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The Captain Vs. Ike

It is now 12 days after Hurricane Ike hit and the captain tangled and the Captain is still without power.
I haven’t forgotten about all of my Roving Band out there and have some great tips I’ve been cooking up for you all. However, it looks like a regular source of power might not be back [...]

Squidoo + Freedom = Awesome

7 years ago today, I was sitting in a chemistry class at 8am in the morning with some of my friends at Tulane University. Several of them were from New York. The teacher walked in and made some kind of announcement about how ‘classes were suspended today’ and we were all very confused..until we saw [...]

Squidtop Gets A Giant Facelift

Squidtop, the blogging platform built on Wordpress specifically for Squidoo users and their friends, received a major facelift this past weekend.
The entire interface was upgraded on the backend to use the wordpress 2.x style engine over the previous 1.x engine.
The front end has changed drastically with some major overhauls and feature updates that should make [...]

Thanks Squidoo! It Pays to Be A Giant Squid

The Giant Squid Organizers send me a super special treat! My dog, Tank, stole it and wanted to show that he too had what it takes to be a Giant Squid…. I’m not sure, what do you guys think? (click thumb to enlarge, big photos…)

An Affiliate Network that Listens to Affiliates

I was editing my Profile on my Pepperjam Account today and I noticed something that I think is very cool.

So many of you folks have signed up with Pepperjam and used your Awesome Lensmaster Profiles as your websites that Pepperjam Actually added Squidoo as a Promotional Method in their System!
I think that this level of [...]

Squidtop passes the 200 Blog Mark

In the last few days, the 200th blog about squidoo was created over on Squidtop. That’s 200 blogs even after spam cleaning etc.
Zach from SquidUber has been an awesome person to work with as well. If you haven’t checked out his squidoo blog then you are missing out on some pretty good stuff.
Pretty cool how [...]

June Squidoo Earnings Over $2,000 Again

The Captain should go on vacation every month! While I was gone, Squidoo and my affiliate programs just kept right on chugging, earning me just as much if not a little more than what I earned when I was here at the beginning of June.
As my earnings numbers get bigger, I’m going to necessarily have [...]

The Captain Has Returned

Hey all,
Thank you all very much for all of your congratulations and best wishes. The wedding and the honeymoon were amazing! (who would have thought that I could go 2 weeks with no computer access ).
Now it’s time to get everything sorted and see how things went while I was gone..
Any news of [...]

The Captain Takes the Plunge

That’s right, The Captain is tying the knot with his beautiful fiancee!
I will be gone for a much needed vacation / wedding / and honeymoon from now until after July 4th weekend. I haven’t had any time unfortunately to pre-write any posts for you guys so you will just have to wait until I return [...]

Like Squidoo, Like Money? SquidBusiness

Squidoo Virtual Intern Derrick Kwa has started off a little initiative to talk a little bit more about squidoo and business.
He’s started up a new network over on Ning called SquidBusiness. Since I occasionally moonlight as a personal finance blogger as well as being a huge business nut / Capitalist freak in general, I thought [...]