July 2006

Though my day has turned into melted crap, I’d like to take a few moments to introduce my new tenant.

Sometimes, it’s okay to follow your dreams.
Sometimes, it feels good to chase your memories down the lane, and to relive them.
Sometimes, it’s good to reach out, grab your past, and pull it to your present.

With this, I would like to bring to your attention the efforts of the family over at One Old Green Bus.

I may have lost my dream, but perhaps someone can help them achieve theirs.

I have terrible news.

My mother passed away this evening, while I was at work.

This morning, I had said, “Today will be the day that kills me.”

I wish I would avoid statements like this, however… These are the statements that wound me the most.
When I got the phone call at work an hour ago, I was too stunned to control myself.
I fell down on the sales floor, and I couldn’t stop crying.

Right now, I’m waiting for the police to allow us into the room, so I can see her.

… I didn’t even hug her this morning. I feel so damn rotten. :/

Okay, so, I wanted to see if these guys would actually pay, so I tried out a few posts with them.
You have to have the post up for thirty days to get paid, so, yesterday was the thirtieth day on one.

I get this email around 8 p.m.:

This is a notification letting you know that your PayPerPost post, It’s like Blogging… with Space on it!, has made you money. We hooked you up… if you would like to hook us up let everyone know that PayPerPost is a quick and easy way to earn money with your blog.

I am now happy.

I’m thinking that the guy running SplogSpot is just taking everything in as it comes.

Personally, all it takes is someone or several someones willing to work together to contaminate the database there.
I mean, if Bob decides to add Microsoft.com, Apple.com, Linux.com, Slashdot.org, and Technorati.com all in the same day (with the bookmarklet they offer, no less!), and then tells his friends to add five of their own, and then those friends tell their friends to do the same…

The database that is in use would become plainly useless.
It already looks like that is happening - some of the positives aren’t even positives.

I’m just a quiet, normal blogger in Tampa, who sometimes speaks passionately for or against something I believe in. I’m hardly a splog — I do like to cite references, and sometimes point at products I like. I also am trying to make an honest buck by posting the occasional advertisement in my weblog (via ), since I know that banner ads and text ads are generally ignored by the masses. It’s easier to skip a post if it bothers you, is what I feel. Plus, the payouts are far better with PayPerPost than they were with ANY of the previous advertisers I tried.

Combined, Google AdSense, AdBrite, and Chitika brought in a whopping fifty cents.

If trying to make an honest buck to do things like, uh, pay for my domain name, etc etc… gets me counted as a splog, then SplogSpot needs to count itself as a splog, and lose all credibility, what with the random links all over the place that aren’t in their list.

Well, thanks to WordPress, I find out that I’m being splogged by a number of idiots out there.

Splogging has to be one of the most annoying things ever, though I sorta blame myself.

Thanks to this, I’m basically going to be trimming my RSS feeds back down to just a small amount of the content, rather than the entire post, which seems to be one of the major contributing factors.

I’m aware that this is going to piss off the ones who’re comfortable reading me via LiveJournal, but it’s got to be done.

Also, do me a favor: Tell the guys over at SplogSpot that I am NOT a Splog, please.

Thanks.
- Xial

Well, I’m starting to get back into BlogExplosion, so I can get a few more hits here, as well as getting some inspiration for original content.

With that said, I’d like to welcome back someone who has previously rented with me — Recommended.
I generally pop over there every couple of weeks or so to read what’s going on, because there’s usually something that I’ll find interesting enough to play with there.

-t-, welcome back to Eau Salée Lunaire.

Why is it that I seem to remember to blog only minutes before I have to leave for work, or while I’m sitting at work all day?

There’s a lot going on in my head that I want to talk about, but I instantly forget all of it when I get home!

This behaviour consistently baffles me, and is part of the reason why there’s no real content over the past few weeks.

Therefore, a rapid update:
I’ve been tossing my resume around, hoping to get a few bites.
I’m also going to register with a Staffing Agency tomorrow (That action failed on my previous attempt - couldn’t find one when I wanted it!), so I can work something else on my days off from my current job. Hopefully, that means I’ll pull in enough, or very close to enough for my bills this month.
I’ve not paid for my Anarchy Online account this month, so it’s been frozen for days. I’ve had to play on a free account, and it’s nowhere near as satisfying.
I’ve officially given up on Gunbound. Softnyx gave the US/Int’l accounts off to a company named “ijji”. The problem is, ijji is very, VERY gay for Microsoft. That means: You MUST have, and use Internet Explorer to even get the game to launch. There is no standalone launcher. I had to edit the shortcut they generate, since it uses your default browser: It’d point to Firefox, and launch it, but then when you nail the Play Now! link, it tells you that you can’t play until you download IE.
I still play GunZ from time to time. I only stick around if there’re english speakers in-game. The cheating’s pretty much disappeared as of the last time I played, and that makes me happy.

I still owe you a blog post about something specific, but I need to wait until I write that post, to tell you about it.
It’s the difference between a post and $7.50 …