October 2006

hello pimpy.

We have A PIMP in our store.

happy Halloween.

not Enough Time To Do My Moon. Get Over It.

I don’t know how my aunt’s going to react when she gets in this afternoon, and I don’t have my share of the mortgage and bills.

I don’t get my PayPerPost money (from the puzzle I put together) until Wednesday. It would make the difference I need in covering my bills.

Job searches are going horribly today.

All I can do… is pray.

@buzz@

So, I’m cruisin’ the ’sphere this morning, and pop in on my WP dashboard to check the news and latest PPP offers.

I spotted that once again, [tag]Mike Arrington[/tag] is going on and on (again) about that paid blogging craze known as [tag]PayPerPost[/tag]. It’s like he has a hateboner or something over it.

In his recent rant, he states:

Don’t look for PayPerPost to require blogger disclosure anytime soon. Instead, they are creating a distraction, designed to keep the buzz about PayPerPost going strong, as well as to move people’s attention away from the core issue of blogger disclosure of product shilling.

Yes, he’s right. Don’t look for it to be an absolute requirement. PayPerPost is just the intermediate between advertisers and bloggers, just like eBay is the intermediate between buyer and seller. Each can ask the parties involved to behave responsibly, and in the case of absolutely unfair actions on either party, throw the offending party out on their ass.

PayPerPost can ask us posties to offer a [tag]disclosure policy[/tag] of some sort.
eBay can ask sellers to not sell Hong Kong bootleg DVDs.

Let’s take a moment to look at the word that seems to pop out of his mouth all the time: shill.
As a noun, this word is defined as:

1. A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
2. An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.

I’d suggest he finds a new word, or actually learn just what PayPerPost is, rather than just declaring in a single glob that posties are scum and shills.
Things that I have mentioned in my PayPerPost entries are things that I actually am interested in.
My family is enjoying [tag]Cellfire[/tag], which I can thank that advertiser for (again).
I’m enjoying [tag]Amie Street[/tag] immensely, and particularly am absorbed with Now On (which has that old-school, Jurassic 5-like feel).
I can actually push [tag]List’d Express[/tag] as an easy to use tool for selling things on eBay: I hate the several pages of crap they make you fill out, just to sell an item for a few bucks. It’s a verifiable headache. List’d shortcuts you through all of that.

Strangely, his whole rant reeks of a lack of research, once again, tinged with a hint of jealousy.
He sees that PayPerPost is moving in the right direction, in giving users the ability to generate a policy (though I wrote my own, and you can locate it in the sidebar as “I disclose”), and still has the need to say what he does.

Should’ve tried a different angle, like, “Oh, PayPerPost now offers a Disclosure Policy Generator, but it needs _____.”

Thanks for the free links, I guess, but [tag]TechCrunch[/tag], please, lay off that horse. It’s dead already.

Sometime earlier today, Akismet stopped its 8000th spam comment on [ESL].

May you block 8000 more in the future.

All I want… is a way to bring in extra money that will cover the bills. It needs to put the meat in the basket, to be honest.

MMORPGs have given me a way to ruin my life, and I took it. It’s like marijuana, but it doesn’t show up in your bloodstream. Instead, it shows up in your money stream.

I’ve been clean for two weeks. I gave up Anarchy Online. I want to go back, immerse myself in the escapism it provides. It gave me interaction, and things to kill time with.

I need a job to replace it with.

If you’re in the Tampa area, and know someone who is looking for a part time assistant of some sort, be it data entry, or word processing or something… or if you’re in the know of someone looking for telecommuters, and the pay is a decent hourly wage… Please, let me know.
My local job searches aren’t turning up enough that I can do. I just need something I can do alongside my current job.

Also, if you or someone you know can help me file for bankruptcy, for the love of God, please, contact me. I need it more than some of these mega-corporations. I’m having 25% of my pay deducted, which makes me unbelievably short on my bills each month, and I can’t keep borrowing money from people. I want to pay these people back, and my current budget says it’s not possible unless I work three jobs, and don’t sleep, eat, or bathe.

The stress is really stretching me thin.

Every company usually has a month or two where everything just gets unbelievably hectic for their employees. Things just get out of control, and tempers flare. People get angry, upset, turn into balls of walking stress, and have some sort of need to get it off their chest.

Fortunately, the guys at PayPerPost (where I get paid to blog) seem to realize this. Here’s a video of Veronique, also known as the Flaming Tamale, just letting it ALL out.

By the way, honey, Vitamin Water is good, but green tea rocks better. ;D
Though, I wouldn’t complain if PayPerPost were to hire me on as an employee to help out with stuff. I like to think that I specialize in helping customers out.

I just can’t move, though. I have this house to save.