June 2010

I’ve spent the last hour or so unfollowing people on Twitter. When I was first on there I had a bad habit of following everyone back, unfortunately most of those I followed back were bots so my feed is filled with automated Tweets. I try and do this a little bit everyday, but I just felt I would attempt to get a huge chunk out today, but I don’t think I even cracked the surface. I have managed to unfollow over 50 people though and I am down to under 4246 people that I am following.

I am looking for reviewers for this site. If your interested let me know and I will create an account for you to post reviews. You’d get full credit, a link to your site on the review, and the review could be posted on your site as well. Let me know if you’re interested.

While I am waiting for Dreamhost to setup a subdomain so I can begin working on a new project for a client, I decided to upgrade a few things. First I was just going to upgrade some plugins in WordPress 2.9.2, but then I decided I would just upgrade to WordPress 3.0. What do I think of it? I think it feels exactly the same as 2.9.2 did. I know about the new features, but none of them seem to pop out at me just looking around the admin panel. It does look like most of the plugins I had installed do work with this update though, including my own ones, Character Count and Word Count.

I know I am behind on returning comments, I am hoping to rectify that soon though.

I am going to end this blog on a sadder note. One of the most beloved teachers at my high school passed away a few days ago. Now when I say that he was a beloved teacher I do not mean just for my class, I mean for the entire time he was at the school, back to when he started in the 1960’s. I was a tour guide at a high school reunion and students from the 60’s and 80’s asked if he was still teaching there. Even just on Facebook, when people started saying he died, almost immediately people wanted more information and was asking everyone that knew him if they knew what happened. Now that is a sign that he truly touched a lot of lives.

I personally was only in his class a few days due to a scheduling conflict, but I tried to keep him as a teacher and always wished I could have had him as a teacher. He taught history from a Native American perspective which I always thought sounded so different than anything every other US History class teaches. Honestly I think the most time I spent with him was on a trip to the Vietnam Memorial at the PNC Bank Arts Center and that’s pretty much all I can remember of it. Honestly I wish I could remember more of it, but I think I may be confusing it with a trip to a Holocaust museum.

Mr. Donahue joins an ever growing list of people from Collier High School who have died since I graduated in 2004. Rest in peace Mr. Donahue.

E3 is this week and more than Natal from Microsoft and Move from Sony, eyes seem to be more focused on 3D. Honestly I don’t like 3D. I watched Monsters Vs Aliens for about 10 minutes in 3D a few months back and it was a pain to get the glasses on over my glasses, and if you don’t want to watch in 3D you can’t because it’s all blurry. I think 3D is just a huge waste of time.

Unfortunately with Sony bringing 3D to the PS3 and Nintendo having 3D on the DS (I wouldn’t be surprised if they somehow got it on the Wii as well), Microsoft is sure to follow the hype soon as well. In any case I am looking forward to this week with the best conference that gaming has. I will of course be doing my wrapups of stuff, I probably won’t return comments until that is over though since I know a lot of people don’t want to comment on that stuff anyway.

I haven’t gotten my pagerank back yet, although I am thinking maybe I am a PR0 as the other sites I look at who got the Google Smackdown is a PR N/A, so I should maybe see if I can raise that to a 1, or something.

I spoke with a few people from Izea at TechCrunch Disrupt regarding their latest project and how I was part of the Google Smackdown that brought down my page rank a few years ago. Ever since then I’ve wanted to get my page rank back more than ever. A few days ago I no-followed all my links in my blogs and submitted my site for reconsideration.

Fast forward to today and I am still waiting to know anything. I really want to have my page rank back. If I get it back I think I will be more inclined to add more stuff and get my site out there more. I have a lot of ideas, but without a page rank it makes it look like my site is new, and I am tired of looking like that.

In Disney news we still need around $300 for the trip, but saved up for the trip itself is over $1000 and most if not all the money I bring in is going to the trip. Hopefully this is an epic trip.