Manchester United Poker Contest

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Carlo

Manchester United Poker Contest - Betfair Premier CupBetfair, official sponsors of Manchester United are providing prizes for the Betfair Premier Cup. This is a Manchester United Poker Contest running on Poker Table Ratings for die-hard Manchester United fans!

Weekly winners win great prizes and there are two monthly grand prizes up for grabs for you die hard fans!

Manchester United Poker Contest

Play today and win great prizes, by simply playing in the Manchester United Poker Contest, the Betfair Premier Cup!

Win a signed Manchester United jersey in the Manchester United Poker ContestWin a VIP Manchester United tickets in the Manchester United Poker Contest

The poker contest is underway, but there are still 5 more weeks to enter and win fantastic prizes as well as two grand prizes. Prizes include a signed Manchester United shirt and a VIP trip to Manchester in England to see Manchester United play Sunderland at Old Trafford, with VIP box seats and a VIP meal with 5 star hospitality.

Manchester United are the current defending English Premier League champions and are top of the English Premier League ahead of their city rivals. Owning a signed jersey is like owning a piece of history and that ‘s exactly what you can win in this poker contest!

Also up for grabs is a chance to see Manchester United play against Sunderland, at Man Utd’s home ground. The lucky winners will experience VIP hospitality, a pre-game meal and seats for two in a premium/superstar VIP box. You’ll be sitting amongst 75,000 other screaming, passionate, die hard Manchester United fans. Three points for this win will go a long way to helping Manchester United defend their premier league glory!

Also up for grabs in the contest are weekly prizes, including:

  1. First prize – the choice of an iPad or a Samsung laptop
  2. Second Prize – the choice of a PS3 or Beats by Dre headphones
  3. Third prize – a Reebok sports bag

So far, the prizes have been easy to win and not a lot of people are entering so there are great opportunities to be had. All you have to do is play a simple and fun game of poker! Play today in the Manchester United Poker Contest!

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Vancouver Island Earthquake

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Carlo

British Colombia residents have been waiting for the big quake that is destined to rock the west coast, but today on Vancouver Island they felt a 6.7 quake at 12.41pm (6 minutes ago from when I typed this!) Don’t fret, the Vancouver Island Earthquake happened and the island is still there!

The good news is that there is no major damage reported from the Vancouver Island Earthquake, but not only that, smaller quakes in the vicinity of the west coast are in fact a good thing. It means the tectonic pressure is being released and in fact can prevent a large earthquake happening in the future. Alas, it could also mean that there may be more earthquakes coming.

Vancouver Island Earthquake 1946

Vancouver Island earthquake in 1946Vancouver Island has seen its share of big earthquakes. In fact, back in 1946, an earthquake measuring 7.3 was recorded on June 23rd. Two deaths were recorded from this quake, who’s epicenter was located on the aptly named Forbidden Plateau area of central Vancouver Island, west of Courtenay and Campbell River. This quake was felt as far away as Oregon in the States.

The two deaths were from a capsizing boat and a heart attack. Vancouver Island residents were scared and many ran out into the streets in terror. Luckily, today’s earthquake was not so fatal and buildings seemed to hold together, unlike in 1946 when there was extensive damage to buildings, such as the Bank of Montreal building (below).

1946 Earthquake damage on Vancouver Island

Bank of Montreal building damaged in the 1946 Vancouver Island earthquakeMany people were concerned that Vancouver Island may break off and sink, but today’s quake just proves how ridiculous that idea is. In a really big earthquake, it is quite possible that the seafloor that is just offshore from the island may be lifted up and it is possible that the coastal area could sink and at the worst, the sinking would be only a few meters. Residents living at the beach may experience some flooding but the likelihood of the island crumbling into the sea is not very likely at all.  Land slides in the ocean itself is possible which may cause smaller scale tsunami type affects which may contribute to localised flooding.

All in all, a relatively small quake similar to the ones we feel here in Central America and no reports of major damage or loss of life.

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Finding Max Thurman

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Carlo

Alyssa and I have a Bichon Frise. His name is Max Thurman (Jacobs). The Bichon Frise breed originated from the Mediterranean area in Europe.

They are such a happy breed and are happy to potter around amusing themselves and thus were often traded amongst sailors and were eventually introduced to their rightful place in Italian nobility nonetheless!

Stating that Max Thurman is a dog is both obvious and insult to Max. The fact of the matter is, Max is rather human-like and has a lot of dog-like tendencies.

Bichon Frise and allergies

I myself am terribly allergic to dog and cat hair but with our dog Max, I find that these symptoms aren’t really present. The breed is known to be allergy-friendly and where most people claim they are hypoallergenic they aren’t quite this way, unless groomed regularly to remove the loose hair and dander.

I think I can spot a correlation between the times when I’m feeling prone to allergy when Max needs a haircut and grooming session.

You can read more about the Bichon Frise breed and allergies here.

Finding Max Thurman!

Now, recently, whilst Google searching for “Max Thurman” I found that pictures of my dog weren’t indexed. Shame, because I have so many. So I thought that I should take steps to rectify this. Alas, project “Finding Max Thurman!” has begun here, with this blog post.

Let’s start off with a photo that’s an oldie but a good one of Max Thurman and his very funny front teeth.

My dog's teeth. Max Thurman makes us laugh.We were in bed with our dog-like human dog, which isn’t a strange occurrence and we discovered we can do something like a ventriloquy act with Max Thurman by moving his lips.

Endless minutes of fun ensued and several photographs later we finally snapped up a good one that wasn’t blurry or had terrible lightning!

Anyway, this is Max Thurman. An endless source of entertainment for Alyssa and myself.

 

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Rialto Casino

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Carlo

It disappeared form the search engines when the DNS was propagating, odd!

Hopefully we get to see Rialto Casino back up there! I only wrote this post to help Google out with a little prodding.

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Article Marketing bad seo strategy

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Carlo

A lot of the articles and videos produced by Google and Matt Cutts give an insight into where Google are going with how they determine search rankings.

If Article Marketing is something that you put a lot of effort into, then I’d suggest looking at other strategies as this isn’t going to be a sustainable SEO strategy. Last week, Matt released this video in response to the question:

“Do you recommend article marketing as an SEO strategy and how are the backlinks treated when other websites republish the same article?”

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WordPress Plugins in 2011 with JetPack

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Carlo

A few changes have occurred lately for me and and my self-hosted WordPress adventure.

First of all, “WordPress SEO” (read more here) by Joost de Valk is FAR superior than than “All in One SEO“, it also does the XML sitemap and the SEO (better than all in one). In fact, the SEO is done in a better and more intuitive way with multi-step recommendations.

As for the “AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget“, delete this. It’s pretty terrible because of the JavaScript loading times and the dependency on that JavaScript to be loaded. In my opinion, install WordPress.com’s “JetPack” and put their share widget in there (it’s way better and coming from a better and faster download source).

Can’t beat “Flagrant Disregard’s Feedburner Plugin“, you should be using this.

Must have plugins

  1. Google Analyticator
  2. WordPress SEO
  3. JetPack
  4. Flagrant Disregard’s Feedburner Plugin

TL;DR (summary)

Less plugins are good, because:

  1. less to update
  2. less to debug
  3. less to manage
  4. easier to install again on other WP sites

Installing JetPack will save you a lot of time in the future as Automattic are going to eventually be adding all the good functionality, availability and extensibility of the plugins at WordPress.com.

More about JetPack

Check out JetPack, read more about it on WP Founder Matt Mullenweg’s blog and the ultimately important link.

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