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Archive for August 24th, 2009

Get the Gits

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Rape. Murder. Unfulfilled destiny. What a film. What a story. What a tragedy. This film has it all. And then it shows justice or does it?

You have to watch it. What a mystery and a great documentary.

There are a lot of stinkers out there and you would have to buy tickets at $10 per ticket to see some bad films. Here is a great film and it is free of charge. Click here to watch.

PayPal Raises Rates By a Lot

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Check out this series of articles. They note that PayPal has raised its rates to consumers and merchants by almost 3 percent. Click here to read them all. Their communications of the rate increase hasn’t gone over very well.

This price increase is antithetical to a technology world of ever decreasing costs and in an environment where banks and financial service providers are to be on the side of the consumer and merchant.

This position and new fee structure by PayPal is exactly why we are working so hard at Revolution Money to provide an alternative experience and fee structure to compete with PayPal. There needs to be effective competition in a market and there needs to be a viable competitor to keep the incumbent honest and on their toes.

Stay tuned to some new activities by us in this space to help consumers and merchants pay online and at much lower fees. I am surprised that these rates have been increased at this time in our economic crisis. For more information on Revolution MoneyExchange, click here. Sign up today.

Russian Women Want to Meet You

Monday, August 24th, 2009

It is good to be Ovie. It is good to be King.

I am kind of speechless. Check out this article and photos within. I am glad there are only about 30 days left in the off season but it is good to see Ovie back on the playing field again.

Alex is one of a kind and as he said in his latest MVP acceptance speech in Las Vegas, “What a life.”

DC BasketCases

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Kudos to DC BasketCases. They provide the best coverage of the Washington Mystics. The Mystics are on a brutal West Coast swing playing games at 10:00 pm EST. There is minimal coverage of the games so I find myself turning to this blog for detailed data and analysis of the road trip.

If the season ended today, we would barely qualify for the playoffs. This road trip is a tough one and then we return home for crucial in conference games.We are in quite the playoff race. We play tonight at 10:00 pm again against Seattle. We are in something of a slump of late and we need to play over 500 ball to maintain a playoff pace coming down the stretch.

Thanks DC BasketCases. Great stuff within. Click here to read this terrific blog.