Jerry Leventer

I found this on another blog and thought I’d share it with you…

Our deepest fear is NOT that
we are inadequate,
our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Actually. who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the World.
There is nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people
won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us.
Its not just in some of us, it’s in everyone;
and as we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela
Inaugural Speech, 1994

Marianne Williamson
Return To Love, 1992

Quoted from William Skinner’s Blog

[tags]Famous Quotes, Business Success, Nelson Mandela, Fear of Success, Marianne Williamson[/tags]

Have you ever wondered where Windows XP keeps all the Quick Launch Shortcuts?

Well, here it is:

Quick Launch Shortcuts
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

And here’s a handy list of definitions of Windows XP terminology:

Taskbar
The Windows XP Taskbar is the entire area that contains the Start button and the icons of all applications currently running on your desktop. You can enlarge the Taskbar by “grabbing” the top border with your mouse cursor (it will change to an up/down arrow) and dragging it up or down. You can enable the auto-hide feature, lock the Taskbar, and group active icons by right-clicking an empty area of the Taskbar and selecting the appropriate option.

Quick Launch Toolbar
The Quick Launch toolbar is the area on the Taskbar immediately to the right of the Start button. The Quick Launch toolbar can be enabled or disabled by right clicking an empty area on the Taskbar and selecting “Toolbars -> Quick Launch.”

System Tray
The Windows XP System Tray is the area on the Taskbar to the far right. This is where certain applications will keep an icon even if it isn’t currently running on the desktop. The system clock is also located here, if enabled. You cannot disable the System Tray.

[tags]Windows XP Terminology, Technical Tips, System Tray, Quick Launch Toolbar, Taskbar[/tags]

My .htaccess file contains code at the top for my wordpress permalinks, so I add the redirects below that.Here’s the Wordpress code along with canonicalization.

# .htaccess
#
# ————————————————————————————
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# - BEGIN - CANONICALIZATION
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# - END -
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
# ————————————————————————————–
# Edit Your Affiliate Redirects Below Here

redirect 301 /get/this-great-affiliate-product http://www.wpAffiliateGuide.com/?affid=affiliate-ID

Note that the lines with # symbol in front are comments

Canonicalization
This just makes your URL path always have the www. in front. Google assigns PageRank to http://www.mysite.com/ and http://mysite.com/ as two separate pages. So if some people link to your site with the www. and some without, your PageRank gets split up and you don’t get as much credit for one or the other as you should. In some cases, these are actually two different pages, so Google has to keep the algorithm this way.

File Naming
When using an editor in Windows XP, you cannot save the file with only a . (dot) extension such as the .htaccess file. You’ll get the error message that says, “You must enter a file name.” Thank you Microsoft!

I save the file as x.htaccess, and then use my FileZilla FTP manager to rename it.

301 Permanent Redirects
The bottom of the example above shows a line of code to use in your .htaccess file that will redirect anyone who clicks on it (all on one line, even if it does not appear so here). Google and other search engines, will consider it a permanent redirect and give link reputation to the final target, whether you link to your own pages or someone elses. –

redirect 301 /get/wpaffiliateguide http://www.wpAffiliateGuide.com/?affid=affiliate-ID

To use this link, you would simply enter it like this –

http://www.JerryLeventer.com/get/wpaffiliateguide

In this example you will be redirected to Teli Adlam’s latest product page. If you make the purchase, my account will be given credit for the sale. This link will open in a new window (or tab).
[tags]URL Canonicalization, Cloaked Affiliate Links, dot htaccess files, 301 Permanent Redirects, Wordpress Permalinks[/tags]

I’m writing this post in response to a couple people telling me my holiday reading list looked interesting. They are in Teli Adlam’s new marketing forum that you can join by buying her new book and video tutorials, WP Affiliate Guide.

I started reading Wikinomics, by Don Tapscott, on the airplane on my way to visit family for the holidays.

Wikinomics: Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott

I had found the book by chance while shopping in Borders bookstore in Sunnyvale, CA looking for books on how to build an online business from the point of view of Harvard business school and Entrepreneur Magazine.

The intent of the author is to demonstrate how the Internet and Social Media Networking is changing everything yet again. Not since the Television and the Automobile have we seen this kind of paradigm shift in the way we do business. The opportunities to have your problems solved, by going outside your own company and tapping the knowledge, experience, and new ideas of people around the globe, have become apparent to some, such as IBM, Sun, and a Gold Mining company.

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Are you an Excel user? Have you ever wondered how to convert an entire column of plain text links into hyperlinks without having to double click each one individually?

Don’t look in the Excel Help files for this one, it’s not even mentioned there. The following code is exactly what you need.

Convert Selected Plain Text Links To HyperLinks

Public Sub Convert_To_Hyperlinks()
    Dim Cell As Range
    For Each Cell In Intersect(Selection, ActiveSheet.UsedRange)
        If Cell <> "" Then
            ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Cell, Cell.Value
        End If
    Next
End Sub

Convert Selected HyperLinks To Plain Text

Public Sub Convert_From_Hyperlinks()
    Intersect(Selection, ActiveSheet.UsedRange).Hyperlinks.Delete
End Sub

Instructions On How To Create The Macro

Step 1: From within your Excel workbook, open the macro editor by pressing ALT+F11.

Step 2: In the Tools Menu, left-click View and select Project Explorer.
View -> Project Explorer (CTRL+R)

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This Day In History:

2004: NASA Mars Rover (”Spirit”) successfully landed on Mars.

1962: New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.

1959: Luna 1 became the first spacecraft to approach the Moon.

1958: Russian space craft Sputnik 1 fell to Earth from its degraded orbit.

1493: Christopher Columbus left the New World, ending his first journey.

Happy Birthday:
Inventor Louis Braille (1809-1852)
Physicist and Mathematician Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727).

RIP:
Author T. S. Eliot (d. 1965).

Source: IDG Connect

[tags]This Day In History, NASA Mars Rover, T.S. Eliot, Sir Isaac Newton, Christopher Columbus, Luna 1, Sputnik, Louis Braille[/tags]

Yep. It looks like I’ve already signed up twice because I have two accounts for Simpleology. But I never completed the basics. Never even got past the first day. Talk about lack of focus.

Well, today I was supposed to be reviewing the blogging course I just signed up for but there on the page, over to the right, where the AdSense usually is, were links to the various Simpleology classes. So I decided to go have another look…

So I’m reading the 1st PDF and it has a really funny experiment about drinking a glass of water. You’re supposed time yourself as you look at the glass and talk and see how long it takes for it to put itself up to your mouth and pour itself in. Then, when that gets you nowhere, you’re supposed time yourself as you reach over, pick up the glass, and drink from it. Which one works faster?

Alongside that story is the one about spending $10,000 on the greatest internet marketing course and expecting it to make you rich. I didn’t spend that necessarily on any one course, but I’ve spent a good share of it on classes, seminars, ebooks, and all the rest so I know what he’s talking about.

What is Simpleology in ten words or less? Go from goals to results FAST!

The idea is you have to take action. Focused action. Whether it’s drinking a glass of water or marketing your product online. Pretty good stuff this time around. Maybe I’m ready.

But then again - what was I doing reading an ebook about Simpleology when I’m supposed to be reviewing that blogging course I just signed up for? Hmm. Just goes to show you that his marketing works. I may have just developed a renewed interest in Simpleology. But it also goes to show you how easy it is to get sidetracked from a seemingly simple task.

I’m sure I’ll be talking more about that in future posts…

I decided to give PopFile by SourceForge a try after seeing that About.com gives it a top rating. http://email.about.com/od/windowsspamfightingtools/tp/anti-spam.htm

I decided not to continue using it, however, since it wants to reconfigure all my account settings.

Also, it uses Outlook filtering to place the mail into folders. So you have to tell PopFile to mark each email “Good” or “Bad” and let Outlook Rules Wizard do the work. I am trying to get away from relying on Outlook Rules Wizard due to some inconsistent behavior like creating a second copy of email and moving it to the wrong folder.

On the other hand, MailWasher by FireTrust is working quite well as a spam filter.

It is a bit cumbersome since you have to launch and run it separately from your email client, and it has gotten mixed reviews, although always in the top five. But it is the best one I’ve found so far for my purposes.

As with all the better spam filters, MailWasher uses the Bayesian filtering algorithm. FireTurst also provides FirstAlert! which is a continuously updated database for reporting and filtering spam. It costs $10/year after the 1st year.

You do have to process the mail a bit since it isn’t placed into a folder, but you can sort on any of the colums and group by color. There is also a “hide known spam” selection in the Options settings.

Another advantage to MailWasher Pro is it can be used with non-Windows email clients such as Thunderbird, and it can process both POP3 and IMAP email.

See a good (but old) FirstAlert! article here:
http://www.firetrust.com/about/media/kit/press-release/2003-11-13

Email Filter types and terminology:
http://www.whichspamfilter.com/TypesOfFilters.htm

[tags]Email Spam Filters, FireTrust MailWasher Pro, FirstAlert, PopFile, Outlook [/tags]

Perhaps you’ve heard of Mark Joyner. Some refer to him as the Godfather of internet marketing because he’s been around since the beginning. He is the owner of Simpleology and he wrote The Irresistible Offer

and The Great Formula: for Creating Maximum Profit with Minimal Effort.

Mark claims that it took him six years to figure out that blogging was significant. Before that he thought, “This is just a freakin’ self-posting guest book with comments!”

So, he and his company, Simpleology, decided to create a course on blogging, which is why I’m writing this post…

I’ve been looking for good a good Sticky Note application for a while now. I’ve looked at several such as MyStickies, but had not quite found one that provides all the features I need.

Today I may have found a winner!

Here’s the post I read in Google Answers:

I'm searching for a "post-it" software that allows to create post-it
like notes that can be attached to particular windows or applications.
When the window appears the note appears, when the windows disappears
the note disappears...

I found that StickyNote 9.0, Quick Notes Plus, Ptimemo, Mystickies and
the next version of Stickies (6.0) should have this feature but it] is
implemented very primitively in these programs.

Is there a better program with this feature?

So I kept reading, and it seems I may have found a winner here.

The application is called Quick Notes Plus and is produced by ConceptWorld, a company in Chennai, India. They have since created a premium version called NoteZilla.

You can get a copy of Quick Notes Plus Here, and NoteZilla Here.

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