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B Is For Brain Tumor

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B Is For Brain Tumor

As many of our online friends have been aware, Debbie has not been well since the middle of 2010, and eventually after months of waiting, in the first week of January she managed to get an MRI.

Three days later the phone rang, and I went with her to the hospital, where we found that not only did she have a Brain Tumor, it was a large one.

She was admitted to hospital the same day, and they were able to remove it successfully.  

We are also fortunate in that it was not malignant, and she is now recovering really well.

Debbie created a lens about this, which you can find on Squidoo, and which tell the story of everything that led up to finding that she had a tumor, and everything that has happened since.

Her lens not only won a much coveted Purple Star award on Squidoo, on 29th March 2011 it was awarded Lens Of The Day, which is not bad considering that there are more than 1 1/2 million lenses on Squidoo.

B Is Also For Best Reviewer

Best Reviewer is a Google Adsense Revenue Sharing site that was created in 2010.

There are a number of  Adsense Revenue Sharing sites, which allow you to create articles and to share in the advertising revenue that is generated from clicks on adverts when pages from teh site are displayed.

What makes Best Reviewer unique is that instead of writing articles or just posting links to articles, it provides a form that allows you to create reviews in the form “Top 5 Movies” or “Top 10 Basketball Players” etc.

Each of the entries in the review can also be a link, which can point to an article, or even to an affiliate link (for example Amazon).

I created a lens about this on Squidoo if you would like further information on Best Reviewer.  I love the fact that I can create reviews in 5 minutes, and that it gives me “Do Follow” links to my articles.

If you enjoyed this post and found it useful, please can you help promote awareness that “Off The Record” exists by sharing this post with your friends.  We love Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Digg etc.

I Received A New Purple Star Award From Squidoo

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For those of you who don’t know about Squidoo, it’s a site where you can create your own web pages (lenses) on just about any topic.

A Purple Star Award is only given to lenses that are of a high standard, and also they must have been created by a Giant Squid, a lensmaster that has created at least 50 lenses of a high standard.

This week I was awarded a Purple Star for my latest lens, which is The Top 25 Tom Hanks Movies, and which I hope to make the first in a series.

Previously I have been awarded 3 other Purple Stars, for:

If you haven’t seen any of these lenses, I hope you have time to take a look.

If you are interested in creating your own lenses on Squidoo, CLICK HERE to learn more about becoming a lensmaster.   It’s FREE – and a lot of fun creating lenses too.

I Got A Purple Star For My Bournemouth Lens

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Well not me personally, my Squidoo lens on Bournemouth got a Purple Star.

What is a Purple Star?

The definition says:   This page was handpicked by Squidoo’s editors as one of the most remarkable pages on the entire site.

It seems like it was a long time ago now (although it was only 10 days) that I found out that my  lens had earned the coveted Purple Star award on Squidoo and started to create this post.   I was so excited, and  was all set to publish this new post about this, when I got busy with some other tasks for a few days, and then my laptop decided to crash on me.   The Hard Drive got horribly corrupted, and having realised that it wasn’t going to be possible to get the system restored, I decided to buy a new 500gb Hard Drive to replace the 120gb one that came with the laptop.  The existing drive was already 90% full, despite my offloading my Music and Movies, so getting a larger drive was the best solution.  Since it only cost $90, it was well worth it.

The problem is that any system restore like this takes time, and in my case 4 days!  It’s not just restoring Windows, it’s downloading and installing all the programs, remembering your logins and settings etc.  Lots to do.

I was very fortunate in that I took a backup 4 days before, and since I keep 7 days of mail on the server, I only lost updates to a couple of documents, and any emails that I had sent out in the last few days, but nothing else.   PHEW!  I am so relieved to have the system back…

And now it’s time to play catch up, and work on creating another lens that might get an award…