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Bad Joke

Posted on 16.08.2011 at 09:02
Current Location: Home
I Feel:: goodgood
I am Listening to:: What do You Want From Me
Bad joke my boyfriend made up this morning:

What does Hitler use to tie his little shoes?
- Little Nazis

Rice

Silly things my boyfriend says...

Posted on 11.08.2011 at 23:22
Current Location: Home
I Feel:: amusedamused
Tags:
1. What do you call it when a dino has a car accident?
- Tyrannosaurus Rex

2. A magician was driving along a road and then turned into a driveway.

:-D

Rice

Internet Marketing - Don't Get Banned

Posted on 05.01.2011 at 08:26

One major worry in internet marketing is getting banned. Getting banned from a site means that you are no longer allowed to post on that site. The scariest ban of all means that your site is removed from the Google search results. If this happens, then all of your hard internet marketing work was for nothing.

But just like you don't get a speeding ticket if you never speed, if you follow some simple internet marketing rules, you won't get banned. Here are some of the most common ones.

Forums and Blogs

You don’t want to get banned from the major forums and blogs in your industry as these are good sources for authorities backlinks to your site (an important part of internet marketing) as well as traffic. They also are good for keeping up with the trends of your industry and networking with others.

But this one is easy. First, actually respond on topic. If the entry or thread is on one topic, post about that topic. Second, put your url in the right spot. For blogs, there is a url field when you post a comment. Don’t put it in the comment itself. For forums, set up your signature with your url and some text about you. Never put your url in the body of the post.

Facebook

It is super easy to get banned on Facebook. If you have a profile for your business that’s enough to get you banned (although you should have a profile, just make it your company’s leader’s profile, not directly your business's profile). The key here is moderation. Never request more than 30 people to be your friend in a week and limit the number of messages you send out. If you do get banned, ask them to unban you. Sometimes, they will.

Google

Google is the most important service related to internet marketing these days. You can get banned from Google if they think you are faking your site’s authority. You can do this through various "Black Hat" techniques. For one, never use auto-blogging software on your main site. If Google detects this, you will get banned. Second, if you pay for automated backlinks, make sure these are balanced with real backlinks created by a human. Too many computer generated backlinks and Google will figure it out.

If you do get banned, don’t panic, try contacting the site or service that you are banned from and ask what you can do to correct the situation, many times they will tell you. In general, read the terms of service and follow that and you won't have any problems.

Visit Space Heater Studios to learn more about Internet Marketing


Rice

I forgot about LJ

Posted on 15.12.2010 at 16:07
Current Location: Home
So I used to post here all of the time, but then I guess it kind of died out. Of the people who used to post on here, I could only find one that still does. I guess LJ was replaced by Facebook for most socialness. Silly facebook. And by other blogs randomly sprawled across the web. I now write not for flow but for SEO. How boring is that?

Anywho, I wandered by and decided that maybe I should leave a mark here. A note saying that I still exist. My mind can be kind of crazy these days. Got lots to think about and such. So maybe I need a place where freewriting is acceptable. Even if its just me. Me and my thoughts and incomplete sentences. 

I'm trying to make it in the world now. Tackling some of the major difficulties of adulthood. I don't accept the traditional path and so it goes. But it can be done. Just watch. I have a month to really figure it out. Then its welcome to the real world. 

Rice

Winchester Commemoratives

Posted on 30.08.2010 at 14:06

Winchester Commemoratives are very popular to gun collectors as these collector items are rare to find and possess unique features compared to regular firearms.  Winchester Commemoratives collector’s craze started when the Winchester Repeating Arms Company started producing very limited number of 'Commemorative' firearms in 1964.  The company made these highly valued rifles and carbines to commemorate and give significance to important events and personalities in the United States and Canada.  The firearms of Winchester Repeating Arms Company made the firearms more special by engraving images of the event or personality being commemorated, putting embellishments on the rifles, and using rare materials and wood handles. 

Winchester Commemorative firearms come enclosed in commemorative  boxes with a colorful sleeve.  To get the highest value, the guns should still be in the box and unfired, known as NIB or “new in box” in collector’s terminology.  Some sellers also keep the shipping documents and factory receipts as proof of origin.

Some of the most popular Winchester commemoratives are as follows:

1988 Statue of Liberty Centennial – This firearm have  hand engraving by Giovanelly of Italy, the engravings have gold inlays, French walnut stock, and comes with a 24” wood carving of the Statue of Liberty.

1981 Annie Oakley – 22 Long Rifle. This firearm has shooting scenes, is engraved in matte gold receiver, and has 20” round barrel bands.

1985 Boy Scouts of America – 22 Long Rifle. Engraved with a Boy Scout Salute image, receiver plated in pewter, plus the lever, bands and medallion in stock, with 20” round barrel.

President’s Edition –  Three level engraving with selected overlays in gold on a high polished blue, including the lever and barrel bands.  Model 94 Big Bore Frame, wood with beautiful medallion in stock, 20” round barrel.

1984 Winchester Colt Matched Set –  This set of firearms include the Winchester rifle and Colt Single Action Army revolver, with serial numbers.  Both firearms have engravings and a blue high polished overlay covering the body of each gun.

You can find a complete list of these in the book Winchester Commemoratives Vol 1 and 2

Since Winchester Commemoratives were born, these highly valued firearms have been very popular to gun collectors, as Winchester Commemoratives are not only unique and rare, but these guns also give significance to a historical event or personality in the United States and in Canada.  And possessing these Winchester Commemoratives is a pride to every collector.


Rice

Learning and Video

Posted on 10.07.2008 at 15:55
So, I've never had a time in my life when watching videos were so productive. But with the introduction of video casts, it now is. I have hours to watch.

Here is a list of things I need to watch:
- The cocoa casts up to where I am in the textbook. http://ping.fm/Sx9aA (About 2 more hours before the next homework)
- The javascript videos http://ping.fm/wdZtg
(about 2 hours)

And for fun, I am going through the Macgyver series, but that's not considered productive.

I just finished watching Omnifocus's videocasts. When I get the iphone, I will be buying the Omnifocus GTD app. it's only $20. I don't really like thier desktop interface, but the iphone one looks rocking! I'm excited.

Rice

World of Warcraft

Posted on 09.07.2008 at 00:04
So I have been under some light pressure to join World of Warcraft (as mentioned in my last post). Well a thought just occurred to me about it. My main reason for not joining is the large amounts of time I will spend not being productive because of this game. I will spend quite a bit of time on it, I'm sure as the game does sound fun. I have a to-do list that is really long. Those things normally don't mix.
But the truth is, I spend most of my time being unproductive anyway doing things like monitoring twitter and plurk, tweaking the blog, watching MacGyver, surfing Facebook, surfing the web and more! There are days when I do very little productive work. So maybe things won't really change if I join WoW. It would probably just replace some surfing.
It could even be good if I make playing it dependent on getting the task of the day done. That may even be enough to combat the surfing tendency... so hey, it may actually be good for me.
So a couple points in favor of WoW. I'm not completely convinced yet. I'm scared to start it and find this analysis to be wrong.

Rice

Another day as Me

Posted on 08.07.2008 at 22:30
So today was interesting. Odd. Fun at time. Sucky at times. But that is what life is, right?

I'm not sure I mentioned it before in my last post, but I love my summer job. I work with really kool and friendly people and our lunch conversations are nothing but laughs. It's great! Nothing is better for your day then laughing for an hour.

One topic of discussion was addiction. I have a very addictive personality... I get addicted to things really easily. Be it a certain food, an activity, a book, a game... once I start i can't seem to stop myself. This is to the detriment of everything else in my life. This topic arose in one of the many times I was told about World of Warcraft and how great it is. The thing is... I believe them. It sounds awesome and right up my alley, but that, my friends, is my downfall. I don't need something that is up my alley right now. I need to get the things that I need to do done. Those would be my 9 main goals. Once again, I did nothing on any of them today. :-( Actually, I have a run kitty run post that needs to be finished for tomorrow... guess what I'm doing next. ;-)

According to my schedule, tomorrow's main task for the day is suppose to be my ebook. The topic's a secret, so don't ask me to tell you. But yeah, that's tomorrow. Research and writing for that. Kool. I will prolly go to Te after work... oh that's right, no lap top so I can't write. Oh I can't wait to get that Neo! It's going to kick ass! It's suppose to show up thursday... I hope its early thursday.

I'm going to have to divide up the 8 files that it comes with. OK...

1 My Novel
2 My Ebook
3 ML Biz Plan
4 My Computer Program notes
5 ML Website Notes
6 Run Kitty Run
7 Ideas List
8 Journal

Well that sounds pretty good. Oh course, it will change once I use it.

So, I just decided to start posting these at my old blog again as well as in LJ. The old blog was about changing my life one day at a time, and I guess that is what I'm still doing. One day at a time. Just not numbered. I may pick that meme up again, but not today. Today you just get a post. A little piece of my mind. Glad to be back.

I'm tired and have a post to finish. G'night all!

Rice

ping.fm

Posted on 07.07.2008 at 23:26
I just got an account with ping.fm, which lets me post to a bunch of websites from one website, so I thought I'd try this out with a post. No promises on whether or not I'll post more regularly... but maybe.

It's the middle of summer and that means that I am getting to the point where my attention is turning away from my current projects. I'm the kind of person that goes through cycles of productivity. I am really focused for a month, then the next month is a free for all of procrastination. This doesn't have very good side effects, especially in school. I am still working on controlling this.

Today, I was planning to work on my cocoa application project that I worked on yesterday, but I ended up playing on twitter, plurk, and ping.fm instead. (And guess what I am doing now... ha!) I didn't do any cocoa.

Yesterday, Hank helped me pick out 9 of my 17 projects that really deserve my focus. The others can wait till the current ones are done. What got me thinking about this was a Zen Habits article that suggested having one goal at a time. (One sounds crazy to me! But it got me thinking). Seven is a good number as that is the number of days in the week and so it makes using the Elementary Planner much easier. But I can handle nine... I think. But it still seems like a lot. In case your wondering, my seven projects are:

1. Marion's Ledge Business Plan
2. A website for a friend.
3. A cocoa app I am programming
4. A website redesign for Marion's Ledge
5. A novel that I am writing
6. An e-book I am writing
7. My Grandfather's book
8. My Productivity Blog http://ping.fm/QEbL7
9. One other small project.

Yeah, it's a lot. But I really don't know what to cut down on. 7 and 9 will be over shortly as I am almost done with them.

In other news, I just bought an alphasmart Neo. It is basically just a keyboard with a screen that lets you write .txt files. It will be awesomely distraction free, which is something that I really need as I get distracted super easily. :-) I just checked the tracking and it just left Illinois and is headed to Houston. It's suppose to be here by Thursday! ::excited::

Wow, I haven't blogged in a while and I forgot how much I like doing this. I have been keeping a paper journal in my planner which is really good at getting me to look at my planner, and I will continue that, but I may blog more again. I like blogging.

As for the rest of my life. School is starting again at the end of August and it will be my last year. I am really having trouble deciding what to take. I ma currently signed up for like 18 hours, which is way too much. I'll prolly drop photography. That will leave me with:

1. A computer class
2. An archi class
3. A Hindi class
4. A ling class.

That's 15 hours, which is prolly still too much. But I don't want to drop any of that. :-( I need the ling class to graduate. (I have a reli class to take in the spring). And I really want to pursue computers. Archi is important bc I want to see if I like archi. I've been really enjoying my archi classes but this will be my first design studio. I have entertained the idea of going to grad school in archi... but I'd take a break first and earn enough money to do that.

That leaves me with dropping Hindi, but that is also something I really like as I want to travel to India some point after I graduate. I think it would be a life changing trip and I'd really like to know some of the language (although I've heard that most of the people there also speak English, so maybe it's not as big of a concern as I'm imagining).

So if I drop anything it's prolly gonna be Hindi. That would leave me with enough time for my other projects as well as I don't want those to stop when I graduate.

I really can't believe it's already July!! Time is flying by and I want to accomplish so much and I have not enough time to do it. I've decided that my goal before I graduate is to find a way to make $2000 a month in residual income before I graduate so I will not need to get a job upon graduation. I think that sounds swell. I'll work on lifestyle design Tim Ferris style. Looking forward to it!

Ok, that prolly enough for tonight. I am going to do two Hindi script excersizes before bed and then I'm crashing. I have to work tomorrow so I got to actually get up before noon tomorrow (got to be there by noon). night y'all!

Rice

Mezz Jelly Soul

Posted on 27.02.2008 at 01:05


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