Corruptful

Ever since they were written I’ve been a fan of the Harry Potter Books. J.K. Rowling had such a creative ability to divulge into the readers mind. Then they started making the movies. The first to, though not perfect, were still enjoyable and well done.

 Then they switched directories. The third movie, in my humble opinion, lacked depth. It different from the book. Then the fourth movie, which I saw just last night, really sunk the ship. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was a flunk. A burnout. It was honestly the biggest dissapointment movie-wise I’d experiences since Tom Cruise lived in War of the Worlds. Not only did it leave out key aspects of the book, but it put in things that were insignificant. There was a whole section of the movie, roughly twenty minutes or so, in which Harry and Ron attempted to get a girl for a ball, and following that spend ages dancing. In a movie about magic, witches and death, there was a twenty minute scene on dancing. I simply don’t get it.

As if that were not enough, several supporting characters were replaced, as in the making of the third in this group of films. This lowered my spirits substantually, especially when I believe they replaced Fred and George.

 This movie was a dissapointment. I’ll post more later.

Well folks, as you know there is an abundance of “freebie” websites out there. The get a free iPod is the most well know and publicized.

The fact is, the vast majority of these so-called free offers aren’t really free. You often may end up spending more trying to get your free item than it’d cost to simply buy it. That’s the psychology behind such things - it’s very discreet.

However, one must wonder… is there a way to do such a free scheme at make a profit? Well, I’ve decided I’m going to find out.

I’ve created an account at www.free4me.net (referral link) in an attempt to see if I can do such an offer. I’m going to try to make $600, which is one of their offers, using $150 or less. This means I can spend roughly up to $19 to get or do each offer.

Following this, if successful, I’m going to get a Mac, using half of the remaining $450.

It’s not going to be easy, but it’s simply an experiment for such freebie sites.

I’ll keep you posted. If you’d like to help me out, you can register for “gadgets” or cash, and you can register for a Mac or iBook.

As far as horror films go, I would say that The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a jewel among junk. It has a very unique take on a very beaten story.

As one may easily guess, it’s about an exorcism. This takes the viewpoint of an exorcism that’s already past in which case a lawyer takes on a case involving a Catholic Priest who supposedly attempted and failed an exorcism on a girl named Emily Rose. This takes place in the court room with countless flashbacks into the memories of evil.

This movie isn’t quite horrific as it is intriguing. It divulges into the asks of the dark and of the spiritual where the typical person would not like to think to think of.

When compared to the typical horror film, this is one I would recommend buying - if not, at the very least rent.

It’s also worth mentioning that it’s based on a true story, which makes it even more haunting.

www.moola.com is a virtually revolutionizing website of earning “free” money online. After more than a week of investigation, I’ve personally decided that their site is legitimate, and that their method may be very successful.For those of you unfamiliar with the site, here’s a brief rundown of how it works. Basically you need an invitation to sign up, but once you do register, moola, sponsored by their advertisers, give you one cent. As in a penny. You then have the opportunity to double your money. You can do this until you get to $10,737,418.24 - in only thirty games. Below is a screenshot of the “dollar tower.”

The system itself is very interesting and devised in such a way that all parties have the potential to make huge profits. The moola owner and team can simply make money from the advertisers, the advertisers can make money by you buying their product, and you can make money from winning. Yes, winning.

To “double” your money on moola you must win a game. One game and you have twice as much. The game is called “gold rush” - a game in which you must “balance” your gold and get more in the end than your opponent. The member with the most at the end wins.
Now, you may be wary to play or join such a program that forces you to risk so much of your free, yet hard-earned money. No worries. Moola.com has it set so you can play on any “level” that you’ve reached (for more information, see the moola dollar). This is a sort of safeguard. Play for and risk however much you wish.

Now, that’s not to say there aren’t any shortcomings. There are. For example, while moola is in beta, which it currently is, you have the option to select “autoplayers” which are automatic players. Basically a program that will play you. I was wary of this, and until I figured it out, I realize I was winning and loosing almost a perfect 50% of the time. This was distressing.

However, I disabled autoplayers, but I’ve yet to see my odds increase. Perhaps with more time.

Another thing is the “tie” effect. Two players have the potential to have a tie game. You can see this, as well as a basic view of the gold rush game, below.

The fact of the matter is that I’ve simply been unable to breech forty cents. Because of this, it seems like a waste of time. However, there have been reported cashouts of money which are in the thousands, so I think this has some great potential. the game is also both a chance and strategy game, so it’s not just odds.

Another interesting feature is their referral program. They’ve managed to stay clear of the “free iPod” referral IDs that spammed the internet. They give you a number of invites, much like Google does with it’s services, and you can send those out to individuals at email addresses. They have a “referral bonus.” Basically each time someone you refers cashes out, you get 4% of their dough. They have this on different levels and on different tiers. If someone you referred cashes out, you get 3%. The same goes to four tiers, going down one percentage each time.

So anyway, that’s my view. Register if you dare. Also, you can digg this.

 

 

The Ring, first released in 2002 was a sure hit in the horror film industry. Staring Naomi Watts, a woman watches a video tape that supposedly renders them lifeless in seven days. Her, her ex husband, and her son all face horrific, gruesome experiences in this unwinding horror mystery. The twists comes at the end when the young murdered child craws from the TV, leaving room for the sequel, which was to follow a few years later.

“The Ring” is based on the Japanese film “Ringu”. I believe this has several sequels, and apparently the American version will as well. This movie has, in my humble opinion, struck a lot of copycats in the film industry, many copying the basic plot and effects directly.

Anyway, this brief review was writing because ABC recently played it on their station and I saw it again. To be honest, I quite enjoyed it and would recommend it entirely if you even remotely like horror movies.

You may or may not have heard of the new link building technique that seems to be catching hold, but weather you’ve heard of it or not, it’s still been an aspect of discussion.

First, a basic rundown of how it works. Basically you create an account on their website,www.pyramidlinking.com, fill out the required information, and start a campaign. They generate a list of links and you place these links somewhere on your site. In effect, you get links back. However, that is not the beauty of it. The best part of this system is the “pyramid effect.” For example, say you link to twenty websites. In effect, over time, twice as many sites would link back to you. This means you would generate fourty backlinks as a result.

Now, keep in mind you will not immeadiately begin reaping traffic and search engine rank as a result. This is unlikely. Possible? Yes, but not likely. However, the potential benefits of this are high. This idea opens several more ideas. It’s possible with this to significantly increase your search engine ranking, your PR, and even your traffic. Keep in mind, however, this is for long term link building.

So anway, I thought I’d test out this service. The day after I registered I looked up some data about my site.

For my site, we’ll call it Site X, it has 29 pages indexed in Google, 52 pages indexed in Yahoo, and 959 pages indexed in MSN. There is very little traffic for the site. For three of my keywords, I looked up the rank. There is no rank in Google or Yahoo, but for Keyword One in MSN it is ranked #7. For Keyword Two it is ranked #5, and for Keyword Three it is ranked #6. I have kept the name and URL of the site confidential so no one can interfere with this experiment. My goal here is to, after a month or two, see if the pyramid linking had any real effect. Periodically I’ll post more on pyramid linking and it’s effect on this little experiment I cooked up.

Anyway, wish me luck.

 Oh, and you can digg this.

Yes, it’s old news, but it still seems to be a major issue in the area of digital music players today. The Ipod Nano. It’s a beautiful thing to be sure. Slickly and sleekly designed to near perfection - yes, near. Bragged to be as thin as a pencil, which it is, the Apple Ipod Nano is a sight to behold; until you scratch it.

Drop it, smash it, place it in your pocket, or even touch it in the wrong way and it’s prone to damage. If you buy an Ipod Nano, you risk changing this:

into this:

You make the choice.

As if that were not bad enough, the iPod Nano lacks many of the essentials. It is well designed, but does not have an FM tuner and is way overpriced when compared to it’s brothers and sisters.

The bottom line is this: there are alternatives. Don’t buy a Nano. You’ll only be disappointed. I’m a huge fan of Apple, but the Nano really makes me sick. I haven’t felt so sick of such a product since the Suffle came out.

Today, April 1st, Google announced it’s new service, Google Romance. Think it is a hoax?      

This is not the first time Google has pulled such a prank. They did so before in their things such as Google Gulp or Google Copernicus Center or Google’s patented PigeonRank or Google’s MentalPlex. Just a fun April Fool’s Day webpage.Have fun!