Harry Potter Spoilerama

Annoying plot points:

Why would Voldemort leave his last remaining Horcrux so vulnerable that the near-squib Neville Longbottom could kill it with a single blow while his head was on fire?
After protecting the locket Horcrux with so many spells, enchantments, ghouls, ghosts, poisons and charms (not to mention on an island in the middle of a […]

How They Built the Pyramids

First, they asked for money.
A funny thing happens if you google “massive internet crash”.

A Massive Tragedy

Say it ain’t so!!

You Don’t Watch Enough TV

Someone told you to get a life and you took them seriously?
Many advertisers are switching their ad dollars to the internet (that’s here, for those of you not paying attention). Here, they have a lot more flexibility in the way they spend and target their spending. Many of them still aim at a […]

Where Did The Amazon Ads Go?

I used to carry Amazon ads on this site, but now I don’t. Why not?
One of my readers informed me that he had ordered two books through the link on my site. Naturally, I was very pleased at the news. However, when I later checked my daily report, it showed only one […]

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

How big does your purse have to be to carry a coin that’s 20 inches in diameter and an inch thick? How strong does your back have to be when it weighs 220 pounds?
With a face value of $1 million, we should soon be able to buy our houses from a vending machine (but […]

Playfair Given Too Much Credit

Sure, he invented the pie chart. But, he could never have done that unless someone else had first invented the pie. Truly, he stood on the shoulders of giants.
Why am I not surprised that the guy who invented graphical representation of economic data was a con man?

Speaking of Domain Names

I recently went through the process of setting up a couple of websites (including this one). I thought registering the domain name would be a piece of cake. I was wrong. I wish I had read this first. It would have saved me a lot of trouble.
I had the name that […]

Followup To An Earlier Post

I asked some of you to check out this site:

Did any of you sign up? Did you write anything for them? What was the result? Did you make any money?
If you looked and didn’t sign up, why not? Did they want too much information? Were there too many hurdles that […]

Have Any of You tried This Site

I’m genuinely curious. I’ve checked it out. I’ve seen who gets the money.
Guess what?
I know my readers can do better. They are better writers, on more interesting topics, with a more original point of view.
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So, there’s a challenge for you. Are you up to it?

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