In a clear sign that the “American Way” is to defer payments, American Airlines now has a Buy Now, Pay Later scheme for purchasing airline tickets. I thought you could only do that on a couch or television purchase.
tags: american airlines, credit, defer, finance, pay later

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I am sure there is going to be some yahoo that reads this and gets pissed that I even used a title like that, but what they heck. Based on my experiences in life it certainly seems to me that there is a large percentage (more than a majority) of people in this beautiful […]

Ok, more proof that the internet is helping to make many businesses and products into commodities. I recently found someone who was doing logo work for $10. Plus, he will do some revisions for you for that same dollar amount. Many people I know pay a few hundred bucks to get a new logo […]

Fair Isaac? Who is that? Well, let’s try it this way. Do you know what a FICO score is? FICO stands for Fair Isaac Corporation. They are the people behind the biggest scam in the US economy today. I call it a scam because nobody outside of the company knows exactly how the scores […]

If your inbox is feeling a little lighter today, it may be due to the fact that one of the world’s largest suspected email spammers was busted. Apparently home boy is going away for a long time if convicted.
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Now that the dust has settled from the Google infrastructure update of last year (I don’t like to use the stupid names people give these things), it certainly appears that the TLD (Top Level Domain) name that you are using may play more of an important role than ever. I have seen a lot […]

In case you live in a cave, Google updated the Page Rank they show in the toolbar last week. More green for me. If you are looking for domains that have page rank and are “seasoned” you should drop me a line. I have a few that I am looking to get rid of. […]

Well, I noticed that a bot named MSRBot was grabbing a lot of pages from one of my sites just now and since I have not really frequented any search engine forums lately I didn’t know what it was. Turns out it is Microsoft’s Research Bot. Upon further inspection I noticed that the information […]

All of us geeks have had to deal with AOL at one time or another in our lifetimes on line. Either we installed AOL back in the day to make sure one or more of our sites were compatible with the AOL browser or we have had to deal with users and clients who could […]

I am pretty much a rookie when it comes to server administration. But, I did just make a few changes that the box that runs this, and a few hundred other, sites. It is a dedicated linux box with a P4 processor and a gig of RAM. I just read through this “Optimizing MySQL” tutorial […]

Well, this is not going to be much of a case study, but I did just notice something kinda funny. Jeremy named his retreat on December 18th, the Elite Retreat. So, remembering it was coming up, I did a little reading tonight on the Shoemoney site and figured I would see how they are […]

Well, I am not sure that paradox is the right word to use, but I was just looking at some rankings in the DP Keyword Tool and had to laugh. You see, I have not really worked at getting anything to rank for anything in the past 3 to 6 months. Well, I mean to […]

I just had one of those moments where you think eBay could be the coolest thing ever to happen to this world. What I purchased is not necessarlity earth shattering, but the whole experience was so good that I want to recommend someone to call if you are looking for used LaserJet 4000 printers, […]

Ok, so I rely heavily on email…shocker. Just about every industry does these days. Email is fast, efficient and something you can send and receive just about anywhere if you are enough of a geek. So, what happens when you use Gmail to relay your email, clean up your spam and provide web based access […]

Ok, here is a little tip for all of you people out there who are either 1) paying for AOL STILL 2) trying to mask who you are by using TOR/Privoxy or at least some kind of web proxy. I have run into a little bit of a snaggle lately spamming my favorite website. […]

Well, thanks for all of the people that have been checking in with me via email, IM and the like. Obviously, I have not been posting here much recently and talking about all of the geekery and SEO nonsense. This is not to say thta I am not still working on some SEO stuff, it […]

I decided yesterday to sell a large number of domains that I have had parked for a long time and have .edu links pointing to them among others. Most of these domains are currently showing PR up to PR6. Some do not show PR, but get a new cache date every few days. These […]

In case anyone cares, Craigslist appears to update around every 15 minutes for the sections that I am monitoring. It does not happen exactly on the 15’s, but it is pretty close.
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