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I touched on John Chow the other day (so to speak) when I wrote about how much is your blog worth. John’s blog is one of the most popular on the net, and he gives invaluable advice for those wanting to make money on line.

So who is John Chow?

In his own words:

John Chow, a damn fine person, friend of the community, Ultimate Fighting Championship contestant, member of the Save the Whales Foundation, the man who controls the black market on baby seal pelts and member of the “probably yo’ daddy” foundation.

Consider yourself blessed to be reading his blog.

The above is his self-assesment joke. For a more realistic biography click here

Apart from blogging about the internet and money making oppurtunities, John also writes about his personal life and family. It’s always worth a read and he updates daily.

John’s also got this cool thing going where if you write a review of his site he will link to your own. Lots of new traffic from the daddy of blogging.

Enough to put you off your slam dunk…

I’ve just signed up with Payperpost, which I’ve read some rave reviews about. Their top earners have banked almost $10,000 from blogging about the things they love.

You earn from writing about web sites, products, services and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers.

We’ll see how it goes…

Compete claims to be the, “first social search solution leveraging community click-stream information to enhance search results.”

What does that mean?

Well, they say that they “provide free information for every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics; a list of available promotional codes across thousands of online retailers; and site-specific trust scores based on up-to-the-minute data from Compete and third party security services.”

Why didn’t they say that to begin with?

I keep reading a lot about Compete, so thought I’d check it out. I typed in the url of this site… and got this message, “Sorry, there is insufficent data to graph this metric. Please try again with a different domain.”

OK, I thought, it’s a new site, fair enough, so I entered the url of a domain six months old. Again, same message.
Head scratch. This hardly fulfills their promise of being able to, “provide free information for every site on the Internet.”

I know of a webmaster who boasts of 100,000 plus unique visitors a month. I checked his stats on Compete for last month - 13,798. I was going to email him a snapshot of the graph and stats, but having looked at forums and blog comments others are saying that the stats for their sites are also well off.

For now, I’ll be sticking with Alexa. Although Alexa is open to manipulation it updates regularly, and I found it has all the traffic rankings of a domain within a month of being online.

Just for his sheer audacity, I’d give him my spare change.

It is said that there are many hidden messages, codes and symbolism in bank notes and coins. Here, Brian Tracy talks us through some of them.

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Have you ever noticed how when you pay for something with your credit card and sign the receipt the cashier very rarely checks the signature? To prove what a lame excuse for a security measure the credit card signature is, the guys at Zug.com went to work with some crazy false signatures when signing their receipts. Each time they photographed the receipts, and never once did the cashier question it. They progressed from a simple X to celebrity names, to Egyptian hyroglyphics and just doodling silly pictures.

They even signed, “Please check ID,” and, “I stole this card.”

I promise you these red lines are perfectly straight.

Get a spirit level if you don’t believe me.

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson decided to go on a weekend camping trip.

At night, having had a nice hot cup of chocolate laced with brandy, they got into their sleeping bags. Sherlock Holmes looked up at the sky and said to Watson: “Tell me what you see Watson”.

“I can see millions of stars” replied Watson.

“And what does that tell you, Watson?” asked Holmes.

“It tells me that space is infinite, and that there are billions of Galaxies which could possibly contain life just like Earth. It also tells me that we have a very good chance of a beautiful day tomorrow. Tell me Holmes, With your great powers of deduction, what pray does it tell you”.

Holmes turned to Watson and said: “My dear Watson, some bastard has nicked our tent”.

I pulled my hamstring in training, boss, I’ll have to sit on the bench for the next game.