I am spending far too much time online...I love social Media...breath StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter, Mixx, Friendfeed, etc. ...studying Google magic tricks and tools and love to support and promote my good mates all over the web.
Eve again --I've sent Adam three emails in the last two days and he hasn't answered. I feel so rejected. I know he's back in London. I can tell by his tweets.
He had a big meet-up with a bunch of fellow geeks a couple of weeks ago-- person to person, face to face, in London,not New York but definitely London so why hasn't he been in touch?
Adam's all over the internet. I checked his Friendfeed. He is on every social media site you can think of. He's hot and heavy with all his female tweeps like @stephhicks@MARCOME and @pinkpackrat but he can't manage to reply to a simple email from me.
Can't believe I'm jealous of his tweeps and depressed about it too. I feel like I've been dumped.
I 'm really bummed. Time for some serious chocolate therapy.
Eve here - I've been watching Adam's obsession with Twitter take hold over the past few months. He will go days without responding to my emails, but if I DM him on Twitter.... oh, I'll get a response right away. Its kind of funny. Could I be jealous of a social networking site?
He is really amazing on the site, I must say. Over 8,500 friends. Since I am just one of thousands, I don't know what I could do to get his attention back. I am a twit at Twitter.
So, while I pout, perhaps you too want to follow Adam on Twitter. Go ahead. I don't care.
After months of dreary rain and even - snow! - in London, I am finally starting to see signs that springtime is on its way. When the calendar wanes from February toward March, I know that there are just a few more weeks to the season change. Sure, we'll have more rain. But it will be a warm rain.
The blessing of buds on trees and the bulbs starting to sprout in gardens lifts my spirits on daily walks through the City.
The promise of new life and new hope. No wonder springtime is my favorite time of year.
I crawled out of bed reluctantly today. I was aware of my Monday morning headache before I even sat up. Now I'm here in the office just trying to keep my head up and get through the day. I hate Mondays. It is overcast and dreary at the moment, which doesn't help my mood. My head hurt too much for me to go for my morning run and I hit the snooze button one too many times. I wonder how many other people suffer from the Monday morning headache or the Sunday evening stomachache. I remember reading once that Monday morning is the most common time to have a heart attack. The constant stress of our busy lives cannot be denied and the end of the weekend is something we all seem to dread.
On the bright side, I know this is simply a stress headache, and not a migraine or the start of new daily persistent headache. A couple of Aleve and it will ease up. Tomorrow I will wake up with out it.
In an attempt to distract myself from my Monday morning headache and cheer myself up a bit, I found this old Garfield episode.
Garfield's Monday Misery
Have you ever had a Monday morning headache? Stomachache maybe? A panic attack over the reality of another work week? I know that I am not alone in my dislike for Mondays!
Some people in the 70s thought it was just a craze, but now you can see people everywhere out running. I live about 8 blocks from Central Park. Not only do I love to get my exercise in by running through the area (never after dark, of course), but it is a tremendous people-watching opportunity! As I am currently training for the New York City Marathon, I have gotten more diligent about my runs. Less than a month to go now, and I'm off to complete 26.2 miles! Um.... with about 100,000 other runners.
Adam is quite supportive of my goal, although I don't picture him out running - he is too busy on the computer. I've half joked with him that he should fly to New York and cheer me on. So far, he hasn't bitten. Maybe if I let him "borrow" my Apple Macbook during the run. HA!
So, I'm following a marathon training program recommended by Hal Higdon. Generally, I go out 3 times a week during the work week for 45-60 minutes (about 6-8 miles). On the weekends, I go for a long run - anywhere from 12-22 miles, depending on the week. My last long run before the marathon is next weekend. After that, I need to tail down before November 2! I have a friend on the West Coast that is running her first marathon this weekend. We're going to compare notes after her finish at the Portland Marathon.
As I cruise through Central Park, I imagine myself crossing the finish line of the marathon. My iPod is my constant companion, and I love to distract myself from the monotony of long miles by classifying the other road warriors that I pass. Here's my tally from yesterday:
Moms working off post-baby weight: 9 Men working out for a new girlfriend: 3 Anorexic/exercise bulimics: 4 Someone who just lost his job: 1 'Roid users: 2 (maybe 3) True competitors: 6 Trying to stop smoking: 2
Of course, I classify myself as a "true competitor." We'll see what next month brings...
Eve here again... I have been communicating with Adam recently and the topic of American versus British humor (or is it humour?) came up. While I am a big fan of Monty Python, I generally find jokes from the U.K. to be pretty dry and even boring. So, I told Adam about my favorite cartoon here in the states: Gary Larson's The Far Side. While Mr. Larson is no longer publishing these hilarious drawings, The Far Side had a long, 14-year run in newspapers that featured his single-pane funnies. Like any good fan, I've done my research. Gary Larson grew up in Washington State and started publishing The Far Side in the early-1980s. Larson's scientific background can be seen in many of his cartoons which often poke fun at silly scientists, as well as animals (cows and chickens are a big favorite), married people, and stupidity in general. That may be why I love Gary Larson's work so much.... stupid people drive me nuts!
There are hundreds upon hundreds of Larson cartoons in publication, and you can also find books and other products (my favorite is a day-by-day calendar). I'm going to get The Far Side Gallery and send it over to Adam as a thank you gift for all the help he's giving me with my online promotion. I hope he gets a good laugh! Gary Larson's jokes definitely cross cultural lines ....
Hello again - its me, Eve. I introduced myself back in July and told you about my infatuation with Adam. He is still dreaming about a MacBook, and I am still enjoying my writing and online publishing with a little piece of Apple heaven. Do I sound like I'm gloating? hope not. It's just that I've been so happy with my purchase of a MacBook notebook earlier this year. Things are so much faster and easier - and fun with my Mac!
I hope I don't sound like a commercial, but the features of the Macbook are nothing short of amazing. My Apple is so fast with its Intel Core 2 Duo processors, and has a ton of memory (2GB is standard!) I love the built in AirPort Extreme, allowing me to get wi-fi connected in so many places. I am sitting in a coffee shop right now, enjoying a strong cup while I blog away... When I'm not writing, I use my Macbook to edit photos with its amazing iPhoto applications. With a few clicks here and there, I can adjust exposure, straighten out a crooked shot and deepen colors. I feel like a professional! Oh, and don't get me started about the ease of uploading new songs to my iPod. When I'm not writing or blogging, you'll find me running - my favorite form of exercise. Its hard to log the miles without some energizing tunes.
As an author at Wikipedia, I am finding it much easier to publish articles ("wikkies") with my new Mac than with my old PC. Finding and uploading photos and videos is so slick. With the speed and memory of the Macbook, I have been able to download lots of new plug-ins for my ISP (thanks for all the tips, Adam!), which help with promotion of my articles. But maybe I like the Mac OS X Leopard the best. I can search across all applications on my laptop at once. Much slicker than Windows Vista. Lots of cool features with Leopard make my time using my Mac "wildly" productive (please excuse the pun).
Finally, there is the cool factor. Macs just rule! Looking around the coffee shop, I see several envious patrons eyeing my laptop. Not to mention poor Adam across the pond in London! I'd better get back to doing my "real" work now... I'll post more about my awesome Macbook later!
In case you haven't noticed, Adam has not been filling you in lately on his life and quest for an apple mac book. He's been busy - with me. We've been working together for awhile now and getting to know each other. Can you see me blushing? It's been a beautiful distraction from the complications of my daily life that I find so painfully boring. He still wants an apple mac book, of course. It seems I am not enough to distract him from that goal. Then again, he hasn't met me in person. I'm going to blog in his place for now and keep you up to date so he can concentrate on Internet marketing and the Thirty Day Challenge. As a writer, I really don't care much for the details of marketing, so I guess we make a good team. He doesn't want to write. I don't really get that. Am I the only one who is charmed by Adam's words? Or am I reading him between the lines? I hope he will be sweet enough to stop by and comment so I can read a little of his accent today.
I'm getting sappy now, sorry. I'm just a little taken with him. Maybe it's the accent. Maybe it will wear off and I won't feel this way after I meet him, if I meet him, in the real world. My infatuation just seems to be getting worse and I find myself becoming deeply invested in this man I can hardly claim to know. Why, in a city full of men, do I need to look across the ocean for a suitable match? New York is supposed to have it all. It seems to have everything. It lures people in with the constant activity, the diversity of cultures, the theater, the food and the shoes. Yes, the shoes. The shoe selection in this city makes the price of rent worth every penny. Seriously though, in a city full of so many options why can't I find a man here? And no, I am not immense, hideous or ancient. I've been told that my standards are too high. I want a man that is dripping with integrity and the has the ability to turn a disaster into joke, or fill a otherwise boring day with laughter. Yeah, you can see my dilemma now. Is Adam this guy? I don't know yet. We're working together for now; combining our talents to build our own little empire of virtual real estate. I will continue to believe that adam likes me for who I am, or at least for my writing talent, and not for the apple mac book that is warming my lap at this moment. And even though the sound of his voice makes me want to pack up my computer and send it off to London, I won't. Handing over the apple just may ruin this little paradise, even if it is a mere fantasy.
Preseason of 30DC 2008 has finally started and a few hundred members watched the live video show from Ed's house in Australia, last night. It is amazing what these guys are doing. I would really like to know more about the real costs and technical equipment behind running such a show in live. It is about hundreds of megabytes of data, which has to be transmitted worldwide in real time. Well, I could just guess about it. I only know that Ed uses a very powerful Apple Mac Pro with more than one processor, a very large RAM under the Leopard operating system.
This is the Thirty Day Challenge Number 4 - (the fourth continuous annual challenge).
The official time of the 30DC 2008 is the East Coast Time (American east coast).
Official Internet browser is the latest Beta version of Flock, which is specialized for Web2.0.
Twitter is the most important 'thing' which has happened in the Internet marketing in 2008. We are going to study Twitter much deeper and we are going to use it for many very targeted activities.
The world has changed so much in this last year. High quality video rocks! There will be different options of video formats, considering the quality of the video. All training material is going to be optimized for Apple products, such as iTunes, iPhone, iPod, AppleTV in high definition quality. All streaming of the video will be done by Youtube. There will also be a BitTorrent version of the educational material.
We are going to see brand new Internet marketing approach how to harness any market niche.
Until the start of the Thirty Day Challenge 8 individuals have become a dollar millionaires! Ed Dale has developed the 30DC to teach people to get out of the daily work slavery (a rat race), which doesn't allow you a distant life at all.
Everybody should start with $1 (dollar)! To respect one dollar and to move further.
Teams are going to be very important in TDC 2008, because it is so much easier to succeed in a good team. Internet marketing in 2008 is a Team Sport and Team Nature of work is at utmost importance.
The most successful group last year were small business owners, who applied new learned knowledge of web marketing to their small private businesses with some amazing results. The relation between men and women in 30 DC last year was about 50:50, which is also an extraordinary result.
The new training platform - the interface is going to be finished in one week time. There are going to be 2 pages: - preseason time page - thirty day challenge page with very easy navigation.
Ed also awarded one random participant of the show by amazing combination of 3 huge high definition digital monitors.
p.s. I sincerely hope there will also be at least one Apple Macbook pro among awards in this year TDC and that I am going to get a chance to compete for one. p.p.s. Well, I didn't mean it too seriously, because I know that the real price of the apple state of the art laptop macbook pro is very, very high.
This day has finally arrived! The Thirty Day Challenge 2008 preseason starts today. We are going to start to dig deeper and deeper into the land of Internet marketing and Web2.0. I still haven't got my dream apple macbook pro with leopard operating system and iChat, but as far as I know my old PC still works quite well. Bye, until tomorrow...
Who is that dangerously looking man from Sicilian underworld near Palermo with broad Australian accent? As far as I know ha has been advising Pope Benedict XVI how to properly use Twitter to get more international attention for the last few weeks, and slowly he is finally getting some results out of this holly diplomatic efforts. Ed had been also achieved that Pope simply pushed away his old PC with Windows and has embraced new apple macbook pro with Leopard OS. As you've probably already been informed by L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican HQ wants to adopt Web2.0 and especially Web3.0 Internet marketing technologies to promote their Truth to its 1.16 billion Roman Catholic followers. And who on earth could be better for this extremely sensitive and complicated diplomatic job than very secretive Ed Dale with his hidden network of followers all over the planet? Vatican carefully hired this man in black through the assistance of Italian Prime Minister and Media super magnate Silvio Berlusconi, who had been a secret student in the Ed's and Dan's Thirty Day Challenge 2007. He even graduated 30DC2007 with distinction, even though he hadn't earned $10, due to great lack of his English. He also very heavily used Ed's state of the art web marketing expertize to gloriously won Italian general elections, recently.
p.s. The most secretive CIA agent in Vatican known by the name Google Spyder has been just found out, that the Pope Benedict is preparing to sign an official Papal Bull, which is going to start with: 'Benedictus, Episcopus, Servus Servorum Dei.' It will also be issued with golden seal, which is an extremely rare event. It is about new 'Order of Pink Thongs', which is totally unknown to American intelligence community and which general postulator should have been (Msgr.) Dan Raine of Manchester.
p.p.s CIA files also show that all individuals mentioned had been sworn their devotion to the Apple MacBook Pro, iPhone, iPod, Leopard operating system under the presence of Apple Saint Steve Jobs. That is immensely important fact, due to the brute consumer power of more than 1.16 billion people who respect personal opinion of the Roman Pope.
I found this very interesting photo of Blakespot's office today. It contains a very nice collection of Apple Mac computers, including my dream macbook pro. Such a positive pic is quite a nice motivation for my further digging into the land of Internet marketing, social networking, bookmarking, search engine optimization, web 2.0 and much, much more. May is slowly coming to its end and the Thirty Day Challenge 2008 preseason starts on 1. June. I am hardly looking forward to it to learn loads of new skills about web marketing and to meet many new people from all over the world. I could say, that I've got quite a nice group of mates already and every day we are getting more and more active social network wise. I would really suggest to anyone, who is trying to succeed in Internet marketing to find some mates/friends to help and to encourage each other, and to exchange their knowledge and experiences as well.
p.s. some of my mates have already got their own apple mac pro's or macbook pro's controlled by leopard operating system
I've started to use Flock Internet browser a bit before my dream about Apple macbook pro have finally come to fruition. They say: 'Patience is a virtue'. I still don't feel comfortable by using Internet browser Flock. I installed it properly, exactly as I saw in video lesson from Ed Dale. Not old version, but Beta version. It works perfectly well, it is even fast enough. I also logged to my social web 2.0 sites through Flock, such as Digg, Flickr, Gmail, Pownce, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. They all work so well and very smoothly, but I simply don't feel comfortable, yet. I am going to need some time to get used to new Flock environment, and I am also looking forward new videos about how to use the Flock, which Ed had promised. What do you think about my breakfast? A bit of fresh tomato, scrambled eggs, fresh white bread-baguette, a coffee? (these pen, and a USB key were just for a decoration) I hope, the Flock will become a part of my mind very soon and that I will feel much more comfortable at using it, than I feel now.
p.s. How many more breakfasts am I going to have before the aple macbook pro is going to arrive to my life? (I hope not too many, though)
iMac, iPod, iPhone, iChat, Leopard operating system, Steve Jobs
Let's not allow to that faceless multinational corporations to take our freedom. Let's stop their attempts to control our life, even more. My dream about Apple MacBook pro doesn't play any role in this activities. It is about our basic freedom. It is about Freedom of Internet. It is about control over the faceless telecoms global corporations. Don't leave your neighbor MP, senator, congressman, politician, and any leader not be additionally informed about the intention of these telecoms giants.
p.s. At least, Apple Mac has created an amazing and powerful community, which is quite coherent in reactions, if threatened by anyone really. Together, we could restrain these telecoms giants quite easy, no matter their size and money power. Do you know how? They are all managed by people by names, who could be addressed properly, when needed. Apple MacBook and Leopard O.S. rule as a community, as well.
I could describe my web marketing knowledge as this picture. Still lost In the bush, without a clear view to the great land of Internet marketing, social networking, search engine optimization, social bookmarking, quality content creation. I am really looking forward to my learning apprenticeship in 30Day Challenge 2008 to learn more by Ed and Dan and their company and to finally clear my view to the any viable web business.
p.s. my dream apple macbook pro 17 and leopard operating system are going to help to clear those online marketing shrubs in front of my eyes
Day by day I am getting more convinced my dream about apple macbook pro is coming closer. How do I know that? I simply feel it...really, we are quite close to that special day of getting one brand new only for me to use. Oh, how I am waiting to that special moment
This picture expresses quite well my feelings today about some web 2.0 tools, including twiter. I wanted to fulfill my old, many times repeated promise to learn more about the Twitter and to install the Twhirl. I was listening the video from the 30DC blog, where Ed precisely explains how to install it and how to use it well.
Sorry, for the all spring red roses, but the Twitter didn't work at all. It wasn't possible even to login properly. I really feel sorry for these guys there, because in this way they are going to loose some valuable clients for sure. There are some other similar tools on the market already and the competition is getting even more intense. I am sure, that apple computers and laptops and other electronic gadgets (iPhone,iPod, etc.) work much better and are much more reliable than that poor twitter. I hope apple macbook pro is going to be really portable that I could carry it everywhere with me on my journeys. I could also imagine of getting an Internet marketing apprenticeship at Ed Dale or at Dan Raine, sometimes in the future, if I am going to learn enough about quality content creation, search engine optimization no page and off page, tricks with video editing and posting, and much more. I am truly looking forward to 30 Day Challenge 2008 and to Immediate Edge immediately after. I truly want to commit myself on a 24/7/365 basis to web marketing and I am willing to chew the snails on this way to achieve such a goal. And of course, I haven't forgotten my dream about apple macbook pro 17 glossy with enough RAM only for me...ups, and an iPhone to accompany me to wherever I go (even to the rest room):
p.s. I hope, that twitter - twhirl partnership is going to work soon, because I am not going to give up so easy
My Digg macbook (apple pic) profile has been on a very strict vegetarian diet for some time. It was simply unbearable to control hundreds of absolutely dead friends and fans, who were shouting at me at all times of the day and night, and when I'd shouted back that hadn't heard me at all, or they had simply ignored me. I felt really stupid and neglected by all that dead crowd in my profile under topic: Friends. So I performed some little tests through a few short and quite cute shouts over the week. Today is Friday, the last working day before weekend. I decided it was going to be my clearing day. I wanted to sleep tight over the weekend. I really like statistics, sometimes. Today the statistics helped me to decide, who is going to be deleted as a friend or a fan. At the end of the day I have finished with about 127 living souls being written in my profile. I know very well that the whole process of reducing my Diggy list on my way to the new apple macbook pro equipped with leopard operating system is still far away from optimal. The list is going to further reduce to about 100 good mates, I could really rely upon at all virtual circumstances. These are all heavy duty girls and boys from all over the world, who are not afraid to sit in front of their screen for many hours per day, if needed so.
Over the weekend I am finally going to study Twitter a bit deeper, even though it is constantly causing technical problems. Obviously guys at Twitter have been having cash problems for new computer servers in the same manner as me, considering buying my dream apple macbook pro. I hope the financial situation is going to get much better for both parties, soon.
p.s. Don't forget about 30 Day Challenge, which starts in 1.June!
Today, Ed Dale told his audience where anyone could get all the professional knowledge and 24/7 support by personal expert for absolutely all professional web business needs. That means, when you exactly know what do you want to do, what do you want to offer and sell. You could sell products or services. The most important fact is, that you need to know exactly what do you want. This is for guys, who already use apple mac computers and Leopard OS in their every day work or online fun. Watch this video about StomperNet, if you want to know more about this highly professional service.
I only know, that I really don't know yet what I want to do online. Maybe, I still haven't got enough Internet marketing knowledge and experiences of what and how to do online? I am sure I am going to learn much more in this year's thirty day challenge and I am really looking forward to its start, soon. After the 30 DC 2008 I could join Immediate Edge to learn even more professional technical knowledge. At that time, I am going to have a perfectly clear view of what and how to do and to continue my Internet marketing every day reality in StomperNet. Well, at that stage in my personal web marketing development I am more than sure, that I am going to be a proud owner of one apple macbook pro 17 glossy for some time, already. Ed also said today, that he hasn't ever had a better electronic gadget that is his iPhone. He praises apple iPhone at all times.
Only a few words today. That means not much quality content is going to be posted today on this blog about my apple macbook dream, because I want to read some more articles about using macbook pro in every day life, now. I was cutting the weed off my Digg account today, twitting a few nice web sites I had been stumbled upon, and received one wonderful story about how one cute lady from Australia has finally achieved her long lasting dream to get one apple macbook pro for her personal use. I was so happy reading her passionate email, she sent to me. She took a business leasing to get one apple laptop for her business use. I know, that she is much more productive in her online business activities, now and much more creative in her blogging, as well.
Eve again --I've sent Adam three emails in the last two days and he hasn't answered. I feel so rejected. I know he's back in London. I can tell by his tweets.
