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Matt Cutt's pokes fun at v7n

I recently wrote about a new text link buying service by v7n on my other blog. Matt Cutts also wrote about it and then launches into a trip down memoray lane. The moral of his story is that spam will be found and spammers delisted. However the spam in his story is nothing at all like buying text links...

And interestingly if you do a Google search or read the comments on Matt's blog you'll find that Google is letting spammers screw their search results.

A friendly game of tag prompts me to reveal some deep dark secrets

I returned from my LARPing vacation to find 3 messages waiting for about being "tagged". Apparently this is a new blogger game, where I'm now obligated to tell you 5 things about myself that you don't know and tag 5 more bloggers, hopefully prompting them to do the same.

First, the taggers: NeO, John Scott, and Dustin. Thanks I think.

Things you didn't know about me:

1. When I was a lonely college kid I used to go drink in order to build up courage to ask women (mostly ones I knew) to marry me.

2. One of my dreams is to complete a couple of fantasy novels I've started. I'm not a diligent writer though so I thought starting a fantasy writing blog would spark something. No luck so far...

3. I'm quickly becoming a karaoke room addict. All the CDs on my Christmas list had songs for karaoke on them.

4. I resisted technology longer than most of my friends and didn't start emailing or going online until I was a sophomore or junior in college - 1997 or 1998 I guess.

5. I really want a radio control car but I keep not buying one because I don't want to take time out of my schedule to play with it once I get one. It sounds so silly as I write it, that I think I should go buy one soon.

Tag: Gordon (because you can never get too much LARP stuff), Ben (I like his 5 questions thing so much I forgive him for being a Redskins fan), Jason (another good guy who roots for the wrong team), David (what can I say? It's an NFC East party since we have no playoff victories to celebrate), and Sue (who shares a profession with me).

Lunarpages.com just increased storage and bandwidth

I already use Lunarpages.com (though not for this blog) but their basic and business plans (I have one of each actually) just got much stronger:

Basic Plan:

- 250 Gigabytes Storage (Previously 35 GB)
- 2500 Gigabytes Data Transfer (Previously 800 GB)
- 10 Add-on Domains Included ($300 a year in free add-ons)
- Free Domain Name
- $700 of CoffeeCup Webmaster Software

Still priced at only $6.95 per month

Business Plan:

- UNLIMITED Storage (Previously 50 GB)
- 3000 Gigabytes Data Transfer (Previously 1000 GB)
- 10 Add-on Domains Included ($300 a year in free add-ons)
- Dedicated IP free (save $30 p/year)
- Free SSL Installation (save $24.95)
- 4 Free Domain Names
- $700 of CoffeeCup Webmaster Software

Still priced at only $21.95 per month