Why Oprah Quits?

Why does Oprah quit? She said in her Friday's show that she will end that very show in September 2011. Some sources said that the reason behind the announcement is that because she'd planned to move from the present ABC to her own OWN, Oprah Winfrey Networks, a cable networks she shared with Discovery Communications Inc.

To me, that seems unlikely. Oprah Winfrey by any means is a smart lady. To quit the show just to start a new one with different network albeit her own, as lucrative as it may be, is not a smart move I'd expect from a person of her caliber. Especially when:
a) she doesn't need more money (she is reported to worth more than $2.3 Billion and is among the 400 Richest Americans by Forbes Magazine) and
b) that will be a static move in her career (a talk-show host is a talk-show host whatever the network is), especially for the one who've spent the last 25 years in that job. (And by any means, the tears she shed when she said she's quitting wouldn't mean anything if she's gonna host a talk-show again, would they?)
In other words, her motive, whatever that maybe, don't fit in the classical reasons why people quit their job (i.e  better salary or different positions that both pays better and more prestigious). 

So, I guess the reason why Oprah call it quits is that because she has a bigger aim. For a person of her caliber (both in wealth and influence) there are only two options left: become a full-time philanthropist or, most likely, politician.

But she is already a philanthropist isn't she? There are 865,000 search results for the keywords Oprah's Foundation in Google. The differences between a philanthropist she is now and the one she would be won't be much (the number of travels maybe? Yeah, like she doesn't travel often enough already).

So, that leave us to the last guess: politician.

And why shouldn't she? She has both the money and influence (she's among the 50 Most Powerful Women) to run a political campaign. Her political friends include, hm well, the top brasses of Democrat Party including Mr. Obama himself; the current President Of United States she helped rally a campaign for. Hillary Clinton once offered her to be her second in command back in 2006. She has hundreds of celebrity friends who will help her in the campaign and above all, she has full supports of millions who watch her show these last 25 years. If she quits in September 2011, she will have full 14 months to rally a political campaign before the United States Presidential, Senates and House Of Representatives elections scheduled to take place in Nov 6, 2012.

My words: Go for it, Oprah!

Spam Gallery: Herritage Lottery Fund

Hello folks, look what I've found on my spam folder this morning! A spam slash scam junk. Enjoy, and beware:

Heritage Lottery Fund
FREELOTTO.COM
P.O.BOX 2357
2107 DG-Weesp
The Netherlands
Telefax: Fax:+31 847 375 060

www.freelotto.com conbien with the lotto.nl
www.lotto.nl

Compliments of the season..

Congratulations!!!

We the entire staff of Heritage Lottery Fund Freelotto.com and the lotto.nl www.lotto.nl wish to congratulate you for being one of the lucky winners in this season's email cash award program.This is an independent promotion and is unconnected to any publication. No purchase necessary. Be informed that this lottery promotion was conducted through the Internet worldwide random selection, the participants and winners where picked randomly through a computer ballot system and your email have been selected as one of the lucky winners.

Your email have been officially selected as a winner and authorised for claim in the A draw 2nd category winning prize of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros.

For payment of your winning prize outlined herein are the terms and conditions for claim/onward transfer:

1. You must be over the age of 18.
2. All winnings has been Guaranteed and Insured.
3. All winnings must be transfered via bank to bank transfer.(2/3days)
4. An offshore account has been set up with paying bank on winner's behalf for onward transfer to nominated account.
5.Winners not living in the Netherlands: Non-resident winners are responsible for confirmation and activation of offshore
account with paying bank. :Due to the Insurance Bond Policy which has been paid for,your winning prize must reflect the exact amount won on the offshore account set up for onward transfer to avoid complications.
6. The confirmation and activation of the offshore account completes the claim process,
failure to do so will cause you to forfeit the prize.
7. Any leak of your winning information resulting in a double claim, will nullify your winnings.
8. You are obliged to have your name published as a winner and will be invited to be present in the t.v.show after remittance.
9. To be eligible for claim you must complete the claims process before the deadline stated in the winning notification you received.
10. Filing a claim means acceptance of the full terms and conditions of freelotto.com.and www.lotto.nl
Reply with your details and reference to your clamis angent below stating that you agree to the terms and conditions and that you wish to confirm your winning prize and activate your offshore account for onward transfer.
*************************************
Mr Clay Links
Phone:+31-644-230-304
Fax:+31 847 375 060
EMAIL:claylinks008@yahoo.com.hk
*************************************
Send the following to your clamis angent email or fax:
Coupon Number: 478-5505-WIN
Reference Number: PBNL/23711/GBF
Full Name:
Date of Birth:
Occupation:
Address:
Country:
Telephone:
Email:
Proof of identity:


Note: Claim expiry date is 20-11-2009. After this date all winning prizes will be filed
as unclaimed.Any leakage of this winning notification leading in a double claim will
cause you to forfeit your prize thus we advise you to keep this winning
notification message confidential away from public notice to prevent double
claims and impersonation until after remittance/payment to you.

CLAY LINKS,
Cliffe Mikerad.
Co-ordinator
www.freelotto.com conbind with www.lotto.nl


NOTICE: This message, including all attachments transmitted with it, is for the use of the addressee only.
It may contain proprietary, confidential and/or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege
is waived or lost by any mistranslation. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly,
use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have received this message in error,
please delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail

Spam Gallery: Leung Will

Another spam, folks, beware:

 Dear Friend,

It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because

you do not know me, Please forgive this unusual manner to contact you, but

this particular letter/email is of exceptional and very private nature,as by

virtue of my vantage position in Hang Seng Bank Ltd -Hong Kong i have a

lucrative business proposal of mutual interest to share with you.There is no

way for me to know whether I will be properly understood, but it is my duty

to write and reach out to you,TRUSTING that you will give this proposal a

positive consideration.

I am Mr.Will.Leung,the Executive Director and Head of Personal Banking of

Hang Seng Bank Limited,Hong-Kong with responsibility for the Bank’s

financial services to individual customers which cover deposits, loans,

trust, private banking, insurance and the Bank’s branch network.I will need

you to assist me in executing a business project from our bank worth US$25.5

Million.These funds were deposited with our bank by a customer of our bank

who is a national{citizen} of your country/region,who unfortunately died in

the December 2004 Asia Tsunami disaster .

For more on this natural disaster click on these links:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4530000/newsid_4537600/4537601.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4381395.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/international/worldspecial4/30quake.html?

_r=1&scp=10&sq=2004%20tsunami&st=cse&oref=slogin

http://www.globalsecurity.org/eye/andaman-us.htm

The deceased account has been declared dormants since 2006 and these funds

will be confiscated/declared unserviceable and turned over to the Hong Kong

government if the deceased business associates or next-of-kin did not claim

this money;since all efforts to trace any living relative of the deceased

proved abortive,i have decided that i will have you claim this money as the

deceased business associate/or next-of-kin,since you are from the same

country/region and perhaps have some similarities in certain areas.

Everything concerning this transaction shall be LEGALLY done without

hitch,as i was the deceased account Officer and all the relevant documents

of this deposit were kept under my care.

I will in the course of this transaction sends to you all of my legal and

valid Identities{I.D},and also our bank web site,where you can see my

pictures and resumes for your reference.

Please endeavour to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning

this issue,as i hope that you are a sincere,honest,matured person and above

all TRUSTWORTHY.Once the funds have been successfully transferred into your

account, we shall share it in a ratio of 30% for you,65% for me and my

assocaites in the bank and the reminder 5% to take care of contingencies.

I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below:

leungwilll@aim.com and finally after that I shall furnish you with more

information about this operation.I am counting on your anticipated

co-operation for a successful and hitch free business transaction between

us,that will be mutually beneficial,for a start oblige me these

information:-

1.Your Full name{s}:-

2.Current contact address:-

3.Your present Occupation:-

4.Your age:-

5.Contact phone numbers{Office and Mobile{cell}:-

{6}Your PRIVATE/CONFIDENTIAL e-mail address,if it is different.

Please if you are not interested delete this email and do not hurt me

because I am putting my career and the life of my family at stake with this

venture.Although nothing ventured is nothing gained,as it is said,the taste

of the pudding is in the eating,do give this proposal SERIOUS AND POSITIVE

CONSIDERATION,but mindful of the fact also that it is HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.

Your earliest response to this letter will be highly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Mr.Will.Leung

{Executive Director/Head Personal Banking}

Hang Seng Bank Limited

Hong Kong.{Asia}

www.hangseng.com

Email: leungwilll@yahoo.com.hk

PS:--PLEASE SEND YOUR REPLY TO US STRICTLY THROUGH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS FOR

SECURITY/PRIVACY REASONS: leungwilll@aim.com

A Poem To Remember: Naomi Intan Naomi

Destiny of a distant past, seen through clouded glass eyes
I saw you
But I didn't recognize
The greatest part has arrived
 A quiet carnival, such chaotic lights
blinding but comforting
wherever it gone by.
A type of loss. It's me who's losing
Heart-broken goodbyes
None are spoken
Even in this life


To Naomi Intan Naomi/NIN
a teacher i never met. 

Bali's Property Agent: Me

I am now officially a Bali's property's agent. My task is to find potential buyer, connect them to the land owner (or my affiliated agents), accompany them finishing all the legal requirements and then, hopefully, after all the papers had been signed, bag home a handsome commission.

The commission rate is 2.5%-5% of the total sale. But it would still be divided among the middlemen (the less, the better). It kinda cruel business, I think, in regards of the sum of money involved and the number of people who definitely want a share of that sum. Competition is high, and the price is always increasing. The word "chaos" comes to mind, but "hell" seems more appropriate. And it is the same hell that I now putting myself into.

Bali has long become tourists' destination, now it's realtors' haven. More and more foreigners decide to live in Bali after they spent their holidays there. The in-market Bali 's properties are relatively cheap compared to similar tourist's destinations like Hawaii or Pattaya. The low living cost attracts more of those who seek a place for their second home. With all those reasons, my choice of becoming a property agent is logical. So I build a website about Bali Property.  In my mind, it will serve as an information center of any available properties in Bali, as well as a promotion media of the same commodities. I really do hope it works.

So, either you want to buy or sell your property in Bali (land, villa, house, commercial building) you should visit dkproperty. com. I hope we can work together.

Tony The Interpretive Dancer

Tony The Interpretive Dancer is a nickname for the guy who dance onstage during Nirvana's Reading Festival performance. Some say that Nirvana (Kurt, suspiciously) invite him to do so, while other suggested that it was Tony's own idea (being intoxicated and all).

The fact that Kurt had done something like that in Nirvana's previous gig (he once invited two of his Olympian neighbors to dance using pom-poms) and that none of the show's bouncers shove Tony's ass off the stage tend to prove the former, in my opinion.

As if his luck to be the one who once DANCE onstage on Nirvana's greatest gig (in my opinion) wasn't enough, Tony The Interpretive Dancer and his intoxicated acts are now eternally etched in the official Nirvana's Reading Festival DVD, launched last Monday (November 2nd, 2009). 

How To Redirect Your Blogspot Blog To A Custom Domain

Redirecting your Blogspot blog to your own domain can be a real pain in the neck if you: a) have very little knowledge about Internet and, b) you host your domain on an unpopular domain registrar with poor customer support regarding the matter. I happened to be both.

(What I mean as unpopular is domain registrar other than GoDaddy.com and SEDO).

If you land on this blog page of mine after searching "how to redirect blog to custom domain" or its varieties, then almost certainly you've known how frustrating it was.

Despite its importance, it's very surprising that only a few helps can be found online. The fact that almost ALL of them use GoDaddy as a sample case isn't helping either. Furthermore, both Google and Blogspot help pages regarding the matter are so useless for Internet illiterates.So, here I will try to explain how to do it.

Note: the following instructions are only for the non-GoDaddy registrar.

Here we are:

1. Log in your domain registrar page. Search either DNS management or DNS services (anything with "DNS" term) tab. Click it.

2. Before you proceed, make sure that the servers on which your domain name (let's use redirect.com for an example) is hosted (called Nameservers/NS) have been set to a setting that is preliminary to use the "DNS" services above (some registrar made it by default, but the rest require you to set/change them first.). To do this, search for "Nameservers"/"NS" tab, make the change accordingly as instructed (it's only one click away usually).

3. After you set the nameservers/NS records as required, search for the Alias Records/A Records tab. Click it.

4. Most likely you'll find a page that contains your domain name (redirect.com) in form of either redirect.com or www.redirect.com or both, each of which has a certain IP address as Destination/Value.

5. Copy both name and IP address first to notepad (just in case) then click "Modify"/"Change" Records tab.

6. Edit/add/replace the existing records with IP addresses suggested by Google here so that the records look EXACTLY like the following (Note: use the reirect.com instead of www.redirect.com

Name   redirect.com          redirect.com redirect.com redirect.com

Destination/Value IP 216.239.32.21 216.239.34.21 216.239.36.21 216.239.38.21

7. Next, search for the CNAME Records tab. Click it. Modify or add the records with these:

On the empty Host/Name box next to your domain name (redirect.com) type www (without the dot "."), then in the Value/Destination box type ghs.google.com.

8. In your domain registrar page (it can be the same/different page with which the "DNS" settings are) search for Forward/Domain Forwarding tab. Click it, then enter www.redirect.com as the Value/Destination address.

You're halfway done.Next, log in to Blogspot. Click the Setting tab of the blog you want to redirect and then click the Publishing tab

8. Click the Switch To: Custom Domain. Click the Advanced Settings. 

9. Enter the www.redirect.com in the box. Check the check box next to "Redirect redirect.com to www.redirect.com". Save your setting.

And that's it! Bear in mind that all of these could take 24-72 hours to take effect. (Less than a day in my case, though). So, don't worry if you found an error page while checking for the http://www.redirect.com

References: 1 2

Spam Gallery: DR Adams Uba

Another scam folks:

ATM INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATION
OCEANIC BANK NIGERIA PLC.

ATTENTION:HONORABLE BENEFICIARY,


THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE VERIFIED YOUR DUMPED AND IGNORE CONTRACT INHERITANCE FILE AND FOUND OUT THAT WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR PAYMENT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT FULFILLED THE OBLIGATIONS GIVEN TO YOU IN RESPECT OF YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE PAYMENT.


SECONDLY, WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT YOU ARE STILL DEALING WITH THE NONE OFFICIALS IN THE BANK, ALL YOUR ATTEMPT TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF THE FUND TO YOU. WE WISH TO ADVISE YOU THAT SUCH AN ILLEGAL ACT LIKE THIS HAVE TO STOP IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT SINCE WE HAVE DECIDED TO BRING A SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM.


RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT THROUGH OUR SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER ASIA PACIFIC, THAT IS THE LATEST INSTRUCTION FROM MR.PRESIDENT,UMARU MUSA YAR'ADUA (GCFR) PRESIDENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE.


THIS CARD CENTER WILL SEND YOU AN ATM CARD WHICH YOU WILL USE TO WITHDRAW YOUR MONEY IN ANY ATM MACHINE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD,BUT THE MAXIMUM IS ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS PER DAY, SO IF YOU LIKE TO RECIEVE YOUR FUND THIS WAY PLEASE LET US KNOW BY CONTACTING THE CARD PAYMENT CENTER AND ALSO SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO HIM IN ORDER TO PROCEED IMMEDIATELY:


1. FULL NAME:
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER:
3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND
THE ATM CARD TO (P.O BOX NOT ACCEPTABLE):
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION:
5. A COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION:

HOWEVER, KINDLY FIND THE CONTACT PERSON BELOW:


DR STEVEN DUKE
DIRECTOR, ATM PAYMENT CENTRE
DIRECT LINES:+234-7082395707
EMAIL:atmcreditoffice009@uku.co.uk


THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT ($8,300,000.00) AS PART PAYMENT FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR (2009).ALSO FOR YOUR INFORMATION, YOU HAVE TO STOP ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON(S) OR OFFICE(s) TO AVOID ANY HITCHES IN RECEIVING YOUR ATM PAYMENT.


FOR ORAL DISCUSSION, I CAN BE REACHED ON OR EMAIL ME BACK AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR FURTHER DIRECTION AND ALSO UPDATE ME ON ANY DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ABOVE MENTIONED OFFICE.


NOTE:THAT BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS,WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU OUR CODE OF CONDUCT,WHICH IS(ATM-009),SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE CARD CENTER BY USING IT AS YOUR SUBJECT.


BEST REGARDS,


DR ADAMS UBA
CHIEF AUDITOR TO THE PRESIDENT.
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA