This is the very first thing I ever wrote for the Internet, way back in 2002 or thereabouts. It was published by my good friend Ed Thorpe in his ezine.

I wrote it then to get people to sign up for MY new ezine which was called "Geeks, Freaks and Bamboozles Free Gazette" back then. Heck of a handle, huh?

Anyway, I'm publishing it here again today to get you to sign up for our NEW ezine "Cuttin' Jackpots". You can do that right up there in the top right corner of the page. Go ahead, you'll make my day :)

Is the Internet the World's Largest Midway?

Why do I call the Internet the "World's Largest Midway"? I spent 16 years in the carnival business and I was pretty successful at it. If you've ever been to the fair, you might relate to some of my reasons.

Whew! Looks like we're going to be able to keep the Joomla CMS after all.

I finally mastered the Search Engine Friendly URLs from OpenSEF. Yes, I know, not too quick on the uptake for an old strongarm agent.

Anyway, having our old links from all around this Internet midway work was a big deal to me and after finally accomplishing that, I'm perfectly content with Joomla.

The next steps I'll be taking are to master putting the content where I want it to go instead of all willy nilly as it appears to be now and