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From my publisher (Wiley/Wrox):
Hello everyone,
I have placed the order for the addresses you provided. The US addresses should receive the books by the end of this week. The international addresses should receive the books by the end of next week.
Thanks,
Ashley
Please drop a comment over when you receive your copy. International copies were shipped. Despite demand, we cannot ship any more free copies, sorry. Thank you for your interest. Enjoy!
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I am not feeling well lately, but have not abandoned this blog. The book is on schedule, and I am OK overall (nothing life-threatening), but I posting may be a bit slower over the next few weeks because of general malaise.
No worries, though. The book is on schedule, and I'm OK. Guest posts are welcome. Contact me if interested.
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Excerpt: Guest post by Joost de Valk. Every now and then when you search, whether it be Google, MSN, or Yahoo — RSS feeds show up in the SERPs. For instance, if you search for the popular blog boing boing on Google, the third result is the FeedBurner feed of that particular blog. This, of course, is a "bug." Most of us don't want feeds listed in the SERPs. It does however, make you think: Feeds are bound to rank for some terms unless they are excluded somehow. I won’t go in to why search engines seems to…
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