AEN, Cogito ergo sum

I received this email some minutes ago of an internet marketer by the name of Desmond Chow offering me a position as web designer for their internet marketing company. What on earth do they want from me? Beautify their rubbish websites? Enough of internet spam and search pollution already!

I’m sure all of you who have used Google know how annoying it is when you get totally crap and useless search results of skillfully-crafted keyword-laden SEO sites polluting your search results.

The Email

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Desmond Chow <email-not-shown@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Aen,

I’m Desmond, an internet marketer. I’m writing this in propose of a joint venture. I’ve been in the internet marketing industry for almost 1 year, and i’ve earned USD100,000 in just 3 short months. I’m currently looking for professional and self motivated Web Designers and Developers to form a small team to work on certain projects. The below is what i’ve posted to fellow professionals.

Internet Marketing Prodigy Hiring
Earn up to 10k a month!
Basic pay of $2000/mth + Free coaching lessons + % of company’s gross profit.

Internet Marketing Prodigy earned $100,000 in JUST 3 short Months (Feb-May 2008), using simple layman internet marketing tactics and Only 1 Website. He intends to employ 4 IT personnels with good command of english(preferbably with Web Designing or E-Commerce background) where he will coach and work hand in hand with for the next 6months to achieve the million dollar mark.

Only working in front of the computer, no hard talking sales, no running around doing errands or meeting up with clients. Purely using the com for internet marketing. All Applicants must be above the age of 21. Fresh IT Graduates with honours and IT personels with relevant working experience are prefered. Paying a min basesalary of 2k/mth + commision up to 10k + free step-by-step coaching lessons to learn from him for what he paid USD10,000 for.

Only dilligent personnels with e hunger for cold hard cash, determined to be rich, wants to attain financial freedom and most importantly free from any form of commitment for the next 12months need apply.

Ps: This is NOT a Marketing Gimmick, MLM, or Any Scheme that needs you to put in money to “Invest” . High paying job of up to 10k a month. Send in your resume now! to oneshotinlife@gmail.com. Seriously, think about it, you have nothing to lose. Successful applicants will be called up for a final round of interview.

Hope to hear from you soon.=)

My Reply

Hi Desmond thank you for the offer but I have to decline.

May I ask what kind of websites do you guys put up on the web? Keyword-laden, ad-saturated SEO web sites with content aggregated (or stolen) from other sites, using crawling software? I hope I am wrong because such sites are what I called world wide web pollution. These sites have no value to users and are exploiting the nature of search engines to make advertising money with advertisers getting very little returns. I personally hate such sites to the core because I have to look at too many rubbish search results and is having a hard time finding what I want, simply because of god damned internet marketing websites plastered all over.

For the good of the world, for the happiness of internet users, please be green.

Aen

I have been playing this Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII published by Square-Enix for the past week or two on my new Playstation Portable and I just beaten the game on Normal Mode an hour ago.

The game mainly focuses around Zack Fair, a 2nd Class (and later 1st class) SOLDIER, and the events leading up to his destined demise. He meets many of the Final Fantasy VII characters, including Cloud Strife and Aerith Gainsborough, with whom he develops strong bonds. The game’s storyline takes the player from the war with the Wutai to the events at Nibelheim, and right up to the time just before the Final Fantasy VII beginning. Some of the missing events or plot holes from Nibelheim and afterwards are explained in the animated feature, Last Order: Final Fantasy VII. (source: Wikipedia)

Most of the time I spent on the game were on collecting items for a process call “Materia Fusion” whereby Materia — artificial spheres of crystallized mako energy from the planet’s Life Stream, and items can be fused together for more powerful and enhanced materia.

I beat the game with the following achievements.

Heike Soul (accessory) Reward for completing all missions. Strongest accessory in the game.
Divine Slayer (accessory) Reward for defeating Minerva, strongest boss in the game, in the final mission)
Full Genji Equipment Set (accessories, including Genji Helm, Genji Shield, Genji Armor, Genji Glove) Obtained through various missions and treasure chests. Genji Armor required 100% DMW.
100% DMW (Digital Mind Wave) Obtained 100% of all DMW Limit Verges.
Defeated Behemoth King a boss towards the end of the game.

It is a really good game although the difficulty levels are not as high compared to other Final Fantasy titles. Overall very enjoyable. CG is as usual top-notch Square-Enix quality. Cut scenes are meaningful and well-directed. CG sequences of summonings are killer.

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Lance Armstrong is an American professional road racing cyclist. He won the Tour de France a record-breaking seven consecutive years, from 1999 to 2005. He is the only individual to win seven times, having broken the previous record of five wins, shared by Miguel Indurain (consecutive) and Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx and Jacques Anquetil. He has survived testicular cancer, a germ cell tumor that metastasized to his brain and lungs, in 1996. His cancer treatments included brain and testicular surgery and extensive chemotherapy, and his prognosis was originally poor.

On 9 September 2008, Armstrong announced that he will return to pro cycling with the goal of winning the 2009 Tour de France. “After talking with my children, my family and my closest friends, I have decided to return to professional cycling in order to raise awareness of the global cancer burden,” Armstrong said Tuesday in a statement posted on his livestrong.com website.

Links
Livestrong.com
Lance Armstrong

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Meet “Greeny” the green plant Vivi and I got from IKEA. We are not sure what kind of plant it is but we like it because it has umbrella-shaped leaves and Vivi has a certain affection towards umbrellas. I think it is a nice addition to our room but we need to spray it with water every now and then because the air inside our room is dry.

I hope it grows well and I will post more pics when it does.