with-george-bernard.html' title='Would You Sleep with George Bernard Shaw?'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114645190078615626</id><published>2006-04-30T19:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-30T19:51:40.800-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome 2BlogSEO - Webmaster News and Information Blog!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.2.8.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, you should give me $1.00 a month to promote your blog!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search Engine Optimization&lt;/strong&gt; is important when it comes to the &lt;strong&gt;success&lt;/strong&gt; of your blog. &lt;a href="http://www.2blogseo.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;2BlogSEO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; can help to to understand&lt;strong&gt; SEO&lt;/strong&gt; and how to be better at it through informative articles and humor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found the article of&lt;a href="http://www.2blogseo.com/?p=43"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; searching behavior&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;the most helpful, as I am interested in how consumers search the net. It is the kind of &lt;strong&gt;branding&lt;/strong&gt;, survey result knowledge that every &lt;strong&gt;webmaster &lt;/strong&gt;should have handy. This blog is more geared towards SEO industry related news rather than the details of SEO, however, there are some&lt;strong&gt; interesting Q &amp;amp; A with Matt Cutts&lt;/strong&gt;. We've all had the question of "Why isn't the search engine crawling my page?", and you can find the answer&lt;a href="http://www.2blogseo.com/?p=39"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, &lt;strong&gt;2BlogSEO &lt;/strong&gt;answers questions such as &lt;strong&gt;"what happens if the dot com name you desire is taken".&lt;/strong&gt; Don't panic, just use &lt;a href="http://www.2blogseo.com/?p=32"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;this tip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Or, &lt;strong&gt;"what can I do to create a web page. I am a novice!".&lt;/strong&gt; Then, try this &lt;a href="http://www.2blogseo.com/?p=36"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;neat little tool&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and you will be able to make your own page in a matter of minutes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you are all tired from all the serious SEO tips, then take a look at some&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.2blogseo.com/?p=45"&gt;funny pictures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.2blogseo.com/?p=45"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and&lt;a href="http://www.2blogseo.com/?cat=5"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; jokes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; related to SEO.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114645190078615626?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114645190078615626/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114645190078615626&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114645190078615626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114645190078615626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/welcome-2blogseo-webmaster-news-and.html' title='Welcome 2BlogSEO - Webmaster News and Information Blog!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114645056422863562</id><published>2006-04-30T19:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-30T19:29:24.240-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome 2BlogGadgets - News, Reviews, and More on "Must Have" Gadgets!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.2.7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, you should give me $1.00 a month to promote your blog!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, a blog on all the super &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;COOL gadgets&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;out there!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's see...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever heard of a retinal implant that can &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/?p=43"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;restore sight&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;to blind people, or a way to &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/?p=39"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;travel the world in 2 1/2 hours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? At &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;2BlogGadgets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you can find the latest news on great gadgets. Sure, you may not be able to afford any of it, but at least you can tell your friends about the cool gadgets you just read about. A lot of the products in this blog are not available to consumers yet, and there is still an air of futuristic feeling to most of them - like the &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/?p=36"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Type With Your Mind&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;machine developed by the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, yes...there indeed can be product out there that can &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/?p=41"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;get you drunk with out booze&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;! So far, the idea is only in theory, but one day, pharmacologists may be able to get you drunk nicely with a pill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite one is the&lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/?p=30"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Toilet for the Workoholic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Wow, that's me! I need something just like this! Now, you can't laugh at me, because I am SERIOUS. I hate going to the bathroom, because it seems like such a waste of time. Don't you hate it when you have the greatest idea only to lose it after getting up from the computer? Well...don't you??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 2BlogGadgets blog features some &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/?cat=4"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;neato futuristic ideas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, such as &lt;a href="http://www.2bloggadgets.com/?cat=6"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;nanotechnology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to stay one step ahead of the market, or just want to impress your friends, you MUST visit this blog!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114645056422863562?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114645056422863562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114645056422863562&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114645056422863562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114645056422863562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/welcome-2bloggadgets-news-reviews-and.html' title='Welcome 2BlogGadgets - News, Reviews, and More on &quot;Must Have&quot; Gadgets!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114638043856771033</id><published>2006-04-29T23:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-30T00:00:38.580-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Buy-A-Groupie: How Does It Work??</title><content type='html'>Recently, I have been doing very well, and there are more and more blogs to worship and more emails asking how this works...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, briefly...(for a detailed version, &lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 3 services:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;$1.00&lt;/span&gt; - Buy-A-Groupie Monthly Service, which includes 4 articles posted here about your site (they are all over the site, so you can take a look).  Also, I will visit your blog virtually daily and comment on each posting you make for a month.  Then, I will add your link to the site's sidebar for an entire month.  Of course, you can buy the 5 months or 12 months service as well which include the same services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;$10.00&lt;/span&gt; - The $10.00 for 100 comments service is a good way for you to gain traffic.  I post 100 comments on behalf of you on 100 different blog sites.  What I post is relevant to what people write; I never spam.  Please leave a comment here if you want to see samples of what I post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;$100.00 - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;You get the above services monthly, so you get a groupie for 12 months and 1200 comments posted on behalf of you on 1200 different blog sites (100 comments a month).  With this, you are saving $32.00 compared to if you purchase them separately.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114638043856771033?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114638043856771033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114638043856771033&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114638043856771033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114638043856771033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/buy-groupie-how-does-it-work.html' title='Buy-A-Groupie: How Does It Work??'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114637729961448597</id><published>2006-04-29T22:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-29T23:08:19.640-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Perfect Web Citizen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.2.6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, you should give me $1.00 a month to promote your blog!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesse at &lt;a href="www.thefutureoftheweb.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Future of the Web&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;is almost like the &lt;strong&gt;perfect web citizen&lt;/strong&gt;...if there is such an award!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a little funny, because he always offers &lt;strong&gt;positive entries&lt;/strong&gt;, and every time I visit his blog, I go away with the impression that he never has a bad day...hehe... but he offers &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/4/help-stop-phishing"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;great advice&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;regularly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike most blogs, &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Future of the Web&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is unique in the sense that it combines a technical blog with a personal blog. Like every blogger, he is worried about people's acceptance of his blog and whether they can handle the amalgamation of the two. In the end, it is about been able to express&lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/4/your-voice"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; your voice&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;on the interent regardless of what people think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesse has a fairly&lt;strong&gt; successful website&lt;/strong&gt;, and you can find out how you can do the same by reading &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/5-things-every-web-site-can-learn-from-blogs"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;this entry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It is a simple formula, but difficult for some the grasp nevertheless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is some stats on The Future of the Web:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Alex ranks it within the&lt;strong&gt; top 300,000&lt;/strong&gt; websites:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="www.thefutureoftheweb.com"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/Jesse%27s%20ranking.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;Blogtopsites&lt;/strong&gt; ranks it at #22:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/tracker.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations Jesse!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114637729961448597?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114637729961448597/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114637729961448597&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114637729961448597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114637729961448597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/perfect-web-citizen.html' title='A Perfect Web Citizen'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114637585703810596</id><published>2006-04-29T22:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-29T22:44:17.053-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Financial Freedom!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.2.5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="Like"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, you should give me $1.00 a month to promote your blog!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you want to &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/category/retirement/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;retire young&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am all for gaining financial freedom, and we need help along the way. There are many websites out there that can help us to learn about &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/category/stock-advice/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;stocks, bonds, mutual funds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. The more we read to gain financial knowledge, the more likely it is for us to make sound financial decisions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, to succeed financially doesn't always mean making the right choices when it comes to stocks and mutual funds - it means to be careful in everyday decisions. For example, a laptop is a big ticket item. Instead of buying something on impulse, why don't you check out some &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/buying-guides/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;laptop guides&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? Or, before you sign up for the &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/is-costcos-executive-membership-worth-it/2006/02/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Costco Executive Membership&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, why don't you calculate whether or not it is worth it? The point is, we have to be careful and frugal in everyday expenses as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, before you move on to stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, look at your budget and learn some &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/category/money-basics/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;basic financial knowledge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Cut back on unnecessary spendings, and pay off your &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/category/credit/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;debts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Once your personal finance is cleared up, then move on to investments!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114637585703810596?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114637585703810596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114637585703810596&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114637585703810596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114637585703810596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/financial-freedom.html' title='Financial Freedom!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114637497616468725</id><published>2006-04-29T22:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-29T22:31:32.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Alexa Rankings</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.2.4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="Like"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, you should give me $1.00 a month to promote your blog!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Alexa website&lt;/strong&gt; has been my best friend lately. I just discover it a month ago by reading &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Rob's blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. In last latest entry, he talks about the ranking of his website and the number of page views he gets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I decided to take a look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, when I typed in his URL - &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;http://robchina.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;, I get the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/rob%27s%20alex.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not bad, huh? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, you can find out the ranking for every website. By the way, for the Blogger users out there. Your ranking may say "18". That's mostly not true. It says "18" because it is ranking "Blogger" instead of your website...hehe....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, check out &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114637497616468725?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114637497616468725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114637497616468725&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114637497616468725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114637497616468725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/alexa-rankings_29.html' title='Alexa Rankings'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114637424224908878</id><published>2006-04-29T22:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-29T22:18:54.990-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Are We Cannibals!!?!?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.2.3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, you should give me $1.00 a month to promote your blog!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are we &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2006/04/armour-meats-manburger_25.html"&gt;cannibals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and are not even aware of it?!?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was younger, I had a great &lt;strong&gt;diet &lt;/strong&gt;that consisted of mostly vegetables, rice and fruits. Then, I grew up, and everything went downhill. Today, I eat more meat and fast food than before. After trying to curb my diet for awhile by not eating at MacDonalds, I felt better, but meat is still an important part of my diet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See, over the years, I have tried, by reading books like &lt;strong&gt;"The Fast Food Nation".&lt;/strong&gt; While I understand that fast food and meat are bad for me, they are just &lt;strong&gt;too convenient&lt;/strong&gt; and too darn &lt;strong&gt;delicious&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, I have been reading &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/"&gt;Palatable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - a blog about the dangers of eating meat and processed foods. The author has been in the&lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2006/04/simplot-orientation.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; industry&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;for a long time, and he reports first hand experiences from the fast food and processing industry. It is a blog with a purpose. If you ever wondered what exactly may be in your processed meat, you may be surprised to find that you can be paying for &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2006/04/armour-meats-manburger_25.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;more than just meat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was quite disgusted after reading some of &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Palatable's postings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. However, he has some great advice. For example, the article about the &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2006/04/wash-your-pop-cans.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;dirty pop cans&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;is a &lt;strong&gt;must read&lt;/strong&gt;. If I read the artcle earlier, I would have completely avoided my stomach problems the other day. There are so many different ways for germs and virus to get into our mouths. Most of us are too oblivious to the dangers we are facing everyday.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114637424224908878?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114637424224908878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114637424224908878&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114637424224908878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114637424224908878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/are-we-cannibals.html' title='Are We Cannibals!!?!?'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114636585629167232</id><published>2006-04-29T19:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-29T19:59:08.063-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcom Banana Smoothie!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.2.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, you should give me $1.00 a month to promote your blog!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit the &lt;a href="http://day-without-rain.org/mollieduvall/wordpress/wordpress/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Banana Smoothie Blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What goes on in the head of an almost-18-year-old? Find out by visiting &lt;a href="http://day-without-rain.org/mollieduvall/wordpress/wordpress/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Banana Smoothie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eighteen is a critical age, facing adulthood and not being able to let go of the teen years. It is a time of &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.day-without-rain.org/mollieduvall/wordpress/wordpress/?p=7"&gt;emotional&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; development, facing life's challenges ahead, and &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;not wanting to grow up, &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;and not knowing&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.day-without-rain.org/mollieduvall/wordpress/wordpress/?p=6"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;where to go from here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, Mollie's site host as hacked, and she lost a lot of files, so the site is a work in progress. However, I love the title of her blog - Banana Smoothie - my favorite type of smoothie!! Also, for now, check out her photos in Flikr, they are amazing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wait, what is this? Mollie wants to live in Canada? I live in Canada; while I can't say it's like heaven, but it sure has its perks. Wow, I live somewhere people actually want to go to....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114636585629167232?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114636585629167232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114636585629167232&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114636585629167232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114636585629167232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/welcom-banana-smoothie.html' title='Welcom Banana Smoothie!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114624776698477067</id><published>2006-04-28T10:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-28T11:57:34.316-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome My Life as a Pre-teen!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupiead.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, you should give me $1.00 a month to promote your blog!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit KoolCat's blog - &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;My Life as a Pre-teen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kool Cat has just started a blog chronicling her experiences as a &lt;strong&gt;pre-teen&lt;/strong&gt;! It is a &lt;strong&gt;brave&lt;/strong&gt; new step for her. Imagine yourself as a new blogger and how frightening it must have been to put yourself out there &lt;strong&gt;for the first time&lt;/strong&gt;, so please go visit her young blog and&lt;strong&gt; show some support&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't remember much of my pre-teen years, but I think it was filled with cartoon watching, shopping, and perhaps a little bit of&lt;strong&gt; chasing after boys&lt;/strong&gt; (or maybe a lot of that). While, I remember such cartoons as Transformers and the Smurfs, shows are surely different now. Today, &lt;strong&gt;Japan animes&lt;/strong&gt; are more popular, such as Kool Cat's favorite &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/644/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Inuyasha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kool Cat has two &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/646/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;furry friends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Tasha and Sammi, and she is a cat lover just like me! You can find cute pictures of her cats and other cats doing silly things like&lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/645/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; karate&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/642/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;drinking slurpee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;! They are cute!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In her most recent posting, what does a pre-teen talk about? &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/664/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;American&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Idol! Okay, I admit I watch &lt;strong&gt;American Idol&lt;/strong&gt; too, so I was quite thrilled to put in my two cents. Who do you think will win? Go to Kool Cat's &lt;a href="http://www.wasblog.com/jessie/664/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and let her know!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114624776698477067?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114624776698477067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114624776698477067&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114624776698477067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114624776698477067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/welcome-my-life-as-pre-teen.html' title='Welcome My Life as a Pre-teen!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114610417221309078</id><published>2006-04-26T18:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-26T21:29:04.146-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome Cat With a Pen!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupiead.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/groupiead.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month to Promote Your Blog!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit &lt;a href="catwithapen.com"&gt;Cat With a Pen &lt;/a&gt;- Living with Multiple Personality Disorder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a &lt;strong&gt;privilege&lt;/strong&gt; to look into the world of someone like Cat, who is living with Multiple Personality Disorder. She gives us first hand accounts of how life can be and the details of her experience in &lt;strong&gt;psych wards&lt;/strong&gt;. Does it really mirror the place in &lt;strong&gt;Girl Interrupted&lt;/strong&gt;? You will have to find out by visiting &lt;a href="http://www.catwithapen.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Cat's blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It is great to see someone who is in tune with her disorder and have a &lt;strong&gt;sense of humor&lt;/strong&gt; abou tit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In one &lt;a href="http://aspenleafhosting.com/cat/?p=24"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;particular entry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I was&lt;strong&gt; saddened&lt;/strong&gt; by her experience, and was a little disturbed to hear about the suicide attempts, the cutting, and the other people in psych wards. Most people are lead to believe, either through movies or TV, that it is a &lt;strong&gt;cool place&lt;/strong&gt; where girls bond and have incredible amount of fun while having success with their treatment. I think the &lt;strong&gt;reality&lt;/strong&gt; is far from it, and sometimes treatments can be a &lt;strong&gt;life long struggle&lt;/strong&gt; with patients who do not make it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cat writes c&lt;strong&gt;andidly&lt;/strong&gt; about her &lt;a href="http://aspenleafhosting.com/cat/?p=126"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;anger issues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and her struggle to keep it in check, &lt;a href="http://aspenleafhosting.com/cat/?p=119"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;her voices&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and how she som&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/jealous.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/jealous.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;etimes has to talk to them just to be able to sleep. I really enjoyed the entry about her visit to the &lt;strong&gt;Child Trauma Unit&lt;/strong&gt;, and how she was &lt;a href="http://aspenleafhosting.com/cat/?p=117"&gt;quick and clever&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While reading Cat's blog, you can't help but to feel for her struggles. At some points, you just want to reach out to her and tell her "No! Don't &lt;a href="http://aspenleafhosting.com/cat/?p=199"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;attack the nurse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!. At the same time, you know that life just cannot be that easy for someone who has suffered tremendously and cannot control which personality will surface in a tense situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think blogging is a &lt;strong&gt;great outlet&lt;/strong&gt; for Cat, and I enjoyed reading her entries. Life is complicated as it is for people with no &lt;strong&gt;mental illnesses&lt;/strong&gt;, so it makes complaining about our day to day problems trivial. Welcome Cat, to &lt;strong&gt;Buy-a-Groupie&lt;/strong&gt;, and I hope your journey on the web helps you to find the &lt;strong&gt;support and love&lt;/strong&gt; you deserve.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114610417221309078?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114610417221309078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114610417221309078&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114610417221309078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114610417221309078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/welcome-cat-with-pen.html' title='Welcome Cat With a Pen!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114601904209500919</id><published>2006-04-25T18:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-25T19:40:21.320-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome N8ivWarrior!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupiead.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/groupiead.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/groupiead.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month to Promote Your Blog!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit &lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;N8ivWarrior&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - by far the &lt;strong&gt;most interesting blog&lt;/strong&gt; out there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one)......."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is the&lt;strong&gt; catch phrase&lt;/strong&gt; of my new customer &lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;"N8ivWarrior - Taking You Slightly Outside the Box". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I am especially keen on promoting this blog, as I had a great time reading it. The eloquent language, flow of ideas, and the sarcasm all make this the type of blog &lt;strong&gt;I LOVE to read&lt;/strong&gt;. The bonus is of course, the author almost always have a point!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;N8ivWarrior blog&lt;/strong&gt; is a classic in &lt;strong&gt;a league of its own&lt;/strong&gt;. The design is simple, there are no ads, the content is excellent, and the author is &lt;strong&gt;genuinely funny&lt;/strong&gt;. He challenges us to think about the quirky or important things in our lifes. In a posting called "Deep Rooted Fear", you are held in suspense wondering what kind of fear can make a person willing to sell his children.....as it turns out - &lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/01/deep-rooted-fear.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;toilet paper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - HA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about some serious matters? Then, read John's article on&lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/04/my-rare-political-statementillegal.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; immigration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which sparked a great debate, or &lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/02/movies-of-another-culture.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;movies from another culture&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, where he questions why Americans are so contained in their own culture and are afraid to venture out. There is quite a bit of blog "fan" participation, and I think I may be useless to him at times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The curious thing about the blog is that John seems to be QUITE fascinated with &lt;strong&gt;bodily functions&lt;/strong&gt;. Let's see....there is &lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/01/urinal-etiquitte.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Urinal Etiquette&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/01/misleading-bean.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Misleading Bean&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (I was fascinated by how John's thoughts went from having a healthy heart to...&lt;strong&gt;breaking wind&lt;/strong&gt;), &lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/03/unveiling-mystery.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Unveiling the Mystery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (the &lt;strong&gt;battle of the sexes&lt;/strong&gt; when it comes to the toilet seat), and &lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/02/shhhnot-so-loud.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Shhh..Not So Loud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (yes, it is about burping). So, John, am I missing something? What is it with the bodily function entries? Don't get me wrong, they are extremely funny, especially when you make it so serious by &lt;strong&gt;having a point&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My take on John's N8ivWarrior blog is that it will be a success. He only started a few months ago, and there is already a following. You know why? Because he is smart! How smart is he? He is so smart that he did an entry on &lt;a href="http://n8ivwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/04/too-good-to-pass-up.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;yours truly&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;- the &lt;strong&gt;Buy-A-Groupie site&lt;/strong&gt;!. Now, how smart is that?? Now that it is a part of his blog, readers can be directed here, where his site will be promoted, and they can love him even more - by far the smartest cookie so far!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114601904209500919?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114601904209500919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114601904209500919&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114601904209500919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114601904209500919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/welcome-n8ivwarrior.html' title='Welcome N8ivWarrior!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114595337083073076</id><published>2006-04-25T01:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-25T01:22:50.843-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Popularity of Pictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/groupiead.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupiead.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Like the Article Below? Then, You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month to Promote Your Blog!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every blog should incorporate some&lt;strong&gt; pictures&lt;/strong&gt; to spruce up the atmosphere. Even just a single picture can made it a &lt;strong&gt;better read&lt;/strong&gt;. There is a reaons why “Pictures can say a thousand words” is such a true saying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been a &lt;strong&gt;Groupie&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Rob In China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for awhile now. In fact, he was &lt;strong&gt;my first cus&lt;/strong&gt;tomer. A major reason why his blog is&lt;strong&gt; so popular&lt;/strong&gt; is because of the pictures. Sometimes, taking the time to look for the most perfect picture to explain your entry can pay off big time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spend most of my day surfing blogs, posting comments or just reading what people have to say. Rob’s blog perhaps has the &lt;strong&gt;best collection&lt;/strong&gt; of funny pictures on the web, ranging from ones that make you subtly giggle to ones that make you &lt;strong&gt;spit out your food&lt;/strong&gt;. It’s best to not eat or drinking while visiting Rob’s blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, Rob is missing, and my best guess is that he is actually accumulating more pictures for the loyal fans!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114595337083073076?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114595337083073076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114595337083073076&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114595337083073076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114595337083073076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/popularity-of-pictures.html' title='Popularity of Pictures'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114595220825847373</id><published>2006-04-25T01:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-25T01:04:12.773-07:00</updated><title type='text'>To Leave or Not to Leave</title><content type='html'>Awhile back, I saw ZHANG YIMOU’s &lt;strong&gt;“Hero”&lt;/strong&gt; in the movie theatre. The trailer could be viewed as misleading, as it states that it’s a film by Quentin Tarantino. So, in the theatre, the movie starts, and while we knew that it was going to be &lt;strong&gt;subtitled&lt;/strong&gt;, apparently some people did not. The next thing that happens is some &lt;strong&gt;awkward coughing&lt;/strong&gt; and some quick body movements, as some people slipped out of the theatre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought they were&lt;strong&gt; brave&lt;/strong&gt;. Even if I thought the movie was going to be horrible, I would have still stayed. Darn it, I paid for the tickets so at least I should get a couple hours of good snoozing. Mostly, it is because I just don’t have the guts to leave. &lt;strong&gt;Is it ever appropriate to leave a movie theatre in the middle of a movie?&lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Just Watch TV blog&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;tackles this question with a funny piece called &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2006/02/24/just-watch-tv-goes-to-the-movies-to-leave-or-not-to-leave/film/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;“Just Watch TV goes to the Movies: To Leave or Not to Leave.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;worst experience&lt;/strong&gt; I had was suffering at the hands of my husband’s&lt;strong&gt; trickery&lt;/strong&gt;. He bribed me to watch &lt;strong&gt;“Torque”&lt;/strong&gt;. On one hand, I would like Just Watch TV to &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/category/film/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this movie, on the other hand, please don’t, it’s just boring and has &lt;strong&gt;no real substance&lt;/strong&gt;. I would not want to put them through this. So, in the middle of the movie, my arms are numb because the theatre is freezing. The music was blaring, and I thought maybe that was the dialogue….dialogue or no dialogue, it would not have made a difference. Then, there was that smirk on my husband’s face, the one that says….yeah, this is the most exciting bad-a** movie ever. Do I leave? No….but I made absolutely clear to him that I was suffering for his happiness.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114595220825847373?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114595220825847373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114595220825847373&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114595220825847373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114595220825847373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/to-leave-or-not-to-leave.html' title='To Leave or Not to Leave'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114585512037051764</id><published>2006-04-23T21:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-23T22:05:30.676-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome 2BlogHumor!</title><content type='html'>Speaking of feeling &lt;strong&gt;dirty and raunchy&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;laughing&lt;/strong&gt; at the same time, visit&lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/"&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;2BlogHumor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This funny little blog has 6 different categories : &lt;a title="View all posts filed under Funny Cartoons" href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?cat=6"&gt;Funny Cartoons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="View all posts filed under Funny Jokes" href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?cat=2"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;unny&lt;/span&gt; Jokes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="View all posts filed under Funny News" href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?cat=5"&gt;Funny News&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="View all posts filed under Funny Pictures" href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?cat=4"&gt;Funny Pictures&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a title="View all posts filed under Site News &amp; Info" href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?cat=3"&gt;Site News &amp;amp; Info&lt;/a&gt; , and &lt;a title="View all posts filed under True Stories" href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?cat=7"&gt;True Stories&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Cartoon category, I found a&lt;strong&gt; gem&lt;/strong&gt; that touches on an anthropological view of &lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?p=68"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;"working".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; In archeology, we often have to give our best guess on what a site really means, and it is not far fetched to think that one day, future men will dig out office buildings and think they are prisons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under &lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?cat=2"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Funny Jokes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I found an entry that is particularly true! I am not sure if this was the product of the webmaster, but the points raised there makes one contemplate their validity. The author states that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?p=83"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;"Many terrorists come to America legally and hang around on expired visas (some for as long as 10-20 years). At Blockbuster you’re two days late with a video rental and those people are all over you. I think we should put Blockbuster in charge of US immigration."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever &lt;strong&gt;returned a video late&lt;/strong&gt;? Well, I have. After a few days, the phone calls start to come in, and you feel like the worst human being on earth because you forgot to drop off "American Psycho". For God sakes, it wasn't even a good movie!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want some truth in your jokes, then visit the &lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?cat=5"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Funny News&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;section, where you can read about the &lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?p=56"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Hot Lady Looking for Love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who posted an ad in the Atlantic Journal. It is really really funny and a great example of clever advertising! &lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?p=28"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Dick Cheney&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;is always good for a laugh, especially since his shooting "accident". Joke vaults must have increased 3 fold since his happy finger pulled the trigger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most &lt;strong&gt;educational piece&lt;/strong&gt; is by far &lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/?p=75"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Origin of the "F" Word&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Coincidentally, the other day at work, my colleagues and I had a &lt;strong&gt;heated argument&lt;/strong&gt; over the origina of the F word. After a few minutes of searching on the net, we came to the same conclude as this joke suggests. It is actually not a joke, but more like the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, visit &lt;a href="http://www.2bloghumor.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;2BlogHumor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a collection of great funnies and pictures. Not only should you go there, but you should also participate by leaving some &lt;strong&gt;comments &lt;/strong&gt;and show what's in your "&lt;strong&gt;twisted mind&lt;/strong&gt;". The blog is updated daily, so you will most likely always have fresh material to send to you co-workers!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114585512037051764?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114585512037051764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114585512037051764&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114585512037051764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114585512037051764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/welcome-2bloghumor.html' title='Welcome 2BlogHumor!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114585221174511728</id><published>2006-04-23T20:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-23T21:21:38.016-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome Blog4Humor!</title><content type='html'>So, what &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=4"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;PMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; stand for? At &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Blog4Humor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you can find various versions, all making you think of one thing: &lt;em&gt;this is not what I thought it stood for...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See, I thought I was being a &lt;strong&gt;good girl&lt;/strong&gt;, being a groupie for all sorts of sites, ranging from financial ones to some more technical ones. So for, the most light-hearted blog here is about China. That is until Blog4Humor. Scanning it the first time, I felt like I was in a &lt;strong&gt;dirty movie store&lt;/strong&gt;, hiding my face and glancing at the &lt;strong&gt;raunchy pictures&lt;/strong&gt; when no one is looking and giggling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog4Humor is blog with a combination of &lt;strong&gt;funny pictures, jokes and funny new stories&lt;/strong&gt;. It is a must read for anyone who is looking for a pick-me-upper!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite is the &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?cat=3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;funny true story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; section, where you can find out exactly what "free spirt" means in &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=23"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;internet dating terms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Be sure to read &lt;strong&gt;both versions&lt;/strong&gt;, the one for &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=21"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;woman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the one for men. Being curious, and perhaps just want to have a good laugh, sometimes I read personal ads. At least, now I know what "Athletic open-minded male who wants friendship first&lt;em&gt;" really means.&lt;/em&gt; There is also something for the &lt;strong&gt;idealist women&lt;/strong&gt; at Blog4Humor; I learnt quite a bit about &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=16"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;the REAL way men think&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Actually, what I learnt was that women are now exposed. Crying has always been a secret weapon, one which we can turn on and off easily. Now, men are going to know that "crying is blackmail"!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pictures can say so much, and at Blog4Humor, you will get your dose of&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;funny pictures&lt;/strong&gt;. As the author is building the site, you will see more selections in the future. But, for now, check out the endearing picture of Hillary petting the dog in &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=16"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Clinton's crotch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.....yes, it's very endearing :) My favorite is the blonde one, everyone loves a good &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=27"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;blonde &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about &lt;strong&gt;blonde jokes&lt;/strong&gt;? Well, you won't find one there now, but there is plenty of &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=14"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;sick&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; jokes and ones that take a bit of thinking, at least for me. After reading&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/?p=22"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Smart Momma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I paused, thought "Why would it matter where the silver bowl is?", paused some more, thought some more, then...."OH!"....hehe....I am slow sometimes. Yes, she is a smart mom!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a few good laughs at &lt;a href="http://www.blog4humor.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Blog4Humor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Even though I felt like a &lt;strong&gt;dirty little groupie&lt;/strong&gt;, it was worth it. In particular, I enjoyed the lists of internet dating terms' definitions and the list of what men really think. It is definitely a &lt;strong&gt;must read&lt;/strong&gt; for women and men!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114585221174511728?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114585221174511728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114585221174511728&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114585221174511728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114585221174511728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/welcome-blog4humor.html' title='Welcome Blog4Humor!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114575169408334421</id><published>2006-04-22T17:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-22T23:34:25.480-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Top Ten Greatest Shows!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/groupie%20ad.2.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.2.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/"&gt;Why You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;to Promote YOUR BLOG!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Just Watch TV blog has a list of the &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/10/17/top-ten-greatest-shows/cartoons/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Top Ten Greatest Shows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.....EVER!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I share the passion for some of the shows listed, but I am completely baffled at the others. What is the Ernie Kovacs show??? Ernie who? Is this show also in black and white? Um...I don't understand...how can shows in black and white be any good! There are others on the list whose names I can't even pronounce, and I have never seen THESE actors on Entertainment Tonight. And, where are the "bling-blings" Bob Newhart?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was born in 1979, borderline eighties. I have heard of the Twight Zone, Star Trek (which I like!), Babylon 5 and Seinfeld, but I could hardly consider them in the Top Ten! Seinfeld's popularity baffles me too. I have yet to be able to sit through one single episode, yet the show had millions upon millions of fans. Is it because I am vain, and there is no one good looking on the show? Perhaps, the reason why I like Star Trek is because there can always be some good looking actors, and Captain Picard can be hot when I am not wearing glasses!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rick challenged me to make my own list of Top Ten. I haven't got to it yet. In the mean time, I enjoy criticizing and also making fun of his list. If you are a fan of say.....the Twight Zone (God forbid), then go to &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Just Watch TV&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and let him know. He needs all the support he can get :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114575169408334421?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114575169408334421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114575169408334421&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114575169408334421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114575169408334421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/top-ten-greatest-shows.html' title='Top Ten Greatest Shows!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114575068409705876</id><published>2006-04-22T16:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-22T17:04:44.110-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Shopping Guide</title><content type='html'>Visit Greenback Cafe's &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/category/shopping/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;shopping&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/buying-guides/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;buying guide&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;to get some free money saving advice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you looking to buy a brand new notebook?  With so many models and designs in the market, it is good to get down to the basics and look at exactly what your new purchase can do for you.   Greenback Cafe offers a&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;free&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/buying-guides/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quick Notebook Buying Guide&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/a&gt;to "take the confusion out of your notebook computer"!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The guide helps you to choose your &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/buying-guides/notebook-computer-buying-guide-2/notebook-computer-buying-guide/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;operating system&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, CPU, understand the notebooks' short term memory, hard drives, computer &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/buying-guides/notebook-computer-buying-guide-2/notebook-computer-buying-guide-part-5-the-display/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;displays&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and shows you how you can&lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/buying-guides/notebook-computer-buying-guide-2/caring-for-your-new-notebook-computer/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; care &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;for your new notebook computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if you are in the market of purchasing a new notebook, before you dish out the money, head over to Greenback Cafe's buying guide and get some valuable information!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114575068409705876?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114575068409705876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114575068409705876&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114575068409705876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114575068409705876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/shopping-guide.html' title='Shopping Guide'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114574972073151963</id><published>2006-04-22T16:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-22T16:48:41.586-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Have Your Site Reviewed!</title><content type='html'>Get your &lt;strong&gt;blog site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/3/website-reviews"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;reviewed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Jesse Skinner, the author of &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/4/review-dict-cc"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Future of the Web&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why should you have your blog reviewed?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One reason is to &lt;strong&gt;improve readibility and functionality&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/about-me"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Jesse Skinner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,  who has working experience of HTML, &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/cat/javascript"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;JavaScript&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, CSS, Flash , Java, PHP, and ColdFusion, can provide his &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/cat/ideas"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;opinions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ranging from &lt;strong&gt;coding&lt;/strong&gt; to interesting tid-bits on your blog site.  If you feel that it's time for your blog to go through some &lt;strong&gt;constructive criticism&lt;/strong&gt;, then head over there and sign up!  Furthermore, aside from Jesse's reviews, other readers will also be able to contribute ideas to the improvement of your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other reason to have your blog reviewed is to &lt;strong&gt;gain traffic&lt;/strong&gt;.  Essentially, when you put your blog or yourself out there, readers will be drawn to your blog, and will take a look to see what the&lt;strong&gt; hype&lt;/strong&gt; is all about.  When Jesse reviewed a German-English dictionary site, I headed over there and took a look.  I can imagine that other bloggers will do the same.  So, the more &lt;strong&gt;presence&lt;/strong&gt; you have online, the better it will be for your blog site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just be aware that anytime you participate in something like this, be prepared to take the good and the bad, and use the&lt;strong&gt; criticism&lt;/strong&gt; to better your site!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114574972073151963?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114574972073151963/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114574972073151963&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114574972073151963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114574972073151963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/have-your-site-reviewed.html' title='Have Your Site Reviewed!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114557596947503125</id><published>2006-04-20T16:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-20T16:59:38.196-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome "Palatable"!</title><content type='html'>Have you ever seen those boring "recipe" blogs?  Yes, the ones with Google adsense ads all over the pages and no real personal content at all.  It is great to know how to make turkey step by step, but why read recipes from a blog when I can just to to the Martha Stewart website and countless other websites with millions of original recipes?  I am quite certain that the point of these blogs is to fuel the Google adsense ads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like food, whether it's cooked, raw (as in Sushi), smoked, sautayed or whichever form it comes in.  So, if you like food and food related personal stories, then visit &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2006/01/shit-explosion.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Palatable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One particular story that disturbs me is the author's first hand experience working at  a bakery company.  If you ever wonder the kind of&lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2006/01/shit-explosion.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; foul things&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;that can contaminate your grocery purchases, then you should head on over there to find out.  I am not one to fool myself thinking that all purchased food is clean, but it is still quite disturbing to find out exactly what can be found in my food!  Watch out for the cinnamon rolls!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There happens to be a lot of quite &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2005/08/pot-luck.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;"gross"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; yet fascinating stories in &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Palatable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, all of which are personal to the author, while keeping the food theme.  In an entry appropriately titled "Thirsty?", I was horrified to find out that the author's daughter was offered apple juice that did not quite turn out to be full of.....well...apple juice.  So, think of what else looks like apple juice and you &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2006/04/thirsty.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;can get the idea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After snooping around the site for awhile, I had this strange craving for chicken feet.  Now, I love chicken feet, especially soy chicken feet.  Think what you like, but they are awsome with beer...sort of like peanut substitutes.    And, what do you know, you can find a recipe for making delicious &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_palatablefood_archive.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;chic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;ken feet here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!  The reason why chicken feet can be so popular is because the skin soaks up all the different flavours of the sauce.  I never understood why white chicken breast meat is so much more popular.  It tastes like nothing!  Just be aware to not eat too much chicken feet, because it is high in cholesterol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, with titles like &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_palatablefood_archive.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;"Do You Like Pubic Flavored Ice Cream",&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;"What's In Your Beer?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you will slowly begin to realize that in fact this is a blog that warns people about the pit-falls of commerically prepared foods.  Your stomach will begin to turn inside out as you read some of the stories, but you will either laugh a lot or &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2006/02/birds-head-reportedly-found-in-bean.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;not want to eat for awhile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  Since I am a fan of organic foods, I value the messages in &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Palatable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  Also, with the recent removal of the &lt;a href="http://palatablefood.blogspot.com/2006/04/good-bye-google-ads.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Google Adsense ads&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you will not be distracted!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114557596947503125?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114557596947503125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114557596947503125&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114557596947503125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114557596947503125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/welcome-palatable.html' title='Welcome &quot;Palatable&quot;!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114542867172207207</id><published>2006-04-18T23:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-18T23:38:19.533-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month</title><content type='html'>Why You Should Give Me $1.00 a Month&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Blog Groupie For Sale!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Need Traffic?&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Service #1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; $1.00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; per month subscription includes: 1) Comments on your site 2) Link to your site 3) 4 articles about your site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Tired of Posting Comments on Other Bloggers' Websites to Gain Traffic?&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Service #2 - $10.00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; buys100 comments on 100 different blogger sites, all directing traffic back to your site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Groupie-4-a-Year Package&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Service #3 - $100.00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; buys you a groupie for a year. 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It includes 1) 24 articles promoting your site. 2) Link to your site for 1 year 3) 100 comments posted every month on behalf of the client, which equals 1200 comments a year on 1200 unique sites! 4) Comments posted on your site for every posting you create throughout the year.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114542867172207207?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114542867172207207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114542867172207207&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114542867172207207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114542867172207207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html' title='Why You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114473140147755988</id><published>2006-04-10T21:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T22:16:49.080-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Mother Was Wrong!</title><content type='html'>If my mother could read this posting, she would &lt;strong&gt;strangle me&lt;/strong&gt; and write me out of her will. I am announcing to the world that my mother was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;terribly wrong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in not allowing me to &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;watch TV&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;as a child!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was young, I &lt;strong&gt;loved to watch TV&lt;/strong&gt;. In particular, I liked the &lt;strong&gt;Discovery Channel&lt;/strong&gt; or any shows on &lt;strong&gt;traveling&lt;/strong&gt;. Now, that's not so bad, was it? Does watching hours and hours of Discovery Channel warrant &lt;strong&gt;punishment&lt;/strong&gt;? Did she have to take my delicious watermelons away?  Was it really necessary to cancel cable all together on four separate occasions?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I would like her to know that &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;watching TV is good for children&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!  The &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Just Watch TV blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; just released an articled with the aforementioned title, and you &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2006/03/30/television-good-for-kids/news/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;have to read it&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;.  &lt;/em&gt;I have always questioned why studies show TV watching is bad for children.  I learnt a lot from TV, and I still continue to learn most of what I know from TV.  Sure, these days I watch a lot of reality TV, but I pick up some valuable information!  Heck, I even pick up a few words by watching &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2006/03/29/what-the-heck-are-they-showing-on-italian-tv-now/film/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;foreign programmings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What will my mother say about this now!??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moral of the story is that balance is important.  My parents gave me a balanced life, and I turned out okay......umm....didn't I?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114473140147755988?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114473140147755988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114473140147755988&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114473140147755988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114473140147755988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/my-mother-was-wrong.html' title='My Mother Was Wrong!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114456570666706004</id><published>2006-04-08T22:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T21:50:11.756-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Money Saving Tips!</title><content type='html'>Greenback Cafe has just released four &lt;strong&gt;new financial articles&lt;/strong&gt; that can help you to save more money for your children or your own investments. You should hurry over there and&lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; start reading&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; right away!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sending your children to &lt;strong&gt;college &lt;/strong&gt;can be &lt;strong&gt;expensive&lt;/strong&gt;.  So, it is important to plan early and have the best knoweldge handy.  The worst scenario is if your smarty pants children are admitted to a great school, but you end up paying too much for it or not having the fund at all.  What are some of the ways you can &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/2006/03/five-ways-to-get-the-financial-aid-package-you-deserve/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;avoid paying more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;for their college experience?  Where should you put your money so that it's&lt;strong&gt; tax sheltered&lt;/strong&gt;?  Are there &lt;strong&gt;financial aids&lt;/strong&gt; you can apply for?  And, what is the importance of taking&lt;strong&gt; AP courses &lt;/strong&gt;in high school?  These are some very important question you may have, and Greenback Cafe provides you the answers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, what kind of colleges or universities should you &lt;strong&gt;avoid&lt;/strong&gt;? Did you know that there are some schools does&lt;strong&gt; legal price-fixing&lt;/strong&gt;?  I was not pleased to hear this, because I always thought that the tuition was determined by the market. Boy, was I ever wrong!  Some top &lt;strong&gt;Ivy League schools&lt;/strong&gt; charge significantly more than others, and Greenback Cafe provides you with &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/2006/03/save-money-on-college-schools-to-avoid/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;a list of these schools&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and tells you how this came to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you &lt;strong&gt;purchase stocks&lt;/strong&gt;? Are you &lt;strong&gt;losing money&lt;/strong&gt; because you cannot part with that 'loser' stock?  There are rules you can follow that can help you to let go of these stocks.  In &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/2006/04/how-to-stop-stock-loss/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;How to Stop Stock Loss&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Rick Stabile talks about the &lt;strong&gt;emotional attachment&lt;/strong&gt; to stocks, and how you can use a mechanical approach in deciding which stocks to sell!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114456570666706004?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114456570666706004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114456570666706004&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114456570666706004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114456570666706004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/money-saving-tips.html' title='Money Saving Tips!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114456133819869178</id><published>2006-04-08T22:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-08T22:42:18.210-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Where is Rob?</title><content type='html'>When visiting the &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Rob In China&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;site, I realized that Rob is gone! Now, all the fans are asking the same question:" Where in the world is Rob?" and "Where are his witty pictures?".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon some investigation, (well, I actualy just read the posting, no real investigation involved), the mystery is solved. Rob is sick after eating some delicious sesame beef. Here is a picture of Rob's secret location.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/rob-in-china-toilet-sit.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would like Rob to know that eating that much beef is not good for him. Does he know that it takes something like 48 hours to digest that beef? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The good news is that Rob's site is receiving great rankings according to Alexa (top 100,000 on the web, and 25,000 page views per month).  Also, his fans are rallying behind him, all wishing him to feel better soon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114456133819869178?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114456133819869178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114456133819869178&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114456133819869178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114456133819869178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/where-is-rob.html' title='Where is Rob?'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114395929064725207</id><published>2006-04-01T21:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T22:28:10.663-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome "The Future of the Web" !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/"&gt;Why You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Promote YOUR BLOG!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;"The Future of the Web"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Website!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a Canadian, and it is great to promote the website of another &lt;strong&gt;fellow Canadian&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/about-me"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Jesse Skinner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the creator of &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;The Future of the Web&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, where he discusses anything to do with &lt;strong&gt;Javascript&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;CSS&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;HTML&lt;/strong&gt;, or anything of interest to web designers and developers.  You may think.....BORING! But, that's not the case.  Here are my reasons why you should visit his website:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opinion Pieces&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the name of the website suggests, Jesse has opinion pieces on where he believes &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/3/lets-get-personal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;where the web is headed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in the future.  As a fellow blogger, I agree with Jesse that if you have any &lt;strong&gt;talent&lt;/strong&gt; in writing, music, art or even anything silly, don't be shy, express yourself on the web in the form of creating homepages or blog sites.  You never know where your talents can take you.  A lot of people are worried about putting their &lt;strong&gt;ideas&lt;/strong&gt; out there for people to judge; however, it is only through &lt;strong&gt;taking a chance&lt;/strong&gt; can you really find &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/cat/success"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;success&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  Furthermore, I am also a a fan of personal deveopment through others, and The Future of the Web has articles on such worthy bloggers as &lt;strong&gt;Steve Pavlina&lt;/strong&gt;.  They encourage you to make &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2005/12/why-not-you"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;changes to the world&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;through deriving&lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2005/12/inspiration-from-television"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; inpiration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; wherever you may find it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Javascript, HTML, and Web Related Topics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Web developers and designers can benefit from reading Jesse's articles.  You can find out why web standards &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/2/how-do-web-standards-benefit-visitors"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;benefit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; your visits, discuss &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/the-standard-web"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;future web standards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and why you should &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/3/flash-is-our-friend"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;incorporate flash&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;into your websites, provided that it is done properly.  For the beginner web designers, you can find out the &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/2/writing-semantic-html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;basics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on how to &lt;strong&gt;code HTML&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you are not a novice and want to dive into the subjects of &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/cat/microformats"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Microformats&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/cat/javascript"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Javascripts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/cat/server"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;server&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; related topics, you can also find them there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No Ads!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesse's The Future of the Web has no &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/cat/ads"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;ads&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!  &lt;strong&gt;Chitika eMiniMalls&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Google Adsense&lt;/strong&gt; ads can sometimes decrease the readability of a site, and for this reason, Jesse has removed them from the site.  So, for now, you get &lt;strong&gt;great postings&lt;/strong&gt; that are ad-free!  But, if you want to find out more information on Chitika ads, The Future of the Web offers&lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2005/11/chitika-channel-tips"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; tips&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;on channel management.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a fan of ads, as they are sort of like a blogging tip!  Most readers can block them out as they read postings, so whether or not they are truly distracting is still up in the air.  As The Future of the Web gets &lt;strong&gt;more traffic&lt;/strong&gt;, you might see the &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2005/12/no-more-ads"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;return of the ads&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but of course, they will be out of the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Website Reviews&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/3/website-reviews"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Submit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; your website for a &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/cat/review"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;review&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;! The Future of the Web also offers &lt;strong&gt;website reviews&lt;/strong&gt;.  Jesse will look at the usability, design and the web technologies of your site.  In terms of how the web and search engines work, this is &lt;strong&gt;GREAT FREE P.R!!&lt;/strong&gt;  Not only will you receive an honest opinion of your site, but essentially you are receiving a link back and some complimentary promo.   Just be aware that whenver you put yourself out there, you have to be able to take the &lt;strong&gt;good and the bad&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hire Jesse!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you are struggling with your website's design and coding, why don't you&lt;strong&gt; hire Jesse&lt;/strong&gt;!  He can help you to design and build your site and improve its usability.  Just read his &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/about-me"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;bio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (he is quite accomplished) , and you will see that it's money well spent and &lt;strong&gt;you are in good hands&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114395929064725207?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114395929064725207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114395929064725207&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114395929064725207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114395929064725207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/04/welcome-future-of-web.html' title='Welcome &quot;The Future of the Web&quot; !'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114344135539155462</id><published>2006-03-26T22:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-28T21:56:21.103-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Humour and Facts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;Why You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt; to &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Promote YOUR BLOG&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/a1-rob-in-china-hooters.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.0.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I like a mixture of humour and facts in blogs, and that is why I enjoy reading Rob's &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. In the last week or so, I have laughed and giggled and laughed and giggled some more, all while reading his postings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Usually, I visit his site daily, because I post comments on his stories, but once in awhile I go back when I don't even need to, just to check out the funny pictures again. They are great conversation pieces amongst friends. The &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/2006/03/ebay-paypal-plan-payments-by-using.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;posting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with the fat ebay man taking a picture of the kettle is priceless. Or, how about the four &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/2006/03/chinese-lesson-in-entrepreneurship-or.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;naked men &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;crammed in a sauna room drinking beer. Or, if you like the bizarre, check out Michael Jackson's &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/2006/03/doctors-in-china-worry-about-plastic.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;"plastic surgery"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; picture and the picture of pandas' &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/2006/03/giant-panda-has-received-artificial.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;strange mating rituals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you visit Rob's &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com"&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;, take a moment to go through all the interesting pictures. Some of the old ones can be accessed through the archives, so don't miss out on those. While you are there, stick around for a bit, leave a comment, and donate some money to him so that he can continue to bring us bizarre, funny, and weird pictures and stories!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;The picture above is courtesy of the Rob In China site. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114344135539155462?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114344135539155462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114344135539155462&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114344135539155462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114344135539155462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/03/humour-and-facts.html' title='Humour and Facts'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114292341561198898</id><published>2006-03-20T20:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T22:47:30.120-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome "Just Watch T.V"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/smoonasbox.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/"&gt;Why You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; to Promote YOUR BLOG&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Visit the &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;"Just Watch T.V"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; website!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I work for a giant cable &amp; telecommunication company, and for the most part of my graveyard shift, I &lt;strong&gt;watch TV&lt;/strong&gt; while working. Recently, I have been &lt;strong&gt;addicted&lt;/strong&gt; to reality T.V. Mondays - &lt;strong&gt;The Apprentice&lt;/strong&gt;, Tuesdays/Wednesdays - &lt;strong&gt;American Idol&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;America's Next Top Model&lt;/strong&gt;, and Thursdays - &lt;strong&gt;Survivors&lt;/strong&gt;. I am at a lose as to what to watch on Fridays, because there are no reality shows. Fridays absolutely scream of &lt;strong&gt;boredom&lt;/strong&gt;!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When visiting the &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;"Just Watch T.V"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; website, I realized that I have not been watching any &lt;strong&gt;shows of substance&lt;/strong&gt; for awhile. When did a new &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2006/03/17/new-doctor-who-a-new-darker-mystery/science-fiction/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;series come out?? While I know about the new controversy involving South Park and Issac Hayes, but when did the &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/12/20/christmas-in-south-park/cartoons/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;'Bloody Mary"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode come out and why did it anger the Catholic League? And, I think of myself as a pretty good reality show follower, but when did &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/12/24/can-we-stop-with-the-reality-shows-already/realitydocumentary/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Ashton Kutcher come out with another show other than "Punked"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I am terribly disturbed at the possibility that I may not be watching enough T.V.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Just Watch T.V&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is created by &lt;strong&gt;Rick and his wife Maureen&lt;/strong&gt;; they will give you their &lt;strong&gt;witt&lt;/strong&gt;y personal thoughts on movies, &lt;strong&gt;sit-coms&lt;/strong&gt;, documentaries, or whatever they think is interesting or uninteresting. Sometimes, it is a little bit &lt;em&gt;too witty&lt;/em&gt; for me. Being the reality T.V fan that I am, come on Rick, was it really necessary to say&lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/12/24/can-we-stop-with-the-reality-shows-already/realitydocumentary/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; "Can We Stop with the 'Reality' shows already"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? And why isn't the Amazing Race on your &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/10/17/top-ten-greatest-shows/cartoons/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Top Ten Shows&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;list?!? I am &lt;strong&gt;outraged&lt;/strong&gt;! However, I do agree whole heartedly that the &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/11/23/die-brady-die/comedy/sit-coms/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Brady Bunch should just die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;and go away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The husband and wife team not only dishes out thoughts on T.V shows, you can also find reviews of currently playing&lt;strong&gt; movies&lt;/strong&gt; like &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/12/31/going-to-see-syriana-pay-attention-and-take-notes/drama/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Syrianna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2006/03/20/vengeance-is-not-justice/film/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;V for Veageance&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;(what a waste of money!), &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/12/27/brokeback-mountain-the-movie/drama/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Brokeback Mountain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/12/31/the-producers/featured/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;the Producers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, etc. In the same &lt;strong&gt;category&lt;/strong&gt; of "Films", you can also find out who should &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2006/03/05/academy-awards-additional-categories/celebrities-in-the-news/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;win the Oscars &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;for &lt;em&gt;newly created categories&lt;/em&gt; like Worst-Dressed Woman, Worst-Dressed Men, and Sorest winners. Personally, I thought Jennifer Lopez was the &lt;strong&gt;worst dressed&lt;/strong&gt; woman, but once again, who am I to judge that :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all, I have to say that there a&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/1600/smoonasbox.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/smoonasbox.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;re some very&lt;strong&gt; funny&lt;/strong&gt; pieces. My favorite is the&lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/category/cartoons/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Cartoon&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;Category, where I found postings that explain to me in detail what &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2005/10/21/anime-memes-what-do-they-mean/cartoons/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;blondes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are doing in Japanese &lt;strong&gt;animes&lt;/strong&gt;, or what's the deal with boys and nosebleeds. Okay, my question now is if blondes are non-Japanese characters, then what about characters with blue, green, or pink hair. So, let's look at &lt;strong&gt;Sailor Moon&lt;/strong&gt; and the bunch, they have rainbow hair colors! Perhaps pink indicates a young character and green/blue hair indicates foreigners or Japanese characters who dyed their hair?!? I don't dare to venture that far into the answer to this question, and will leave it to &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Just Watch T.V. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;to explore in future postings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I enjoy Rick and Maureen's website in spite of their &lt;strong&gt;bashing&lt;/strong&gt; of Reality TV, and recommend it for all of you who just love good-old-fashion &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/category/comedy/sit-coms/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;sit-coms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/category/science-fiction/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Sci-Fi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;films or just want to have a good &lt;strong&gt;laugh&lt;/strong&gt; while reading about why watching &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2006/02/25/i-like-curling/sports/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Curling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on TV can be fun or explore you and your spouse's cinematic-codependency and find out why it's &lt;a href="http://www.stabile.org/just_watch_tv/2006/02/24/just-watch-tv-goes-to-the-movies-to-leave-or-not-to-leave/film/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;so darn hard to leave &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;while watching a bad movie.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114292341561198898?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114292341561198898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114292341561198898&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114292341561198898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114292341561198898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/03/welcome-just-watch-tv.html' title='Welcome &quot;Just Watch T.V&quot;'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114258503422637933</id><published>2006-03-16T23:19:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-17T01:11:45.646-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome Greenback Cafe!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;Why You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Promote YOUR BLOG&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit the &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Greenback Cafe website!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all have &lt;strong&gt;money&lt;/strong&gt; on our minds, and the &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/"&gt;Greenback Cafe&lt;/a&gt; is the place to go where you can learn and discuss about&lt;strong&gt; credit&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;personal finance&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;retirement&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;investment tips&lt;/strong&gt;. So, like the website says, grab an espresso and listen to what other people have to say about it, and add your own two cents!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you ever wondered &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/2006/02/understanding-compound-interest/"&gt;how compound interest works &lt;/a&gt;or how you can take advantage of it to make money work for you? John Mussi, the founder of Direct Online Loans goes into detail about the nature of compound interest, how it is derived, and how to get the best rate. Now, you will understand how &lt;strong&gt;$1.00 can turn into $100.00&lt;/strong&gt; over time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are thinking about taking out a &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/2006/02/personal-loans-best-answer-to-financial-needs-when-facing-multiple-choices/"&gt;personal loan&lt;/a&gt;, read Amanda Thompson's article so that you can understand the different types of &lt;strong&gt;loans&lt;/strong&gt;, eligibility criteria, and how &lt;strong&gt;credit score&lt;/strong&gt; affects loan decisions and the interest rates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The information provided on the website is from &lt;strong&gt;credible sources&lt;/strong&gt;, which includes Certified Financial Planners and business owners with real financial experiences and education. They can show you how to &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/category/retirement/"&gt;reduce your tax burden&lt;/a&gt;, so that you are more financially secure after retirement. The articles are written in a clear and concise manner, so that even the most novice can understand the advices. Sometimes, it is hard to understand the complicated tax implications or withdrawal penalties of &lt;strong&gt;investment&lt;/strong&gt; vehicles like &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/category/retirement/"&gt;RothIRA and 401K&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings"&gt;Greenback Cafe&lt;/a&gt; makes them easy to grasp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I like the most about this website is it also contains answers to &lt;strong&gt;practical&lt;/strong&gt;, every-day-life questions. The posting on &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/2006/02/is-costcos-executive-membership-worth-it/"&gt;Costco's Excutive Membership&lt;/a&gt; takes you behind the simple math behind whether or not the costly membership is worth it. Articles like this and &lt;a href="http://www.greenbackcafe.com/clippings/2006/03/carbon-monoxide-detectors/"&gt;others&lt;/a&gt; will help you to find out the best places to put your &lt;strong&gt;hard earned money&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114258503422637933?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114258503422637933/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114258503422637933&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114258503422637933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114258503422637933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/03/welcome-greenback-cafe.html' title='Welcome Greenback Cafe!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114232041313543781</id><published>2006-03-13T22:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-17T00:53:28.546-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome "Rob In China"!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3004/2298/320/groupie%20ad.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-you-should-give-me-100-month.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Why You Should Give Me $1.00 A Month&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Promote YOUR BLOG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Visit &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rob's Blog!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things work in mysterious ways! My first customer is Rob, the web author of &lt;a href="http://www.robchina.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Rob's blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  He reports on the happenings in China through interesting newspaper stories that mainstream media has ignored.  Since I have lived in China for a few years, his blog is the perfect start.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some reasons why you should visit Rob's Blog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Weird and Wacky News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China is one of those places where a lot so weird and wacky things happen. Unfortnately, on the news these days, you will only hear about more mainstream topics. Some of the bizarre stories include &lt;a href="http://www.robchina.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Housekeepers in Great Demand. China Sets up First College of Household Management&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or my personal favorite &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Pet Funeral Rip-Off's On The Rise In China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which was just posted today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The North American Invasion of China&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China's economy is developing at an exponential rate, and with this comes great changes to its landscape and pop culture. One article in particular (&lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_robchina_archive.html"&gt;Wal-Mart and Carrefour plan to accelerate store openings in China&lt;/a&gt;) talks about Walmart wanting to open close to 20 new stores in China just in 2006. A decade ago, purchasing in such superstores was unheard of, and now mostly everyone in China knows about Walmart, Starbucks, Kentucky Fried Chicken, etc. It seems every major country has a share of the China pie some how. Before reading Rob's article, I was under the impression that only the major North American stores were involved in this expansion of capitalism, but it seems that other countires are involved as well. For example, I was not aware that Thailand's (Lotus Supercentre) and France's (Carrefour Supercenter) supercenters are ranked higher than Walmart!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You HAVE to See the Hilarious Pictures&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the best thing about Rob's &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the pictures that go along with the bizarre newspaper articles. Most of the pictures is an exaggeration of the news reported, and each is well suited for the content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, You Want to Make Money in China&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Along with Rob, I also agree that China is the place to be to make money. Just by reading some of the weird articles, you can get new business ideas and how others are making it there. It is literally THE profit center for the future. For example, while reading &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Man Gets Caught After Robbing Same Shop Twice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I was thinking that someone should introduce the Bait Car idea to China to deter car thefts. Then, while reading &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Pet Funeral Rip-Off's On The Rise In China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, some light bulbs came on, and I thought of the possibility of introducing vet insurance, posh pet parlors, and luxurious pet resort ideas to China. The possibilities are endless!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nice, Easy, Relaxing Reads&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've read a lot of boring blogs, and this is NOT one of those. It is lighthearted, gets to the point, and you will surely get a laugh from the pictures. Also, if you want to be educated on China's happenings through weird, bizarre, and wacky news stories, &lt;a href="http://robchina.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Rob's blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the place to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22575986-114232041313543781?l=buyagroupie.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/feeds/114232041313543781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22575986&amp;postID=114232041313543781&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114232041313543781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22575986/posts/default/114232041313543781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buyagroupie.blogspot.com/2006/03/welcome-rob-in-china.html' title='Welcome &quot;Rob In China&quot;!'/><author><name>The Ultimate Groupie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06818335761048976784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22575986.post-114013448585615339</id><published>2006-02-16T15:45:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-17T22:42:33.806-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why You Should Give Me $1.00 a Month</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Blog Groupie For Sale!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Need Traffic?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Service #1&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;$1.00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; per month subscription includes: 1) Comments on your site 2) Link to your site 3) 4 articles about your site.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tired of Posting Comments on Other Bloggers' Websites to Gain Traffic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Service #2&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$10.00&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; buys100 comments on 100 different blogger sites, all directing traffic back to your site.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Groupie-4-a-Year Package&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Service #3 - &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;$100.00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; buys you a groupie for a year. 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