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		<title>PHP Country Code Array</title>
		<link>http://thisisnotajoke.com/2010/07/26/php-country-code-array/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent awhile searching for a PHP array of the 3 character country codes and name to use for a dropdown, but could not find one formatted well. So I did some VIM-fu with some PHP and here it is: array( "AND" => "Andorra", "ARE" => "United arab emirates", "AFG" => "Afghanistan", "ATG" => "Antigua [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I spent awhile searching for a PHP array of the 3 character country codes and name to use for a dropdown, but could not find one formatted well. So I did some VIM-fu with some PHP and here it is:<span id="more-246"></span><br />
<code></p>
<p>array(<br />
"AND" => "Andorra",<br />
"ARE" => "United arab emirates",<br />
"AFG" => "Afghanistan",<br />
"ATG" => "Antigua and barbuda",<br />
"ALB" => "Albania",<br />
"ARM" => "Armenia",<br />
"AGO" => "Angola",<br />
"ATA" => "Antarctica",<br />
"ARG" => "Argentina",<br />
"AUT" => "Austria",<br />
"AUS" => "Australia",<br />
"ABW" => "Aruba",<br />
"AZE" => "Azerbaijan",<br />
"BIH" => "Bosnia and herzegovina",<br />
"BRB" => "Barbados",<br />
"BGD" => "Bangladesh",<br />
"BEL" => "Belgium",<br />
"BFA" => "Burkina faso",<br />
"BGR" => "Bulgaria",<br />
"BHR" => "Bahrain",<br />
"BDI" => "Burundi",<br />
"BEN" => "Benin",<br />
"BMU" => "Bermuda",<br />
"BRN" => "Brunei darussalam",<br />
"BOL" => "Bolivia",<br />
"BRA" => "Brazil",<br />
"BHS" => "Bahamas",<br />
"BTN" => "Bhutan",<br />
"BWA" => "Botswana",<br />
"BLR" => "Belarus",<br />
"BLZ" => "Belize",<br />
"CAN" => "Canada",<br />
"COD" => "Congo, democratic republic of the",<br />
"CAF" => "Central african republic",<br />
"COG" => "Congo",<br />
"CHE" => "Switzerland",<br />
"CIV" => "Cote d'ivoire",<br />
"CHL" => "Chile",<br />
"CMR" => "Cameroon",<br />
"CHN" => "China",<br />
"COL" => "Colombia",<br />
"CRI" => "Costa rica",<br />
"CUB" => "Cuba",<br />
"CPV" => "Cape verde",<br />
"CYP" => "Cyprus",<br />
"CZE" => "Czech republic",<br />
"DEU" => "Germany",<br />
"DJI" => "Djibouti",<br />
"DNK" => "Denmark",<br />
"DMA" => "Dominica",<br />
"DOM" => "Dominican republic",<br />
"DZA" => "Algeria",<br />
"ECU" => "Ecuador",<br />
"EST" => "Estonia",<br />
"EGY" => "Egypt",<br />
"ESH" => "Western sahara",<br />
"ERI" => "Eritrea",<br />
"ESP" => "Spain",<br />
"ETH" => "Ethiopia",<br />
"FIN" => "Finland",<br />
"FJI" => "Fiji",<br />
"FSM" => "Micronesia, federated states of",<br />
"FRO" => "Faroe islands",<br />
"FRA" => "France",<br />
"GAB" => "Gabon",<br />
"GBR" => "United kingdom",<br />
"GRD" => "Grenada",<br />
"GEO" => "Georgia",<br />
"GUF" => "French guiana",<br />
"GHA" => "Ghana",<br />
"GMB" => "Gambia",<br />
"GIN" => "Guinea",<br />
"GLP" => "Guadeloupe",<br />
"GNQ" => "Equatorial guinea",<br />
"GRC" => "Greece",<br />
"GTM" => "Guatemala",<br />
"GNB" => "Guinea-bissau",<br />
"GUY" => "Guyana",<br />
"HND" => "Honduras",<br />
"HRV" => "Croatia",<br />
"HTI" => "Haiti",<br />
"HUN" => "Hungary",<br />
"IDN" => "Indonesia",<br />
"IRL" => "Ireland",<br />
"ISR" => "Israel",<br />
"IND" => "India",<br />
"IOT" => "British indian ocean territory",<br />
"IRQ" => "Iraq",<br />
"IRN" => "Iran, islamic republic of",<br />
"ISL" => "Iceland",<br />
"ITA" => "Italy",<br />
"JEY" => "Jersey",<br />
"JAM" => "Jamaica",<br />
"JOR" => "Jordan",<br />
"JPN" => "Japan",<br />
"KEN" => "Kenya",<br />
"KGZ" => "Kyrgyzstan",<br />
"KHM" => "Cambodia",<br />
"KIR" => "Kiribati",<br />
"COM" => "Comoros",<br />
"KNA" => "Saint kitts and nevis",<br />
"PRK" => "Korea, democratic people's republic of",<br />
"KOR" => "Korea, republic of",<br />
"KWT" => "Kuwait",<br />
"KAZ" => "Kazakhstan",<br />
"LAO" => "Lao people's democratic republic",<br />
"LBN" => "Lebanon",<br />
"LCA" => "Saint lucia",<br />
"LIE" => "Liechtenstein",<br />
"LKA" => "Sri lanka",<br />
"LBR" => "Liberia",<br />
"LSO" => "Lesotho",<br />
"LTU" => "Lithuania",<br />
"LUX" => "Luxembourg",<br />
"LVA" => "Latvia",<br />
"LBY" => "Libyan arab jamahiriya",<br />
"MAR" => "Morocco",<br />
"MCO" => "Monaco",<br />
"MDA" => "Moldova",<br />
"MNE" => "Montenegro",<br />
"MDG" => "Madagascar",<br />
"MKD" => "Macedonia, the former yugoslav republic of",<br />
"MLI" => "Mali",<br />
"MMR" => "Myanmar",<br />
"MNG" => "Mongolia",<br />
"MAC" => "Macau",<br />
"MTQ" => "Martinique",<br />
"MRT" => "Mauritania",<br />
"MSR" => "Montserrat",<br />
"MUS" => "Mauritius",<br />
"MDV" => "Maldives",<br />
"MWI" => "Malawi",<br />
"MEX" => "Mexico",<br />
"MYS" => "Malaysia",<br />
"MOZ" => "Mozambique",<br />
"NAM" => "Namibia",<br />
"NER" => "Niger",<br />
"NGA" => "Nigeria",<br />
"NIC" => "Nicaragua",<br />
"NLD" => "Netherlands",<br />
"NOR" => "Norway",<br />
"NPL" => "Nepal",<br />
"NZL" => "New zealand",<br />
"OMN" => "Oman",<br />
"PAN" => "Panama",<br />
"PER" => "Peru",<br />
"PNG" => "Papua new guinea",<br />
"PHL" => "Philippines",<br />
"PAK" => "Pakistan",<br />
"POL" => "Poland",<br />
"PSE" => "Palestinian territory",<br />
"PRT" => "Portugal",<br />
"PLW" => "Palau",<br />
"PRY" => "Paraguay",<br />
"QAT" => "Qatar",<br />
"REU" => "Reunion",<br />
"ROU" => "Romania",<br />
"SRB" => "Serbia",<br />
"RUS" => "Russian federation",<br />
"RWA" => "Rwanda",<br />
"SAU" => "Saudi arabia",<br />
"SLB" => "Solomon islands",<br />
"SYC" => "Seychelles",<br />
"SDN" => "Sudan",<br />
"SWE" => "Sweden",<br />
"SHN" => "Saint helena",<br />
"SVN" => "Slovenia",<br />
"SVK" => "Slovakia",<br />
"SLE" => "Sierra leone",<br />
"SMR" => "San marino",<br />
"SEN" => "Senegal",<br />
"SOM" => "Somalia",<br />
"SUR" => "Suriname",<br />
"STP" => "Sao tome and principe",<br />
"SLV" => "El salvador",<br />
"SYR" => "Syrian arab republic",<br />
"SWZ" => "Swaziland",<br />
"TCD" => "Chad",<br />
"ATF" => "French southern territories",<br />
"TGO" => "Togo",<br />
"THA" => "Thailand",<br />
"TJK" => "Tajikistan",<br />
"TLS" => "Timor-leste (east timor)",<br />
"TKM" => "Turkmenistan",<br />
"TUN" => "Tunisia",<br />
"TUR" => "Turkey",<br />
"TTO" => "Trinidad and tobago",<br />
"TWN" => "Taiwan, province of china",<br />
"TZA" => "Tanzania, united republic of",<br />
"UKR" => "Ukraine",<br />
"UGA" => "Uganda",<br />
"USA" => "United states",<br />
"URY" => "Uruguay",<br />
"UZB" => "Uzbekistan",<br />
"VCT" => "Saint vincent and the grenadines",<br />
"VEN" => "Venezuela",<br />
"VNM" => "Vietnam",<br />
"VUT" => "Vanuatu",<br />
"YEM" => "Yemen",<br />
"ZAF" => "South africa",<br />
"ZMB" => "Zambia",<br />
"ZWE" => "Zimbabwe",<br />
);</code></p>
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		<title>Rooted Froyo on Nexus One</title>
		<link>http://thisisnotajoke.com/2010/05/22/rooted-froyo-on-nexus-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, I already have Froyo (Android 2.2) running on my Nexus One. It is very easy to do even if you want to run a rooted non-stock version.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep, I already have Froyo (Android 2.2) running on my Nexus One. It is very easy to do even if you want to run a rooted non-stock version.</p>
<ol>
<li>Back the phone up. The upgrade process will wipe the entire phone. I use and recommend <a href="http://matrixrewriter.com/android/">Titanium Backup</a>. Run a full backup, everything important will be loaded onto your SD Card.</li>
<li>If you have not installed Cyanogen or some similar mod in the past, make sure you have the recovery loader installed. You must also unlock the phone and root it if you have not before. <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611829">How-To</a></li>
<li>Acquire the <a href="http://drop.io/froyo4N1/asset/froyo-zip">Froyo firmware</a> and the <a href="http://drop.io/froyo4N1/asset/froyo-rooter-signed-zip">Froyo Rooter</a>.</li>
<li>Put both zip files in the root of your SD card. To do this, you can mount the phone as a USB storage device.</li>
<li>Access the recovery loader by powering off the phone, and then powering on while holding the volume down button.</li>
<li>Go to the wipe section and use the &#8220;Wipe data/factory reset&#8221; option.</li>
<li>Install from zip first the main firmware and then the rooter.</li>
<li>Reboot and you are now running rooted Froyo!</li>
</ol>
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		<title>Facebook Censors ThePirateBay</title>
		<link>http://thisisnotajoke.com/2010/02/19/facebook-censors-thepiratebay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eli and I discovered that Facebook chat blocks all messages containing links to ThePirateBay as &#8220;abusive&#8221;.]]></description>
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<p>Eli and I discovered that Facebook chat blocks all messages containing links to ThePirateBay as &#8220;abusive&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Google Wave Testing</title>
		<link>http://thisisnotajoke.com/2009/10/20/google-wave-testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
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		<title>Unwanted Meat of Any Type is Spam</title>
		<link>http://thisisnotajoke.com/2009/10/07/unwanted-meat-of-any-type-is-spam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received this great email unsolicited recently. FROM: edwardturner.apps@gmail.com Mr. Kurt Nelson, I was just checking out your iPhone app in the App Store.  Congrats, looks pretty good. Happy with your sales so far? I&#8217;ve been working with some app developers the last few months, and I&#8217;ve learned that there&#8217;s two aspects that you need [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I received this great email unsolicited recently.</p>
<hr />
<p>FROM: edwardturner.apps@gmail.com</p>
<p>Mr. Kurt Nelson,</p>
<p>I was just checking out your iPhone app in the App Store.  Congrats, looks pretty good.</p>
<p>Happy with your sales so far?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been working with some app developers the last few months, and I&#8217;ve learned that there&#8217;s two aspects that you need to focus on to be really successful selling apps in iTunes.  I&#8217;d be happy to share what I&#8217;ve learned if you&#8217;re interested.  Just let me know and I&#8217;ll send you a quick overview.</p>
<p>Best of luck,<br />
Ed Turner</p>
<hr />
This is just the app store version of the billion SEO offers I get for my website. So I respond to see if the person on the other end has some intelligence.</p>
<hr />
<p>Mr. Ed Turner,</p>
<p>I was just checking to see how much you want to charge for your advice. Congrats on starting a scummy company to do this.</p>
<p>Happy with your results so far?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been working with some app developers the last few months, and I&#8217;ve learned that there&#8217;s two aspects that you need to focus on to be really successful selling products to them. I&#8217;d be happy to share what I&#8217;ve learned if you&#8217;re interested. Just let me know and I&#8217;ll send you a quick overview after charging you $397.</p>
<p>Kurt Nelson</p>
<hr />
<p>Mr. Kurt Nelson,</p>
<p>If you simply replied, &#8220;Sure, send me what you have&#8221;&#8230;you would have received a follow-up email with the summary I promised.  For FREE.  Sure, if you wanted me to implement the suggestions for you, I would have to charge for that.  But my initial advice was free.  I never said you&#8217;d have to pay me to get it.</p>
<p>Is your Company &#8220;scummy&#8221; because you charge for you App?  Please think before writing such a vicious reply from now on.  There are people out there willing to provide a little guidance for nothing in return.</p>
<p>Ed</p>
<p>P.S. Here&#8217;s the email you would have received:</p>
<p>Kurt,</p>
<p>First, I do offer a marketing service that helps iPhone App Developers.  However, the information I provide below and on the site I link to&#8230;that alone can give you a good base on how to improve your iPhone sales on your own.  If you think I can help you, great.  There&#8217;s obviously no obligation on your part for me sharing this knowledge.</p>
<p>Ok, the two aspects that you must focus on for marketing your iphone app are traffic and conversion.  By traffic, I mean getting people to learn about your app and sending them to your app page on iTunes.  Conversion is what happens when they arrive at your page in iTunes&#8230; they either buy, or they don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>What you need to do first is work on the conversion aspect.  You do this by optimizing everything that is on your app&#8217;s iTunes product page.  Mostly, we&#8217;re talking about the description.  In marketing speak, this is called &#8220;copy&#8221;.  You need highly persuasive copy that convinces the visitor to click the buy button (as opposed to clicking the back button and leaving).</p>
<p>Your app&#8217;s copy must be more than a standard &#8220;description&#8221; in order to be successful.  Rather than focus on specific features of the app, you should try to describe how the app will benefit the user.  Most non-games can use &#8220;benefits&#8221; rather than features and receive a strong boost in conversion.  However, there&#8217;s another trick I like to use when writing copy for an iphone app&#8230;</p>
<p>Write the copy so that the user can actually &#8220;experience&#8221; themselves using the app.  Put them in a mental state of mind where they can visualize themselves using the app.  I know, easier said than done&#8230; but it is highly effective!  This technique is awesome for game apps too!</p>
<p>The second aspect is traffic.  How do you allow people to learn about your app and get them to your app&#8217;s iTunes product page?  There are many methods, but the best method is a well crafted press release that is sent to a list of websites and blogs that often review iphone apps.  I&#8217;ve been compiling a list of my own (117 quality sites so far).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important that you don&#8217;t try to send a boiler-plate press release and expect results.  You need to use some of the same techniques I talked about in regards to persuasive copy to get these site owners and bloggers to want to write about your app.</p>
<p>If you want a big boost in sales, this is what you need to do.</p>
<p>Not everyone is skilled at writing persuasive marketing copy.  I offer a fairly affordable service, and I can do it all for you.  Check out the complete details here:</p>
<p>http://www.mobile-app-marketing-makeover.com</p>
<p>All the best,<br />
Ed
</p>
<hr />
<p>I sell products too you know, but I don&#8217;t send out emails to everyone in the app store offering to sell my products to them under the guise of advice. So, Mr. Turner, you are still a spammer, just instead of selling me Viagra you are selling a slightly more useful product.</p>
<p>His twitter account is <a href="http://twitter.com/edwardturner">http://twitter.com/edwardturner</a> and his facebook profile is <a href="http://www.facebook.com/edward.turner">http://www.facebook.com/edward.turner</a> so you can go investigate yourself.</p>
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		<title>Virtual Private Server</title>
		<link>http://thisisnotajoke.com/2008/05/31/virtual-private-server/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I now own a virtual private server with cPanel and centOS powering it. All of my hosting customers are being moved to it. With it, I hope to provide speedier support and higher customization available. The server has 512MB of RAM, and 3 dedicated IP addresses. Also comes the ability for me to now vend [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I now own a virtual private server with cPanel and centOS powering it. All of my hosting customers are being moved to it. With it, I hope to provide speedier support and higher customization available. The server has 512MB of RAM, and 3 dedicated IP addresses. Also comes the ability for me to now vend reseller accounts which allow unlimited, seperate domains under them, each with their own cPanel.</p>
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		<title>jPPP Moved to Google Code</title>
		<link>http://thisisnotajoke.com/2008/04/08/jppp-moved-to-google-code/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[jPPP has been moved to google code to gain a repository]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jPPP now has a repository along with forthcoming documentation. All releases will now be downloaded at <a title="http://code.google.com/p/javappp/" href="http://code.google.com/p/javappp/">http://code.google.com/p/javappp/</a> The most up-to-date version is in a zip file in the main repository. jPPP now matches with the codes coming off of the GRC website.</p>
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		<title>Typepad -&gt; WordPress Migration Assistant</title>
		<link>http://thisisnotajoke.com/2008/03/31/typepad-wordpress-migration-assistant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New script to change your wordpress post slugs to typepad format.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While helping a client migrate his blog from Typepad to WordPress, the most tedious part was updating the post slugs to keep old links intact. I wrote a script that will go through all WordPress posts, and change their slugs to typepad format. This  can be combined with the forward old slugs plugin to keep old links intact, while still using WordPress&#8217;s much cleaner URLs. The script is available on my <a href="http://dowloads.thisisnotajoke.com/fixSlugs.txt">download</a> page or can be bought with a donation through my store.</p>
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		<title>Messing With Spammers</title>
		<link>http://thisisnotajoke.com/2008/02/27/messing-with-spammers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting here on IM bothering no one when I see "sanjeev0907@gmail.com wishes to chat with you" I accept it because why not?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was sitting here on IM bothering no one when I see &#8220;<a href="mailto:sanjeev0907@gmail.com" target="_blank">sanjeev0907@gmail.com</a> wishes to chat with you&#8221; I accept it because why not?</p>
<p>3:27 PM sanjeev0907: Hi</p>
<p>me: hi</p>
<p>sanjeev0907: How are you doing</p>
<p>me: fine&#8230;</p>
<p>sanjeev0907: Well my naame is sanjeev</p>
<p>3:28 PM An SEO expert</p>
<p>me: oh great.</p>
<p>I thought this was someone I know</p>
<p>3:30 PM what company are you with?</p>
<p>sanjeev0907: I can increase traffic and ranking on search engines</p>
<p>Clearpath</p>
<p>Clearpath Technology</p>
<p>me: and how much does this stuff cost?</p>
<p>sanjeev0907: It depends on website</p>
<p>3:31 PM we have different packages</p>
<p>USD250 30 keywords</p>
<p>me: for you to come up with a list of useless words?</p>
<p>sanjeev0907: Not useless</p>
<p>Keywords do miracle</p>
<p>3:32 PM me: then how far up can you get my site?</p>
<p>sanjeev0907: it makes your website to reach to 100s</p>
<p>First page on all search engines</p>
<p>Google Yahoo MSN</p>
<p>with best traffic</p>
<p>3:33 PM me: well first off, I know how to do that my self. second, there is no way to guarentee such a thing. third off, you have not done much research, because I have the first result in google for my most important terms already.</p>
<p>sanjeev0907: all right</p>
<p>3:34 PM i know you must have the keywords on first page</p>
<p>Can you please tell me once more your web site name</p>
<p>me: hah. great marketing!</p>
<p>please remove me from your list. SEO is junk, and I can do it myself. This is an unsolicited commercial message, and is thus considered spam and is illegal per the Can Spam Act. I will be reporting your gmail account, and will be spreading the word on how your company uses these tactics.</p>
<p>3:35 PM This conversation has been recorded, and will be posted all over the web to make a fool of your company.</p>
<p>sanjeev0907: Well i have not tried to make fool of you niether i want to sale any thing you show interest</p>
<p>3:36 PM once haad replied to my executive that is why iadded you today</p>
<p>me: nope. some form of spam.</p>
<p>sanjeev0907: otherwise i can understand how intelligent you are</p>
<p>No!1</p>
<p>No spam</p>
<p>I am a real person you can call me</p>
<p>3:37 PM My name is sanjeev sharma</p>
<p>919911576171</p>
<p>me: Can I have your company information to verify if it exists?</p>
<p>sanjeev0907: yes</p>
<p><a href="http://www.clearpathtechnology.com">www.clearpathtechnology.com</a></p>
<p>but please first i would lik to see your website</p>
<p>me: Thank you. I will be reporting them to the BBB. I will now block you.</p>
<p>Thanks for providing entertainment Sanjeev! Little does he know I already have the first result in google for my name, and that he spilled to me the list of emails for all his contacts!</p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Open Now?</title>
		<link>http://thisisnotajoke.com/2008/02/14/whats-open-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What programs do I currently have running?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have these programs open right now:</p>
<ul>
<li>Excel Data Chart</li>
<li>3 Word Documents</li>
<li>A PDF</li>
<li>IM Window</li>
<li>Second Life</li>
<li>Firefox</li>
<li>SJPhone</li>
<li>Skype</li>
<li>Mozy</li>
<li>Thunderbird</li>
<li>iTunes</li>
<li>Last.FM</li>
</ul>
<p>What do you have open?</p>
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