by Jerry Huang

Infantry firing a French made Eryx Anti-Tank Missile

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who has the time to make this stuff??

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How awesome does this car look?! Great to see the BMW engineers thinking outside the box. It’s got a long way to go yet but one day they’ll reach the UFO status of the sci-fi movies where the ‘metal’ bends and auto ‘heals’ itself when damaged. Til then, though, I’m a bit hesitant to drive something made completely out of fabric - a small scratch with the concrete pilar at the car park could render this undrivable…

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This is unforgivable: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/02/1212258741717.html

The only thing keeping this child care centre going is to chronic shortage of placements at the moment. It goes to show how much the staff there really care about the kids.

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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/05/is-there-a-natu.html

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wpbay is my first release of a wordpress plugin. It’s basically an automated version of phpbay where it automatically takes the keywords from the title and uses them to automatically insert the ebay listings to the end of each post. It also automatically detects your country based on your IP and retrieves from that country’s ebay. Lastly, as another first for me, I made it a widget so that you can drag and drop it into the sidebar.

wpbay was written totally from scratch without reference to phpbay so there’s no intellectual property issue but there’s a few other features that I have taken out from this free release because if I were to include it it would totally kill off phpbay (which I do use and appreciate - it introduced me to the massive money making potential of ebay! )

I have also chosen to place the file in a separate domain (BitMinds.com) so that it is easier to find. I plan to put my other source codes here when I have time to clean them up (eg. my photo battle script, and maybe my own customised wpmu google sitemaps generator…)

Download: http://bitminds.com/wpbay-free/

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I’ve got no idea whether imageshack is making or losing money but with this new service, they’ve surely got to being going negative. Perhaps, they’re going to youtube route - provide an awesome, popular service, lose money but hope that google buys you out cos you’re so hugely popular!

Check this one out. You provide the torrent file, they download it with their servers and then let you download it via a normal http link! This is awesome for a lot of those slow going torrents.

Note: You need to sign up first to use this service.

Here’s a screenshot to show how it looks like if you’re not a member…yet

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Diorex.wordpress.com was without peer in the affiliate marketing niche. This guy who calls himself ‘Diorex’ is the stuff that mentors and role models are made off. Each of his posts was gold and it was evident that he spent quality time writing them and that he had a mountain of experience to draw upon. When his blog went down, the affiliate marketing world cried. People started scrambling to retrieve old google archives of his posts, collecting them in word documents and printing them off for reference later - such was the richness of gold in his words.

Last month, I had noticed that diorex.com was about to expire and I had a novel plan to replubish all of diorex’s lost posts on it. Unfortunately, just like losing out on the problogger.com domain, my conviction was no where near strong enough. Turns out though that Diorex had not totally hanged up his boots and he actually backordered this domain himself… lo and behold… I bring you the Diorex blog relaunched at DIOREX.COM..!

• How to Measure a Niche
• The Affiliate Playbook
• Google Content Match - Goldmine or Minefield?
• What would you do if you were just starting out?
• Some Keyword Insights
• The Short End of the Long Tail of Affiliate Marketing

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eek! Digusting..! This must have meant that she swallowed her whilst she was in her mum’s womb!

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This article from CNN is on 5 mistakes women make at the doctor’s office but I think it pretty much applies to everyone.

1. Women Patients don’t question doctors: Being at the doctors always makes you feel inferior because you’re not in the profession. I always do my research before going to the doctors. Most of the time my self google diagnosis is spot on. I never tell the doctor I’ve googled though. I always let him/her make their diagnosis first and then just probe a bit more with what I’ve learnt on google.
2. Women Patients tend to over-research: Okay, I’ve never brought in printouts from the web. Never make the doctor look stupid.
3. Women Patients don’t recognize gender bias: There’s a lot of bias in society. Sometimes it’s not just gender. Sometimes, they just don’t like you. It’s important to find a doctor you can trust and have a good professional relationship with.
4. Women Patients interpret their own symptoms: Let the doctor make their own judgement and don’t lead them astray. Answer all his questions as a matter of fact. I have a nurse friend who actually goes to the doctors and always makes her situation sound worst then it actually is. This is not a bad strategy as it will get you more checkups. You can never be too careful.
5. The mother of all mistakes: Women Patients don’t trust their intuition: You read of misdiagnosis all the time. Kylie Minogue’s breast cancer was missed the first time round by her GP. My mum’s cancer was missed by hers aswell. Always seek a second or third medical opinion if you feel that somethings not right.

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