As you guys know that Balkhis is hosted with Host Gator. Well today surfing the web, I found this coupon floating around which will let you get hosting form Host Gator for only 99 Cents for the first month.

This coupon would work for the Baby Plan on Shared Web Hosting Page.

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Enjoy all other benefits such as Fantastico and unlimited everything else with this account.

Follow through the process, and when it comes to the coupon part enter the coupon: Wordpress

This would get you 99 cents for your first month, and then you can pay $9.95 / month. This is a huge saving for your hosting account if you were going to get the hosting with host gator anyways.

I just thought this post would be helpful to all new webmasters or old ones who are deciding to get hosting. Spread this coupon out if you like

Last Tuesday I was at Market Leverage Bowl a Thon for Niemann-Pick C Disease which is also known as Childhood Alzheimer. Two kids of a Market Leverage staff member have been diagnosed with this fatal disease. We helped raise $4,000 on the tuesday, but that should not be enough. If you could not make it there, you can still contribute by donating to Bripardun.

I was bowling for team Affiliate Summit with Tim Jones from The Real Tim Jones, Richard, Myself, Amanda, and my cousin.

We had a blast, Missy Ward showed up a bit late thats why she didn’t bowl with us. Or atleast that is what I think.

Anyways our team won 2nd place and we got little trophies. Check out some pictures of us bowling.

Well we had a blast and we supported these kids. You can do the same by donating to Childhood Alzheimer’s Fund

Market Leverage is holding a bowling event to support Childhood Alzheimer. Market Leverage is helping raise funds for the sons of one of their employee. Brisan and Parker Stult have been diagnosed with this fatal disease with no cure.

They have been prescribed the medications that help extend their lives at an annual cost of $190,000 a year. So MarketLeverage has stepped up in a big way with all of the proceeds of the Bowl-A-Thon going to Niemann-Pick Children’s Fund in honor of Parker and Brisan Stults.

So if you live in Florida, specially in the Orlando area don’t miss this opportunity away. You can do something for a great cause as well as network with your fellow webmasters in the area. The cost is only $25 to bowl your night away. Their will be door prizes, and free t-shirts.

If you are not in Florida and still want to help. Well then you can still help out by sponsoring the event, for as little as 10 cents per pin. For more information please contact Dina at 407-268-7667 or dina [at] MarketLeverage [dot] com.

If you would like you can simply donate to Brisan and Parker. Your donations will be most appreciated and help with research and grants that will eventually lead to a cure for this horrible disease.

I know when I went to Market Leverage office, Dina, Rebecca, and I were playing bowling on Nintendo Wii and I was telling her how they should organize an event in Orlando area. A bowling event. Well, this fulfills my wish and it is an awesome event of networking for a great cause.

Kudoos to Dina and Market Leverage for putting on this great event!

Location / Timing

Airport Lanes
190 E. Airport Blvd. Sanford, FL, 32773

Tuesday March 31st from 7 pm to 9 pm

$25 entry fee per bowler.

I will try my best to be there

Twitter, a rapidly growing micro-blogging phenomenon, is taking over the internet. Day after day new companies are joining twitter and trying to get their clients. Bloggers are joining twitter to get more followers. Make connection in the industry. And so much more. In 2008 twitter’s traffic grew 752%. So I don’t see why users wouldn’t want to get on twitter. I am on twitter, Syed Balkhi. I am not used to of updating my life because if I am at Disney World, then I want to enjoy my trip rather than tweet what I am doing. But a lot of people update their lives. They get more and more followers and indirectly you are getting a lot of advantage.

Darren Rowse over at Problogger asked this question on his blog. Which would you pick, twitter followers or blog readers? I would appreciate if you guys go and vote there.

Right now the vote for Blog readers is at 701 and Twitter followers are at 107.

I voted for Blog Readers. Why do bloggers go to twitter? To get more readers. So at the end of the day, you want more blog readers. You can’t put everything you want to put in 140 characters. Twitter is too limiting. If I am selling a product, I am better able to do so on my blog. I think my blog readers are more important to me than my twitter followers. Blog readers can contact me through the contact form. Twitter, you can only Direct Message me, if I follow you back. I can’t follow everyone who follows me, so it defeats the purpose.

Twitter is great to get beta testers, perhaps get a quick poll, only if your followers are active. If not then you are screwed.

I will say that I will pick blog readers any day. The best example is that I would’ve never seen Darren’s post on twitter, but since I read his blog through my feed, I saw it.

What do you think?

So as you guys know that I was banned by digg a few days back because they banned me for having multiple accounts. Well I didn’t know that you could delete your account until I found out from the digg staff. So I requested them to delete my other account and started off with a fresh new account. So today got another email saying I am banned.

But the funny thing is that they banned me thinking I am someone named Jenna. Digg, you guys are just pathetic.

Hello Jenna,

Your account was removed for violating the Digg Terms of Service (digg.com/tos) that you agreed to.

“By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Services:

with the intention of artificially inflating or altering the ‘digg count’, blog count, comments, or any other Digg service, including by way of creating separate user accounts for the purpose of artificially altering Digg’s services; giving or receiving money or other remuneration in exchange for votes; or participating in any other organized effort that in any way artificially alters the results of Digg’s services;”

From our FAQ (digg.com/faq):
Q: Is it ok to have more than one account on Digg?
A: Unless you exist in two parallel universes at once, unfortunately no. To protect the integrity of the system, our policy is one person, one account. This is to help prevent users from artificially inflating Digg counters, which is explicitly against our Terms of Use.

Due to the nature and severity of abuse, your account will not be re-instated. This decision is final and irreversible. Please do not attempt to create any more accounts on Digg.com.

They really know how to treat their users. I mean it is ok if you guys want to ban me, but do not ban me because someone else fu**ed up and then you guys messed up.

Will never ever recommend anyone to join Digg again. Forget that I am tired of socializing there. Even though I made some good friends and got their IMs, but Digg staff is just not the ones worthy enough.

Sorry Kevin Rose, with all the respect I have for you, you have the worst staff ever.

Even though this is a vent post, I want to get it out there so you guys don’t waste your time on digg.