Today's The Day At OPFM

The OPFM flip is still set for today, sometime. It will probably start tonight. I hope. I still have to go and set up a payment plan. And I am not at all suprised to find that the OPFM forum has "Exceeded its Bandwidth." I've learned to avoid the forum just before a flip-- it's been insane over there ever since they announced the date last week-- the rumor and gossip and misinformation have been flying like a down pillow torn open in a high breeze.

Not only with people asking questions and speculating no end, but with scammers moving among the members. . . someone actually hi-jacked one of the more prominent member's email addresses, then sent out what's been dubbed "the energizer bunny" matrix email-- a clear rip-0ff of the actual, upcoming flip. They then sent out emails to a bunch of OPFM members, making it appear as if it was from OPFM and they should sign up with it. Meanwhile, at the Member Center (and Forum) everyone has been told NO information will go out through email anymore. At first it was only because so much email was getting bounced. . . but now there's another reason.

And this isn't the first scam attempt. A week earlier, a ProBuilderPlus person tried to make it seem like THAT was the next flip-- and got a hold of our email database. . . I wonder if it's the same person. I also wonder if they are in some way a connected with or a part of management. That would explain a lot.

The first I heard of it, I got a msg from one of my own downlines, saying she had signed up with it before she found out it was a scam and not our next flip. All I could do was tell her what I'd heard-- and encourage her to check the member center and forum whenever she got any emails.

You know, if OPFM doesn't work, it won't be the fault of the founder, Thomas Thompson. It will be because the whole system could be sabotaged by scam artists and scoundrels. What's that old saying? It only takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel. I'll Say.

Watch this blog for further updates about the OPFM flip-- if it does work out (and the management team has literally jumped through hoops to make it possible, so it looks promising), it'll be amazing. --mo

RSS Feeds that Work-- Really!

Well, it took most of the weekend, but I finally got my RSS Feeds to work properly. I can't blame the feeds. It's the instruction that I got that was poor. It left out this WHOLE part about how EACH item has to be on a separate page in order for the feed to actually work.

Of course, that meant that all the content had once had on one page had to be split into 18 separate files. . . and formatted. . . and re-formatted (when I remembered something essential after all the copies were made). . . and re-formatted.

Actually, it went pretty well. I was happy to find that as soon as I uploaded everything, my feed reader pinged everything perfectly. That's good.

So now my articles are all REALLY available in a feed reader-- and new articles will be sent out whenever I add another.

Of course, I did try to be as efficient as possible, making a template and copying each section over. But, as I said, there were inevitably things I forgot. There is just nothing like editing 22 pages of html (the 18 articles, 2 article pages on my site and the 2 .xml RSS Feed pages) all at once. :-
All I want to know is, when am I ever going to get a real day off? I got all this work done on Sunday. . . my day off. Oh, well. I didn't get a chance to post a blog yesterday, either because I was uploading my latest article to all the submission sites. . . then doing other marketing, as well.

I push myself too hard. . . that's my trouble. I went to bed at 1:30 a.m. Sunday night (because of the RSS Feed problem), then worked from 7:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. last night. Throughout my entire career in computers (since 1983. . . I was only 18 when I started) two things have always been consistent: programming always takes 3-5 times as long as you anticipate and printer connections are always the biggest sore spot in working with computers-- even with HP.

Some things never change.