jayb on July 2nd, 2009

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I found this fascinating quote today:

Blogging is all about conversations across the social media sphere. We continue our work in this area.  We’ve taken another look at our ReBlog feature and prepared an update to the user interface that should make it even easier for your readers to quote you on their blogs and continue the conversation.Jure, under, Z-Blog, Jul 2009

You should read the whole article.

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jayb on July 2nd, 2009
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After surviving the infamous Pirate Bay Court battles out of the blue they announced they are selling everything and shutting down their trackers.

The Pirate Bay tracker to shut down

 

The Pirate Bay sold for $7.8 million

 

After the court battle I can understand being a little gun shy. I hope the guys the best and can’t wait to see who pops up next as the top torrent site.

The guys from PB said they will be starting something new, but not much detail around what is will be.

As for what will become of The Pirate Bay website and servers, Global Gaming Factory a Swedish company purchased everything and think they can turn it into a legit site for legal content. Yeah…we’ll see.

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jayb on June 27th, 2009

There’s a big surprise. I took the political test at http://www.okcupid.com/politics and here are my results

You are a

Social Conservative
(30% permissive)

and an…

Economic Conservative
(63% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Republican


   
 


   
 

Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid.com: Free Online Dating
Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

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jayb on June 21st, 2009

First off Happy Father’s day to all the fathers out there.

I had a great day today. Everyone slept in until 8:30 and we where still able to get up and make it to church on time! After lunch we head to the Grand Haven Pier for some Pronto Pup’s and ice cream. We hung out and watched the boats go by. I got a few good shots of Grace and Bradley well we where down town.

From Drop Box
From Drop Box

Then this afternoon I got a take a nice nap and have BBQ ribs for dinner. We took at nice relaxing walk to end the day.

Now I’m watching Ghostbusters on AMC.

I hope everyone else had as great as day as I did.

later,jb

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jayb on June 14th, 2009

I was just looking around YouTube tonight and found this double knockout.

I don’t care for boxing or MMA but this is funny.

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jayb on June 14th, 2009

Upgraded to wordpress 2.8 and changed to a new theme. Let me know if you find any issues.
I’ll also be cleaning up the sidebar soon.

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jayb on June 11th, 2009
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I’ll make time to upgrade tomorrow night. But here’s a list of the new features from the Codex site. Its a lot of great stuff, I just wonder if any of my plug-ins will break. Only one way to find out.

Highlights

  • New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
  • Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
  • Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
  • Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
  • Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
  • Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
  • Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
  • Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation


New Features


User Features
  • New Theme Installer routines
  • Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
  • Add Documentation(function) lookup to Theme and Plugin editors
  • Use "Custom Header" for menu text and revise Default theme to reflect change
  • Separate Comments into a separate postbox, from Discussion postbox, on the Edit Post screen
  • Make tags accessible without Javascript on the edit screen
  • Don’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam
  • Don’t notify post author of own comments
  • Fix comment paging for static front page
  • Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab
  • Make titles into links in Dashboard Right Now module (this was in 2.7.1)
  • Improved Admin icons (grey-to-transparent shadows)
  • Update Blue Admin Color Scheme
  • Press This improvements UI, quoting fixes, plus ability for Contributors to use Press This
  • Add a Cancel Upload button and a Delete link to Administration > Media > Add New
  • Add column "Rating" in Administration > Links > Edit
  • Improve installer to help people entering wrong email addresses
  • Improved Widget user interface
  • Allow editing of all plugin files (Ticket 6732)
  • Improved Plugin search (this was in 2.7.1) on Administration > Plugins > Add New
  • Per Page option for plugins
  • Move "Install a plugin in .zip format" to new Upload tab under Administration > Plugins > Add New
  • Show absolute date instead of relative date for scheduled posts
  • Fix tags suggest for post quick edit and bulk edit
  • Permalink editor changes and fix for pages
  • Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S
  • Add toggle all button to the Gallery tab in the uploader
  • Support more than one gallery on the same page
  • Add per page option to Screen Options for comments, posts, pages, media, categories, and tags
  • Overhaul of LiveJournal importer (also add define WP_IMPORTING)
  • Import category descriptions for Administration > Tools > Import > WordPress
  • Show Tools menu for all users so they can access Turbo
  • Check for new version when visiting Administration > Tools > Upgrade
  • In upgrade process, provide better explanation for database upgrade message
  • Fix most popular link category list
  • Add description field for Tags in Administration > Posts > Tags
  • WAI-ARIA landmark roles to added to WordPress Default theme
  • "Choose a city in the same timezone as you" for Timezone in Administration > Settings > General
  • Remove My Hacks option from Administration > Settings > Miscellaneous
  • Hide email addresses from low privilege users on Administration > Comments
  • Allow case-insensitive logins
  • Login and Registration pages noindex followed
  • Give login screen proper iPhone viewport
  • Enforce unique email addresses in Add/Edit users
  • Make user_nicenames unique during registration
  • Add "Send this password to the new user by email" option to Administration > Users > Add New
  • Don’t set user’s Website url to http:// in Administration > Users > Add New
  • Add password strength meter to Add User and Edit User
  • Hide things that need to be available to screen readers via offscreen positioning
  • Use invisible class for hiding labels and legends
  • Use a semantic class name for text targeted to screen readers

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jayb on June 2nd, 2009
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Here’s the first trailer for KOTOR (Knights of the Old Republic)

Not a fan of having to keep paying for a game, I do pay for my Xbox live Gold membership. But this game could get me to go back to PC gaming. Just not sure if I have the time.

I loved the first two KOTOR games, just wondering how it will translate to a MMO. I’ve never played a MMO before.

Enjoy the trailer.

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jayb on May 25th, 2009

I’ve tried many different paid services with this blog to make a little extra cash. I’ll give you my 2 cents on each of these. With most of these I’ve just signed up for the service added the wordpress plugin or code snippet and that’s it. Just went on my way blogging. This blog is not very heavy on pagerank and it doesn’t have a ton of visitors. But I get enough that I hope I’d get a little from each of these services to add up to enough to paid for my hosting. Only one service has brought money to the bank. Here’s my list.

  • Ask2Link – Signed up 9/2008 and haven’t made a dime. They have a wordpress plugin.
  • intellilinks – Recently signed up, nothing. They have a wordpress plugin.
  • linkworth – Currently no ads, but I have gotten paid by them and used to get a few ads a month from them. I would recommend linkworth, they have lots of different options for selling ads and a good website. They have a wordpress plugin.
  • linkXL – I currently have 1 ads running, but they have a $100 payout, so who knows if I’ll even get to cashout. They have a wordpress plugin.
  • PerformancingAds – i have $1.50 here, another 125×125 banner. They have a wordpress plugin
  • inlinks – By far the test I’ve used. Great support, lots of people buying links. I get a good check from they each month.They have a wordpress plugin.
  • ProjectWonderful – This site uses 125 x 125 banners selling at low cost but continues to rotate in new banners using an auction system. Its taken awhile to get enough but I just cashed out for the first time this weekend.
  • WidgetBucks – No worth your time, unless you think people are going to click on a rotating flash ad of items ‘related’ to your website and/or post.
  • bidvertiser – I have 5 cents with them right now. Its like google ads just not as good. 

If your looking to test any of these sites, I’d recommend linkworth,inlink , and ProjectWonderful.

Have you had good luck with any ad sites with a site that gets low but return traffic?

Let me know about it.

 

 

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jayb on May 22nd, 2009

The changes to the Windows 7 interface have gotten a lot of play, but some of the new built-in tools are just as compelling. Deb Shinder runs through some of the most impressive enhancements, from the ISO burner to the Biometric Framework to PowerShell v2.

read more | digg story

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