What is the catch? Network marketing

This is 2nd part regard to Market America (MA) "Drink that purple thing! (aka OPC 3)"

After trying to learn more about this Market America from the wife... it didn't lead me anywhere... but I did hear some buzzword which I wrote it down... UnFranchise, residual income, BV (business volume), IBV, business center...

I decided to googling the buzzwords and found my own answer. Here are the "numbers" I got from online search (I cross check with the credit card bills).

Annual membership Fee $129.95 the first year and then $99.95 each year thereafter. This option allows you to leverage your time and participate in the Management Performance Compensation Plan (MPCP) and earn residual income commission by building 2 teams of business partners. **uhm, why does this seem to form a shape also known as MLM**

web portal $20 monthly, so you can have web site which has ULR marketamerica.com/[your store alias here] This is where you can as you customer to shop and earn IBV. I guess $20 is okay, consider it's a pre-made template that you can't customize and MA can place their own ads.

50 BV monthly of personal volume - "this equates to about $60 - $70 depending upon the items you are using". "Remember, each product has its own BV value assigned to it, but on average BV is 80% of $Cost. For example, $100 = 80BV." You do the math! This 50 BV is not for "you" it's pass to the person above you and "bubbles up". btw, this also encourage you to recruit others, more on this on later blog.


Misc. local seminar/ training (optional) $15-30 per month. I was told online training doesn't cost anything but if it's on location there is usually a small fee to rent spaces.


okay that was fun! So now I see the "initial" cost, what is the income potential? I think I'll title my next blog "show me the money!" to look into this burning issue.

* if I miss anything just post your correction, please don't spam my inbox.

Netbeans 6.5 some what documented setting up plink SVN+SSH on Windows

This is for Window's version of Netbean 6.5 it's needed for SVN+SSH

instruction is here http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqSubversionSSH it's missing a minor detail of setting up environment variable in windows. Here is what I did,

first download PuTTY's plink from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

if you are lazy like myself you'll want to setup enviroment variable for plink

• Open System Properties (by right click ‘My Computer’ - ‘Properties or by press button ‘windows’ + ‘break’)
• Select tab Advanced & click button ‘Environment Variables’
• You can edit System Variable : ‘path’
• Add path to your PuTTY directory. (don’t delete other path, just add with ‘;’ as separator)
• OK
• You can check whether you have correctly add PuTTY’s path by running console (cmd) and run plink.exe without fullpath.

rest of the steps you can just follow the netbean's wiki

very interesting ....NB 61supports Websphere

WebSphere 6.0 & 6.1

I didn't have time to try this yet, but http://wiki.netbeans.org/NB61NewAndNoteWorthy list a few interesting note worthy. I hope they improve the start up speed...

hack if NB keeps this up I can "saved" some RAD7 $$ and actually officially test this IDE instead of used it at home.

great job guys!

Netbean6 connect to my database

This is a new feature added to NB6. Some of developer will have a few application running while working with database and IDE. Can this feature replace the basic SQL query tool?

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/ide/mysql.html will give you a pretty good start and feel for this feature. Out of box I was able query data and even copy the row of data! But... but you can't edit the cell if you want to change say "Y" to a "N"... I know I can write query for that, but I am lazy ;)

Another thing I notice (with about 1 hours using this feature) it DISCONNECT from database!!!! Is there anyway to keep the connection alive? There gotta be an option to do this I keep on getting the error (see screen shot below) ... I had to first disconnect than connect again.


instead of keep on blogging I will try to see if I can found a solution to this problem and post the solution.

gotta run...

NB6 lots of features but can it perform? --testing in progress

My background on my road to Netbean6.

@ my day job I am using RAD7 like many developers this the "official" tool.
@ home/side job I had been using Eclipse 3.2 with Instantiations's WindowBuilderPro it's pretty powerful GUI builder.... but I have been slowly moving to Netbeans the past year (since NB5). Since some of the projects are Swing based... if you have not create GUI from Netbeans you can't use NB's Matisse (this is due to NB's GUI uses some XML *.form to store extra information). But if you have decoupled the GUI from the business and backend it's pretty easy to draw with new NB (unless you have a screen with 10 different tables with button covers all extra spaces, than good luck).

Here the link to new Netbean 6 features, there are too many for me to list... some don't really care for.

With that say let's install this bad boy!
First if you download the full pack you can select the packs you need... 470 MB!!


--to be continue....

Quicken 2008 == Quicken 2007 == Quicken 2006

Why it's always this way.... add more "feature" and paid (see vista)

Based on the few reviews I have seen of Quicken 2008, it doesn’t appear to have many new features that compel me to replace Quicken 2006. I usually upgrade every other year or so anyway. I have used Quicken since 1999 and have found it to be an invaluable tool to track my spending and manage my finances. Each upgrade I have found it to be a little more improved, but doesn't always translate into functional or a better quality product. I will usually spring for the Premier version as it has better investing functions. So I guess I will hold on to my $ and not upgrade this year.

Netbeans 6 beta 1

oh yeah, I been busy. Just notice this news
http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/60/index.html


I hate to say it, this release is a little slow compare to 5.5 maybe a good excuse to get an upgrade?!
but sooo many new toys pack into this powerful IDE!

cheers