XBox 360 Fall Releases

Just a quick note to tell you what xbox 360 games I'm looking forward to and to find out the ones you are. First, my list: I know it's not Fall yet, but out today is Nascar 08. I pre-ordered it a couple weeks ago so I should be receiving it any day now. The next game I'm looking forward to is Orange Box (Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal). This box is scheduled for release on 10/9. I'll own it that day. The next release that I'm looking forward to is Mass Effect, which is slotted for a November release. There are others, but unless they cut the price, I'll only end up with these 3. What games are you looking forward to?

Burn Notice

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The USA Network's Burn Notice wants to know what you would do if you were stranded in an unknown city with no money and no resources. That's an interesting question and one I'll answer for you here. My first thought is that I would do a lot of begging, but I think I would like to become more entrepreneurial in my efforts to survive. The first thing I have to do is find some skill I could use to get some fast money. I guess blogging would be out as it takes a while to make blog monetization worth while. So, I could start small and walk dogs (if it was a city). Or maybe I could go the hard labor route and find a job in construction. OK, for those of you that know me, stop laughing! I'm not skinny, I'm wirrey. For the life of me, I can't think of what I really would attempt to survive while stranded in an unknown city. I have a feeling I would end up on the streets for at least a couple days, in all the elements suffering. If you want to find out what a CIA operative would do, make sure you tune into Burn Notice on the USA Network.

Seinfeld & Superman

I'm sitting here watching a Seinfeld re-run and for some reason I faintly remember reading years ago that every episode references Superman in some way. I really can't find the reference while watching. Do any of you know what the references are? Or do I remember it wrong? I've been looking on his walls, furniture, clothes, and listening to the dialouge, but I just can't find it. I could google it, but I'd rather see if any of you know where the references are. If you know let me know by commenting to this post.

PayPerPost gets Lucky $7 Million

PayPerPost has raised another $7 Million and are celebrating by getting their bloggers to advertise on blogs. There are many things that I think they should/could do with the money. Some of them are feasable, some are very far fetched. Here's my list, in no particular order:

1. Imagine it, a $1 Million dollar post opportunity. Announce that it will be available sometime between 1am Monday morning and noon Friday afternoon. You'll get a bus load of sleep deprived posties that week.

2. I guess the developers could use a bonus to make up for all the overtime they have obviously been doing. Throw them a little bone and expect them to code non-stop for the next 2 months.

3. Give it all to the President/CEO of PayPerPost. Everyone knows they do all the work anyway. ;-)

4. Use it to buy-out a competitor to achieve more advertisers. (ReviewMe or blogsvertise or loudlaunch), a subsidiary of PayPerPost, has a nice ring to it.

5. Just start depositing the money in random postie paypal accounts until it's all gone.

That's just a couple of the ideas off the top of my head. I'm sure they have an idea what they are going to do with it already, so my brainstorming session is probably all for naught. Here is their published Press Release:

The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored
Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B

Draper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors

ORLANDO, FL – (June 12, 2007) – PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company's Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors.

“PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader,” said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. “Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.”

Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.

“PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future,” noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.”

To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.

Busy weekend summary

Well, we got everything done as planned this weekend with the exception of camping in the backyard with the boys. Maybe we will be able to give it a go next weekend. In addition to the things listed, I was able to mow the lawn, and patch up a whole in the wall. I've had a 1 inch whole in an outside wall for a while now where the tv used to be. That was where the coax and network cable came in. Since I moved the tv to another wall, that whole has just been letting bugs, hot/cold air into the house. I finally got around to squirting some insulation in there along with applying a blank face plate on the inside to cover it up. Gotta save on energy bills this summer as much as I can.

Spy Sweeper

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Has your pc ever just started acting "funny"? Not haha funny, but rather frustrating funny? My worst case prompted my pc to open random applications whenever I right clicked, had continuous pop-ups, and was as slow as a 10 year-old pc. Talk about frustrating. I tried all those free spyware applications to try to clean it, but it was never quite right after that. I manually scanned all installed applications looking for the culprit, navigated every folder on the system looking for anything out of the norm, and browsed the registry for anything suspicious. Of course, I couldn't find anything with these manual attempts. I needed a real spyware cleaner like Spy Sweeper. This application has won many awards. I probably could have added a couple years of usefulness if I had used this product. Unlike the free options, Spy Sweeper blocks the spyware before it gets installed on your pc. Spyware doesn't stand still and you detector shouldn't either. Spy Sweeper provides you with free defense updates so it can evolve along with the spyware and block all new varients. Just imagine how much time I would have saved if I had used this application before becoming infected. I literally had spent hours trying to save that old box, when I should have been online looking for a tool to do it for me.

Busy Weekend

This is going to be an action packed weekend. Last night, we got a sitter for the kids and Brandy and I went to the Bodeans concert. If you ever get the opportunity, I highly recommend seeing them live, as it was a very good show. I was worried that they weren't going to play my favorite 2 songs of theirs, but they managed to hit both of them during their encore. Today, I get to replace all the outlets and light switches in the bedroom that Brandy and I are moving to, while she paints the closet doors and floor. (Hopefully she paints the floor AFTER I'm done with the outlets.) The kids have been asking to go camping lately so I will be putting up our tent in the backyard so we can all sleep out there tonight. That should be fun. We are also all going to a wedding reception this afternoon. As for tomorrow, I'm sure I'll come up with some yard work to do. Like I said, lots going on this weekend. I hope I find more time for blogging as well.

Poker Forum

About 2 years ago, I started watching Texas Hold'em on TV. I'm almost embarrassed to say that I was watching celebrity poker. Watching this didn't give me any strategy insights, but it did show me the basics of how to play. I then moved on to watching professional poker on tv, which showed me some strategy that I could use in my play. An even better way to learn is to read what thousands of players are saying in a forum setting. That is why I decided to accept this sponsored review for Cards Chat.

They are a Poker Forum with over 20,000 members. You can visit the site and read many of the discussions with your guest account, or you can sign up for free to participate in those discussions. If you're interested playing online, then you will find the reviews section very helpful. This is my favorite section. They list all the major online poker sites and give very informative reviews of them. This can help you decide which site to make your primary online poker site. Since you are reading this blog, you might also find their blog useful. It makes it easy to view all blog posts related to poker strategy. Don't go to Vegas without first forming a poker strategy and don't form that strategy without research on Cards Chat.

BarterBee

You know that I've been on the lookout for any new sites or services that I think we could all use. Well, I just came across a campaign in ReviewMe for BarterBee.com, which offers you a free way to get movies, music, and games. They are sponsoring many reviews of their site, and this is one of them.

BarterBee.com - The Free Way to Get Movies, Music, and Games

They seem to bee exactly that, a cool new way to get movies, music and games. I am most interested in getting some games to play on my Xbox 360. If you sign up now, you can get 5 free points. Not sure what that means? Well, it looks like you can get a game disk for as little as 2 points. You can acquire points by listing your items on the site for a point value. These points that you acquire by distributing your items can be used to get new items of your choice. One thing that concerns me is the quality of the disks that are being passed around from person to person. They currently don't have too many XBox 360 games, but I'm sure that will change after all these reviews are done and they become more popular. They do have 1 360 game that I haven't played yet, Phantasy Star Universe. The next time you complain that you don't have any games to play, you can head over to BarterBee and they will get you one in the mail for hours of game play.

Sarah Silverman

Where did Sarah Silverman come from? I know I've heard the name before but I have no idea where. This week I've seen her hosting the MTV movie awards and now I'm sitting here watching Comedy Central and she has her own show. Both of these programs are suppose to highlight how funny she is, but I haven't seen or heard her do anything funny as of yet. She's now singing a song about how she tried to fart, but pooped instead. This is like torture! Maker her go away. . . Oh, wait, I have a remote that will do that for me. Bye Bye Sarah