By now you have heard the George Carlin is dead. He died Sunday night due to heart failure. I, unlike most Americans, was first really introduced to him during his sitcom back in the 90s.He was a brilliant comedian and I am sad there won’t be any more specials, but I hope that his death will bring about box sets so I can enjoy his work anytime I want.
I just took the domain name scorecard from Network Solutions and I really didn’t score that good. I mean granted I don’t actually have a brand of my own and my website is looked at as a business second, but still, my highest score was in the Extension Score category and it was still below fifty percent, which isn’t good, but as I said it isn’t exactly a full blown business per say and I look at it as a business second, if I even look at it that way at all since I am still on the fence about it.
For a full blown business though, the scorecard can definitely help. It will analyze how your website and all the websites you have registered through your business are actually helping the business. It is a very impressive tool and I am surprised that no one has thought of it before. What it does is it will tell you alternate ways of your domain name and explain how your competitors can take the misspelled domain names and make money with them. Since you don’t own the misspelled names then there is no copyright infringement so it is perfectly legal for them to do that and a lot of businesses do it so they can outsell their competitors.
I plugged everything into the computer I was going to be usiing as a video capture/server and it wouldn’t boot. It seems that the motherboard is dying or already dead, though it might just be the graphics card, I am not really sure. See the computer will boot, but with options that the BIOS is out of date then it will freeze or reboot itself and the video will not come on screen. I am thinking I will need to buy a new motherboard to replace this one, but I think I would rather just buy a new whole computer, I am not really in the mood to starttrying to build a computer when I have no money, with my luck it will die and I won’t be able to get my money back.
We will be heading to New York soon, but we do not really have the time or money to take a Trusted Tours & Attractions tour. Besides we aren’t really going up to the city, we are driving right passed it and going to the Island. Eventually I would love to take one of the New York City tours I have been hearing so much about. I have been checking out online travel guides to see what is in the area we are going to and maybe seeing if I can go out and find something to do while Krissy is with her girlfriends or sister, this way I won’t be stuck inside while she’s gone.
Eventually I will be taking one of their tours, I hear they are really good and I plan to travel a lot in the futureso finding things to do in San Francisco and other major cities won’t be a problem if I take a tour of the city. I have already signed up for their newsletter because you can win a GPS system just by signing up. A chance to win a GPS is a good reason to sign up for the newsletter if you ask me.
Wow so I started watching I Know Who Killed Me and originally I thought the movie was going to be some bland teeny bopper type horror movie. I was wrong. Lindsay Lohan returns to her roots you could say, and the story has so many twists and turns you won’t know what is coming up next. I won’t ruin it for you, but I must say that if you are into horror or suspense then you should definitely see it.
We have been talking a lot about moving again and we have come to the conclusion that we might just leave some furniture and buy new. Mainly what we would be buying is new Office Furniture, this way everything matches and we can have a nice set to do work with when there’s work to do. It would be nice to have matching desks and book cases for once, instead of furniture that has been picked up in random places. I would really like a nice solid oak L-shaped desk with a really tall hutch, though I am sure that would cost a pretty penny. New Office Furniture sure would make a big difference, maybe we will see how much money we have and then decide which would be more cost effective.
In the 40’s and 50’s a man could be the only member of the household working and be bring home a salary that would take care of 3 to 4 people. Nowadays it takes two people at least, sometimes working more than one job to just make ends meat for themselves. If you have a child at home then you are pretty much screwed because you need to buy things that you wouldn’t necessarily pay for if they weren’t around, like a babysitter or daycare, plus diapers if need be. A mother barely spends any time with her children nowadays, they are usually raised by a nanny or a family member who doesn’t work. Sometimes even an older sibling is taking care of them while the parents are working.
There are legitimate ways to make extra income from home, and if you do that then you have more time to spend with your family and raise your children. I think the easiest way to make money at home is to run a blog and put paid advertising on it from SocialSpark. This month I have only made about 50 dollars extra from them, but your earnings depend on how popular your blog is and what your interests are. There are people currently making a few hundred dollars a month just with Social Spark. Think about what you could do with a couple hundred dollars that you make from sitting at home. Maybe you could cut out that second job, or cut hours from your day job. Either way you are getting to be where you belong, with your family
I’ve been thinking about doing a video post, but I am not really sure what it would be about. I was thinking about just a random one wher I ramble on about how Bella chases bunnies, but I don’t know if it would be funny or just dumb. I think it is hilarious but I think people might think there was something wrong with me if I posted it. Then again, maybe there is something wrong with me.
Marvel released information today that they are trying to get Spiderman 4 finished and out into theaters for May 2011. If they do that then Marvel is going to be ruling 2011, with Spiderman, Captain America, and the Avengers movie all happening months apart from each other. I know that Sony won’t want Spiderman to appear in an Avengers movie if they aren’t the ones producing it, but I wonder if Marvel will pull their weight and put some Avengers references or even characters in Spiderman 4. Personally I would like to see Venom back and Iron Man, or even War Machine coming to help Spiderman with Venom like they did in the Spiderman cartoon. I realize that is just wishful thinking on my part though.
Krissy and I have been discussing web hosting the last couple of weeks. Basically we are trying to find the best cheapest reseller and possibly even personal hosts out there. We are trying to cut down the cost of the webhosting bill, or even bring in more money from it as it stands, with the ability to add new stuff later on down the line. Nothing has been made final yet, we are still looking at hosts and the ups and downs of them and what the reviews say and of course the price pays a huge factor into something like this so it is all a factor in what happens. I guess we need more research before we can decide anything.
Firefox 3 is out, but I haven’t downloaded it yet. I think it still renders the page as it does in Firefox 2, but I am not in any rush to upgrade. It will be nice though because then I will have all the extra plugins gone and maybe AOL won’t be my default search (stupid AOL). I might upgrade tonight or I might wait until we get back from New York in a few weeks, I don’t know yet.
I have never been any good with designing or anything artistic. I have many ideas in my head, but getting them out of there and onto paper or into the computer has never been my fortay. I always see premade wordpress templates that look gorgeous, but I always feel cheap if I use someone else’s design and not my own. I mean I realize I am limiting myself by doing that, but that is the price I have to pay for my opinions, I mean I know I will never be able to create something as good as the ones I have seen that are free, but maybe one day I will finally create something that I am happy with, or at least a few that I could give away for free.