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Hey guys, I’m looking for an experienced coder that is an expert at web programming languages. I have some work I need to outsource, for now it’ll be a few small tasks but we’ll see what happens and how everything goes.

Use my Contact page or just shoot an e-mail to paul [at] uberaffiliate [dot] com. Provide a little background info, examples of work, and anything you think would be important to mention.

Writing up the next split testing article, should be posted in the next few days so stay tuned.

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2010 was a pretty slow year of blogging for me…extremely slow actually. I posted only 10 times in the year 2010, pathetic for a blogger.

As discussed in my few posts before, the main reason was the leap I decided to take in work on launching my own physical product (not just for online sales, but retail as well). The one certain thing I can tell you thus far is…it’s not easy. Point is, I started getting back into affiliate marketing again around November to get cash flow coming in again so I didn’t run out of money trying to launch the real product. I’ve run a few profitable campaigns and am working on scaling them now, so now I’ve got something to talk about again.

My motivation for blogging about affiliate marketing is starting to creep back, and once you see the theme on this site change, you should know to start paying attention again. I’ve got a few decent article ideas in my mind already, so I’m going to work on those this week and if I have at least 5-10 articles ready to rock, we’ll make the theme change and get back to frequent blogging.

Less talk, more content coming in. Goodday (not to be confused with Godaddy).

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*Spoiler alert*

So after six seasons, LOST finally concluded last night. I started watching the show three weeks before this season, I got through all of the prior five seasons in that time. Once I started watching, it seemed to get more and more confusing but I just wanted to see how the show was going to end. I wanted all the questions that had been building up to be answered. What was I left with? …Nothing.

When I first started watching, I thought it was going to be just a shipwrecked trapped on a deserted island show…cool idea. Then they bring in polar bears, Dharma, time travel, and all sorts of crazy sci-fi elements…I was loving that. In the end, they explain none of it. At the start of Season 6 they create this “side flash” storyline. The whole season everybody is wondering what that even means, but I think all of our heads were still more curious about the island. What was the black smoke? What’s really special about the island? We’re told this last season would “reveal all”, but it seemed to just keep stringing along this side flash plot-line. This all builds up to the final episode where all they do is close out the weird side flash storyline they created. How do they close it out? Oh, they’re just all dead no big deal. WHAT??!?!?!

I’m sitting there wondering :

• What is the purpose of that black smoke?
• How did EVERYONE else die? It’s not just Jack in that church, it’s everyone who appeared to escape on the plane too.
• How did man in black turn into the smoke monster instantly after being thrown into that well, and why?
• What were all the weird symbols and markings?
• Island moving? Time travel? Yeah none of that explained.
• Dharma Initiative? They started going into that hardcore I think the second season, and then just dropped it.
• How is Richard immortal, and then why is he mortal in the end?
• WTF is the light in the center of the island?

These are just questions that are coming off the top of my head. I thought it was awful to just end the finale with a 2 and a half hour reunion only to find out that they’re all united in death. Seriously…they’re all dead?

I feel like I wasted so much time on this show, anybody saying it was a great finale has become just to emotionally attached to all the characters that anything would seem good. Even them all…being…dead.

Except for Ben, but they don’t explain that either. He’s just chilling outside the church that’s in…purgatory? Earth? Where the hell are they that once they walk into a church they get to walk into heaven or wherever that white light leads?

Seriously people…you cannot be happy about this ending. If you are, you’ve been duped hard.

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After seeing Shoemoney’s post a while ago, I decided to get a Visa Black Card for the hell of it. Came home from a movie last night and saw this on my doorstep :

Pretty neat. Centurion card members can maybe post what holiday type gift they received from Amex (if any).

As far as the card goes itself, yeah it’s the poor man’s Centurion. Membership fees are $500/year (same as Amex Platinum), and the worst part is…the card is plastic. Point/cash-back wise, it’s no different than any other card really. Benefit wise, so far it doesn’t seem to really compare to the Amex.

A lot of times when I’m out at stores and use it, the cashier asks “Is this a real black card?” Unfortunately I always respond “Nope, this is the Visa version.”

All in all Visa thanks for the gift and all, but I will probably be canceling the card before the next membership charge.

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Larby made sure before the game that no matter what, I post the results. Someone was a little confident eh. I would be the Vikings, and the game trickled out with that score. We were in Miami and Larby wasn’t even his own home team. And it was my first time ever playing a PS3. Pwnt.

This is what affiliate marketers do for a living I guess.

Oh and I’m actually writing a legit post, probably be done with it today or tomorrow.

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