A quick and somewhat unusual request for today…

If you have a copy of “Are We Living in the End Times” (by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins) in Polish and would be willing to either give or sell it to me, could you please either leave a comment on this blog post with your contact information (I won’t approve the post, so nobody but me will see it) or contact me via my help desk at ProtectorSupport.com?

I have a copy of the book in English but would like to have a copy of the Polish translation, if it exists. I know that many of their other books have been translated into Polish (I have the Polish version of one of the books from the “Left Behind” series sitting on my desk as I type this) but can’t seem to find this one.

Any help you might be able to give would be greatly appreciated.

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Experimenting With Blog Post Titles And Permalinks

by Administrator on January 20, 2010

I’ve decided to try a new experiment for my blog posts. Normally, I get an idea that I want to write about and I’ll use that idea as the Title of the post. However, as I write, I usually end up editing the title ever so slightly.

As a result, by the time I’m done with the post, I have to go back and change the “permalink” box (between the Title and Body of the post) before I actually Publish the post (I’m talking about WordPress here…).

So this time, I didn’t enter a Title before I started typing but will go back and add one just before I publish. My goal? To see if I have to edit the Permalink if I wait until the end to enter the title.

Right now, I don’t see the title of the post in the Permalink, so I’m going to go back and add it, then type a bit more here and hit “Publish”…

All right. The title has now been entered — and I don’t see the Permalink changing. Ugh.

WordPress, there’s a nice feature to add. Instead of setting the Permalink as soon as somebody starts hacking away at a post, why not wait until the post is published before setting it (or at least the part where the Permalink inserts the title of the blog post — if the person has chosen to use this as part of their Permalink)?

Just an idea… And this post shall not have the Title in the Permalink.

UPDATE: It did work! WordPress did add my Title when I hit the “Publish” button. So there’s a new tactic to add to your arsenal; don’t enter your final post Title until you are actually ready to publish and know what you want it to be. That way, your Title and Permalink will match (unless you want them to NOT match…).

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Can You Turn A Distraction Into A Motivator?

January 15, 2010

I found another one of those “obfuscated” scripts today while troubleshooting some stuff. Unlike most that just use those “cheap encryptors” that are a dime a dozen and can be found all over the Internet, this one is extremely elegant and complex, and I soon found myself totally immersed in trying to crack the algorithm. [...]

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Why (and how) I Use My Own Link Shortening Script

January 14, 2010

I recently switched to the Thesis blog theme for all of my blogs. It’s a paid theme, but it’s easy to use, there’s lots of support and help for it, and I like the nice, clean look.
Even though I have the Developer version and am allowed to remove the attribution footer, I choose to leave [...]

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Marketing Messages And Not-So-Superlative Superlatives

January 10, 2010

If you are not marketing online with video, then you are not really marketing at all.
Ah, I love my Inbox. Thanks to it, I never lack for things to blog about!
First off, let’s blast the above quote out of the water. If my target market is the blind, video marketing is pretty [...]

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The Nerve Of Some People!

January 5, 2010

The opinions expressed in this post are my own. They are based on actual events that happened. Some of what is written is my own, subjective, and personal reaction to those events.
I needed help with a product that I had purchased from Joe Cooper (of 1AffiliateSite.com) some time back. Every contact / support link given [...]

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Marketing Things That Make You Go “Huh?”, Part 27

January 2, 2010

(HINT: Don’t bother looking for the first 26 parts… )
I just received an email from a marketer who said that a reply was mandatory because he needed to know how many comment spots he should reserve on his blog for his next blog post.
Awwwww……
Some kind of new scarcity tactic to get me to [...]

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New Decade? Not Quite So Fast!

January 1, 2010

Like me, you’ve undoubtedly seen many articles that are attempting to not only label the first decade of the 21st Century (I like “The Oughts” the best) — they are trying to wrap up and summarize the decade.
There’s just one tiny little problem: The decade isn’t over yet. The first decade of the 21 century, [...]

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Internet Marketing: Random Thoughts

December 30, 2009

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): Internet Marketing is NOT my focus right now. I have another project that I’m deeply involved in that has my focus. But regardless of where I’m focused, I actually enjoy Internet Marketing and running a home-based business and will eventually return to it with the intent of creating an income [...]

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The Kind Of Membership Site You Want To Join

December 26, 2009

I’ve been a member of Dennis Becker’s "Earn 1K A Day" Membership Site for some time now. Even though almost all of my work is currently focused on something other than the kind of online business that Dennis teaches, I have remained a member and have no plans of quitting. And something he did today [...]

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