Online Dating Guide & Blog

A friend asked that I review his dating profile to see if there was anything he could improve on. In the past when reviewing dating profiles, I’ve always included my wife since I like to have a woman’s opinion. As you’ll see, we don’t always agree! What follows is a trimmed down version of his profile followed by my comments and then Kate’s.

The Profile:

Movies, museums, skiing, whitewater rafting, skating, video/board games, mini-golf. I’d like to try camping sometime. Really, I [...]

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I was recently contacted by someone from the Plucker project with interest in converting my guide to a format for Palm handhelds that could be viewed offline. I was not familiar with Plucker but saw no reason to decline the offer so now the guide is available for handhelds here. Hopefully someone out there using a handheld who would never have found the guide otherwise will find it useful!

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Perhaps the only downside to consistent success dating online (or any dating, really) is that all that courting starts to hit the wallet pretty hard. I eventually settled on meeting at coffee shops which was cheap but lacked creativity and fun. This article has some great ideas for cheap dates without making sacrifices on enjoyability. Several of these would not work very well in the early dates so use your head! In my opinion, the best first date options listed [...]

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Here’s is a nice introduction to speed dating. I never tried speed dating but the article makes it sound worth a try. I also enjoyed the beginning of the article because it reminded me of those bad dates I had to suffer through…and he’s right: at least with speed dating when things are bad, you’ve only 5 more minutes to deal with.

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