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As it is almost the end of the month, here’s the first of my monthly round-ups.
In these posts I’ll talk about almost everything I’ve posted in the past month. Especially the posts that needed a follow-up, but are to small to dedicate a complete post to it.

After finding my old Commodore 64 I played a few days on it for old times sake, but then it went into a closet once again. Maybe in another 10 years I’ll gonna have some fun on it again.

I and my teammates for the Chambers trophy 2007 also made the news at a local TV station here in Belgium. You can find 5 movies of this event by following this link or you can look at the movie where I and my fellow Mexicans are stealing the show (in the first appearance, I’m the one on the right and on the last appearance I’m the one on the left).

In September 2007 I posted the first of my Must Read Tips. There will be other tips soon

As you’ll all know this site’s about me and my million dollar challenge. Well I’m $25 closer to my target of 1 million dollars, by writing posts for Blog to Profit. I’m gonna send them a mail one of these days and ask if there are other jobs waiting

This concludes my round-up of September 2007, now up to the next month

A few weeks a go I subscribed myself at Blog to Profit.
They pay you for posting on your own blog. How does it work? Well it’s pretty easy, once you’re accepted they’ll take you up for the test.
Last week I’ve got an email where they asked to post 5 articles to my blog with a specific anchor text and link to the sponsor’s site.
All they ask is that your post should contain a few lines and that you didn’t copycat it from somewhere.
After I confirmed that I’m willing to try and make these 5 posts, they’ve send me an excel sheet with the particular anchor text and link to the site.
Also they set a time limit to post. You must complete the posts within 5 days. So 1 post a day is enough if you like.
How you do it is completely up to you. You can review their site, you can refer to them, or like I did, make a post like I do normally and try to fit in the anchor text on a normal way.
I must admit a few of them weren’t easy to fit into a post that doesn’t have anything to do with the anchor text itself. But I’ve succeeded.

Every-time I made a post, I updated the excel sheet with the posting date and the permanent URL of my article about this specific post.
When you complete your 5 posts, you’ll have to email the updated excel sheet back to Blog To Profit so they can review your articles and approve them.

Again a couple days later I received an email stating that they approved my posts and that the promised money was going to be transferred via paypal on Wednesday the 26th of September.
While checking my mails this morning, there was one mail from paypal with the message that I’ve received a payment from Blog to Profit.

For those who are wondering what the posts are that I’ve made for them, I’ve made up a little list:

Now I just have to wait again until they ask me again for creating some posts with links

On Saturday we went to Durbuy, the smallest city of the world with around 24 colleagues from work for a day full of adventure.
At 9:30 am we were on our way for a 90 minutes drive to our destination, La Ferme de Durbuy. A nice old farm that has been renovated into a hotel/restaurant.

Once there we were welcomed with a fresh glass of orange juice or a coffee for those who still weren’t awake.
After this refreshing moment we walked to the terrain where all the action was taking place. On our way down we had to divide ourselfs into 2 groups.
The first challenge was to find and answer 10 questions that were stapled to the tree’s. We’ve got 9 out of 10 questions right. The other group got 8 questions right.

Our second test was quad-riding . Most of us haven’t ride a quad before (me included) so it was a whole new experience. I thought we are all going to get a quad and then had to drive a 5 to 10km or so.
But I was wrong, there were 2 quad’s waiting and a track with a few curves in it. At first I was very disappointed. We decided that each one of us got to ride 5 to 6 laps before changing riders.
The fastest lap of our group counted for the challenge. We did 1 lap in 23 seconds (our track was still wet). The other group did it in 21.5 seconds on a dry track.
I must say it’s much harder then driving a go-cart.

After this we went to the shooting area to shoot some arrows and bullets.
Around 1pm we had a sandwich lunch to gain some strength for the afternoon challenges.
The first thing we did was the Jungle trail. Walk over some ropes that where spanned in the tree’s at about 9 meters heigh. I thought it was going to be much harder to do this, but it was a fun experience.
The last test we had to do against each other was filling a barrel with water to raise a heavy rock. The water we had to get from the river and then transport it on the fastest way to the assembled “water-transporter”.
It all came down to team work on this exercise. We did it in 17 minutes and the others in 18 minutes.

But then the fun part started, as we finished our test much faster then the other group, we could ride the quads until they got back. And that took forever.
We immediately saw that the dry track would gives us much faster times then when we first drove the quads. On one of my first round I’ve set the fastest time of the day, 20.7 seconds. And after I’ve said this is the last time I’m going to ride the quad for the 7th or so time, the other group came back.

It was time to go to the old farm again but this time we went trough a cave and via a narrow path aside the river. So we had to watch out we didn’t fell in. Once arrived at the farm/hotel/restaurant, we got some drinks to cool down from the walk. About 1 hour later we got invited to sit down at the tables and have a good meal.
At 9pm we all left Durbuy to head home for a nice rest, which I surely needed.

If the people from Durbuy Discovery are reading this, thx for the great day!

Recently I stumbled upon the The People’s Media Company site.
Here everyone can publish their content in any format on any topic. Then this content will be published on their own site or on content partner sites

If you submit your content, you can ask yourself, is this content good enough to be paid fore? If so, you can submit it for upfront payment consideration. If they approve your content, a Content Manager will email you with an offer that they will pay you via paypal. You then can accept, decline or even resubmit your content in an improved version. Associated Content pays Content Producers via PayPal on various days of the week, although payments may occasionally be made on extra days when the volume of submissions is very high.

Another thing you can do is write an article for free and try and get traffic from this post to your blog, like the ‘AC Neil Crespi files’ post on AC.

Ok, this isn’t a money making machine, but when they published your content on their site or on their content partner sites, you’ll be getting part of their traffic. And then it’s up to you to do something with this newly gained traffic.

It’s believed that Frank De Winne will go to the ISS for 6 months in 2009, althoug this isn’t official confirmed.
He will fly to the ISS with the Russian Sojoez. If this goes trough, it will be his second time in space, after his spaceflight in october/november 2002, also with the Russian Sojoez capsule.

But maybe he’ll go to space even earlier, as he’s french’s Léopold Eyharts backup who’s set to go to space in december this year. The launch is sheduled for 6 december. They will do their trip to space with the spaceshuttle Atlantis. The main job they have to do is to connect the lab-module Columbus to the ISS.

Hopefully this will be covered on NASA tv, so we can watch this.

I do hope nothing will happen with the French astronaut, but deep down my Belgian hearth and voice is saying let Frank go. Who know’s, maybe Léopold will get sick or needs a face lift surgery at the last moment? And then it will be Frank’s turn.

As long as we’re talking about space, I can give you a short update about Q-music’s trip to space give away.
I did the test on their site. They’ve asked 30 space related questions and the 20 best scores and fastest times to awnser of each province, were selected to take part at the elemination rounds. I scored 27 out of 30, but this wasn’t good enough it seems. Too bad for me.  From these 100 candidates, they went to 25, 5 people of each province.
At the moment they are eleminating these 25 to 5 people who still can win the trip to space.