March 2010

When I put up a member system a few months ago I wanted it to be custom so I could add things in as I wanted to. It’s not that I wouldn’t love to have Social Engine, because I believe Social Engine is the best script out there for a member’s system, but I don’t have $250 for a license, so I decided to write my own. Up until this point members could only write in the custom forum, and update their info. With this arcade script, users can now play games and set up tournaments to compete against their friends.

I should also point out that the arcade has a profile page. This is not the final profile page, once I create one, it will replace this. If you have any games that you’d like to see added, let me know and I will see what I can do. There are thousands of games I can get, this is just the beginning.

President Obama signed healthcare reform into law this afternoon. While it isn’t the best bill that we could have gotten, it is much better than we currently have. I know a lot of people are upset that it doesn’t include everything that Obama talked about when he was campaigning, such as giving everyone the same healthcare that he himself had as a Senator, but unfortunately there were people who stood in the way of change and for the most part those people are called Republicans. Unfortunately it seems that killing these people is illegal, so if you do not want them to mess up what you want and what you think your government should give you, then please vote them out of office.

Seriously though, by 2014 if you do not have medicaid or health insurance of some kind then you will be fined for it. I have been without health insurance for a few years now and I have to say it is a pain in the ass. I am hoping that since I have done my taxes this week and with this new health reform going into affect this year, then I can go ahead and get myself either medicaid or health insurance. There are some things that I’d like to take care of that I can’t without having insurance, like getting medicine for my ADD, going to the doctor when I am sick, and eventually when I can figure out how dental will change, finishing this root canal that was started a few years ago.

Before the bill was signed, Vice President Biden was caught saying that “this is a big fucking deal” and the news stations are really upset that the Vice President would put it like that, but really when you think about it, are there any words that sum it up better than “this is a big fucking deal”? I can’t think of any.

Today is St Patrick’s Day. Being Irish, this is one day I am especially proud to call myself as such. I don’t plan on getting completely shit faced which is the tradition for most Irish people, but I am having a beer and probably will enjoy a few more after I wake up (not for breakfast of course).

I haven’t written in a week because I was finishing up two big clients and getting started on something semi big for a new client. While looking and getting these clients is always great, I am looking for something semi permanent, so I don’t need to worry about how I will pay the bills.

Speaking of bills, I tried to sit down and do the online free Turbo Tax software so I could pay my taxes and have that over with and the site completely messed up. What is the point of having a save button if you click it and it doesn’t save, just send you out of the system? I think I will try again to pay my taxes tomorrow or Friday, hopefully.

Networking and being affiliated with people is very important in life and in business and even when your just trying to run a website or business. Even just going into the city a few weeks ago I have a few more potential clients just from meeting them and talking to them for a bit. It’s just amazing how meeting with someone, or having a phone or email conversation can be so detrimental to your business or website.

On Myspace I have over 21,000 friends that I try and network with as much as I can. This comes in most useful when I run my girl and guy of the moments contest (hopefully a new one will be coming soon). I also have a few thousand followers on Twitter as well. With Twitter it is a different story though, I tend to get more work off of Twitter than anything dealing with my site or friendship wise, but that’s fine since we all need to work.

Now I am trying to get out there and actively affiliate with other sites. I just recently made an affiliation with MobsterAddz after doing some work for them. Now I am looking for affiliates for other parts of the site. If you want to affiliate with me on my blog, on my recipes site, Myspace Adder, Proxy, fanlistings, anything at all, let me know and maybe we can work out a link exchange or something.

I have been trying to get on a schedule. Schedule is a weird word, see I don’t have the typical job where I get up and go to work, I bid on jobs and if I get them it’s my income. I have that down pretty good, but sometimes I get a client in the night when I want to just work on personal stuff. This has happened for the passed few nights. I have no problem with helping them, since it is money coming in, but it kind of messes up my schedule to the point where when I wake up I don’t want to start bidding on jobs and doing anything with work. Of course to make money I don’t have that luxury, so I have to deal with it and do what I need to do.

When it comes to my blog it seems to be a whole other thing. I had set up a schedule a few weeks ago with blog topics that I wanted to talk about on certain days of that week, but as the days went by I wasn’t keeping to the schedule. How do you handle your blog schedule and sticking to the topics you want to talk to on certain days?

For the passed few hours the site has been down due to my host changing my server. I had to update over 600 files on my site and put them back up. Apparently I have 20,000 files on my site alone, not including subdomains. I guess I should get moving on a lot of these projects I have going on.

It snowed here on Thursday into Friday. Unfortunately for me on Thursday I was in the city doing some work for a client and my iPod ended up getting wet and I am pretty sure it is fried. It still acts like it works, when I plug it in it says Please Wait… Very Low Battery, but other than that it doesn’t do anything. I guess next time I go, I better use my phone as a music player.

Other than that I’ve been trying to come up with a better blog schedule and plan, but some things came up work wise that didn’t allow me to. Maybe this week will be better.