Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
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11:43 pm
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I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. 10 more working days until I have five days off a week. I'm so looking forward to that right now.
I probably just need to stop whining so much to myself.
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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2:10 am - New Site - ThingsAboutMe.com
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
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4:27 pm - Bzoinkstorming.
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* Additional pages. Old skool GeoCities or Angelfire or something. But somehow better?
* No real addition files. Stored in flat files (definitely) or perhaps database? Then mod_rewrite.
* Major integration of other sites like Photobucket, but don't slack off on my own versions of the same features. People like options, and it eases the strain during conversion. Eventually they'd fully convert anyway.
* Grab users' feeds from other sites. Though in theory, this is bandwidth and cpu intensive I think. Theory on this is again, make transition slow and painless. They don't have to switch 100% all at once if they don't want to.
* Superbowl ads? Go in-house ads department. Demand ONLY most creative and such ads to be displayed on site, or maybe only certain portions of site. Obvious time consuming complications on this. But, it would be amazing. I'd get paid really well for my ad space, and advertisers would get higher returns.
Summary: Overused and stale term "social networking" meets internet of 2000(?). Going forward and backward to create something blow your mind amazing.
Somedays I feel overwhelmingly confident and amazed in this general idea. I've been mulling over it for a couple months now. Main thing holding me back is the time and coding required.. and my currently failing income.
We'll see. I'm not going to make it to the post office before it closes now.. probably. OUT!
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
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11:36 pm
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
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12:13 am
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Okay, now that this entry is on its third change. It was originally to announce my new idea, then to announce MySpace blocked it all. Now it's to announce that my new project is done, and I've managed to get around MySpace's blocks. I feel insanely smart and am very happy.
Get your own CrushTag!
Use it, spread it!
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
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1:53 am
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As far I as know.. I'm being driven to go buy that Crown Vic tomorrow morning. For the first time since I've moved out.. and the first time in over a year.. I'll be very close to completely flat broke and have absolutely no reserves to be able to fall back on. This scares me, and is throwing me signals that I shouldn't buy the car. But, on the other hand.. Life has been easy lately. I've just been sailing on through for the most part. I'm young. I need to be struggling more. So that's another hidden reason for why I want to buy the car. I guess I'm even kind of hoping something in my life happens that forces me to get a part time job somewhere so that I meet new people.
So far I haven't been able to experience one of the things that I should be looking back on about my first apartment. And that's girls. Girls hanging out at my place watching movies and whatnot. Haha.
Anyway, so tomorrow afternoon I might be able to be cruising around in a 1996 Ford Crown Victoria P71 Police Interceptor. 75,500 miles. V8 4.6 Liter. 140mph Speedometer. Police issue rubberized flooring. mmm. and vroom. Can't wait to mount my ham radio antenna in the existing antenna hole in the trunk. And order a 'Police Interceptor' emblem off of eBay to put on the back of the car. And then whenever I get a spare $100 again I plan to order dog dish hubcaps all the way around. These to be specific:
I need to call the junkyard and get the Oldsmobile out of here. I finished getting it ready to be hauled away today. I still need to take the license plate off though, didn't even think about that until a little earlier tonight. Need to get the title around too, but I know where it is and everything.
I'm pretty sure I'm switching insurance companies too and going with Progressive. I love how I can do everything online. And I've got a policy worked out for the Vic at $99/month.. A lot better than the $157.12/month I was (and am) paying on the Oldsmobile.
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Sunday, February 20th, 2005
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10:51 pm
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For the record for anyone reading this, most entries are friends only now. Even though I hardly ever talk to anyone on my friends list or read their entries, and as far as I know they rarely read mine as well.
p.s. I love my apartment and enjoy those moments when I look around it and feel such pride that my money has given me something so large and private to call my own until December. I had one of those moments today.
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
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1:47 am
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Friday, February 4th, 2005
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1:13 pm
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It's probably just because I'm a prick.. but I want to own at least a LITTLE property in every state eventually. I probably won't, but I want to. And I could. Anyone could. You can get some cheap deals on crazy remote cool properties.
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
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2:39 pm
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I've switched to Mandrake Linux. Good-bye WINDOWS XP.
X-Chat here I come. Good-bye mIRC.
Konqueror here I come. Good-bye Internet Explorer.
Good-bye VIRUSES.
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Monday, January 31st, 2005
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1:34 pm
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Oh, and I've been thinking about switching over to linux as my main OS. I've been getting annoyed with XP and viruses and spyware and everything. Still not quite ready to take the plunge though. I'd probably go with Slackware.. I've always liked Slackware, not sure why.
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2:02 am
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I need to change things on the server end of my web sites. The problem is, that would require me to LEARN. I'm not satisfied with things how they currently are, though. Well, I am. All of my sites run, rather well. But I'm in constant fear of the day when things take too drastic of a turn for the up and up and my servers slam to a halt, and repeat a year ago. Switching to two servers like I did was fine. One for web, one for database, send data back and forth. Anything in the future would require like.. 2 web and 1 database.. or something. And that's when I'd rather just throw my hands up in the air and bow out of the internet business. Kind of like in Monopoly when you have no money but a lot of property with hotels on them and you land on Boardwalk with a hotel on it.. I'd rather just say 'Oops, you won' instead of count all of the fricken money and crap to take off my hotels and houses.
I need to start working on something all together. My life is so BS right now. I sit around and do nothing all the time. I get nothing done.
I've got a new design for b! all coded up. I just need to start adding all the side pages and creating new original content and surveys and polls and quizlets and quizzes. I'd like to do something with fakepop someday.. I need to put more advertising consideration into SongRev. Though it gets around 300 visitors a day, which isn't too shabby. There's so much I want to do, or think I need to do. But I don't really want to. I want to move into the next stage of my life, the non-internet and non-web site stage. What I want costs too much money, though. It's not even for sale anymore either, I don't think.
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Saturday, January 29th, 2005
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3:09 am
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So tomorrow I'm going to start tackling the big beast, I think. The first time I've ever filed taxes because I haven't really had to before this year, and I have I think three different forms to fill out? The 1040, Schedule C-EZ, and Schedule SE.
I ran it all through TurboTax.com's online thing the other night, you can do it on there, and then file it all for $30 or something if you want. They got me all excited because they were saying I'm going to owe a whole lot less, but I'm not sure they were very correct and something might have gotten messed up along the way. So I'm breaking out the forms and my instruction booklet and I'm going to do it all by hand and see what I come up with, and then compare things to what TT.com gave me.
I'm going to be flying solo, because my parents aren't self-employed or anything. And I really don't want to pay someone to do all of this stuff for me. I don't think it'll be that hard. All you do is read the instructions and I'm good at that. Especially since this year the only deductions I'm claiming are my server bills. It's pretty straight forward. I made _______ dollars. I spent _______ dollars on expenses. Multiply this by that, put on line this. Add line and line. Put here.
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
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4:32 am
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I don't know if I like hanging out with kids around my age who are away from their parents and not living in a dorm or something. They're all so low on cash and struggling to make payments even with roommates and everything.
And here I am. I'm pretty well off self-employed as I am and all. Really well off, actually. So on one hand talking to them makes me feel good, but then on the much larger hand, I feel like shit. I shouldn't. I paid a price for where I am today. Or at least I worked for it. While they were all busy dealing with high school, I was busy dealing with high school too. But being annoyed because I actually had goals and a plan to be carrying out while school got in the way. Hence being why I blew off my senior year and failed a good one third of my classes.
I dunno. I'm just babbling and am trying to reinforce to myself that I'm cool and a good person. It feels like such an attack on who I am when people talk about how much they're struggling. I don't know why. It's not, no where even close.
Oh well, it's time to get to bed. I have a headache and stuff from all the second hand smoke I've sucked down my lungs tonight.
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
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12:34 am
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12:01 am
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One of the biggest things I don't like about living in a densly populated area just on the edge of a big city.. The sky glows orange at night, all the time. I liked living out in the country, far enough away from any cities to see the stars. Lots of them. But here, the sky just glows orange. It glows even brighter on a night like tonight when there's lots of snow in the air.
We're supposed to get like 6-9" of snow tonight, and wind gusts of up to 40mph. I stocked up on food and whatnot earlier today. And I attempted to make Chicken Chimichangas for myself for dinner. I never ate lunch, I wasn't even hungry at all today, it was nice. I only ate dinner because I knew it was time to eat dinner. Still wasn't hungry.
I forgot I was writing in here.. I dunno. My mind has been going crazy lately. I don't use the internet as much anymore.. Still use it a lot. But not actually USE it. I'm usually downstairs on my laptop watching TV or something so I'll quick check things or something but not do much of the old routines.
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
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5:56 am
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Ouch. I hit a major snag in the entire deal. The site is done. It works great... if you use Woohu. Or somewhere else that isn't Xanga, or LJ-based.. I don't know exactly what kind of places would let it work.
The problem is that I embed a script.. like so: <.script language="javascript" src="webaddresshere"><./script>
And sites that care about security have blocked that. So now I need to figure out another way to do it. And I doubt I'll be able to find a way..
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3:48 am
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My new site is almost done. I came up with the idea two nights ago. I wanted to get it all done within 12 hours of having the idea, but I lost my juice and drive. So I stopped after a good amount of work, then yesterday I don't know what I did. Just sat around I guess. Now I'm up working on it all. Very close to finishing. I'm going to try to finish it all here before I go to sleep. But it's getting harder, I'm getting tired and my eyes are getting that tired feeling.
If I don't manage to hold in and get it done before sleep then certainly look for its release shortly after I wake up tomorrow!
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Friday, January 14th, 2005
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2:11 am
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What do you think of the new bzoink? It's not up and running, and the following link is a dummy page. I was just working on getting the design to look decent on all major browsers. Content will be real eventually.. and links would be actually links.
new bzoink design
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
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12:59 pm
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Here's a tip.. When the road commission slacks on their job and doesn't salt the road.. As you lose control of your car (meaning you have no control.. if you catch my joke) don't aim for a no parking sign.
Because it's only worth $17, but they'll (the road commission) charge you $115 for it.
What the fuck is that?
Yay for even MORE unexpected expenses. I'm still kind of waiting for that business to charge me $5,000 for their $20 mailbox that I smashed. ;)
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