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January 18, 2006

First impressions count, even for the web

The other day while browsing some news on my new favorite web 2.0 news site, News Vine, I stumbled upon an interesting article. Apparently a group of researchers ran a study on how long it take the average person to decide to critique a site and decide whether they like it of not. The astonishing thing was that the researchers original guess was 10x longer than the truth was. It turns out that the people in the studied decided in 50 milliseconds. In conclusion the researchers figured this is what leads to the HALO effect to some sights leading to more visitor and reliability. So here's my question to you, what are you first impressions of PROnetworks main web page. Thanks for any feedback. Heres a link to the orignial artical; [Via BBC]

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January 06, 2006

Wife beater's club

There is this guy, he is very close to heart. he is few years younger, but i have been like a mentor to him. when he got married few years ago he becam every happy, with his life and of course his wife. i was equally happy with him and every other thingsfor that matter. like i have said a guy who is there every minute of the hour, a friend who, if he is not in his home he is with me in my own home. so talk about everything else, we know every bit of each other.

when they got their first child which he witnessed the whole process, he asked me ''why on earth do some men beat their wives even after seeing what they go through during child delivery''. i thought first, i should not know since i have not been in those men's shoes. i answered instead, they must really be out of their mind to do such. months and years have come and pass since then.

So this one night his wife came to house sorbing, angry, frustrated and washed up with shame. it was written over her,she could not explain what had gone wrong, why they could not avoid the whole thing. she did not want to explain anything at all, she wanted out, go back to her parents. she hated marriage and her husband and men, her two kids, not important that moment. i was weak to my knee, had nothing to say. could only plead she stay, used her kids as reason to stay, said something like, there is always trouble in every marriage. even though theirs was not just everyday marriage trouble.

Why on earth do men beat their wifes, or sometimes girlfriends?. why is it easy for the guys to jump on the wifes and treat them for that moment as their greatest enemy?. why is it easy for a guy to control his anger and frustration with other men but, not with their wifes. why do men beat their wife after given them the most precious gift, why do we men make our wives feel so unwanted whenever we feel the need to put {beat} them to their place. i am too scared to bring the matter up once more with this guy, due to the fact i won't be able to reason with him. i will only like to yell to him and ask ''why on earth did you do that'', this guy is a nice guy, not just by my judgement but that did not stop him from going all out just to show his wife who is the man in the house.

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