Well I did it. And I weigh 172lbs today, down from 190lbs about 8 weeks ago. Thanks Adam.

I wanted to just write quick follow up post about Adam Gilbert and who I introduced to you on April 25th. I started his MyBodyTutor program around that time and followed it to a T. During our initial phone conversation he customized a diet plan that would work for me based on my current vices and dislikes so that I’d be comfortable with the food right from the get go. He also came up with an exercise plan for me with some basic exercises to expedite the weight loss which were hardly excruciating and took just about 30-45 minutes a day, 3-4 days a week.

Like a Mac, his program just works. I think the 18lbs I’ve lost and the incredible change my body has went through is evidence of that.

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For anyone that hasn’t already heard me ramble on about page ranks, it’s a number that Google assigns to your website based upon the amount of incoming/outgoing links, search engine optimization, and traffic. The higher the score, on a scale of 1-10, the more various ad networks will pay you.

Quite a few of us in the Forum hop on over to a page rank checker every month or so in hopes of a boost in our rank. You can check your current number at a site like PageRank Checker.

What you may notice is that your URL with and without the www. can have different page ranks. This is because some people may have forgotten to include the www. when linking to your site, or they copied and pasted exactly what was in the address bar in their browser.

If you were to visit a couple of our member’s websites, you’d notice that it doesn’t automatically include the www. if you don’t type it (Aaron’s BlackRock’s Business Ideas and Kevin’s KMull.com for example). Whereas, another young go getter’s site, Kineda, does automatically do it.

So how did Terry at Kineda get this to work? Quite simply.

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If you love to share the details of your life through Twitter, you’ll love this handy tool. TwitterMail creates an e-mail address for your twitter account, which will automatically post an entry on twitter when you send an e-mail to it.

You’ll want to keep your TwitterMail address a secret though, as it enables anyone that knows it to post to your Twitter account. Other than this potential pitfall, TwitterMail is a handy tool for Twitter-ers.

On hold with our ISP tech support right now, sixth call, less than 2 hours into the workday. Through this laborious process I did manage to learn a secret: When you’re put on hold, they can hear everything you’re saying.

“Okay, I’m back. I heard you mention that the other computers were seeing the same thing?”

But, wait, how, you heard that? That was a few minutes back, and there was music playing, and I was holding.

So watch what you say on hold. “This jackass doesn’t know what he’s doing and I’m getting sick of hearing his voice” may not be the wisest thing to say while holding. So keep your mouth shut, and that V.I.P. service won’t turn into S.H.I.T.

This is somewhat of a follow-up to a post back in May, How to work on your blog without anyone having the slightest clue. In that post, I provided a plugin that enables you to preview a theme you’re working on without anyone else seeing it, and the steps to do so.

Today, I’ll share another plugin that allows you to create a window of time for your new theme’s launch and work out the bugs, all behind the curtain.

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