by Jerry Huang

Diorex.wordpress.com was without peer in the affiliate marketing niche. This guy who calls himself ‘Diorex’ is the stuff that mentors and role models are made off. Each of his posts was gold and it was evident that he spent quality time writing them and that he had a mountain of experience to draw upon. When his blog went down, the affiliate marketing world cried. People started scrambling to retrieve old google archives of his posts, collecting them in word documents and printing them off for reference later - such was the richness of gold in his words.

Last month, I had noticed that diorex.com was about to expire and I had a novel plan to replubish all of diorex’s lost posts on it. Unfortunately, just like losing out on the problogger.com domain, my conviction was no where near strong enough. Turns out though that Diorex had not totally hanged up his boots and he actually backordered this domain himself… lo and behold… I bring you the Diorex blog relaunched at DIOREX.COM..!

• How to Measure a Niche
• The Affiliate Playbook
• Google Content Match - Goldmine or Minefield?
• What would you do if you were just starting out?
• Some Keyword Insights
• The Short End of the Long Tail of Affiliate Marketing

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eek! Digusting..! This must have meant that she swallowed her whilst she was in her mum’s womb!

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This article from CNN is on 5 mistakes women make at the doctor’s office but I think it pretty much applies to everyone.

1. Women Patients don’t question doctors: Being at the doctors always makes you feel inferior because you’re not in the profession. I always do my research before going to the doctors. Most of the time my self google diagnosis is spot on. I never tell the doctor I’ve googled though. I always let him/her make their diagnosis first and then just probe a bit more with what I’ve learnt on google.
2. Women Patients tend to over-research: Okay, I’ve never brought in printouts from the web. Never make the doctor look stupid.
3. Women Patients don’t recognize gender bias: There’s a lot of bias in society. Sometimes it’s not just gender. Sometimes, they just don’t like you. It’s important to find a doctor you can trust and have a good professional relationship with.
4. Women Patients interpret their own symptoms: Let the doctor make their own judgement and don’t lead them astray. Answer all his questions as a matter of fact. I have a nurse friend who actually goes to the doctors and always makes her situation sound worst then it actually is. This is not a bad strategy as it will get you more checkups. You can never be too careful.
5. The mother of all mistakes: Women Patients don’t trust their intuition: You read of misdiagnosis all the time. Kylie Minogue’s breast cancer was missed the first time round by her GP. My mum’s cancer was missed by hers aswell. Always seek a second or third medical opinion if you feel that somethings not right.

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I’ve always thought that whilst Rudd was a good candidate for PM, Wayne Swan was a bit incompetent for Treasury. His raising of the Medicare Levy from $50,000 to $100,000 for singles (This means that you only start paying the 1% surcharge when you start earning more than $100,000!) will definitely mean that the vast majority of people under 30 will opt to not take private health insurance. I have no understanding of the rationale over this one? Does he think that the average Australian salary has now risen to $100k??

What I can understand is that this will mean a higher premium for me, more people in the already stuffed up public health system, and dire straits for private hospitals and companies that invest heavily in them:

Take Ramsay Health Care for example. Instead of making a killing at $12.60, I’ve had to settle for just barely break-even yesterday. Today it’s plummetted another 5% which is lucky I called it quits yesterday on RHC. Damn you Wayne Swan…!

Why not fix the public hospital system first before fiddling around with the Medicare Levy? When you’re in a company with crap managers, you can choose to leave to another company… what happens with you have a crap treasurer?

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Worth1000 is having a competition worth mentioning. The contest is to create the ultimate celebrity by mashing together their best features.

Show us a star with Angelina’s lips, Jennifer’s nose, Farrah’s hair, and Bette Davis eyes. Add in some body work from Pamela or JLo. It doesn’t matter how many donors you use: the important thing is that the results look more natural than patchwork.

Here’s entry 434867: A combination of Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, and Carmen Electra!

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scam mails have migrated from Nigeria … to Hong Kong!

from Mr. Tony Chan Chun-chuen
reply-to info_ninawang13@yahoo.com.hk
to undisclosed-recipients
date Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:05 PM
subject Dear Friend

Dear Friend,

My name is Tony Chan Chun-chuen, friend and close confidant to NinaWang
Kung, Who passed away on the 3rd of April 2007. I will save your time by
not boring you with all the details at thistime, Which has already been
disseminated by the international media during the Controversial dispute
that erupted between her and her late husband Relatives concerning the
huge estate he left behind.

To save my time and yours I ask that you go to this link,

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/200704/04/content_843604.htm

As you will learn after going through the link above, all sorts of stories
Have been assumed concerning the huge sum of money she left behind. Some
Stories even say she left the bulk of her estate to me .But the truth is,
Although I am the sole custodian of a huge sum of her estate, she left
strict Instructions that I hand over the money to charity and also that
under no Circumstance should I let any of her late husbands relatives and
even her own Relatives lay their hands on the money. Contrary to media
reports, she made Sure her immediate family is well catered for since she
had no children of her Own,Before her death Nina Wang went ahead to
dispatch the sum of Eight hundred and Twenty Million British Pounds (820,
000,000.00 GBP) in cash with the assistance Of a foreign diplomat who now
resides in Europe, but I will ensure to make her Wish comes through.

Now the reason why I have contacted you is that there is also some other
Funds in the tune of $12,000,000.00 with the Hang Seng Bank China,and I
want Your assistance for me to transfer these funds in your name to your
account for Both of us I will agree to share with you in a negotiable
percentage as far as You agree to take part in this mutual benefiting
opportunity.

Please I count on your absolute confidentiality, transparency and trust
while Looking forward to your prompt response towards a swift conclusion
of this Business transaction through my email address as follows:
info_ninawang13@yahoo.com.hk

Thanks & May the Stars Guide us In the Right Path,

I remain yours sincerely,
Tony Chan Chun-chuen

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Talk about a wow factor! This thing is amazing!

A moving, remote controlled R2D2 projector!

Update 7 May 2008: It’s $US3000 + free shipping at NikkoMalaysia

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The Veronica’s (and a swag of others including Silverchair, Powderfinger, Operator Please, Jimmy Barnes, Evermore, Gyroscope, Frenzal Rhomb, Grinspoon, Phrase, Human Nature, Mahalia Barnes, Damien Leith, Anthony Callea, Weapon X, Ken Hell and the Dawn Collective.) are releasing a free video to urge people to stop downloading pirated music.

Meanwhile, ColdPlay is planning to release their Violet Hill single for free… just as RadioHead and Prince has done before them.

My view? Free music is the new world order and musicians and artists alike need to learn to adjust. They will need to settle with just being famous, going to massive exclusive parties, and making millions of concerts and interviews… instead of making millions just on music sales alone.

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man drugs 18 year old daughter, locks her in a windowless cellar for 24 YEARS! Fathers 7 kids, three of whom live in the cellar the whole time, including one who is 18 years old already. Absolutely sad and disgusting. Could the Wife really not have known??!

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