Hope you’re feeling better soon!

get well soon,
Cath

The seminar was amazingly fun and insightful and I’m happy to report that Naomi is smaller, cuter and sweeter than she appears on t’interweb. She’s a little package of smarts and generosity wrapped up in a gobby exterior. (Gobby is good. I’m gobby. We like gobby.)

So, yay for Naomi, yay for Ittybiz and yay for unrealistic goals.

There is a really cute picture of Naomi and her corsage on my phone but I will desist from posting it unless someone begs me. Cause I’m gobby but discreet.

(PS. And how in hell did you know about me and Terry the manager? Eh? Thought that was like, a secret.)

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I admire that you’re so outraged, but you’re missing the images, which is the key thing. If you do this straight import, all of your images remain on Blogger, hotlinked there. I spent a few weekends figuring out how to move the images other than by moving them one at a time. I can’t get them all because Blogger has made it impossible to identify a consistent wildcard expression that will capture them all (and you can’t find and replace using wildcards in MySQL anyway, so it has to be done using a custom PHP script), but I can get the majority.

(I also set up the Wordpress blog because these folks don’t normally have one. So part of the charge is to do that.)

I’m actually far more disturbed that you didn’t jump on my Wordpress upgrade, where I haven’t clarified that it’s for versions 2.6 and below. I figured you’d be all over me for charging 2.7 people to hit the “Upgrade now” button.

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Mike, I don’t know what some internet marketer did to you in childhood to merit the hatred you seem to have for them. Remember that my entire LTBYOVA blog is dedicated to giving away free DIY tips like what you posted today. And maybe you should chat with the 50 or so people I’ve helped extensively for free via email in the past two months. Including you, by the way. I probably wouldn’t have spent so much time typing out tips on starting to work out if I’d known this accusation was coming.

First I get exhausted working out at the gym with my Hitler Youth poster child trainer who is gorgeous but meaner than a one legged man at a dance contest. So to relax I go see Terminator Salvation hoping that they will blow up some Nautilus gym equipment, but instead they just kill a bunch of stupid robots.

(Is there anyone who thinks Christian Bale can act besides his mother?)

So I get home at midnight and decide to check the pulse of the Internet. Imagine my disappointment at finding Johnny B Truant sitting at his kitchen table in his night gown, mascara running down his cheeks and eating ice cream straight out of the carton while whining about his Great Internet Self-publishing Misfortune.

Well we’ve all been there.

Yes we are all saddened at the loss of a sapling and two shrubs who gave up their pulp to print Johnny’s book. Naturally Johnny was disappointed to find that even prison libraries have rejected donated copies of his tome as “unsuitable” and “a potential bad influence”.
Of course the real gist of Johnny’s whine are his four points:

1. It costs money to make and sell physical objects. GM and Chrysler just found this out.

2. You have to work whether you’re creating a physical book or an e-book. Yeah, many of us were just so put out to discover that having access to the Internet didn’t mean that people would start sending us money. For some blarney reason people actually expect one to put some effort into creating a product, instead of just letting you sleep in until noon and wake up with a larger bank account.

3. I buy physical products online all the time and have found them to be less of a rip off than 99% of the e-books out there, most of which appear to have been written by someone who dropped out of school in the fifth grade. I’m talking about Internet marketers’ e-books not the ones I read on my Kindle.

4. Yes the cycle time is longer to get a physical product delivered. So? Unless it’s a kidney, if the pricing is right and the delivery is reasonable that shouldn’t impact one’s customer base.

The most DISTURBING part of Johnny’s post is that he charges $97 for doing Blogger to WordPress conversions. Selling porn is even more respectable than a blatant money hustle like that!

Hell it makes me so mad that I posted on my blog how to do it for free. Of course since I’ve been a computer consultant for 30 years I might have missed a secret technique that’s worth $97 to someone.

Good luck with your new product Johnny, and enjoy the ice cream.