Online Dating Guide in Plucker format
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
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October 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
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October 10th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
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June 24th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Hey nice site guys. Anyways thought ide suggest some dating times. 1. When on your first date alwas start as friends, that you want get hurt if things dont work. 2. Smile and be happy. 3. Listen. Girls like to share so be an open ear. 4. Have a good laugh so that the first date is remeberd.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Thanks for sharing with the rest of us!
July 9th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Interesting project. I dropped by littleredrails and the content is remarkably good.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Hi,
thanks for sharing this info on Plucker… I’m curious thought if someone out there will use a handheld..
July 15th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Conversion looks great to me…. good job!
July 17th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
its cool thx for share.