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PA & music gear for sale. Make an offer!

Music gear for sale: mixers, speakers, effects units, MIDI sound modules, SKB and Forge racks and more.

Items will be sold separately.   

Make me an offer for individual items or the whole lot.

Cash or bank check only. Located in southern New Hampshire. You must pick up. No shipping.

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Share MX bike storage near Sunshine Motocross

Anybody want to share MX bike storage with me at DeGeorge Storage on 126th? It's walking distance to the track. 6x12 unit is $60/month. Let's split the cost by number of bikes. Two bikes = $30/month. Three bikes = $20/month.

Submit a comment below if you're interested and include your email and/or phone number.

Your post will not be published so your contact information remains private.

AMC Windsurfing Weekend @ West Dennis, MA - Sep. 6-8, 2013

WHERE: Lighthouse Inn at West Dennis Beach
West Dennis, MA (Cape Cod)
WHEN: Fri-Sun, Sep. 6-8, 2013

Please join us at The Lighthouse Inn located on the water adjacent to the public beach in West Dennis, MA on beautiful Cape Cod. You do not need to be an AMC member to participate in this trip.

Registrations for the entire weekend must be received by the Lighthouse Inn by Monday, July 1, 2013 in order to receive the group rate and be included in the dinner Saturday night.  After that date, please call the Lighthouse Inn before submitting your reservation to request group rate availability. After July 1, the group rate is not guaranteed and subject to availability.

The per person charges for the Inn (which includes two nights lodging, full hot/cold breakfast buffet on Sat. and Sun. mornings, plus dinner on Sat. night) are as follows:

Single occupancy - $270 pp
Double occupancy - $230 pp
Triple occupancy - $210 pp
Quad occupancy - $190 pp

Cottage and hotel room accommodations are available. Please make a note indicating your preference on the registration form. For further information about The Lighthouse Inn, visit their website: http://www.lighthouseinn.com/ or call (508)398-2244

Accommodations include heated pool. Non-sailing spouses, friends, children are welcome to come along to enjoy the beach, the Inn, and the Cape.

Above rates subject to current 9.7% MA room tax and 7% meal taxes
Children ages 12 or under in same room as parents, no additional charges.
Check in is 3:00 pm on Friday. Check out is 11:00 am on Sunday, but we can use the hotel facilities, including showers, for the rest of the day.

A complimentary Pilates class is offered both Saturday and Sunday morning at 9:30am after breakfast. Bring your own yoga mat or use a towel. Floor is carpeted. If it's windy, the group will decide whether to cancel class.

Each room request must include one night's deposit, per person. 
Each guest of a shared room or cottage must make a reservation.
Make checks payable to: The Lighthouse Inn.
Mastercard and Visa accepted. American Express is not accepted.

To register for the weekend, download, print, complete and mail the registration form.
Lighthouse Inn Registration Form (right click and save to hard drive)

Download the Registration Form (PDF):
AMCWindsurfing2013 Group Reservation Forms

Complete the form and fax to 508-398-5658 or mail via USPS to:

Lighthouse Inn
Post Office Box 128
1 Lighthouse Inn Road
West Dennis, MA 02670

Include the required one-night deposit so that it will be received by Monday, JULY 1, 2013. You must use this form to make your reservation at the Inn or you will not get the reduced group rate and you will not be included in the headcount for dinner on Saturday night. You must be a guest at the Lighthouse Inn to participate in this trip. NO exceptions (sorry).

Equipment Rental: Please contact Inland Sea to rent equipment or arrange for instruction. Inland Sea is located one mile from The Lighthouse Inn. They will deliver rental equipment to the Inn.

Please notify Betsy Landon when you have submitted your reservation by submitting a Comment to this post.

Google Webmaster Tools notice when Crowdflower clicks stop

This is a follow up to my previous post about unwanted traffic from Crowdflower.

Now that the Crowdflower traffic to the site has stopped, here is the notice below that you will see in Google Webmaster Tools.  It's nothing to worry about, but it's Google's friendly way of telling you that something has caused a significant decrease in traffic to your site and you might want to investigate. 2,200 visits from Crowdflower in December, 1.62 pages per visit and 97% new visitors. Only 15 visits in January. Finally, the unwanted Crowdflower traffic has discontinued.

If Crowdflower has bombed your site with unwanted traffic and you subsequently see the message from Google, don't worry. It was bogus traffic anyway and only served to falsely inflate your traffic reports. I had to filter the traffic from my reports for two months so it wouldn't look like I did something to cause the traffic decrease when it discontinued.

Crowdflower.com sends spam traffic to your website

Have you ever noticed a spike in Referral traffic to your website? You probably got all excited thinking your website traffic is receiving a nice increase in traffic that will improve your website goals.  And then you examine your traffic analytics reports more closely to figure out where the spike came from. You discover that the traffic is coming from www.crowdflower.com.  :(

I examined the behavior of visitors from this domain and they don't do anything!! They mostly enter through the home page. They might visit one more page. They spend about 45 seconds on average on the site. Try to look at any of the many referring URLs and the pages won't load.

I looked up their street location using Google Satellite view.

2111 Mission Street, Suite 302, San Francisco, CA 94110

It looks like they are on the second floor of a dingy building in some dingy part of San Francisco.

They don't respond to my calls or email inquiries. I want to know who they are and why are they sending so much bogus traffic to my company website every month.  I have to filter this traffic from my monthly reports so they are not overinflated. The increase in traffic on the surface looks like I'm doing something wonderful to increase traffic. But, it's not legitimate quality traffic we care about, so I'm excluding it.

Maybe someone from Crowdflower will find this blog post and stop sending traffic to the site!

How to setup a blog with a GoDaddy domain to load without WWW

If your domain hosted at GoDaddy points to a blog, i.e. yourdomain.typepad.com, and you want to load your site without www, here is how you set it up.

• Go to the Domain Manager.
• Choose the domain (if you have more than one)
• In the Domain Information section, the last item in the list is Forwarding
• Click on the "Manage" link on the right.
• The windows indicates at the top: Forward yourdomain.com to:
• In the box below it, enter your domain with the www, like this:  www.yourdomain.com
• Click OK

It will take about an hour before it propagates.

I previously thought you had to add something to the CNAME (Alias) to make this work. But you don't have to make any CNAME changes as long as your A record @ points to your IP address.

If your domain is hosted by GoDaddy, your site will load with or without www. You don't have to do anything.