Just thought I'd drop a line to say that this site VegasPokerPro  is providing one of the best promotions I have ever found on the Internet, that is if you are into poker!  I've signed up for a couple poker sites and received some really nice gifts, and this site is providing some really nice stuff.  I'm also wondering when a poker site is going to be created around Joomla CMS, but that is another issue all together.  I also won some money in the freeroll tournaments and am not doing to shabby in the poker rooms, either.  This promotion is great, and I thank yall very much!

The site has many nice features such as community forum where you can meet with other poker fans and discuss a large assortment of issues related to poker.  There is also a store and a poker lounge.  VegasPokerPro also offer free poker tournaments,  Party Poker, Full Tilt Poker, and ofcourse the Poker Forum I already mentioned. 

Since my experience with poker is not very great, I found the the poker strategy page very helpful in getting to useful tips in how to play.  The page includes a long list of strategy topics I believe will come in handy for just about anyone.  I hope ya'll take a look at this site

I'd like to bring attention to this new cycle RSS service I just ran across.  These cycle feeds are being supplied by FeedCycle.com.  This is not your normal feed where information is supplied to your location as it is created, but supplied on a cyclic/sequential basis.
Let me explain, some one can create a feed or tutorial consisting of 10 numbers of feeds, or episodes.  The person receiving these feeds from FeedCycle will receive them from 1 to 10 no matter when the sign up.  Person A can sign up on a particular day, and Person B can sign up a number of days later, and each will receive these feeds in chronological order, 1 through 10.  They are not date sensitive but order sensitive.  The service supplied by FeedCycle allows someone who creates their Feeds, or episodes, to upload their information, and then FeedCycle supplies subscribers the information in a logical A to Z order.
In addition, if you have 10 items being supplied as feeds, as someone is receiving these feeds, you the creator can start suggesting at some point during the feed process that the end of your series is coming, and recommend additional feeds they can start subscribing too.
Another advantage of this service is that if you supply a pod cast on an ongoing basis, this service provides you the opportunity to create 10 of your best episodes and create a FeedCycle.  You can then suggest your visitors subscribe as a test to this FeedCycle.  Your subscriber can then review these sample feeds and determine if they want your full pod cast on an ongoing basis.
The service is free to sign up. Go to FeedCycle.com for more details.

Blog networks are hot investments right now, particularly as they continue to take traffic from established (and high-overhead) news websites.

We’ve covered a few blogpires gaining venture investment recently, including GigaOm, B5 and PaidContent and definitely agree with The Crunch that this an area worthy of focus. Michael’s post covers the investment by Sequoia in Sugar Publishing.

Key points to watch out for are:

• differentiation - as more and more blog networks emerge (remember, it doesn’t take much effort to build a swathe of blogs) the ability of a network to rise above and garner attention will be key;
• retention - blog followers can be fickle, it doesn’t take much for them to switch their attention, so look for unique ways of keeping readers coming back;
• growth rate - make sure you check on the veracity of customer acquisition …the numbers should show astronomical, sustained growth.

A few of the tips are fairly common, such as looking up your home or historic landmarks. But the list also includes some newer applications, such as capturing aircraft in midflight and creating textured 3D objects.

Making Money With Google AdSense

Whoohoo! I'm making money with AdSense! Well it is no get rich program, but I am making some money. I actually am not making much money with the click program, but I am making money with the pay per action sign ups. In fact Google is sending me a check for $60 for the last three months activity.

Okay don't get too excited, with AdSense, you will never be able to quit your day job unless you are doing something like buying old domain names and using them to spam the Google network, but what site owner doesn't mind having a dinner out once in a while on Google.

What I found interesting is that today when Google notified me that they want to send me a check was that one I had to verify my telephone number by setting up a call directly from Google to me (interesting back end technology that will allow this to happen and may be the advent of more click to call features in AdWords) and two they are hard mailing me a PIN number to enter in the control panel. I guess Google really wants to know that you are a real person and that they can report your income to the IRS. Google spammers watch out, you will not be able to slip through the cracks.

Well that's my experience with AdSense. Am I ready to plaster my main website with their ads? No, absolutely not, but will experiment with their ads on my blog site? Well, I am testing that out to see how that works right now.

I'm seeing this happen in our own world, the blogosphere is being sanitized! The very nature of blogging is to give an unvarnished very personal view of issues. Albeit sometimes not so great, politically correct, or unbiased, but just the same unique. Sometimes in an effort to control information flow there is a squashing of the very nature of blogging done by people who simply to not understand the free flow of information found in the blogosphere.

I am particularly speaking to the issue in Washington where a CIA contractor was fired from her contracting job for her candid blog that was only available to the insider community at the CIA. We feel for the woman. She spoke her mind on interrogation techniques being used that did not jive with the Geneva Convention. But to lose her job! Why not shut down the blog? Why not redirect her activities? Why not put her on notice to move those comments out into a personal blog?

Yes, in a corporate blogging scenario there needs to be structure, but not in the independent blogosphere in general. I am totally an advocate of free speech in the larger blogosphere but advocates of corporate management creating blog guidelines for blogging staff members. It is a sad state that someone loses their job when management has not addressed issues and offered guidance first. 

Well, I've decided to prepare a blog entry about my dog, Shep.  He has been with me for about 12 years now, and has traveled with me just about every place I've been.  He has been in an airplane, and been smuggled accross the border into Canada.  He thinks that chair right there is his, but it's not.  The second picture below is him tending to a hurt foot.

     

This first of the three pictures below was taken when we lived in Tennessee.  It was one of those rare winters when it snowed.  He is originally from Michigan, so he is used to cold weather, but the freak snow storm provided a nice white coating over the ground.  The next two pictures were taken along the coast in New Orleans.  Believe it or not, the only thing I had to do was ask him to stay in that tree, while I walked away to take a picture of the whole thing.  I think he knows when I want to take pictures and sort of likes it.

        

These were taken when he was a bit agitated.  I decided to give him a bath, with soap, in the river, a place he is not used to taking a bath.  He got quite upset, as you can see in the second picture.  The last was after he got home from getting his teeth cleaned.  He was still under a bit, and feeling quite bad.

     

Well, I hope ya'll liked viewing my dog shep.  He is truely part of the family, and has the disposition of a human, sort of like a child.