Enjoy.

Upon checking my bank statement today and noticing the withdrawal I thought heck, I don’t need that site anymore… it is one of the worst designed/user experience websites out there anyway, so I canceled the account… or so I thought. It seems if you read the fine print, they say you can quit anytime you want, but don’t go looking for a refund:

3. Refund Policy. All fees relating to Subscription Services, including the initial fees and any subsequent automatic renewal fees (as further described below), are non-refundable.

4. Automatic Renewal Program. Upon your acceptance of an offer for Subscription Services, you will be enrolled in Classmates’ automatic renewal program to help ensure that there is no interruption of your Gold member privileges. Under this program, you authorize Classmates to automatically renew your subscription at the end of the term of the subscription you purchased, and each subsequent term, for the same term length of the subscription you initially purchased (unless otherwise stated in the offer you accepted). Unless you take the necessary steps to remove yourself from Classmates’ automatic renewal program, at the time of each such renewal you authorize Classmates to charge your credit card (or other payment method) at the then-current, non-promotional price for the renewal of your Subscription Services. If you no longer want to be enrolled in Classmates’ automatic renewal program, you can change your renewal status at any time by logging on to Your Account, clicking on “Membership Information”, and changing your renewal option from “automatic” to “manual”. Please note that changing your renewal option in this way will only stop future automatic renewals of your subscription and will not impact any automatic renewals that occurred prior to the date of your status change.

Bogus, lame and any other term you can throw at this doggy doo doo Ts and Cs. Account came up for renewal on Nov. 9th, and I tried to cancel on Nov. 10th… no go schmo! You just bump down to the free account, but they will keep the $39.00 thank you very much.

Must be some mafia backed group that runs this shite site and once you join the family, you ain’t leaving, capiche?

Pretty amazing offer as it stands.  I guess it will be interesting to see if other bands/groups follow this lead and give iTunes a run for its money.

I know that I have been able to post Tweets with hashmarks to drive people to check out my site on Flickr, but this time I didn’t do anything and when I checked out the numbers Sunday night I was blown away.

It seems most were interested in my pics of my camera rig, at least by the images that were viewed, so maybe somebody posted a link or embeded one on a blog/website?

Anyway, I need to find a way to generate some income from that sort of traffic so I can retire before I am 80! : ]

I believe in free speech and the right to have different opinions, but when I see a sign like this on the back of a truck, I have to wonder if in less than one year of Bush’s time in office, were so many calling for his removal with such heated and viral passion?

I and everyone else who voted for Obama may live to regret our choice, I don’t think so, but you never know. I do know that I had the choice to make and I did it with the most honest of intentions, and to anyone, that can’t be wrong!

Those of you who use Photoshop know that the minimum screen resolution is 1280 x 768, so, you would always have to guess or tab in ACR the last three selections cuz they didn’t show, even at full screen.

Anyway, I have moved on to a Dell Mini 10. Now while some are out there crying about how it only has 1gig of ram and no possible way to upgrade, that and the GMA 500 video card which will not run OSX, one has to come to a point where they say will it do what you want and then not worry about the rest.

They keyboard on the Mini 10 is perfect, fits my hands great and no problem typing at all. I have decided to leave it as a PC (gasp, blasphemy…) and see how maybe Windows 7 will run on it or maybe move to Ubuntu… we shall see.

This machine runs PSCS4 just fine as well as Nikon Camera Control Pro2, iTunes and Flock and… you get the idea. What I need it to run it does.

I decided to spit out some wallpapers for this and other netbooks with the HD screens, resolutions of 1366 x 768. Here is the first and more will follow, but at least those that want some hockey wallpaper can enjoy.

UPDATE. Final tally after the weekend of posting to Twitter via Flickr – 902 visits!!! That is a 900% increase from before starting the test. Can you say Oh My Marketing God! Come on, jump in. The water is just fine!

UPDATE. At the end of the day, 702 hits to my Flickr page, up from 96 the day before = 700% increase in traffic!

Here are the results of two things.

1. Now that Flickr can post right to your Twitter account, I have started posting a link to one of my iphone/ipod touch wallpapers with a hash mark of #iphone and the numbers to my Flickr pages, well, look above and see. Amazing results in a few days at the huge traffic growth as a result.

2. Using Flickr groups. I found a few iphone groups and joined and uploaded my wallpapers. Instant hit in traffic.

This is just another example of how Social Media ties people to people and can be leveraged to drive traffic to a website. Nuff said!

Way to go sis!