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Online Dating Guide in Plucker format

October 2nd, 2007 desrod Posted in E-Books, Learning | 3 Comments »

This is a bit of an odd creation, but I thought a lot of people would find this useful and fun.

I found a blog entry Little Red Rails about “Online Dating”, while looking for some other material. I browsed the content, and found that it was very thorough, and very well-researched. I decided to take the time to convert it into Plucker format.

A few years back, I was at the bar with some friends from work. This was at a time well into my online dating experience. By this point, I was sold on internet dating and thanks to growing dating experience, I was becoming very comfortable meeting new people. On this evening, I had a very brief conversation with the girl sitting next to me and asked her out as I was leaving. Based on how breifly we had spoken, I suspected I was committing social suicide. However, since I had several dates planned for later that week, I wasn’t too concerned. To my surprise, she agreed and we went out a few days later…it was a total disaster. I found I had nothing in common with the “bar girl”. The conversations were uncomfortable and she had an unhealthy obsession with all things death.


This isn’t simply a conversion, the content itself needed to be tweaked and twiddled to adapt it to a Palm handheld screen. I added the TOC, some headings and footings, cleaned up some of the tags and HTML entities, and converted it to a format for handhelds.

Let me know what you think!

Download it here:

f1a582092a24b222acabfb7cd024462b  Online Dating Guide

Online Dating Guide Table of Contents Online Dating Guide - The Rules

Online Dating Guide - Services
Online Dating Guide - The Profile

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