Happy New Year! With the arrival of 2015, I am recognizing that my website, bootedman.com will have been functioning for TEN years! Amazing!

And to think…
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Admittedly, I remain a steadfast dinosaur when it comes to acquiring and using a mobile device. For many years, I have strongly resented the outrageous prices charged for data plans that enable smartphones. Companies that are filthy rich get richer off those who pay whatever the companies want to charge, and in my opinion, are throwing away thousands of dollars every year in exchange for the minor conveniences that these devices offer.

Believe me, people still got along quite fine in the days before these devices became ubiquitous.

However, I realize that…
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My personal wish for visitors to my website from Pakistani vendors is…
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I wrote a post on March 28 where I provided a message from a representative from China who wanted me to contract with his company to make cheap, low-quality, crappy boots (adjectives added.)

I asked in my post what you would say in a reply if you received such an email, and said that I would tell you later what I did.
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Here is an example of an email that I received out-of-the-blue. How would you reply to this?
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I signed on to my YouTube account the other day. Haven’t been there for a while. For the past several months, the sign-on process has been pestering me for my real name, but I could always skip it and tell it that “Booted Harleydude” is the name for that account.

Now, however, Google forced a change on YouTube, which they can do since they own it. They now require setting up a Google Plus Profile or Google Plus Page. They are very clear about a profile being only for people using their own names, and that pages are for pseudonyms.

The problem is…
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