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New Blog started - June 26, 2007

I just started a new blog called "A Month in Venice" which is my attempt to use my blog in order to help pay for a month long stay in Venice, Italy. The premise of the blog is to provide valuable content for international travelers and those aiming to go to Northern Italy. There is something about that city that really attracts me as I find myself to be at peace when I am in that city. It is weird that I find the city peaceful but I find the lack of automobile traffic to...
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The end of Trackback spam for me! - June 15, 2007

After many months I have discovered that my site is showing up in highly irrevelant search results on some of the major search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo. It turns out that many webmasters use a "gray hat" technique of placing their trackback urls on unsuspecting blogs such as mine. Well I am absoulutely sick of this and have eliminated all of my comments so I can get rid of all the irrevelant trackbacks and I can obtain more targeted search results for my...
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Expand your blogging horizons and check out the Rich Minx - June 14, 2007

I have just spent a good hour of my day reading through some of the posts made by the Rich Minx. For those that do not know who she is, she is a freelance journalist who is working in New York. What amazed me most was how similiar we both were in how we saw things in life. This is amazing to me since she grew up in New Zealand and I grew up in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota so it is not like we have shared past experiences. If you are interested in a good...
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We need more people like this in the world! - June 6, 2007

It turns out that not everyone is afraid to put their own lives at risk in order to catch a criminal. The account of how Chris Sacca's attempt to write down the license plate of a drive by shooter proves what we all can do as citizens. I am always amazed by those that are so self sacrificing in their effort to do good. This proves that not everyone out there is a bad person and there are those that truly want to help. It is quite inspiring to be frank and it should...
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