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Spent my Sunday afternoon reading this forum. What a diverse group! I am 71(for 5 more weeks), married 50 years, 6 children and 14 grandchildren plus 1 great granddaughter. I worked as an R.N. for 34 years in a small community hospital. Diagnosed 5 years ago with sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome. Enjoy reading these posts and absorbing all the info.
P.S. Lots of fireflies here in mountains of PA.

I’m a 47-year-old, 220 pound, married guy with no kids amateur geek. I spent twenty-eight years in broadcast radio from the late seventies to just a few years ago. If you listened to radio in markets from Peoria, Illinois to Savannah, Georgia; and from Birmingham, Alabama to Little Rock, Arkansas… you may have heard me. My air-name was Joe Logan. We were tired of the moving around, so decided to settle down in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Not much education, I starting working while still in high school and never looked back.

Currently, I’m a customer service rep for Medicare. It’s an outsourced position with Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield. I’m hoping to move up to a position in marketing.

I hang on to my radio past with a small home studio. I record voice for television and radio commercials, long form video presentations, telephone messages on hold, radio station imaging sweepers and more.

My wife and I spend too much time on the computer... we have two.

My wife is a paralegal with a medium size firm in Little Rock. Mostly corporate cases, but it calls for a lot of hard work.

We have three cats named Rusty (15,) O’Malley (6) and Tucker (3.)

Joe,
Your name sounds awfully familiar. Why would I have heard of you in NY? Did you do any work here that would make me think I've heard of you?

kewl topic guys

Guest I'm new to this-what does kewl mean-please register so you can get a private message if it means to keep to the topic. Thanks for the reminder if it does.

krousseau,

I think it's another way of spelling "COOL".

Den

kewl=cool

BUT usually when it appears in a short guest post like the one above your response, it is just a spammer, hoping someone will click on his hidden link, for some nefarious purpose. Recently, the links have been hidden under one of the smiley faces. Just ignore them, they are posted by spammer robots.

Moogy

Moogy,

You're right......it's under the second smiley......I didn't check that out till you mentioned it.

Den

Moogy and Den,

Got two email links tonight under two separate threads and they both had the same response by "guest." Definitely spam.

thanks-don't know why it didn't occur to me as i was thinking it was a cool topic and great to get to know a little about others and how we are all dealing with this stuff

Sleepless on LI wrote:Moogy and Den,

Got two email links tonight under two separate threads and they both had the same response by "guest." Definitely spam.

Thanks, Lori.
They're gettin' sneakier. On the other hand, how many people click on a smiley?

Best wishes,

Den

If you right click on the smilie and select properties, it will show the link, which in this case came from the forum. I don't know if it's a bot or just a "x" CB'r wanting a time check.

That properties thing is handy to keep out of trouble or just fine info that doesn't show up. Buttons on web sites show the addresses they link to.

EDIT: now the Smiles doesn't show but the blank after the print shows a link in properties.

Moogy wrote:kewl=cool

BUT usually when it appears in a short guest post like the one above your response, it is just a spammer, hoping someone will click on his hidden link, for some nefarious purpose. Recently, the links have been hidden under one of the smiley faces. Just ignore them, they are posted by spammer robots.

Moogy

Not so sure they even care whether someone clicks on those links. Google rankings are calculated by the sheer number of "external links" that refer to any given site. So these spammers place lots of "external links" on various message boards across the vast Internet. Then as the Google bots crawls the Internet at large, they find all those spam-bot generated "external links". Voila! The spam-sites then enjoy elevated search returns on Google and similar search engines that rely on the sheer quantity of "external links" found on the Internet.

Perhpaps one way to fight these spammers is to get Google to quit crawling message boards for external links.

Jim,

This is what the properties showed when I right-clicked on it.

XXXXX ://rinhtones . seo-toolz . com/

(I added the X's and spaces so it wouldn't be a valid link....I hope)

I wasn't about to go there to find out where the link takes me.

Den

Hey Goofproof, I always try that right click and properties check for the URL but in this case you get a redirect to another site even though the URL points to this site . I didn't know you could even do that . You have to be very careful with these idiots out there. Just be careful on what you click on and I would report all posts that appear like this as spam.