Play

I'm still trying to figure out what to do with these blogs and such, I want to do the technology thing as well as the personal thing, i don't know what domain to register with the wordpress, gah, but i'm still here, so in the meantime, GO PLAY.

Statement example

Statement example

The terrorist attack in America has caused the decline of the tourist industry in Jamaica.

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Question example

Has the terrorist attack caused a decline of the tourist industry in Jamaica?

(I’m taking notes during class, decided to post on my blog since I haven’t posted in a while)

Updated The template

The template has been updated, as is obvious, do tell me what you think, it may change also.

Move out from Blogger?

Hey ho net denizens! Listen up, I know; thousands of you clamour to hear from me, you continually pound the F5 key to make sure you know when I update my blog. On the often rare occasion that you sleep, you dream about me myself and my blog, and then wake up immediately so as to check back to my little Blogspot, but guess what, I'm considering moving.
Here's the deal, i love meh blogspot blog and all, but I guess i need something more. Today, the Wordpress.com hosting implemented a new feature; import from Blogger. I've done a test and this is easy and effortless to do, you can see and example of it done on a test Wordpress blog RIGHT HERE. But what do you think? Should i make such a daring leap, and just abandon blogger, essentially slapping Google in the proverbial face? I'll let you, the thousands of devoted blog readers decide, after all, you are the ones that will be most affected by such a change. If i were to do such a thing, i'd also need a new URL, because i'm using samureye for something else. Input appreciated.

P.S. The only major qualm I really have is the whole customization issue, i can only do so much to make my blog unlike the other WP blogs there, ah well, power to the people. (That's you.)

Writely

It's been a while since i really blogged something worthwhile. Actually, it's been a while since i blogged something at all, worthwhile would be never i think.... Anyhow, i'm writing this entry with an awesome web service known as writely. It has nice features What it is, is basically a web service that allows you to either make an office document or upload one from your computer which you can save or post to your blog. You can even invite people with you to edit the document, very nice. I suggest that you go give it a try, it really is a decent tool and it is in beta right now. I'll play with it a bit more, once it is out of beta and the free version retains all the features i need, which is not much in any case, then i'll use this to update my blog on a regular basis.

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wordpress.com

Hey there, i just wanted to let ya'll know that i have gone ahead and started a new blog over at samureye.wordpress.com I'm not saying that i have abandoned my blogger blog, but i have been contemplating getting a domain and either going the way of a new blogger or wordpress blog. I must say that i am mighty impressed with what i have seen thus far with the WP.com hosting. It is even better than the interface of wordpress hosted on your own server, which i was able to test out myself. wordpress.com blogs are invite only and if you hang around, i'll let you know when i myself get invited. So check out this blog and samureye.wordpress.com because i'll be dual posting, and i should be updating the WP blog ever single day. Two blogs, i must be mad :P

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My Page Rank

Need Blog Traffic?

The whole internet is BLOGMAD, that's the tagline of a new service that preaches "fairness". To be honest, i don't know much about how this will all work. What i do know is that you need to get people to sign up which gives you credits. Now, as of late, i've been signing up for quite a few services and i have also been invited to about 4 beta services too. This is just another service to try out, to which i say, why not? They're dangling a proverbial string in front of us as they aren't releasing much of any information as of yet. The first 1000 people get free starter credits so you may want to jump on now because who knows what those credits may be for? So why not join with me and try the thing out eh?

GET BLOGMAD

Testing Just Blog It!

I am using a firefox extension to post this to my blog. When you are on a webpage, just rightclick and choose the just blog it button and i box pops up for you to xompose an entry to your blog. Pretty decent. Time saving too.

Get Just blog it.

30gigs.com

So you may or may not have heard about 30gigs, which is a service providing you 30 GB of space. You can also use that space as storage for your files. As is anything cool on the internet these days; it's invite only. Lucky for you i got myself 7 invites. I'll gladly give them away to anyone who wants to try it out but i would really like to get an invitation to wordpress.com hosting. If you can hook that up, we can be friends forever :)

Look out for my overview of the service at thenakedgeek.com

Google News Reader

If you didn’t know about it, google now has a news reader. Go try it out, I can’t seem to get it to work right just yet, let me know if you do and what you think of it, I just use live bookmarking in Firefox but it’s kinda lame, so I’m looking for a reader but don’t know where to start. Let me know what you think of it.

Google News Reader

Stickers, the bane of my existence...kinda.

Stickers have to be one of the biggest scams that I have had the displeasure of encountering in the short time I have lived thus far on this planet. I’ll admit, when I was about so high, I myself delved into the predominantly female world of sticker collecting. Yes, those corporate Kahunas decided that making the damn things wasn’t enough, now we had to collect them. I would love to shake the hand of the genius that drew a smiley face on a piece of tape and started this cataclysmic downward spiral into endless collection oriented consumerism. As I look at my sister’s sticker collection book, as there are now books just for the stickers, I realize how stupid we must seem as consumers to these companies. I scoff at those Lisa Frank people, purveyors of all bright and sticky like those at the tobacco industry. (Rumor is that the next “fair enough” skits would be about just this industry.)

Explain to me how great this is in terms of you running a business. First you make stickers, numerous ones in varying sizes and seizure inducing colours. Next you make a book just for these stickers where young girls, or in my case, girly guys are encouraged to store all their precious stickers in the sticker book. You’ll then push it out in a package with a million of the cheaply made, sticky girl-crack where all you do after buying the thing is stick the same stickers into the book. In short, you pay to take the stickers off the sticky paper and put them into the book. Wow. Add stickers of varying characters and you’ve got yourself a hit as people eat up your garbage with every reiteration. Wow. Stickers are lame, to be quite frank, and you may be an adult thinking, yeah, it really is stupid, but wait!

The same adults who may share my sentiments on the whole sticker phenomenon may be part of the evil plans of those such as Lisa Frank. Do you have a car? Have you put one of those crappy decals of Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame, urinating on your back window? What about of some other unimportant character doing something that their real copyright owners would never advocate them doing? How about those bullet holes on the side of the car? Actually those bullet holes look kinda decent, or maybe that’s what I’m wanted to think. You see, those “cool” vinyl crap thingamajigs that you put on your car? How do you think they stay on your car? Here’s a hint, they stick. They are to adults what Lisa Frank is to the girlies. Wow. You probably didn’t know that, but it’s true and I just taught you something, no not that I can make an often too long, nonsensical post about absolutely nothing on my blog, but that the sticker industry is there and the dangers are real. What dangers? The addiction, man! The bright colors and oh so wacky characters are to your eyes what smoking is to your lungs. I know these things.