(If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to your President or appropriate person, thanks)

Dear President,

We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in china, have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on April 18, 2012. One company which self-styled “Daess Investment, Inc” were applying to register “zagz” as Network Brand and following domain names:

zagz.asia
zagz.cn
zagz.com.cn
zagz.com.tw
zagz.hk
zagz.in
zagz.net.cn
zagz.org.cn
zagz.tw

After our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company’s, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the registration for “Daess Investment, Inc”.

Best Regards,

Sam Yang

Registration Dept.

Tel: +862885915586  ||  Fax: +862885912116

Address:8/F XiYu building No,52 JinDun Road,QingYang District,Chengdu City,China.

I didn’t think people would fall for this, but then a client sent me a similar email asking that I action it on their behalf.

The fake registration warning it trying to scare you into paying inflated registration fees to register your brand domain in a bunch of foreign top level domains. Now if you have the budget, reach and vision for that kind of world domination, by all means register them all – just don’t do it with this spamming scammer.

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After starting with basic drills it build up to some great offense and defense concepts, moving through pick n roll, UCLA cuts and Cincinnati offense including inbound and special plays. I list all the concepts below the video.

Reviewing it again, I’m wondering how Jon got so many concepts into less than 12 minutes.

Drills in the video:

• Triple Threat Drill @0:09
• Triple Threat Cut Through @0:28
• Pass, Screen & Curl @0:46
• Pass, Ball Screen, Pick & Roll @1:09
• Follow your pass drill @1:29
• Follow your pass drill with shot-fake and dribble @1:50
• 4 Man Partner Post Moves – drop step @2:07
• 4 Man Partner Post Moves – up & under @2:30
• Michigan State Series – passing & shooting @2:53
• 2 on 2 Help and Recover @3:20
• 4 on 4 Shell Drill @3:41
• Static Ball Handling @4:14
• Out of Bounds: Smokestack @4:38
• Out of Bounds: Play 1 @5:07
• Out of Bounds: Play 2 @5:44
• 32 Zone Offense @6:15
• Carolina Zone Offense @6:48
• 1-2-2 Press Breaker @7:32
• 1-3-1 Press Breaker @8:02
• Cincinnati Base Offense @8:27
• Special entries into Cincinnati
• Thumbs Up @9:14
• Michigan @9:38
• Play 1 (UCLA cut) @10:11
• Play 2 @10:45
• Play 3 @11:03
• Fist @11:20

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I now use TweetAdder exclusively (affiliate link).

This is professional software that costs money (currently starts at $55)  but you can try the demo first. If runs on your local machine (Mac, PC or Linux).

Why would I pay for professional twitter automation software like TweetAdder, especially if I had tools that did it for free? Because it saves me time and money. The TweetAdder developers maintain it whenever Twitter makes a change. That means my down time is the shortest possible. One of my key old scripts stopped working for 4 weeks until I had a chance to debug it. That doesn’t happen with professional software.

Many of the features of TweetAdder don’t get used. I didn’t use some of the advanced search functionality. But when I had a brainwave to target Romanian speakers, for example, then I can quickly put a campaign together. In the past I’d need to customize an existing script.

Anyone who has a professional or serious need for twitter can justify TweetAdder at about $1 a week over 12 months.

My main twitter account @PaulZag has around 4000 followers. I hit the API limits regularly on that account. I’ve managed accounts with 20,000 followers and the API limits become a major pain in trying to scale a campaign. Tweet Adder avoids all that drama.

It’s feature-packed:

• Automated Follows
• Automated unfollow (with a whitelist to protect your must follow friends)
• History of follows and unfollows
• Automated tweets (as well as RSS and @reply feeds)
• Twitter list integration
• Find people to follow
• Follow a users followers
• Random time delay for all actions
• Many, many, many more features.

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The lyrics are haunting and shocking compared to the singing style. It’s an upbeat song with a dark, dark lyric. I love the cognitive dissonance.

The lyrics for sing-a-long

White lips, pale face
Breathing in snowflakes
Burnt lungs, sour taste
Light’s gone, day’s end
Struggling to pay rent
Long nights, strange men

And they say
She’s in the Class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since 18
But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries
And they scream
The worst things in life come free to us
Cos we’re just under the upperhand
And go mad for a couple of grams
And she don’t want to go outside tonight
And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
Or sells love to another man
It’s too cold outside
For angels to fly
Angels to fly

Ripped gloves, raincoat
Tried to swim and stay afloat
Dry house, wet clothes
Loose change, bank notes
Weary-eyed, dry throat
Call girl, no phone

And they say
She’s in the Class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since 18
But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries
And they scream
The worst things in life come free to us
Cos we’re just under the upperhand
And go mad for a couple of grams
And she don’t want to go outside tonight
And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
Or sells love to another man
It’s too cold outside
For angels to fly
An angel will die
Covered in white
Closed eye
And hoping for a better life
This time, we’ll fade out tonight
Straight down the line

And they say
She’s in the Class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since 18
But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries

They scream
The worst things in life come free to us
And we’re all under the upperhand
Go mad for a couple of grams
And we don’t want to go outside tonight
And in a pipe we fly to the Motherland
Or sell love to another man
It’s too cold
For angels to fly
Angels to fly
To fly, fly
Angels to fly,
To fly, to fly
For angels to die

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The big difference is their message “rest if you must but don’t quit”.

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Why are so many of my twitter friends caught out by this scam? These scams are most effective against users of mobile devices. It’s hard to read the misspelled URL that looks like twitter’s.

As this attack matures, the exact phrase used will change. The way to be safe on a mobile device is

1. use the twitter client for your device or a well known 3rd party client (like TweetDeck).
2. login on that client only
3. don’t trust a DM from a contact that does not have context (see below)
4. if you click on a shorted URL link that takes you to something that looks like twitter do not login – use your dedicated client program instead.

What is context? If you ask a friend to send you a picture and they reply with a URL, that is expected behaviour. If you didn’t ask for it and didn’t party at the Playboy Mansion with them last night, they don’t have a LOL photo of you. Assume they’ve been compromised and move on.

“Compromised” is very cloak and dagger but it’s also smart. At a time when the bad guys are selling compromised accounts and PC’s by the thousands, your login credentials are a commodity worth a fraction of a cent (e.g. 40EUR per 100,000 email addresses last night). So act like a secret agent and assume the worst, you’ll live longer.

Other phrases I’ve seen so far:

• Hello somebody is making nasty things about you…
• Hi someone is posting very bad rumors about you…
• Someone is saying some real horrible things about you, seen this?
• Seen this really nasty rumor/blog about you?
• There is a rumor/blog going around about you might want to read it
• Rumor has it there is some bad things about you
• I saw a real bad blog about you, you seen this?
• Found a funny picture of you!
• I cannot believe what this person is saying about you! it’s pretty nasty stuff
• You seen what this person is saying about you? terrible things..
• Hey…you seen this yet? some horrible rumors about you going around online…
• i cant believe this but there are some real nasty things being said about you here
• Hey, so some real nasty things are being said about you here i cant believe what was said..

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If you’ve already been scammed do the following

1. Change your password at https://twitter.com/settings/password
2. Revoke permission from any unknown applications at https://twitter.com/settings/applications

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My main workhorse is a eMachines m250 netbook. Last night it decided to crash. Now it only boots under XP safe mode or Linux from a USB.

Most of my apps are on the cloud in some way or other, so I am not actually missing anything. But it is inconvenient, there are some local files I’ve moved to a USB stick to keep working.

In the past, a system crash like this would have shut me down for at least a few days. I’ve wasted this morning trying to recover the machine. But now I give up, time for some sort of netbook distro of Linux and move on. Working that out will waste a few more hours later tonight.

I think I’ve lost some of my Tweetdeck setup, plus some downloaded media and white papers, but nothing important I can think of.

Why are businesses still using PC’s and local storage?

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1. paradoxically I trust Google’s privacy commitment more than Facebook
2. Google let’s me take my connections with me when I leave
3. per post privacy options

But I realize that Facebook has 600 million users and so much better reach.

Here’s a tip for updating your Facebook status from Google+

1. go to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/ and copy your personalized upload email address
2. When sharing on Google Plus add that email address in the +add more people box.
3. You can create a circle with just email addresses of “update via email” services. Add that circle to any update you want shared on other services. My circle is called Statuses.

The update is limited to the first 45 characters and shows as “via Email”. I’ll update this post when I find a better way to do this.

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If it works for you, please “like” this post on Facebook, +1 it on Google Plus or comment below as a sign of thanks.

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