This is so fucked up! I can barely see anything on this monitor that happens to be any color darker than white. I really hope that they get my good monitor repaired and sent back to me as soon as possible. This old Dell (POS) CRT monitor is only good for reading and writing text. I don’t dare waste my time with any Graphic or video editing.

I’m going to the UPS Store after work to ship it off to the shop. (Say that 10 times fast) I don’t care how much 1st class costs, I’m not liking this shitty CRT monitor at all. Well, if it costs $100 or something crazy like that, I guess that would be a bit too much, but if it’s like $40 or $50, then I’ll do it. I want to be able to see again!

UPDATE: Cost $43.25 to ship it.

UPDATE (Again): Other Mac dropped off a better monitor. Small, but I can see stuff on it. Thanks Mac!

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Sorry for taking so long to get this stuff up, it just ended up taking a bit more time to edit the video. I didn’t realize I took that much video. Even after editing it and converting it to FLV it was still a huge 25MB file.

I was constantly switching my camera from video mode to still picture mode. Before I went there I had manually set my camera up for taking the night pictures using settings in the manual for taking pictures of fireworks. I should have noted the part about needing a tripod. Every picture had the shutter open for a long time and every movement I made caused streaks.

I didn’t end up deleting them because they actually still looked pretty kewel. Not the best firework pictures, but they still looked neat enough to keep.

I’ve uploaded them to my Flickr Pro account to share.

You can click the above image to see the rest.

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I was all set and thought I had the best seat in the house on the waterfront. Well that was until this loudmouth 400LB bitch and her followers decided to park their fat asses right beside me. If I needed a play-by-play commentary with special effects for every firework that went off then these would be the idiots to go to. I tried to edit their voices out so you wouldn’t have to listen to her bicker and complain the whole time and then talk bullshit about the show. I felt like saying something like, “Then go take your fat ass home then.” But I just bit my tongue. Might I also suggest there be a ban on ridiculously mega-fat people wearing spandex tops and spandex pants!

Aside from the annoying group of misfits beside me, the show wasn’t all that bad. I just wish I had the proper set up on my camera for the stills. I’ll see if I can do better August 4th on New Brunswick Day.

Time for bed.

TTFN!

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If you were with me on the money train, when sponsored posts were just hitting the scene. You were enjoying every minute and the cash flow was awesome! Especially if you had a PR of 5 or more like I did.

But all of a sudden, Google decided to slap all of us around for making money from advertisers instead of using their AdSence service. At least that’s the way it felt anyway. But the truth of the matter was that we were all breaking Google’s TOS with link farming tactics and didn’t really know about it. At least I didn’t know. But it was in their TOS about using the rel=”nofollow” when linking to other sites, especially when you were being paid for them. Google wants people to link to other sites without being paid, so the PR is true as far as popularity goes. At least that’s the way I understand it anyway.

So here we are. PR stripped away like the rank from a soldiers sleeve. How humiliating right? If we only knew in advance. Or if we were aware in advance. OK, if I wasn’t so stupid, I would have added the rel=”nofollow” tag OK!! There. I’m an idiot, and I’m paying the price for it now.

Some have went as far as deleting all their old sponsored posts, since most were OK to delete after 30 days with most sites, but advertisers really want them permanent and I don’t blame them. Some have also gone as far as adding the rel=”nofollow” tag to all their posts manually. Seems like a lot of work if you ask me, especially when I have over 2,400 pages to sift through!

You know what? There’s an easier way. Thanks to Miak there’s a plugin that will take care of all that for you with a simple click of the mouse.

With Miak’s No Follow Links In Posts plug-in, you can have Wordpress automatically add the rel=”nofollow’ tag to your posts that are an X amount of days old. I have mine set to 31 days now. Because there are a few advertisers that don’t like the rel=”nofollow” tag on their sponsored posts, even though I’ll be steering clear of them in the future, but if I do have one, they’ll get 31 days without it. Thanks to SocialSpark, that’s not a problem as it is mandatory to have rel=”nofollow” in all the links.

INSTALLING IT AND USING IT:

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When you upload it to your Wordpress plugin directory and activate it, you simply go to the settings screen and select the (1) ‘Nofollow Links in Post’ link and (2) add how many days old the post needs to be before the rel=”nofollow” tag is added. I enabled (3)‘individual posts to override….’ option so I can choose to leave out the rel=”nofollow” tag in links to sites I do not wish to have the tag. You can choose (4)what categories you want the plugin to apply the rel=”nofollow” tag to also.

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(5) This is the place in the Write Post screen that gives you the option of leaving out the rel=”nofollow” tag alltogether. This is when you choose to enable (3).

There’s only one downfall with this in the future. The advertisers that paid to have the nofollow tag in their post will still likely add a ban on you from taking any more of their opportunities. So that’s something you might want to consider when using this on those type of opportunities.

Nofollow Links in Posts plugin enables you to add the “nofollow” attribute into links in a post within a specified category.

This plugin is useful if you are doing sponsored posts. You can set the plugin to add rel=”nofollow” into links in posts older than “X” days.

Currently, the plugin only works with Wordpress 2.5+. There are no plans yet in making this plugin compatible with prior versions of Wordpress.

Get the plugin by simply clicking on over to TheMiak.com. If you can spare a few extra bucks or some change, send it over their way to thank them for a great plugin that will more than likely save you a shitload of time, and possibly getting your old PR rank back again too.

I also found that in aincent times I also added some text stating the post was a paid review or a sponsored post, I didn’t want to go through all my posts and manually edit them all so I looked for an easier way and found Search and Replace. I just recommend you backup your SQL Database as this edits it directly and there’s no way to undo the changes should it crap out on you.

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I currently own a Dirt Devil vacuum, and although I’m a fan of it’s usefulness in getting the job done, I am not a fan of the wicked noise levels and that overly long power cord that I have to carry around while using it. You will see what I mean if you watch the video of me using the very noisy Dirt Devil vacuum while trying to move the power cord around while vacuuming. I don’t know if you’ve ever accidentally rolled the vacuum over the power cord before, but if you haven’t, lets just say the noise will scare the pants off of you.

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I’m all for more greener environmentally safe products but in this case the fact that there is a cordless vacuum by Dirt Devil is very pleasing to know. My next purchase will be the AccuCharge Energy Star vacuum by Dirt Devil. Click on the ad to the right to watch a video from them if you want to see it in action. I especially like the part that they show the person vacuuming up pet food, Buddy and Brain both are slobs when it comes to eating their food, I am constantly trying to keep their food area free of crumbs, but my current Dirt Devil just scatters them around because it doesn’t have that hard surface feature like the AccuCharge Energy Star does.

It charges in a couple of hours, there no cord to hang yourself with, it just has to be quieter than my current vacuum. And best of all, I’ll have a free hand to hold my nice cold Keiths Beer while I’m house cleaning. No more running back and forth to fetch my drink on.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the funds to hire a Maid, or have my pets trained well enough to lick up their messes, and if I had it my way, I would avoid cleaning all together, but that’s not going to happen. So it’s back to housecleaning whenever I have the chance and risking the possibility of getting hung by the vacuum’s terribly long power cord.

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I’ve been using the Firefox 3 browser for awhile now, just recently upgraded from Firefox 3 Beta, and I am happy to say that the latest Firefox 3 is so much better than the previous versions, even though those were still better than any alternative.

It’s actually amazing that when the latest version was released it actually broke records on the most amount of downloads in a single hour. I believe it is still breaking records at the moment. There was a time when the site was down because it was overwhelmed with too many people downloading.

When you download the latest version, you’ll immediately notice the speed difference. I can see them overtaking Internet Exploder in no time because this browser is up to date with the latest on web technologies.

The chart pretty much makes up my mind as to why I want to stick with it. Why would you want something that is always behind in the game, a security risk, slow, and not open to be personalized.

I also really like the built-in spell checking, session restore and full zoom features it has. I really REALLY like the spell checking though, because my spelling can be atrocious. (Yes, spell check gave me the spelling to that.)

OH, and did I mention I like the spell checking function?

The security has been beefed up even more which makes it one of the most secure browsers to date and all at the click of your mouse.

If you like to shop online but don’t trust the site your on, you can check out their security certificate with a click of a mouse.

A visual confirmation that the site you’re on is secure is always good in my opinion, which you are entitled to.

All around great browser, lets all hope they keep up the great work in the future developments of the browser.

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The price of gas is going up again tonight. That’s nothing new is it? Seems like every Thursday I hear somebody say that the price of gas is going up, but never down.

• OPEC sells oil for $136.00 a barrel.
• OPEC nations buy U.S. grain at $7.00 a bushel.
• Solution: Sell grain for $136.00 a bushel.
• Can’t buy it? Tough! Eat your oil!
• Ought to go well with a nice thick grilled fillet of camel ass!!!

This solution works for me. How about you?

It is always the simplest of solutions that solve most of your everyday problems, so what’s so hard about this one?

I think it’s pretty simple, don’t you?

And here I am looking to buy a car because I need one for the job. I’m not looking forward to the gas prices when I finally have enough saved up for the car.

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Holy cow this week is passing by quickly!

Not that I’m complaining or anything, it just seems like Monday was just yesterday. I like it, don’t get me wrong, and the fact that it means I’m all that much closer to drinking a nice cold Keiths!

I don’t know why but I just spend way to much time making that animation here in this post. It was originally a FLV file but I didn’t want any controls showing the usual play, volume, and tracking buttons since it’s just a looping animation. Geeze, the things I do for you guys, huh?

Well, anyway. I’m looking forward to Friday. Not sure what I’m going to do besides drink some cold beer, but the forecast can’t be depended on these days, so I guess I’ll play it by ear.

I may do some chatting online with a few folks I haven’t chatted with in awhile since the new job change.

Tomorrow is out leftover day so there won’t be a whole lot to do but take care of a few cater jobs and make a few muffins and cinnamon rolls. That will probably make the day drage on, but I hope the time flies by as it has been so I can get home and relax. I just don’t wan’t it to go by fast on the weekend though. That would just suck donkey balls, no, no, better yet, ’sweaty’ donkey balls.

So, what’ca all gonna’ do on the weekend?

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