As you may know my wife Terra has been participating in the American Cancer societies relay for life. I didn't get involved because I decided I could be more affective helping her raise donations etc. Now though the time is at hand and we decided both of us would participate in the event.
I wanted to do something different increase awareness concerning blindness and at the same time assist in the fight against cancer. Two great causes under one banner.
I found an affective way to unite
the causes by sharing with you the arbituary of one of the most influential men of our time especially in the area of civil rights for the blind.
Check it out.
https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=171407&lis=0&kntae171407=848459FAA6394704ABA4341DAF089D45&supId=149734618
God Bless:
Mike
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Monday night football oops!
I joined a football pool this year, it's a free one has prizes and is lots of fun. Unfortunately the Atlanta Falcons didn't even come to play last night Saints 23 Falcons 03 yikes! So close and so far away, Even though my team didn't win I could've gotten a point for picking the right score. I picked 27 the score was 26--guess some things just aren't meant to be.
I did pretty well overall for the week I picked 10 winners my loosing picks were buffalo, Atlanta,Detroit and Arizona. I have picked 30 winners and 16 loosers overall which isn't bad. but I'd have been happier if Atlanta had at least made a game of it. The scarriest game was Cleeveland Baltimore but the Ravens pulled it out. It took a while forthe offense to get warmed up but it finally happened.
Speaking of offense, do you need more traffic at your website?
Here's my favorite offensive weapon, it will get your offense off the ground in a real hurry
http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?521323
My website http://www.mikesmaze.net
Used traffic swarm to start the ball rolling, we've been online since June 15 and we're generating on average about 1,200 a day in visitors, some days we have 3000 or more our lowest day is about 750.
I remember not to long ago 400 visitors was an excellent day!
Now traffic swarm can't take all or even most of the credit but they helped us get on the ground running!
So if you need web visitors to your site check it out.
Also again don't forget to join my search chip friends!
http://www.searchchips.com/its_mike
God Bless:
Mike
I did pretty well overall for the week I picked 10 winners my loosing picks were buffalo, Atlanta,Detroit and Arizona. I have picked 30 winners and 16 loosers overall which isn't bad. but I'd have been happier if Atlanta had at least made a game of it. The scarriest game was Cleeveland Baltimore but the Ravens pulled it out. It took a while forthe offense to get warmed up but it finally happened.
Speaking of offense, do you need more traffic at your website?
Here's my favorite offensive weapon, it will get your offense off the ground in a real hurry
http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?521323
My website http://www.mikesmaze.net
Used traffic swarm to start the ball rolling, we've been online since June 15 and we're generating on average about 1,200 a day in visitors, some days we have 3000 or more our lowest day is about 750.
I remember not to long ago 400 visitors was an excellent day!
Now traffic swarm can't take all or even most of the credit but they helped us get on the ground running!
So if you need web visitors to your site check it out.
Also again don't forget to join my search chip friends!
http://www.searchchips.com/its_mike
God Bless:
Mike
Monday, September 25, 2006
New and improved! it's search chips!
Remember I mentioned a site I've won some prizes at called search chips?
http://www.searchchips.com/its_mike
Anyway they have changed, now in addition to winning instant fandango movie tickets and Amazon gift certificates they are giving away some great rewards in exchange for points their members acrue.
Here's what you can win or earn as stated at the site
What you can winAmazon Gift Certificate (0 Chips)Instant Win - Amazon.com gift certificates are the perfect solution for any specialoccasion. From celebrating birthdays, graduations and weddings to inspiring...More detailsFandango Gift Certificate (0 Chips)Instant Win - Fandango Bucks is the best way to give the gift of movies! You canuse them on Fandango.com toward the purchase of any movie, any...More detailsIpod Shuffle (6,000 Chips)Time to mix things up. Meet iPod shuffle, the unpredictable new iPod. What will itplay next? Can it read your mind? Can it read...More detailsIpod Nano (10,000 Chips)Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. The pencil-thiniPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly...More detailsCanon Camera (15,000 Chips)The simple to use EX-Z60 offers 6.0 megapixel images and a 3X optical zoom packedinto a slim body enhanced by rounded edges. The camera...More detailsPSP (20,000 Chips)The PSP system's dazzling widescreen LCD brings gaming to life. Whether reachingyour personal best or locked in wireless combat, you'll...More detailsIpod Video (20,000 Chips)Witness the evolution of the revolution. First it played songs. Then photos. Thenpodcasts. Now iPod plays video, changing the way you...More details09/21/06
See what I mean? With the holidays coming up or maybe a birthday you can really impress someone without spending a dime! He/she will never know you earned that gift at search chips--it will be our little secret Right?
Points are fairly easy to acrue, 20 a day just for doing a couple minutes worth of searches and 10 points for each friend you get to join. Hurry though December is all most here.
again my site is at:
http://www.searchchips.com/its_mike
Thanks and God Bless:
Mike
http://www.searchchips.com/its_mike
Anyway they have changed, now in addition to winning instant fandango movie tickets and Amazon gift certificates they are giving away some great rewards in exchange for points their members acrue.
Here's what you can win or earn as stated at the site
What you can winAmazon Gift Certificate (0 Chips)Instant Win - Amazon.com gift certificates are the perfect solution for any specialoccasion. From celebrating birthdays, graduations and weddings to inspiring...More detailsFandango Gift Certificate (0 Chips)Instant Win - Fandango Bucks is the best way to give the gift of movies! You canuse them on Fandango.com toward the purchase of any movie, any...More detailsIpod Shuffle (6,000 Chips)Time to mix things up. Meet iPod shuffle, the unpredictable new iPod. What will itplay next? Can it read your mind? Can it read...More detailsIpod Nano (10,000 Chips)Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. The pencil-thiniPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly...More detailsCanon Camera (15,000 Chips)The simple to use EX-Z60 offers 6.0 megapixel images and a 3X optical zoom packedinto a slim body enhanced by rounded edges. The camera...More detailsPSP (20,000 Chips)The PSP system's dazzling widescreen LCD brings gaming to life. Whether reachingyour personal best or locked in wireless combat, you'll...More detailsIpod Video (20,000 Chips)Witness the evolution of the revolution. First it played songs. Then photos. Thenpodcasts. Now iPod plays video, changing the way you...More details09/21/06
See what I mean? With the holidays coming up or maybe a birthday you can really impress someone without spending a dime! He/she will never know you earned that gift at search chips--it will be our little secret Right?
Points are fairly easy to acrue, 20 a day just for doing a couple minutes worth of searches and 10 points for each friend you get to join. Hurry though December is all most here.
again my site is at:
http://www.searchchips.com/its_mike
Thanks and God Bless:
Mike
Oh wow! search chips
Remember the site where I won several prizes earlier this year? Well they have changed the format slightly. You can still win prizes for searching if your a member, these include fandango bucks and amazon gift certificates, but the best is yet to come so listen up!
Search chips is doing something different they now allow you to earn rewards for points you acrue.
Below I'll put the list of prizes and rewards you can win.
Hopefully you will join and become my search chips friend
http://www.searchchips.com/its_mike
What you can winAmazon Gift Certificate (0 Chips)Instant Win - Amazon.com gift certificates are the perfect solution for any specialoccasion. From celebrating birthdays, graduations and weddings to inspiring...More detailsFandango Gift Certificate (0 Chips)Instant Win - Fandango Bucks is the best way to give the gift of movies! You canuse them on Fandango.com toward the purchase of any movie, any...More detailsIpod Shuffle (6,000 Chips)Time to mix things up. Meet iPod shuffle, the unpredictable new iPod. What will itplay next? Can it read your mind? Can it read...More detailsIpod Nano (10,000 Chips)Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. The pencil-thiniPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly...More detailsCanon Camera (15,000 Chips)The simple to use EX-Z60 offers 6.0 megapixel images and a 3X optical zoom packedinto a slim body enhanced by rounded edges. The camera...More detailsPSP (20,000 Chips)The PSP system's dazzling widescreen LCD brings gaming to life. Whether reachingyour personal best or locked in wireless combat, you'll...More detailsIpod Video (20,000 Chips)Witness the evolution of the revolution. First it played songs. Then photos. Thenpodcasts. Now iPod plays video, changing the way you...More details09/21/06
See what I mean these are cool rewards not just junk. You can acrue 20 points a day doing searches and 10 points for each friend you get to join so points rack up fairly fast maybe even in time for the Holidays! Save money and impress that special someone he/she will never know you did it with search chips!
That will be our little secret right?
again my site is at:
http://www.searchchips.com/its_mike
God Bless:
Mike
Search chips is doing something different they now allow you to earn rewards for points you acrue.
Below I'll put the list of prizes and rewards you can win.
Hopefully you will join and become my search chips friend
http://www.searchchips.com/its_mike
What you can winAmazon Gift Certificate (0 Chips)Instant Win - Amazon.com gift certificates are the perfect solution for any specialoccasion. From celebrating birthdays, graduations and weddings to inspiring...More detailsFandango Gift Certificate (0 Chips)Instant Win - Fandango Bucks is the best way to give the gift of movies! You canuse them on Fandango.com toward the purchase of any movie, any...More detailsIpod Shuffle (6,000 Chips)Time to mix things up. Meet iPod shuffle, the unpredictable new iPod. What will itplay next? Can it read your mind? Can it read...More detailsIpod Nano (10,000 Chips)Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. The pencil-thiniPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly...More detailsCanon Camera (15,000 Chips)The simple to use EX-Z60 offers 6.0 megapixel images and a 3X optical zoom packedinto a slim body enhanced by rounded edges. The camera...More detailsPSP (20,000 Chips)The PSP system's dazzling widescreen LCD brings gaming to life. Whether reachingyour personal best or locked in wireless combat, you'll...More detailsIpod Video (20,000 Chips)Witness the evolution of the revolution. First it played songs. Then photos. Thenpodcasts. Now iPod plays video, changing the way you...More details09/21/06
See what I mean these are cool rewards not just junk. You can acrue 20 points a day doing searches and 10 points for each friend you get to join so points rack up fairly fast maybe even in time for the Holidays! Save money and impress that special someone he/she will never know you did it with search chips!
That will be our little secret right?
again my site is at:
http://www.searchchips.com/its_mike
God Bless:
Mike
Friday, September 22, 2006
Eulogy to a great site!
Seems like just a few years ago but it was probably 1997 or 1998 I think a sweepstakes friend Robyn was in the running for a couple million dollars from a site called jackpot.com. Wow and guess what she went along with seven other finalist and won herself something like $40,000 and a trip to Las Vegas! I made up my mind then and there to do my best to duplicate her feat!
Didn't quite succeed but it was a fun ride!
It is sad to see jackpot go, in part because I had some great wins there
more than $1000 between my wife and i,over the years, and the anticipation of winning the really big lotto prizes as well as some of the lucky loot gifts.
Once they posted an add on job
Once I saw a job opening they listed on jobtrak.
At the risk of losing my ability to play and win there I applied for the position, didn't make the grade that time but it was fun trying! I would've really enjoyed working for them sweepstakes was amd still is a great hobby and my college degree is in journalism/speech communications so it would have afforded me the chance to work in Public relations.
I thought as a job candidate if selected I would have been able to help increase site traffic and loyalty.
On a personal level it could have helped me develop invaluable skills which could have significantly
impacted my
standard of living--as in give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime! But that wasn't meant to be so I continued playing, consoling myself with the hope that some day I would win the big lotto prize or perhaps the scratch off card in slots so actually I would earn much more than I'd have ever gotten paid working there.
My failure to win employment in this case became a challenge to win
just as Robyn's first introduction to the site had been.
Twice jackpot opened a world of winning posabilities for me, well actually three times if one counts the job interview.
One other thing I liked about!
jackpot if you happen to be blind and use a screen reader jackpot was more accessible than most.You couldn't play bingo or black jack or solataire but you could do the lotto, the slots which although borring after about 100 spins provided some good wins, and the email game was really good to us.Uproar was more unaccessible like iwon is mostly and pogo is.It's a problem of I think it's called OCR and lots of the traffic exchanges are creating the same problem, I use those to promote my site.Anyway you have to "pick the highest number" Match the number" or write the numberin the image into the box.This they say "prevents cheating"It also prevents blind folks using a screen reader from enteringScreen readers can reag text but they can't read numbers in images. How I wish this wasn't so, in the late 1990's I had an opportunity to work for an insurance company in the San FErnando Valley. They paid $2,700 to $3,500 a month to start but screen readers can't read hand written fax's which agents sent to the call center on a daily basis--and I couldn't get the company to do job trade offs so that job went bye bye!It's really frustrating to be a top candidate, even to see the test scores and know they want to hire you then to be kicked in the face by "technology" but it happens.
To bad with the advances in technology being so wonderful that we take one giantstep forward than we're forced to take five backwards.Lots of guys will have jobs that didn't hopefully because they can fill out forms,and they will listen to audio or watch video with the best in sound and graphic technology at their disposal we will even crack programs likeJava, can't begin to imagine thefreedom that will allow me, access and power point too as well as so many other microsoftprograms will become accessible, not front page though, lol.
but so far as games to win prizes are concerned its going to be limited to Searchchips msn search and iwon prize machine.Good bye jack pot you will be missed.Thanks for the prizes and all the good times even thanks for some of the borring ones as well. And thanks for letting me have the satisfaction of seeing my wife's amazement after months of saying "you will never win there, it's rigged!"
Than one morning about 1 a.m she discovered she won her first email jackpot prize.Just goes to show if you don't think you will win keep trying that next click, spinor scratchoff or sweepstakes entry for that matter might be the one that changes your life at least temporarily but maybe forever.
Best regards:
Mike
ps this "more than amazing title came back I changed my name to man of the maze but another bloggeing glitch, some day I'll fix it hopefully but till than man of the maze and "more than amazing are interchangeable I guess. lol
Didn't quite succeed but it was a fun ride!
It is sad to see jackpot go, in part because I had some great wins there
more than $1000 between my wife and i,over the years, and the anticipation of winning the really big lotto prizes as well as some of the lucky loot gifts.
Once they posted an add on job
Once I saw a job opening they listed on jobtrak.
At the risk of losing my ability to play and win there I applied for the position, didn't make the grade that time but it was fun trying! I would've really enjoyed working for them sweepstakes was amd still is a great hobby and my college degree is in journalism/speech communications so it would have afforded me the chance to work in Public relations.
I thought as a job candidate if selected I would have been able to help increase site traffic and loyalty.
On a personal level it could have helped me develop invaluable skills which could have significantly
impacted my
standard of living--as in give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime! But that wasn't meant to be so I continued playing, consoling myself with the hope that some day I would win the big lotto prize or perhaps the scratch off card in slots so actually I would earn much more than I'd have ever gotten paid working there.
My failure to win employment in this case became a challenge to win
just as Robyn's first introduction to the site had been.
Twice jackpot opened a world of winning posabilities for me, well actually three times if one counts the job interview.
One other thing I liked about!
jackpot if you happen to be blind and use a screen reader jackpot was more accessible than most.You couldn't play bingo or black jack or solataire but you could do the lotto, the slots which although borring after about 100 spins provided some good wins, and the email game was really good to us.Uproar was more unaccessible like iwon is mostly and pogo is.It's a problem of I think it's called OCR and lots of the traffic exchanges are creating the same problem, I use those to promote my site.Anyway you have to "pick the highest number" Match the number" or write the numberin the image into the box.This they say "prevents cheating"It also prevents blind folks using a screen reader from enteringScreen readers can reag text but they can't read numbers in images. How I wish this wasn't so, in the late 1990's I had an opportunity to work for an insurance company in the San FErnando Valley. They paid $2,700 to $3,500 a month to start but screen readers can't read hand written fax's which agents sent to the call center on a daily basis--and I couldn't get the company to do job trade offs so that job went bye bye!It's really frustrating to be a top candidate, even to see the test scores and know they want to hire you then to be kicked in the face by "technology" but it happens.
To bad with the advances in technology being so wonderful that we take one giantstep forward than we're forced to take five backwards.Lots of guys will have jobs that didn't hopefully because they can fill out forms,and they will listen to audio or watch video with the best in sound and graphic technology at their disposal we will even crack programs likeJava, can't begin to imagine thefreedom that will allow me, access and power point too as well as so many other microsoftprograms will become accessible, not front page though, lol.
but so far as games to win prizes are concerned its going to be limited to Searchchips msn search and iwon prize machine.Good bye jack pot you will be missed.Thanks for the prizes and all the good times even thanks for some of the borring ones as well. And thanks for letting me have the satisfaction of seeing my wife's amazement after months of saying "you will never win there, it's rigged!"
Than one morning about 1 a.m she discovered she won her first email jackpot prize.Just goes to show if you don't think you will win keep trying that next click, spinor scratchoff or sweepstakes entry for that matter might be the one that changes your life at least temporarily but maybe forever.
Best regards:
Mike
ps this "more than amazing title came back I changed my name to man of the maze but another bloggeing glitch, some day I'll fix it hopefully but till than man of the maze and "more than amazing are interchangeable I guess. lol
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Autumn is here
Yep automn is really here, football is back with a venggance. I haven't done any college stuff yet but my pro picks are about 20 in the win column the last two weeks, won't win the superbowl prize with that but will keep trying.
Another thing I like about autumn is Schwan's Autumn ice cream Pumpkin ice cream filled with prelimes to die for!
Terra my wife is doing a relay for life September 30 to help the american Cancer Society. If you would like to help by pledging check out her webpage:
http://www.acsevents.org/relay/ca/lancaster/terrap
or you can find a link at our web page
http://www.mikesmaze.net
Speaking of our page it's doing really well. We're consistently getting between 747 and 1,500 visitors a day and sometimes as many as 3,000 a day. It's really amazing to see so many people visiting from all over the world, Israel, Egypt, France, Germany, India, England, Netherlands, Sweeden, Canada, China and many other nations I unintentionally am leaving out!
We try to keep adding and improving the site as more article suggestions and ideas come to us.
For those who need Spanish we have a spanish section now too!
We always welcome new guests so check out:
http://www.searchchips.com.
To win prizes you need to be a member. If you want you can join my search chips friends listcontact me by email at mike@mikesmaze.net and ask for the link.
I will post it later on in a new entry as well.
I guess though I better run for now.
God Bless:
Mike
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Another thing I like about autumn is Schwan's Autumn ice cream Pumpkin ice cream filled with prelimes to die for!
Terra my wife is doing a relay for life September 30 to help the american Cancer Society. If you would like to help by pledging check out her webpage:
http://www.acsevents.org/relay/ca/lancaster/terrap
or you can find a link at our web page
http://www.mikesmaze.net
Speaking of our page it's doing really well. We're consistently getting between 747 and 1,500 visitors a day and sometimes as many as 3,000 a day. It's really amazing to see so many people visiting from all over the world, Israel, Egypt, France, Germany, India, England, Netherlands, Sweeden, Canada, China and many other nations I unintentionally am leaving out!
We try to keep adding and improving the site as more article suggestions and ideas come to us.
For those who need Spanish we have a spanish section now too!
We always welcome new guests so check out:
http://www.searchchips.com.
To win prizes you need to be a member. If you want you can join my search chips friends listcontact me by email at mike@mikesmaze.net and ask for the link.
I will post it later on in a new entry as well.
I guess though I better run for now.
God Bless:
Mike
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