So I have FINALLY added the Funbox section of my website. Now what is the funbox? Well right now all it has it Wallpapers, but eventually it will have other things like Forum avatars, Myspace graphics, all of that stuff. Go and check out the wallpapers and let me know what you think. There will be more coming, I promise.
Christmas has made me a lot lighter in the wallet. Valentine’s Day is just a few weeks away and I need to figure out what to get Krissy. I have been looking through online coupons, but they don’t really help when I don’t really know what I am looking for. I wish I could get her something great, but after an iMac and a diamond necklace, not only am I broke, I am out of ideas. I think I am going to have to pay extra close attention to her over the next few weeks to figure out what she wants.
I am trying to get used to Adobe Premiere Pro so I can take some videos and screen shots. I have a book on it, but unfortunately I can’t seem to find anything in there to take screen shots so I might need to find another way to do it. I asked on a forum, so maybe I will get some answers. I have the camcorder set up to my left and I have been thinking about leaving it on and running a live chat, but I don’t know if it would take off. What do you guys think?
As you know, I am trying to market my website so that I can make it what I know it can be. The marketing comes in because with good marketing then I can take a day off work and work on it because I know the revenue from the site will make it worthwhile. I have been using Myspace as a marketing tool for about two months and I think it is really working for me, but I am also trying to use any marketing scheme that would work for me. I found a website called Lead Generation that provides some marketing tips that I might be able to use for my website. I will keep you informed if I can use anything.
Depression and low self esteem are a big problem in this country. Everyday there are more and more drugs that get approved to treat these things and the more drugs that come into the market, the more the market seems to grow and more people have these problems. There are two types of depression, situational and chemical imbalance.
With situational the depression kicks in during an event, such as a death in the family or some other traumatic event. A chemical imbalance is different than situational, because it is the neurons in your brain that are messed up and not working properly.
The drugs that can be prescribed to you can be very expensive and have a lot of side effects. Sometimes it is better to stay sad than to actually take one of these pills that are supposed to help your depression, after all how is suicidal thoughts a side effect of an anti-depressant? Isn’t that what the drug is supposed to prevent?
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just flick a switch and happiness would appear in your feelings? What if it was that simple? What if all you had to do to beat your depression is to have a positive outlook on life? Would you do it? Could you do it? Would something like this ever exist? The answer is The Sedona Method.
Lester Levenson, an engineer/physicist/businessman almost died due to a serious heart attack. Lester believes his health got better after the cardiac incident due to his new positive outlook and emotions. I guess he really followed the whole “I think therefore I am” kind of philosophy huh?
I don’t know if this works or not, I am not depressed to tell you. I think it is pretty much like anything else in life though, if you want it to work for you then it will. Believe and have faith in the process then you will be happy with the results. If anyone knows for sure if this works, or has tried it then let me know, I would love to hear from you guys on this.
So as I was trying to film something for the website today, I noticed how hard it would be to do, so I went out and bought a tripod. It was only like 18 dollars so it wasn’t that big of an expense, and it will hopefully get me more money than I put out. We will see though. I won’t be doing anything with it tonight, maybe tomorrow after I do laundry and shower, then I might post a video blog, we’ll see.
I am constantly trying to find new ways to improve Lep’s Lair. The problem is that I have to find the time to do anything with the site, time that I could spend working. I have tried to make a decent profit from just cost per click advertising and cost per impression advertising, but neither seem to be making me much money. I wish it was different, and maybe if I can get some of the new stuff up and running then it will be, but right now I am breaking even and bearly turning a profit, which is all right considering that I never set out to make money, I am just recently trying to make this into something profitable.
I have recently heard about Net Audio Ads. What it does is gives you a five second audio ad on your website. They have a huge list of advertisers and they have been around for over two years so they know what they are doing. The five second ads could be anything from a Taco Bell ad to a Harley Davidson ad. I might try this for a few days just to see if I can make any money off of it, but I know from personal experience how annoying some of the audio ads can be, so we will see what happens.
If you don’t have something nice to say, talk about the weather. Well maybe that is just what I am going to do in this entry. Truth be told the weather is ever changing and can be down right scarey at times. Someone suggested that I put up a weather forecast on my site. At first he was joking and I knew that, but I responded anyway asking how he proposed I did that. He emailed me back saying that he was joking at first but then after looing at my site thought that it was a good idea.
I would put up a weather forecast, but I am somewhat limited as to what I can do because my host blocks out accepting pages from other domains, so I would need to figure out how to do that without opening up another domain. Of course if I borrowed some of Krissy’s space then I wouldn’t have this problem. I need to see what I can do and how I can do it, but I may make this my next big thing for Lep’s Lair. What do you think?
Do you remember the Chris Crocker video from last year? How about Obama girl? These videos would never fly on television, and without places that allow you to upload videos, they would probably never be made. Whether or not that is a good thing is a matter of opinion, but it is now easier than ever for someone to become famous, even if it is for a few weeks or months.
Think about it, any video uploaded has the potential to be something huge, especially with that many people having the potential to see it. Your video might even become a part of a television show, in the background, or even the main focus of a television show at some point. If you upload a video today to a place like YawpBox, then there is a potential that over a million people will view it. If a million people view it and 30 thousand like it then they will probably commit it to memory. If you put up more videos then those 30 thousand people will come back and tell more people. You could be famous, if even for a day or a month, but the user generated content is what the forwards of email were three years ago. They are addicting and people can’t seem to get enough of them.
I have been really tired lately. I don’t know if I am sick or not, but I know that by 6:00PM I am tired and in bed by 10 or 11PM, and this is highly unlike me. I am also now waking up around 8:30-9:00AM. Normally I wake up around 1 or 2 and stay up until 4 or 5AM. I like that schedule much more, I seem to get more done. Oh well, I think I am going to try having a lot of coffee today and getting to bed at 2AM tonight.
Does anyone else hate writing out envelopes? I have horrible handwriting so when I am done writing out their address and my address I look at it and wonder if anyone else will be able to read it, since I hardly can. It isn’t just that my handwriting is bad, it is also the fact that there aren’t any lines on envelopes, so I am going all over the place when I am writing. I can never seem to get it straight, it always curves downward.
Lately I have been trying to print envelopes instead of writing them, but the going to address comes out, but the coming from address is always messed up. I think I might try investing in some Mailing Labels. At least with those I know that the writing on them is perfect and all I have to do is worry about if it is on straight or not.
Whoever came up with the idea of address labels is a genius. I mean he was probably someone who couldn’t write straight themselves so he figured he would have it printed up, then people probably were in awe of them and started paying him for them. That’s what I imagine happened, of course I could be wrong.
Did anyone see the Sarah Connor Chronicles last night? I know some fans are saying that how can they do that and ignore Terminator 3, but the truth is with time traveling if someone goes back in time it can cause a butterfly effect and change the future as they know it. If you don’t want to be spoiled with last night’s episode then stop reading here.
So last night after Sarah leaves her fiancee, she and John end up in what he refers to as a hick town. His second day of school there is a substitute teacher taking role call, as soon as he gets to John’s name he takes out a gun and fires at him, seeming to kill one of his classmates, Cameron. As John is chased down in the parking lot, Cameron hits him with a truck and tells John he should go with her if he wants to live.
They wind up picking up his mother and they go on the run. After a few battles with the Terminator and Sarah getting shot, they end up in a bank where they tell the tellers to lock them in the vault and get away from it. They start building a weapon to stop the Terminator who is on his way to the bank. They also unveil some computers in the safety deposit boxes. As an electric current is forming around them the Terminator busts in and is then shot by the new weapon.
The next scene is all three of them on a highway naked. They rush to a construction site where the date reads 2007, 8 years into the future. Judgement Day is supposed to happen in 2011, so in 2007 they are going to end the work that has just began on it.
From the previews for tonight’s episode, it looks as though Cameron might be hiding something from Sarah and John, plus it looks like the Terminator waited it out for them to return, so it is going to be an interesting series. If every episode is even half as good as the pilot, then I think it has a shot. I just hope Fox doesn’t cancel it like it does to so many other good shows.