articlemarketingautomation.com is closed

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Here is what I got from google cache:

Why did we close the doors?

It’s simple. AMA still works. Google are targeting networks which confirms one thing. Networks work. And they work too well. But this targeting, it’s being done by manual intervention.

Our first priority, is to protect the network, and how that network works. We’ll improve how our system works. We’ll tighten our belts. We were the first, and we’ll likely be the last. But understand one thing.

If AMA does go the way of the dodo, we’ll man up and tell you. To any networks that are still running, grow some balls and be honest.


新奥尔良

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Big Easy, 美酒，佳肴，喧闹的波旁街，优雅的建筑，静处一隅的花园区，死一般静寂的圣路易斯公墓，这些，都还不是新奥尔良的全部。

犹如饮一盅百年的佳酿，你需要慢慢去品味，你还需要时间，去细想它种种的妙味。

如果你去过美国很多的城市，为它们来去匆匆的人群和似曾相识的食物而倍感单调，你一定要去新奥尔良。

如果你所去的目的不外乎是几顿新奇的美味，和法式西（班牙）式的建筑，新奥尔良难免会让你失望。但你若是敞开心扉让新奥尔良去浸润，就像微雨轻洒在油纸上，你会发现，你竟会慢慢消融在这座城市里。

阳光下的新奥尔良固然有她的艳丽，可我觉得阴霾下、细雨中的BIG EASY却是美妙无比。撑一把伞，走在也许有些破旧的街道上，最好是在花园区长长的街巷里，有百年的古橡树从街道两旁伸出枝来，是天然的绿色走廊。缀以南方特有的Spanish Moth，古树有如在烟幕中，神秘而忧伤。当你沉静在这刹那的伤感中时，远处教堂的钟声，有时是游船上汽笛的乐音，会慢慢地把你唤回现实。

 这就是新奥尔良，一切似乎都充满矛盾，却又彼此消融。当你正为一根电线竿上被各种广告钉得千疮百孔不堪入目而蹙眉时，眼前却突然一亮，嵌花的金属阳台围栏上，各色盆载花卉争奇斗艳，垂下的藤蔓在风中优雅摇曳。当你厌倦于波旁街的攘攘人流时，花园区为你准备了清寂，或者干脆向西北走走，墓区的独特风景，悬棺，还有精致与颓败的墓冢之交相杂陈，也许更让人流连。

在入住的Royal街假日酒店旁，坐在驾驶座等人。旁边，街对面，是一个新奥尔良的流浪汉。在新奥尔良，我遇到过好多个这样的流浪汉，但这么近距离地观察他们，却是第一次。他就这么悠闲地抽着烟，啜着旁边的可乐，眼神悠然凝望远方的天空，时而又回过头来看着街道上熙来攘往的人群。我把他作为新奥尔良的一道风景，但显然，我也是他欣赏中的一道风景中的一个。因为有几次，我们有过眼光的交接，我们彼此都没有惊讶，也没有有意的回避。他的目光是悠然从容的，那是一种取舍之后、大智慧中孕育的从容不迫，让我相信，流浪，是一种生活方式。我们这些为俗利奔波的游客，何曾有过如此悠然的时光，享受身心的静谧？

Tips for the holiday

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Here are some holiday tips I got from a seminar as holiday tradition in my place of work:

1. Health:

Juice into next year (Joe): jack la lanne Juice machine-around $100 US

walking: the best

stretching: some strength is important

Hiking: take to the woods

meditation helps training

*Watch Dan Buettner’s TED talk about how to live to be 100+.  Good health advice.

2. Family activities

Baking/cooking holiday treats

Family Movies: “It’s a wonderful life”

3. Books to recommend:
“Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease” and “The China Study” – Quoting from pf the colleages: “my only regret is I did not read these book a long time ago.
Learn to run (walk) by John Stanton

use the book “Juicing for Life” (Calbom, Keane) as a reference.  They really explain the benefits well and have some recipes for specific conditions.

Cannot upload photos from WordPress app?

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It failed me from both n900 and touchpad.

Will try this out per WordPress suggestions:

I can’t upload photos/videos, I get a “Failed” error message. What do I need to do?

If you’re running WordPress 2.9.2 or later please be sure to add the following lines to your root .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 128M
php_value upload_max_filesize 128M
php_value post_max_size 128M
php_value max_execution_time 120

Geocaching

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This is our second trip, but the 2nd and 3rd caches. Dahlonega,  once the first gold rush town, is a small and quiet lumpkin county seat, now is full with holiday spirit. We visited gold museum, visitor center and heard Christmas carol from a chocolate shop.

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Touchpad: first impressions

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While Ipad 2 is so light and slim, HP’s touchpad is even thicker than ipad1 with no rear camera and tried to sell at the same price with very few apps, no wonder this thing did not fly.

That said, the webOS multitasking is very impressive. I do like its email program better than any smartphones and tablets. I am expecting being a professional rather than consumer tablet, its Quickoffice should work like a charm. But so far I’m a bit disappointed. the virtual keyboard is really nice, by the way.

P. S.: after I posted this via touchpad s WordPress app, I am surprised to find the post was lost. It did not show up on my blog! After some digging after I logged into my blog via web browser, I finally found this baby. Fortunately it did not get lost. You know what, when I published this post using touchpad WordPress app, it got published on 1999. I have to search my posts using keyword touch to dig this post out via web ui.