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A couple of weeks ago I signed a contract and got the question why I had such effective signature (it's basically just A and d in my name). The answer is because of my previous job where I sometimes could sign document after document all day long. Since I sometimes didn't have time for coffee I figured that I needed a new signature, something faster and something easier, so I developed a new signature. This answer wasn't really the answer the people who asked the question hoped for. They guessed on pop star, which would have made this story much more fun and entertaining

Several weeks later (and a few dreams about becoming a pop star) later I searched at Google Video for a (I think) Slovenian group called Skuter. It turns out that they have changed name to Skater instead, but during the searches I made I found another (I think) Slovenian video:

I have no idea what they're singing, but just look at two of the group members (I will let you do the guessing ). I'm not a big fan of polka, but if the girls look like that then I'm open to suggestions . Just check out this (also) Slovenian music video from Atomik Harmonik:

So here's my plan: Since beautiful girls seem to like polka I'm going team up with someone to do a music video. Since I can't play any instrument, can't sing and can't write the text I have to hire someone to do that. The singing part wouldn't be any problem, I just hire two (or maybe even four) beautiful girls, so beautiful that everyone forget all about the singing….. Then when the music video can be found on YouTube.com I can tell the pop star story about my signature.

So who's with me on this project?

I finally got an answer from Compete.com regarding the red trust icon for XavierMedia.com. Andy at Compete.com is explaining the red icon with some technical problems:

Your site’s Compete trust score has been changed back to the green, trusted mark. Recently there was a disconnect between some of the servers used in the reporting of the trust scores and this caused the change. This issue has been fixed and should be fine going forward. Thanks for pointing it out to us.

Let's see it if lasts more then 2 months this time .

I would really like to have some more information on how the trust scores are calculated and what sources they use. They don't have to explain in detail just a better over-view then the one they have next to the icons: