Step 16 - Thank You Friends

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I want to thank those of you who have become friends of mine at "My One Million Friends".

There has been some good activity going on and I have a number of ideas on how to get MYOMF (short for My One Million Friends) out to the "Cyber People of the Net".

First I want to thank Rachel of "Turn One Pound into One Million". Because of her posting over at MyLot another friend joined on Friday, March 30th, 2007 .

You can see his Rich Jerk Website Here. Thank you for being a friend. The first friends of "My One Million Friends" are visionaries, in a way, because they can see something valuable, that may be hidden under the temporary newness of the website and the low beginning hit counts.

"My One Million Friends" is a little quirky as I tried to use the opportunity as a springboard for humor.

One person commented: "Thanks X - for the first really good belly laugh I've had all day!"

That is "One" of the objectives about the Website and Blog, to entertain and amuse.

Thanks for the Comment!

On to Business - On March 29th, 2007 I sold the 2800 shares of SLJB @ $0.09 a share. At this point it looks like I lost ($0.22) on it. You can read more by looking at the TimeLine to the left.

My new friend sent me $10.00 for MYOMF and Paypal took a ( -$0.59) fee leaving me $9.41 to the DTAMP stake.

I also appreciate the comments people have been making over at MyLot.com regarding MYOMF. I gleaned alot of useful information from them that helped me tweak the website and change things so they were clearer.

One thing I noticed was some viewers didn't know how much money they should donate. So I added that information to the top of the "GiveGift" page and to the "How to become a friend" page as well.

Another person commented that it was alot of money for "Maybe" getting their picture on the website. I took for granted that everyone would understand the "Gift" issue. So to clarify I added a new page that may help in explaining it further. Plus it gave me the opportunity to do some more artwork modification.

I am all for having fun, especially when I get to be creative in some way. You can see that new page here -----> Death and Taxes
I have started to put more time into working on the Creative Connections website and have been making progress on it.

Thats it for now.

Present Stake: $291.27

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.

Regards,

Xinfinitum


This Doubling Blog Update is based upon the Doubling Project "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". It is an attempt to double a penny to make a million. You go from one cent to one million dollars, starting from nothing. Just click the link above to get the double your way to one million rules and start on the adventure today.

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Step 16 - Nothing New Under the Sun

How To Double Your Way To A Million In 28 StepsThe idea I came up with "My One Million Friends" , was for me, an original idea. In other words, at the time I thought up the idea, I had not seen it anywhere before on the internet. So in some sense it was original.

But, is anything really original or has it all been done before, in some sense and to some degree.

For example, man goes to the moon. Is the idea original in the 1960's when it was achieved or was it thought of and even attempted long ago. Even the technology for it to be done begun a thousand years earlier. Ultimately, going to the moon found its origins in China, with the development of gunpowder sometime during the Sui and Tang dynasties (~600-900 A.D.)

Gunpowder led to cannon/projectiles led to rocketry led to the landing on the Moon.

The way things actually work is one small innovation leads to another, then to another and so on. Nothing is really all that new and most likely the idea has been thought of or done sometime in the past, in one form or another.

Now, regarding whether the idea turned out to be original or not, what makes it original to me is that no one has done things the way that I have. My different way of seeing things, my artwork, my humor, all those things combined, and more, make it a website that hasn't been done before. So, in someways it is original and unique.

Will it be successful, that remains to be seen. I can only hope.

Someone brought up "That's a lot to "maybe" get a link to my site."

I decided that perhaps people didn't understand the humor behind certain aspects of the website and also didn't understand the reasons behind why I had to emphasize a "Maybe" concept.

So what I decided to do was add a new page to the website to further explain things.

Here it is: Why Do You Keep Saying That You Are Under No Obligation To Put Up My Picture?

Present Stake: $282.08

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.

Regards,

Xinfinitum


This Double to Million Blog is based upon the Doubling Plan "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". It is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million" by finding going from loose change to a million dollars, starting from nothing. At the beginning you start by finding a penny and then double a penny until you reach the One Million Goal.
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Step 16 - A Non-Compelling Title

I heard that in order for people to want to read your blog post, you need to have a great title. One that is compelling. So, I decided to go with a reverse psychology tactic instead. :)

Anyways, enough joking around. There is alot to report.

First off, another friend has joined us at the My One Million Friends Website.

Rachel, a fellow Doubler, generously contributed $10.00 and went into the "My Best Friends" section of the Home Page. Her blog can be seen at Turn One Pound Into One Million.

I am very excited about how well "My One Million Friends" has done in it's first week.

Some interesting facts are, that in only one week, the " My One Million Friends" Blog has reached number One in Google, with the "My One Million Friends" Homepage reaching number Two position. This is with the words quoted or non-quoted.

I think that result is far more successful than I ever expected.

I also checked the words, "One Million Friends", without the "My" using quotes and it was on Page One, 4th position. Non-Quoted, Page One, 6th Position.

I then tried, Million Friends and it is up to Page Three, next to the last position.

Wow! I am surprised at how well it has done with Google in only a week.

I tried the word "Friends" but I wasn't in the top Thirty pages. Friends would be a hard one to be successful with.

The latest to add to the stake, is, I received a Paypal payment for a gift to "My One Million Friends" for $10.00 . After the fees that Paypal took (Basic Fee: -$0.59 USD) and a (Cross Border Fee: -$0.10 USD) the total was $9.31 .

Here is a picture of all the Pennies I received from a couple that became Friends on the "My One Million Friends" Homepage. There was 4900 of them and it took awhile to count. There may be a re-accounting of those pennies, when I start to roll them, mistakes may have been made during the counting.


I am going to be removing "Fun To Double" from the "Comrades in Doubling" Section because it appears the Blog is no longer in operation. I am sorry to have lost one of our fellow Doublers and his memory will be with us for quite some time to come.

Please, let there be a moment of silence as we honor our vanished comrade. Maybe he will come back again one day and his link can be restored.

Present Stake: $282.08

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.

Regards,

Xinfinitum


This Double Million Blog is based upon the Double Penny Theory "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". It is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million" by going from one penny to one million dollars, or One Hundred Million Pennies . Wise Old Owl, How many pennies until a million dollars? Let me see, One, Two Threeee! *

*Trivial reference to the commercial: How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop?


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Step 16 - Time To Ketchup

How To Double Your Way To A Million In 28 Steps
Things have been crazy lately and it has been difficult to get caught up on a million different things.

The Big Project, "My One Million Friends", has taken up the majority of my time, but now that it is mostly finished, I can pay attention to everything else, including my wife, who has patiently endured as I put in grueling hour after hour on completing the Website.

I was determined to finish it. It became an obsession, as the inspiration drove me on day after day, week after week. Bills didn't get paid, showers not taken, food not eaten, sleep not sleepened, through sickness and exhaustion I pressed on.

Now that it is done, I feel myself on the verge of crashing, but the momentum of the last month keeps rolling me forward and I keep working on it, improving things even now.

Only several days before the launch, when I ran all the code through a W3 Validator, there was over 1000 errors. I fixed them all in one day, at least bringing down most pages to only one mystifying error. Some of the pages have up to 25 errors still and I haven't had the time to figure them out yet.

So now, the time has come and I need to bring things up to date here on DTAMP.

(1). March 15th, 2007 - A friend sent me $1.25 worth of Egold so I could do testing for the My One Million Friends website. There was an Egold fee of (-$0.07) which I subtracted. $1.25 - ($0.07) = $1.18

(2). March 16th, 2007 - I spent (-$0.02) in Egold to do some of the testing. The testing went better than expected and I didn't have to make multiple tests as I thought I would.

(3). I received $1.00 in Egold from Alexacy at Egold-Biz.info for posting Five Posts in the Forum. But there was an Egold Fee of (-$0.05). Leaving me with $0.95

(4). Blondie at "Journey To Millions", became a Friend at MyOneMillionFriends.com by sending $10.00 in Egold. There was a fee of (-$0.20). But there was a Payee Creator Incentive Payment of ($0.02) so the total gain came out to $9.82 .

(5). March 17th, 2007 - Found a Dime ($0.10) under the front end of the Coinstar Machine, while shopping with my wife at Stop & Shop.

(6). March 18th, 2007 - Added the Brokerage Firm interest on the DTAMP funds in the account. Month of February = ($0.55)

(7). March 19th, 2007 - Received from an Internet Friend in Canada $1.06 in U.S. Money via the mail.

(8). Was given a "Jug of Pennies" with exactly 4900 pennies in it and three nickels for a total of $49.15 from a couple that became a Friend on My One Million Friends.

The total made since the last update was $62.79 .

My hope is that the My One Million Friend's Website will take off and be successful. But it has already brought back the (-$16.19) I spent on it so I am happy, even if it doesn't make another cent.

Present Stake: $272.77

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.

Regards,

Xinfinitum


This Doubling To A Million Blog is based upon the Doubling Plan "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". It is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million" by going from one penny to one million dollars, or One Hundred Million Pennies . At the beginning you start by finding a penny and then double a penny until reaching $1,000,000.

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Step 16 - New Project Launch - Now !!!

3..2..1..Zero

It is finally here...Launch Time.

Just in time for the Saint Patrick's Day Celebration!!

Announcing the Introduction of:
My One Million Friends !!!

MyOneMillionFriends.com

is Online and Ready to Go.
Also to go with the My One Million Friends Website is the:

MyOneMillionFriends.Blogspot.com
I hope you come by and become a friend real soon.

Thanks!!


Xinfinitum


This Doubling Blog is based upon the Doubling Plan "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". It is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million" by going from one penny to one million dollars, starting from nothing. At the beginning you start by finding a penny and then double a penny until reaching $1,000,000.

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Step 16 - Strange Events Hinder Launch?

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Late Breaking New

Ohh Boy !! Things are happening and they don't look good.

A short time ago as I was sitting at my computer working to get the New Project Launched something very strange happened.

It is daylight here right now but the blinds in my office are closed. Suddenly, there was a bright flash that lit the room, that came through the window. I must admit it startled me and my heart jumped and now my chest hurts a little.

Immediately after the flash there was a loud explosion or "BANG".

I looked out the window but everything was totally silent. I then went downstairs and opened the door, it was totally silent.

I live in the country and there are not too many other homes near me and not much around to go wrong. Unless you count squirrels starting a riot or something.

I thought maybe a Power Line Transformer blew up, but I saw no evidence of that as there doesn't seem to be any transformers immediately in my area.

A little while later I saw a Fire Truck, with their lights going, drive up by my house towards the dead end. I thought, well, if this is something to do with a transformer, where is the Electric company? Then, only a few minutes later, an Electric Company truck drove by up the dead end as well.

I hope everything is OK and no one got hurt.

Another concern is that I still have alot to do for the Launch of the New Project and if I lose power because they need to shut the power down, the Launch may be delayed.

Even Later Breaking News - The Electric Company truck stopped out front and I went out to talk to them, more liked yelled to them because the NorthEaster last night dumped over a foot of snow or more and I couldn't get to them.

They said they were not surprised that I was startled by what happened, when there was a flash, because it is apparently quite bright when it goes off. It was a huge fuse in the power line. They said I was lucky, because it lost power on one road, but I am at an intersection and I happened to be being fed from the line that comes from the other street that didn't go down.

I guess the New Project actually does have the Luck of the Irish for Saint Patrick's Day.

Present Stake: $209.98

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.

Regards,

Xinfinitum


This Doublers Blog is based upon the Double Up Plan "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". It is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million" by going from one penny to one million dollars, in only 28 Steps. At the beginning you start by finding a penny and then double a penny until reaching the final goal.

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Step 16 - Count Down To Launch

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Just wanted to make a real quick update as to what is happening. The Launch for the Secret Project is coming soon, barring any unforseen issues.

There have been unexpected snafu-ze, but I managed to fix most of them.

I needed some Egold to make a test with, but was finding it difficult to get a hold of any , as I had cleaned out my Egold accounts sometime in the past. Thanks to a friend in Canada, she sent me a generous batch and I was able to do the testing.

She also read my blog and sent me some American cash and change she had lying around. I really appreciated that.

I will need to add all of that to my stake when I have the time to do an accounting of everything. I have been straight out getting this new project up and ready to go.

It could be a matter of days or even hours now to launch time. 10...9...8...7...6...

Present Stake: $209.98

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.

Regards,

Xinfinitum


This Doubling Penny Blog is based upon the Doubling Plan "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". It is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million" by going from one penny to one million dollars, starting from nothing. At the beginning you start by finding a penny and then double a penny until reaching $1,000,000.

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Step 16 - A Little Inspiration

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Today I took my wife food shopping and afterwards we went to our favorite Chinese restaurant for lunch. It is the first we have been able to really get out in over a month, between my wife getting sick, me getting the flu/cold which put me out of commission for two weeks, and then her getting sick from my sickness and a bunch of other things.

It was nice to actually go somewhere. Plus the weather was nice reaching 51 degrees. Felt a bit like spring. Anywho, we talked about many things, including my new website, which I have been working on, in sickness and health, for almost a month, for every waking hour.

I told her all I wanted to get back on this, was the investment funds I put in from the DTAMP stake of ( -$16.19 ) . I would be happy with that even though I have put in hundreds of hours of time into it. I wasn't going to be greedy.

So, at the end of the meal, as is the custom, the waitress brought the fortune cookies. My wife's hit the nail on the head for her, usually she gets sayings that make no sense.

I then opened mine and I have to admit, I laughed out loud. I really liked this one. Perhaps, all the work I am putting into the new website will be worth it after all, or maybe some other
investment opportunity that I have cooking on the backburner will succeed. Who knows.

Back on March 4th, I made an estimate that the new website would be completed in a week, that would be tomorrow, March 11th. It will not be done, although, I did get alot further. I am making a new estimate and saying, perhaps another week, maybe a little less.

In conclusion, there are no gains to report, the stocks I purchased are scrapping the bottom of the barrel, and all the work I am putting into the new website has delayed the Creative Connections website design I need to get done.

That's all for now.

PS.. I noticed that other bloggers are able to write around the pictures they put up. I think it has something to do with div (clear?) somehow, but I can't quite figure it out. Have mercy on a poor old HTML hacker from 1994 and give a pointer on how to actually do it. I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Present Stake: $209.98

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.

Regards,

Xinfinitum


This Double a Million Blog "Doubling Update" is based upon the Free Double Plan "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". It is an attempt to "Double Penny to a Million"" by finding a penny and doubling it to one million dollars. How do you Double your way to a Million? One penny at a time.

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Step 16 - So Much To Do, So Little Time.

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The new project I have been working on, has been taking up alot of my time and completing it is like chipping away at an iceberg with an oceanliner. I keep getting that sinking feeling I am never going to finish.

But, I keep plugging away and everyday I make a little progress.

In the meantime, I wanted to say that during my building of the website I have been using a great Form Creating Tool from "FormLogix".

In fact, I am mentioned in their "FormLogix.com Blog" (towards the bottom) regarding the New Spring Version!!

I needed a change to the Checkbox Element and they added it to their New Version fast. Check them out.

Lets see, what else is new? I wanted to thank the person who purchased something from Megastep International. I received a commission for that of $18.80 on Monday, March 5th.

It worked out like this: $18.80 minus (-$0.85) (Basic Fee) minus (-$0.18) (Cross Border Fee) = $17.77 Net.

Also, a new Doubler has arrived and I have linked to him under "Comrades in Doubling", Jim at "Fun To Double" has started his journey and I wish him success!

Thats it for now, I gotta get cracking and push that "Secret Project" forward a little more.

Present Stake: $209.98

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.

Regards,

Xinfinitum


This Double with a Penny Blog is based upon the Doubling Plan "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". It is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million" by going from one found coin to one million dollars. It is a journey of starting with nothing, finding a penny and then double a penny until reaching $1,000,000.

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Step 16 - New Secret Project

How To Double Your Way To A Million In 28 Steps

I haven't had a chance to write or really a need to, due to the fact I haven't received any funds to add to my stake.

Today, I did find two pennies ($0.02) to add, so I thought I would take this opportunity to update this Blog and to also let you know that I am still working on this project and haven't up and disappeared.

One thing I wanted to say, is, that if you haven't been over to the Doubler's Den Forum I did post that I am presently working on a Secret Project that I hope to complete sometime soon.

It is a website and it is coming along slowly but surely. I have been working on it for several weeks now and I may have bit off more than I could chew, or at least my stomach wasn't as big as my appetite. In other words, I underestimated the size and overall quantity and the needed quality of workmanship and expertise that needed to go into producing this thing.

I usually make the mistake of underestimating turning my ideas into reality. What looks like such a simple idea, is in reality, a whole heap alot of work and effort to bring into reality.

The other thing is, I had a much simpler plan in mind when I first started, but as I went along it seemed to demand more and more quality tweaking and creativity along with a larger than expected learning curve on several areas of the site.

I am not a professional webpage designer and my knowledge of HTML is limited to last decade, notepad editing design techniques. So this slows me down when I need to figure out how do I actually do what I see in my head.

At this point I am hoping to be completed in about a week for an official launch. But perhaps again I am underestimating. So far, I have been working everyday and night, about 18 hours a day or more, and taking one step forward and two steps back to perfect this, rework that, redesign the other, and generally expand each area to make it something I would really like, if I came to look at it.

I also had to put together the dreaded TAXES material, which is a One and One half inch binder that is filled with Twenty-One paper packed, plastic sleeves. It took eight hours of two people putting that thing together and I did most of the assembling of information all the previous year. I dread tax time.

Last year, my completed tax forms got mistakenly mailed to someone else because the Accounting Firm left off one letter in the email address, which just so happens to have actually been someone.

It was a disaster of "Identity Theft" proportions. I do not think I have really gotten over that one. Fortunately, I was able to contact the email service, determine that the address it was sent to was a legitimate address, contact that person and they claimed to have deleted it because they didn't know what it was and they thought it was part of some sort of scam.

The accounting firm learned their lesson and now email the forms, password encoded. But I am still very leery.

So, if it looks like I am neglecting my Double To A Million Plan blog, you can see why.

Present Stake: $192.21

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.

Regards,

Xinfinitum


This Double with a Penny Blog is based upon the Double Up Plan "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". It is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million in 28 Steps" by going from nothing to one million dollars. First you find a lost penny and then double that One Lucky Penny until reaching a total of One Lucky Million.

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