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Do you own a site or blog? (perhaps several?) If so, do you currently employ a means of earning money with your site or blog? If not, sorry, but you’re crazy!

Make money online with your site or blog, with LinkWorth.com

What is LinkWorth.com, you ask?

LinkWorth.com provides search engine marketing, text link advertising, and more. LinkWorth will enable you to earn money online with your site, by providing a ‘meeting ground’; so to speak, for website owners and advertisers.

They have several very creative and innovative ways to get your site out there, for you advertisers. As for website owners, and trust me on this, advertisers just eat these up. I’ve been a member of LinkWorth for a while now, and I must say I am very pleased.

As quoted from their website, they offer the following products:

The ability to offer different product options is something very important to us. With LinkWorth being the original text link advertising portal of it’s kind, we have realized that only those who continue to keep up with technology will be able to provide the perfect solutions advertisers need. During our short but very successful year of business, we have been able to add two new products to our system giving advertisers three (3) products to choose from. All of our products revolve around contextual link advertising but each use a different technology. Our three (3) products are traditional text link ads, billboard link ads and rotating text link ads.

Traditional Text Link Ads

The most common product, along with our flagship product, is the traditional text link ad. This is a simple keyword used as the anchor text (text actually linked), the hyperlink which directs the user to your website and a description explaining what the ad is referring to. These text ads are placed on as many partner websites as possible in the home page, an internal page or even on every page of the partner website. These links will draw traffic from this partner website along with building link popularity. Read more on text link ads…

Billboard Link Ads

Our new popular product is the billboard ads. Think of it much like a billboard on the side of a road. It is a complete page of content written by the advertiser and hosted on a partner website. A link is placed on the partner website which points to the billboard page uploaded to the partner website. Then the billboard containing all of the content will direct the user to advertiser websites. Billboard ads create relevancy when relevance does not exist, along with increasing relevant content on a site that has relevancy. It’s a win/win solution. Read more on billboard link ads …

Rotating Text Link Ads

Rather than placing one text ad with one keyword on a partner site, we now have the solution to provide a list of your top keywords on one single text link ad. The partner places the code on their website in the desired location and every time the page is viewed, the anchor text / keyword will rotate to the next keyword in the list. This gives advertisers the ability to launch an arsenal of keywords on one given website. Read more on rotating text ads …

LinkWords - In-Text Ads

Welcome LinkWorth’s newest product to our family; LinkWords! LinkWords is sort of a mixture of our bread and butter LinkAds, but with a twist. This type of ad is strictly directed at bringing targeted traffic to the advertiser. This dynamic ad software will read a pre-determined block of text, decided by the partner, and decipher targeted keywords for the theme of the given website. LinkWords will then query our database of advertisers and match these keywords with advertisements setup in our system. The matched keywords will then be double underlined and with a simple mouseover, a tooltip window will appear showing the advertisers ad. If clicked, it will direct the user to the advertisers website and a moving the mouse off of the tooltip will cause it to disappear. Read more on LinkWords …

What are YOU waiting for??

Head on over to LinkWorth, and start making money with your site or blog NOW! You will NOT regret it. You will LOVE LinkWorth!

Just terrible. My prayers out to the victims, their friends, and their family.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, in a classroom across campus Monday, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, government officials told The Associated Press. The gunman was killed, bringing the death toll to 31.

“Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” said Virginia Tech president Charles Steger. “The university is shocked and indeed horrified.”

It was not immediately clear whether the gunman was shot by police or took his own life. His name was not released, and investigators offered no motive for the attack. It was not known if the gunman was a student.

The shootings spread panic and confusion on campus, with students complaining that the university did not warn them about the first burst of gunfire until more than two hours later.

Witnesses reporting students jumping out the windows of a classroom building to escape the gunfire. SWAT team members with helmets, flak jackets and assault rifles swarmed over the campus. Students and faculty members carried out some of the wounded themselves, without waiting for ambulances to arrive.

The massacre took place at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory that houses 895 people, and continuing at least two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building about a half-mile away, authorities said.

Police said they were still investigating the shooting at the dorm when they got word of gunfire at the classroom building.

Some students bitterly questioned why the gunman was able to strike a second time, two hours after the bloodshed began.

“What happened today this was ridiculous. And I don’t know what happened or what was going through this guy’s mind,” student Jason Piatt told CNN. “But I’m pretty outraged and I’ll say on the record I’m pretty outraged that someone died in a shooting in a dorm at 7 o’clock in the morning and the first e-mail about it - no mention of locking down campus, no mention of canceling classes - they just mention that they’re investigating a shooting two hours later at 9:22.”

He added: “That’s pretty ridiculous and meanwhile, while they’re sending out that e-mail, 22 more people got killed.”

FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in Washington said there was no evidence to suggest it was a terrorist attack, “but all avenues will be explored.”

Up until Monday, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was in Killeen, Texas, in 1991, when George Hennard drove his pickup into a Luby’s Cafeteria and shot 23 people to death, then himself.

The massacre Monday took place almost eight years to the day after the Columbine High bloodbath near Littleton, Colo. On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

Previously, the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history was a rampage that took place in 1966 at the University of Texas at Austin, where Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower and opened fire with a rifle from the 28th-floor observation deck. He killed 16 people before he was shot to death by police.

Founded in 1872, Virginia Tech is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, about 160 miles west of Richmond. With more than 25,000 full-time students, it has the state’s largest full-time student population. The school is best known for its engineering school and its powerhouse Hokies football team.

The rampage took place on a brisk spring day, with snow flurries swirling around the campus. The campus is centered around the Drill Field, a grassy field where military cadets - who now represent a fraction of the student body - once practiced. The dorm and the classroom building are on opposites sides of the Drill Field.

A gasp could be heard at a campus news conference when Virginia Tech Police Chief W.R. Flinchum said at least 20 people had been killed. Previously, only one person was thought to have been killed.

Investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began marking and recovering the large number of shell casings and will trace the weapon used, authorities said.

A White House spokesman said
President Bush was horrified by the rampage and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia.

“The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed,” spokeswoman Dana Perino said

After the shootings, all entrances to the campus were closed, and classes were canceled through Tuesday. The university set up a meeting place for families to reunite with their children. It also made counselors available and planned an assembly for Tuesday at the basketball arena.

After the shooting began, students were told to stay inside away from the windows.

Aimee Kanode, a freshman from Martinsville, said the shooting happened on the fourth floor of West Ambler Johnston dormitory, one floor above her room. Kanode’s resident assistant knocked on her door about 8 a.m. to notify students to stay put.

“They had us under lockdown,” Kanode said. “They temporarily lifted the lockdown, the gunman shot again.”

“We’re all locked in our dorms surfing the Internet trying to figure out what’s going on,” Kanode said.

Maurice Hiller, 21, a mechanical engineering student from Richmond, saw police and SWAT team members with guns drawn going toward Norris Hall. “This is something just totally beyond anybody’s expectations,” he said.

Police said there had been bomb threats on campus over the past two weeks by authorities but said they have not determined a link to the shootings.

It was second time in less than a year that the campus was closed because of a shooting.

Last August, the opening day of classes was canceled and the campus closed when an escaped jail inmate allegedly killed a hospital guard off campus and fled to the Tech area. A sheriff’s deputy involved in the manhunt was killed on a trail just off campus. The accused gunman, William Morva, faces capital murder charges.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/virginia_tech_shooting;_ylt=AulCBHGZMPBXDoN6q2DjjJWm1OFF

Hello everyone!

Many of you who visit my site come for my open source project Domain Name Portfolio. For the past 6 months or so, you all have been waiting on me to release Version 0.5.0.

I have some big news regarding the future of Domain Name Portfolio. It’s home will change, it will soon be DomainPortfolio.us. The site will be completed, and launched, once Version 0.5.0 of the script is ready.

What changes have been made to Domain Name Portfolio so far?

• Improved the is_valid_email function.
• Improved the sanitize function.
• sanitize() function calls cleaned up. There was no need to specify ‘true’ as a 2nd parameter (for stripping \r\n). As it defaults to true.
• Changed ver_check function to only grab the latest version, not do an actual check against the current & latest versions. Both latest version and currently installed version are shown in admin.
• clean() on $_POST vars etc removed. The value is now passed to clean() via the sanitize() function.
• The iif function introduced in 0.4.2 deprecated. No longer used.
• Removed the ‘img’ folder.
• Renamed several folders and files:
  ‘inc’ => ‘includes’,
  ‘tpl’ => ‘templates’,
  ‘funcs.php’ => ‘functions.php’,
  ‘funcs_admin.php’ => ‘functions_admin.php’,
  and several others
• Changed url params for pagination/sort:
  ‘p’ => ‘page’,
  ’s’ => ’sort’
• ‘atomic’ font replaced with ‘rubbfont’ for captcha.
• Added ordering of domains in admin..like it is on main index.
• Added a new database field - ‘issite’. Setting this to yes when adding or editing a domain, will cause it to be linked on the index & search pages.
• Added a new database field - ‘description’ for both domains and categories. Which will allow you to give a domain or category a description.
• You can now add domains in bulk!
• You now have categories!
• You now have search!
• Both the ‘blue’ and ‘default’ templates are gone.
• The editing/deleting of domains/categories share the same files using ‘modes’ (edit.php & delete.php).
• Optimized code.
• Added a referer check on POSTs
• If your server does not support GD, or has freetype, you’ll see this image on the contact form:
  
• Revamped Installer
• Changed table structure of config, and how it is handled
• Added a custom error handler
• Improved MySQL Database class
• All files are now in *nix format, using tabs - no more tabs to spaces (sorry windows users)
• Improved template class.
• Code cleanup (Laziness of using the ternary operator mostly; in cases where an if statement would be easier to read/follow).

0.5.0 promises to be the best yet, you all will love it

Stay tuned.

Wordpress recently updated (and this blog updated to the latest version, 2.1.3)

We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.

These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release.

As an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again.

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