Buy Me and Get Rich:

Needing a certain degree of success, I tried out the things from Mr. Chow’s e-book. One of these is to have my postings advertised in some of the countless websites catering to such need.

“Don’t Click on Me If…,” is an icon in one of these websites. The jerk that I am, I did, loosing upon me a herd of rampaging marketers vying to get my attention with the electronic equivalent of jump, roll and play dead.

“It pays to advertise,” is a well-worn saying among advertising people. And it is true. In my case however, I got “stung,” not to get advertised, but to pay for an e-book. The offer was juicy. It promised a “free” website already primed for unlimited earnings the moment I sign in.

At this point, I thought it better to change my blog name to Life is a Pizza. It was out of the lesson learned from that innocuous icon and my love-hate relationship with pizza. I thought I might also give my blog an attractive and catchy name and I found similarities in pizza toppings to the things that are happening as I make the arduous and painful blogging journey.

• Cancer tidbits from my friend in Australia:
  Researchers in Austria have reported that large weight gains or losses may influence an individual’s risk for developing certain types of cancer.
  (Annals of Oncology 2008; 19:641-648, published April 2008).

• Increased physical activity among American women is associated with a decreased risk of pancreatic cancer, providing additional evidence that physical activity may
  potentially be protective against this malignancy.
  (BMC Cancer 2008, 8:63, published 4/10/2008)

Another reason for the Pizza name is the subconscious hope that people will start taking a bite from my postings. Oh, I got a lot of bites all right – but not from visitors but from e-marketers vying to sell their products.

Note: Previous installments on my misadventures in blogging are found at wwwjoedabon.blogspot.com.