Call me crazy, but I would put metal cabinets in my kitchen. I mean stainless steel cabinets would match a black referidgerator or stove right? An all stainless steel kitchen would look weird I think, but it might look cool if the countertops were black. I like odd things, things that you don’t see anywhere else, so stainless steel kitchen cabinets would fit into what I would like.
Still no word from my friend, we were hoping to leave on Monday, but that doesn’t look like it is happening, so maybe Tuesday or Wednesday. It really sucks, because we want to go there and see this place. I mean if things went my way we would already have a house, but I guess things don’t always go as planned. I just wish it would though, it would make life a lot easier.
Christmas is coming up and Krissy and I have been talking about what to get each other. I told her anything she got me, or didn’t get me is fine. I am easy to shop for, any cool little gadget will amuse me for hours on end, until I find a new one. Then she showed me a couple things she found online, including the electronics charger station and the Gorillapod Tripod. If she were to buy me one of these, I would be entertained for hours, I could take random pictures of myself without having to come up with things to keep my camera in place, and if she got me the charger then my ipod could be separate from the computer and it would always be charged. They are perfect for any gadget lover like myself.
I signed onto Yahoo Messenger the other night, my first time being on in over a month, and someone IMs me and thanks me for the job I did on the tutorials. Now this is what I make my site for, not for money, or for myself really, but to provide valuable content to people on the internet. His thanks makes me want to go out and write more tutorials and add more content. Problem is with all the stuff going on the next few weeks and months, I don’t know when I will have time. I’ll keep trying though, for everyone who comes here and finds something useful.
My web hosting is cheap. Unfortunately I am paying for space and bandwidth, not reliability. My website goes down at least once a week, and if it doesn’t go down a week then there are times when it is extremely slow. It wasn’t always this bad, though. It only started happening the last few months, so what I am hoping is that they are going to fix whatever problems they are having and it will become more reliable. If they don’t, then I am going to have to find a new host. The thing is that if I want the same anywhere near the same amount of space and bandwidth then I am going to need at least a Virtual Private Server.
I’ve already started looking into VPS Hosting, and from what I have seen most are pretty reliable and offer at least 10 gigabytes of disk space. The bandwidth that is offered is also pretty nice as well. From 500 to 2000 gigabytes of bandwidth per VPS, it doesn’t seem like a bad deal, and if I am making that much with my website (though I am not sure now that Google has changed the Page Rank system) then it might be worth the investment.
I want a garage. It doesn’t even have to be attached to a house, I will settle for a Prefab Concrete Garages . Some of those look a lot better than the garage my father has at his house, and that’s an attached garage. The garage just needs to hold tools and maybe a car, or two, but that really isn’t important, I can park on the street. The tools though would be set aside in a corner with a work bench, and it wouldn’t just be hand tools, it would be power tools too. My garage would just be a place that I can go and work on projects without having to worry about where my tools are.
Because Google changed their Page Rank, I am having a hard time finding posts on PayPerPost. I emailed them asking if they could find another way to judge a site besides their Page Rank, because I think in a matter of months they will either go back to the way Page Rank used to be, or there is going to be something else. Maybe Yahoo could step up and fix what Google seems to have messed up on.
We have a nice comfortable king sized bed. I never knew how much I liked it until we went to New York this passed weekend. It is a good mattess with a box spring on a low profile frame. With the move, I was thinking if there is room that we could add a real frame with a headboard, to make it look more like a real bedroom. I’ve been looking around and I found a place that sells Oak Beds. They don’t look that bad and with the green color Krissy wants to put on the wall, it might make it stand out and really accentuate the wall color. It is just an idea though.
Google changed something with the Page Rank system and now everything is messed up. Nobody is happy with the new system, especially those who sell links. It is theorized that Google is penalizing anyone who is selling ads on their website, or is making money off of their Page Rank. Krissy went from a 5 to a 3, I went from a 3 to a 2, MySpace went from a 10 to a 7, and a lot of other ones went down as well. This might be the end of the Page Rank as we know it.
The key to making a successful website is having a lot of traffic. I have a decent amount I think, but I want more website traffic. I’ve been looking into ways of doing it. There are a few things that I could do, and I am doing some of them to a degree, but I also need to do a lot more to get more website traffic. A lot of it is SEO work, because if your optimized then the website traffic is almost guaranteed.
The problem with optimizing my website is that there are different sections, so I would have to optimize each section in order to make full use of it. The most popular sections are the fanlistings, and then the blog. I really hope people don’t just see this as a blog though, and really look at it as a unique website. I still need to get more things together for it, but that probably won’t be until after we move, which is a shame, but I don’t think I will have time before then. Hopefully I can continue to grow my website traffic until we move, and while we’re moving it should stay constant.
We got home yesterday at around 3AM. I am exhausted, if I wasn’t, I think we would be on our way to Ohio right now. Problem with that is that I need to do work. Without work the loan won’t get paid, so it is going to have to wait for a few days until I can get the work that needs to be done, finished. I am pretty close to done, just need to make some final tweaks I think, that and add a page that I am waiting to know how it is supposed to look. Life is good right now, just gotta wait until we have our own place for it to get even better.
Sometimes I wonder if I could ever be in charge of a real business. I am not talking about Lep’s Lair, I am talking about something bigger. Something that would require a business number, and a business bank account. If that was the case though, I would go with a Business VoIP. I think I would go with Packet8 to save some serious money though. The other phone companies are way too expensive. Every feature requires more and more money to use.
With Packet8 Virtual Office I wouldn’t need to have someone come in and install anything, it would install easily over the existing internet connection. I mean there isn’t any hardware, so how hard could it be? I think the selling point though is that it is able to be integrated into Outlook. I know Outlook, most people at least know and understand Outlook Express, so anyone I would hire would be able to use it to their advantage. Plus if I have a business of three people, I could give each person their own line as needed, and the more people who work for me could have their own number.
Definitely Packet8 is something that I would be looking into if I had something that required it, it just makes sense.