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	<title>Margret Sloan &#187; Projects</title>
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		<title>Extreme Computers</title>
		<link>http://www.margretsloan.com/24/extreme-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 01:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son is getting more and more serious about his internet gaming. That boy spends hours and hours &#8211; after his homework is finished, by the way &#8211; playing these first person shooter games with his internet friends. Now he&#8217;s complaining that his computer is outdated and too slow and he &#8220;needs&#8221; a new one.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My son is getting more and more serious about his internet gaming. That boy spends hours and hours &#8211; after his homework is finished, by the way &#8211; playing these first person shooter games with his internet friends. Now he&#8217;s complaining that his computer is outdated and too slow and he &#8220;needs&#8221; a new one.</p>
<p>Well, since school is out for the summer, I thought it would be a great idea for him to build his own computer from a Do It Yourself kit. That way he can pick and choose exactly what components he wants and he will learn a lot from the hands on experience of putting together a computer.</p>
<p>There is a great site on the internet that sells the kits for different kinds of computing needs, including the super charged <a href="http://www.easyasmypc.com">gaming computers</a> like my son wants. The parts are all big name brands and fully warranted, so I&#8217;ll be sitting down with him tomorrow morning and choosing the specific parts he wants to order and we&#8217;ll order his DIY kit.</p>
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		<title>Finding a Host</title>
		<link>http://www.margretsloan.com/24/finding-a-host/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you can find enough free stuff on the internet, such as free homepages using Yahoo or MSN, and other free trials for 30 days that you can do a small personal project and not have to spend any money. But eventually you need more than what the free things can provide. When you are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes you can find enough free stuff on the internet, such as free homepages using Yahoo or MSN, and other free trials for 30 days that you can do a small personal project and not have to spend any money. But eventually you need more than what the free things can provide. When you are ready to have a website more sophisticated or complex than the free sites out there, you need to consider several different things in your search for a hosting service.</p>
<p>Obviously, the monthly or annual cost is going to be a big factor in your selection, but there are many other things to consider and should be compared between several options before you make a decision and commit. Now there is a website that has taken the top 25 hosts and done the research for you with their findings in chart form. By reading through the chart you can easily find which hosts offer the most storage space, which ones charge a setup fee, and other things.</p>
<p>For example, I am looking for a new hosting services that is <a href="http://www.webhostingchoice.com/directory/windows.shtml">windows</a> based and can support an MS Access database.  If I use shopping cart technology for my site and need to track order status and inventory tracking, using a database will be a critical component of the site. By consulting the chart at Web Hosting Choice, I can easily eliminate the ones that don&#8217;t meet my criteria and focus on the other features between the ones remaining.</p>
<p>Links within the chart click me through to the actual site for signing up.Â  The charts are a real timesaver and worth bookmarking to come back later if you expect to have a need for a new web host in the near future.</p>
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		<title>Austin Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.margretsloan.com/14/austin-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that second to San Jose, the best city in America for tech companies is Austin. The home office of Dell Computers and thousands of software and computer related companies all have either home offices or satellite offices in Austin.
This is true for Pragma Systems, too. This company was founded in 1990 to design, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone knows that second to San Jose, the best city in America for tech companies is Austin. The home office of Dell Computers and thousands of software and computer related companies all have either home offices or satellite offices in Austin.</p>
<p>This is true for Pragma Systems, too. This company was founded in 1990 to design, develop and port networking software for the big corporations, like Sony, Boeing, HP, Motorola and dozens more of the Fortune 500 companies that we all know and recognize.</p>
<p>A leader in <a href="http://www.pragmasys.com">SFTP</a>, Pragma Systems is the place to go when you need secure connectivity.</p>
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		<title>Direct Marketing Needs a Good List to Start</title>
		<link>http://www.margretsloan.com/13/direct-marketing-needs-a-good-list-to-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are still using direct marketing because it works. Professional marketers know that a successful direct marketing campaign will have a certain percentage of response, and they can structure the costs and resources invested in that campaign to allow for the profit expected from a predicted response and conversion rate.
To begin a direct marketing campaign, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People are still using direct marketing because it works. Professional marketers know that a successful direct marketing campaign will have a certain percentage of response, and they can structure the costs and resources invested in that campaign to allow for the profit expected from a predicted response and conversion rate.</p>
<p>To begin a direct marketing campaign, you need a team of experienced professionals to contribute their expertise. An idea person for the creative parts, a copywriter that knows how to pitch the product to the desired target audience, a salesperson who can close deals, and perhaps most important, a good list of people to receive and consider theÂ materials.Â </p>
<p>Good lists can be expensive, which is why I looked into <a href="http://www.wholesalelists.net/">Wholesale Lists</a>. They offer quality lists in three main categories at low prices: Consumer Database, Business Database, and a Responsive Buyers Database.</p>
<p>For a client&#8217;s project involving offers to refinance a home, I would suggest considering their <a href="http://www.wholesalelists.net/mortgage_databases.php">mortgage list</a> and I especially appreciate their 100% guarantee on their data.</p>
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		<title>Project Eve</title>
		<link>http://www.margretsloan.com/26/project-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anything]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Standards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After getting edens diamonds done I now have started to work on Project Eve which will be located at http://www.evesdiamonds.com .This will sell only Diamond jewelry tailored for women. We have been busy with deciding which authoring tool to use when making this website and we may even go with an open source platform. After [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After getting edens diamonds done I now have started to work on Project Eve which will be located at <a href="http://www.evesdiamonds.com/">http://www.evesdiamonds.com</a> .This will sell only Diamond jewelry tailored for women. We have been busy with deciding which authoring tool to use when making this website and we may even go with an open source platform. After that it a team of us will be uploading the content and descriptions of the diamonds for weeks on end. So as you can read,Â alot of work is underway, so please do not be mad if I am not able to blog alot in the coming weeks I am just real busy.</p>
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		<title>Diamonds Project</title>
		<link>http://www.margretsloan.com/19/diamonds-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working with friends on a jewelry store idea that sells diamonds and other fine jewelry. After a couple months of work we have put together the website and are about ready to launch our diamond store early this April. My friends have been busy, buying up diamonds all accross the world and are seeking a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Working with friends on a jewelry store idea that sells diamonds and other fine jewelry. After a couple months of work we have put together the website and are about ready to launch our <a href="http://www.edensdiamonds.com" title="diamond">diamond</a> store early this April. My friends have been busy, buying up diamonds all accross the world and are seeking a good location in California for a diamond shop. Should be interesting to see just how many diamondsÂ they do sell online versus the store front location.</p>
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		<title>Adult Age Verification</title>
		<link>http://www.margretsloan.com/13/adult-age-verification/</link>
		<comments>http://www.margretsloan.com/13/adult-age-verification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margret</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of my projects are centered around selling adults products and alot of websites mainly adult stores require some sort of age verification and some require backround checks before you can become a member or buy products from them, the question I have is does it really work? If someone young enough wanted to just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many of my projects are centered around selling adults products and alot of websites mainly adult stores require some sort of <a href="http://shop.sex-superstore.com/cgi-bin/click.cgi?8789">age verification</a> and some require backround checks before you can become a member or buy products from them, the question I have is does it really work? If someone young enough wanted to just click to enter a store what can be done to really indentify that the person is really of age or even who they say? To me it seems silly to have to put a page up asking a user if they are old enough to me this is the responsibilty of the computer owner notÂ the site owner but was wondering what everyone else on the web thought about this issue and if anyone had anyÂ ideas on how to better verify a users age or identity.</p>
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		<title>Project Shotguns</title>
		<link>http://www.margretsloan.com/08/project-shotguns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have been working on the second leg of this massive project the website http://www.shotgunsshotguns.com sells twice as many shotguns as anyone else on the internet. I did not know there were so many differnt ypes of shotguns when I started this website I mean i sawÂ a few at walmart and gun dealerships around town but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have been working on the second leg of this massive project the website <a href="http://www.shotgunsshotguns.com/">http://www.shotgunsshotguns.com</a> sells twice as many shotguns as anyone else on the internet. I did not know there were so many differnt ypes of shotguns when I started this website I mean i sawÂ a few at walmart and gun dealerships around town but when I got the list of shotguns from my employer I was like omg and wtf I way underbid this job lol. So now I have to work double time and overtime in order to complete the clients website and i even asked for some help from friends to upload content and pictures and to do other repatative things while I work on the more complicated matters of the website design. It is going to be a girl party all this week and I am actually quite excited that it is alot more work because now my friends get to come over and stay. Thanks god all my friends have laptop computers and my network is wireless otherwise I would have to drag out some old relics from the storage shed and go thru setting them up and updating all the stuff and blah blah blah blah. One day i will have the baddest laptop on the planet and when that day comes watch out world because I will be mobile.</p>
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		<title>Current project selling rifles</title>
		<link>http://www.margretsloan.com/06/current-project-selling-rifles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have been enlisted to make several websites related to selling firearms online and providing information including pictures and videos of them, Was a little hesitant at first to take on the project but decided after some time to give it a shot. The them they choose we to offer twice as many guns as anyone [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have been enlisted to make several websites related to selling firearms online and providing information including pictures and videos of them, Was a little hesitant at first to take on the project but decided after some time to give it a shot. The them they choose we to offer twice as many guns as anyone else so they choose to go with domains like <a href="http://www.riflesrifles.com/">http://www.riflesrifles.com</a> . This site will offer twice as amny rfiles for sale as any other website on the planet and yes the guys who own it are licensedÂ  gun dealers so there is no shadiness and the site also will require backround checks when it opens along with several other security measures to ensure guns are only sold to people who are legal to buy and own them. I have alot fo ideas on how the look of the site should be and have put together a couple of attractive examples and will soon know which template they want to use on the site. Any suggestions are welcome once the website is up from anyone out there on the design and would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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