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Well, my Market Leverage bag of stuff arrived on Thursday and I was pretty excited about it. However, other than a brief look, I didn’t really play with or use any of it until yesterday. I brought the Flip along when my friends and I went to go watch fireworks. Some of them were grilling out when we got there, but the rest of us had grilled out elsewhere earlier in the day. I think I am going to like the Flip more than I originally thought I would.

Sorry about the shoddy editing, but I put this together in a hurry. I know there is no sound, rather than having you hear snippets of conversations, I decided to make it a silent movie I will try to post more on the bag of stuff and the Flip later.

This week I’m not going to be very good about using anchor text that will be beneficial to the people I’m linking to. On the other-hand, it will be fun for you because you won’t know where the link is going to take you until you click on it Have fun!

This guy took over this blog (did it get taken down?) that this guy is supposed to be posting on and keeping updated. However, he doesn’t care that he can’t post on the blog he is supposed to be.

This lady blogger came back to the blogosphere after an extremely long hiatus, we can only hope that she keeps updating. Oh, and this guy came back too!

Then there is this guy that has decided to do a permanent change of address (coming soon) and is going to implement a new theme design at the same time.

Meanwhile, this other guy made considerably less money from his internet ventures than he did last month. Don’t feel too bad for him, he still made a pretty decent amount though.

With all that is going on in the world, some people would rather do things the hard way and be a slave to the clock rather than query a database. Oh well I guess, at least I got some recognition from it. Oh, and he is giving a way a box of stuff so check that out if you’re good with Photoshop.

Last but not least, this girl was concerned about the neighborhood kids; and then they were at it again!

Previously, the Prosper referral program was set to end on June 30, 2008 and, while I had posted on the program before and do feel it is a pretty good deal for those who participate, my plan was to remove the Stripe Ad at the top of my site and take the 125×125 promoting it out of rotation.

Before removing these links promoting that post, I decided to check with the Prosper website and read the announcement declaring the end of their referral program. Imagine my surprise when I went to that site and find instead that they have determined that there will be no end date for their referral program.

Since the program is still going on and I am still broke, I am going to continue promoting Prosper and encouraging my readers to get involved and help me out. However, for the time being, I am no longer offering advertising as an incentive for signing up.

If you are looking for a place to get a loan or if you want to get a good return on your money, you should check out Prosper. If you don’t need a loan or have a chunk of money you are looking to invest but want to help a fellow blogger, just join and invest $50.00 you will get your money back with interest and we will both get a $25.00 bonus!

Wow, it’s hard to believe I have already been doing this for a year. It was exactly one year ago today that this site went live and the first post was added. To recognize this important day I’m not going to have any massive promotions or giveaways or anything like that, but I will give away some advertising just for kicks. More details on that at the end of this post, right now I am going to give myself and my readers a bit of a snapshot of what has happened in the last year since this site was started:

Pages: 4
Posts: 343 (this makes 344)
Comments: 342
Categories: 9
Spam Comments Caught By Akismet: 9,401

According To Google Analytics
- Visits: 5,101
- Pageviews: 11,272
- 95 Countries

Technorati
- Authority: 51
- Rank: 131,620

Alexa: 865,358

Now, about that advertising: leave a comment on this post and be entered to get advertising on this site. No need to specify that you want to be entered as anyone who leaves a comment will be entered. Multiple comments do not count as multiple entries. There will be three winners:
- 1 125×125 spot
- 1 468×60 banner
- 1 text link (not available to members of my blogroll and will be drawn first)

The deadline will be 2 weeks from now when my server (it’s in the central time zone which is the same as Chicago, IL) says it is July 17, 2008. The advertising will be for the month of August.

Are you the only one that uses your computer or do you share it with other members of your household? If you are the only user of that machine, how do you feel about letting other people use it? While I have several computers, I am the only one who uses them and am very comfortable with this. Besides, doesn’t PC stand for “personal computer”?

I am going to keep this post short because I just want to ask the thoughts and opinions of my readers on this issue. I sometimes think I should maybe be more open and willing to let other people use my computer, but at other times don’t know why I would want to.

Personally, I don’t usually even let people use my computers to check their email or Facebook or things of that sort. Maybe I’m selfish, or possessive, or some other adjective that I can’t think of at the present moment. On the other hand, this might be an extremely common occurrence and might be completely normal. I am just wondering the situations, opinions, etc of my readers.

Leave your thoughts in the comment section. Perhaps I will revisit this topic in the future weighing some pros and cons of different mindsets and give those who respond some credit for their thoughts and some link-love.