These are my links for June 17th through July 5th:
- Tour de France 2010 – The Tour 2010 – Yay — Tour de France started.
- Olympus E-P 2 Review – Excellent short write up on the new Olympus E-P2.
- Make Money by Blogging – How to make money by blogging
- Cream Filled Chocolate Cupcakes « Someone Left The Cake Out In The Rain – another one to try. I am never going ti lose any weight.
- Gourmet Burger :: Bacon, Brie and Caramelized Onions – Great burger recipe
- Reusable grocery bags are a health hazard? – You have got to be kidding me. A health hazard? What is wromng with these people?
- Tote Bags – How do you decide which one to Buy? – Too many friggin choices for tote bags.
- Zen and The Art of Internet Marketing – Hiring a professional internet marketing company.
- Las personas con más suerte sobre la tierra – Funny video – lucky people.
- Low calorie recipes to lose weight – Funny article about Lisa Lillien
- Announcing Hubpages’ First "Dark and Stormy Night" Contest – LOL – I have enetered but I don't think I am bad enuf.
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Having recently (1o months ago) quit smoking, I decided I needed a prize for doing so and my chosen prize to myself was a brand new Olympus PEN E-P2. It has been a while since I owned a decent camera, unless you count the Sony DCR-SR220 video camera, which I was using for work.
But – I could never see anything on the damn view screen so nothing ever turned out the way I was hoping. One of the disadvantages of living in a sunny area I guess. So, I was determined to buy myself something with a decent viewfinder and my short list included the Olympus PEN range of cameras, the Leica D 4 Lux, the Panasonic DCMLX3, and the Panasonic GF1.
The Leica was too expensive considering it is made by Panasonic also, but the Olympus won out the moment I picked one up. It is like going through a time warp to when they made proper cameras and definitely hits the spot as far as feel and aesthetics goes. I wanted one immediately. The micro four thirds system just resonated with me immediately.
Mine I bought on line from Amazon – seeing as it saved me over E100 to do so. I bought the kit with the EV2 viewfinder and 17mm pancake lens and I am waiting for the 14-150 lens to supplement it with. I love this thing and these are the first test shots using a variety of the built in settings:
Standard, !AUTO, with no adjustment:
Built in Art filter – Grainy Black and White
Same filter, using the 6×6 setting:
PoP Art filter:
Portrait:
Pretentious self portrait mode:
All in all – I am very happy so far. Make no mistake – this is no cheap olympus camera – the cheap one is the EP 1L which has a plastic body and a built in flash. I paid E920 buying it through Amazon, which is considerably less than the E1,100 retail cost in France. The only issue I have is the Olympus instruction manual that came with it is in German. My German is very, very rusty……………
Go – buy one now. 
They are superb. Can hardly wait to get another lens and maybe a flash, although it will shoot at up to 6400 iso, so perhaps not going to bother with a flash.
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Once again, Big Daddy G has made some drastic changes to their search engine algorithm. It looks to me as though there have been two lots of changes – one at the beginning of May and one at the end. And I say “drastic” because I have seen some drastic changes to the ranking sof some of my sites. All in all – this seems to have been a good change for me – and I think a good change for google users because my crappy sites with not such great content have dropped and my better sites with AWESOME! content like this one 
have increased in rankings.
Suits me as most of my sites have good content and the ones that don’t were really experiments to see if you can get garbage content ranked. Sadly – you can – judging from the amount of garbage I still find when searching but we can hope that – eventually – Big Daddy G gets the results right and the best content floats to the top. I am not holding my breath though.
I see the financial crisis that is all over and never really happened is still doing its thing and I have come to the conclusion never to take anything a government says as the truth ever again. BP has managed to kill everything in the Gulf of Mexico and speaking personally – I think public hangings for the board of directors, senior managers and majority shareholders would not be an over the top response. I will provide the film crew and I am sure some one will come forwards with the rope and gallows. The cocksuckers at Shell are busy poisoning Africa down in the Niger Delta, and I must admit to feeling a level of utter fucking frustration that I cannot do a damn thing to stop these pieces of shit from killing my planet.
Anyway – back to the non-existent financial crisis. Making money online is one way of going about increasing your income – and make no mistake – if you are not increasing your income – you are getting poorer. I don’t know exactly how much money the central bankers can lend to the government Incs before a currency collapses, but I suspect we are going to find out soon. In any case, here are a few suggestions I wrote about at hubpages for making some extra money. Not everyone can do everything but I think there should be something for most people. Good luck out there……
Work From Home Jobs :: How to Spot The Right Home Based Business. Being matched with the wrong opportunities over and over again is one of the biggest reasons so many home businesses fail before they have any significant effort devoted to them.
Legitimate Home Based Businesses
Building a large list of clients is essential to running home based businesses. Once you have your list of clients though, there could be other problems in your business, that you may not be aware of, having a negative impact on your customers before they ever call you.
Working from home is becoming a dream for more and more people wanting to escape the daily office grind, or those who find themselves part of a “down-sizing” operation by a company looking to save a few dollars.
Are you having problems finding work at home jobs? There are quite a few opportunities available, but it seems that most of the websites and job listing boards you come across are simply scams, or companies that have not been around long enough to build a reputation for themselves
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As a professional blogger, I tend to be paid by clients either for production content, managing a site, link building and other various functions that make a blog successful. But – I also run my own sites and monetize them using affiliate products and contextual advertising. Nothing unusual in that. One of the venues I like to use for these affiliates is hubpages. Having recently completed another hubpages challenge, one of the subjects I covered was “making money online” and I decided to write a few more hubs around this topic as I see more and more people turning to the internet to make a living over the next few years, what with the financial crisis that is all over continuing it’s destruction. I hope there will be some useful information in there for those would be internet marketing experts.
This subject is particularly competitive and I think one of hubpages strong suits is to give a little boost when compared to privately owned websites. But – what do I know – Today.com just up and disappeared recently, taking a lot of people’s work with them. It turns out Microsoft bought the domain and killed the site – the URL now resolves to MSNBC, which has possibly the most annoying advertising built in to a page since those annoying sound bite ads that played as soon as you opened the page. So – if you were making money at Today.com using their revenue sharing – TOUGH SHIT!
Therein lies one of the quandaries of affiliate marketing – whether you are using adsense or amazon or ebay or any of the numerous other companies – to a large extent – it is a one way street. They can throw you off the program anytime – with good reason sometimes – and you have almost no recourse. Today.com is a great example of the one way street – wham – here today, gone tomorrow. (sic)
Still – that seems to be the way things work – all the power to the big guys. I see amnesty international had one of their ads pulled by the Financial Times at the last minute last week. The ad:
As you can see, the ad was targeting the disgusting business practices Shell use in Niger to screw every penny profit they can for their shareholders at the environmental expense of the local population.
Numerous oil spills, which have not been adequately cleaned up, have left local communities with little option but to drink polluted water, eat contaminated fish, farm on spoiled land, and breathe in air that stinks of oil and gas.
Tim Hancock, Amnesty International UK’s campaigns director, said:
“The decision by the Financial Times is extremely disappointing. We gave them written reassurances that we would take full responsibility for the comments and opinions stated in the advertisement.
Sounds about right to me and you can follow the campaign to shame Shell (good luck with that) here at the protect the human blog.
Not sure which is worse actually – the fact that I either never drive my car ever or know that I am helping to fund this behavior. Oh well – I am sure BP will do the right thing in the Gulf and pay off a few politicians. So what if there is no shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico for the next 40 years. Must be God’s judgment for promoting the homosexual lifestyle.
That was SARCASM in case you think I am promoting the homosexual lifestyle. Been a while since I upset any gay guys – last time was when I fell out with the Real Estalker. They get mean when you diss their Mama. Any way – back to the hubpages stuff – these are a few of the latest ones.
- Part Time Jobs For High School Students
- Best Ways To Make Money At Home
- internet businesses
- how to make money on the internet
- how to earn money online with google adsense
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