In line with my new policy to promote over produce I am doing some directory performance testing. First a little history: some time ago I stopped myself creating new celeb fansites due to the fact it takes me about an hour per day updating them with news. I actually have one almost done (it’s been done for months) but I’m not launching it. Palmetto Pointe Fans doesn’t count because, cease the day, you know ;).
I think, if I’m putting this time into the sites they should generate more traffic than they currently do so my efforts are now going into promoting. With that in mind I have submited different sites to many different directories to performance test them. Each directory has a different site so we will see how it goes with each and the one that provides it’s site with the most benifit (or all if they all do well) I will submit all my sites there.
The roof toilet in Scrubs is awesome. But anyway yeah I had an epiphany in the shower, I was thinking of how to solve a problem which I was using loop for, wasn’t working, then I realised the answer was a function.
It’s for Particle Links which problems are cropping up in. I thought I had tested it enough, apparently not. There are a few errors that are creeping in which sucks. I have a new version coming out soon so hopefully, I can stamp on all these bugs then.
I was never a fan of CNet taking over TV Tome and turning it into TV.com. I’m not alone either, I know people have been complaining about how long it takes to get stuff moderated – people who previously were editors of a show and now have to wait for CNet’s team to approve everything.
I’m in the same position. I submitted a quote back on August 2nd, that’s over 2 weeks ago, 2 and a half weeks ago and it still hasn’t been approved. They are going to end up like Dmoz.
Yahoo! Buffy Talk has finally hit the 500 members mark. Important mark as it is the over the hill status of the first 250-500 members which are the hardest to get when building a community (then it’s easy-ass to get them :P). It actually happened last night I think. I’ve been busy trying to sort my accommodation ;).
Finally got stats logging at least half fixed for Olsen Twins Planet. There is still information missing, namely the dailys before August 12th and information for the visits and page views but uniques seems to be intact.
Uniques so far in August: 11,000! That is hot. Rawice at it’s peak was doing something like 15,000 a month and we are only on the 19th. It’s mostly people looking for pictures but traffic is traffic. Might get rid of AdSense and put a graphic advertiser on there, need to review my AdSense reports.
I knew I would be posting more but I didn’t think I would be posting this much today. Anyway. I do like RegisterFly, I know their system has problems but overall I like it and I although I used to think it was a little add-on service heavy, after a few weeks of using GoDaddy I realise it really isn’t.
But the reason I have been using GoDaddy is the current problem I am having. Their automatic PayPal payments are down so you have to open a support ticket and they send you a payment request. So I asked them to let me pay $32.
They replied back asking for my PayPal email address which I supplied and they wrote back saying they had credited my account. Sure enough $32 in my account but no payment had been sent by me. I’m a nice guy (but more importantly with an A grade a-level in law I know it’s technically illegal to just use the money :P, well sort of) so I told them.
They replied back saying they would send a money request. That was like a week ago. I’ve just sent them another reply pointing out that I still haven’t actually been given the chance to pay them.
CNet have launched a UK version of their site. This could be great news. They have a lot of product reviews and stuff but most of it is US based. I know ZDNet have a UK site already and they use the same content but hopefully with CNet having more of a UK base now, they will be reviewing more stuff.
A-level results in: A, B, B, C, D (Law, ICT, general studies, media, business). I rule!
Well stage one of my plan was successfully – I got a letter from UCAS this morning confirming my place at Leeds Uni which means my a-level results must be fairly decent. It also makes finding them out irrelevant.
This is an extention to the post I made earlier – which was lost and nobody except me has seen as the blog wasn’t liked or anything :P. Basically, I created a script to import all the posts from Nerd Federation which didn’t do the categories right first time so I had to delete all the posts and do it again. Unfortunatly this resulted in the loss of my original post.
If anyone else wants to convert from pLog to WordPress let me know, no point letting the script go to waste :). I have been working on it for a while but this afternoon I decided to finally knuckle down and get it done. Also because I will probably be doing plenty of blogging tommorow as my exam results come out.
The reason I switched was for a few reasons. First of all, I really like WordPress. pLog was a great script and it had lot of functions especially for media. But I didn’t like the wysiwyg editor, I know you can disable it but meh. I was always editing the HTML anyway and it created code I didn’t like. WordPress is all HTML anyway.
Secondly, was psychological for me. I had a format in pLog, four paragraphs minimum, two for the first section and the rest in the extended section. I think it’s like OCD or something 😛 (the emoticons are also cool on WordPress). The result was I couldn’t be bothered to blog much. Won’t be doing that on WordPress. It’s all one thing anyway and generates previews automatically.
Nerd Federation will still be online of course, I may even occasionally post on it. I am keeping it up for several reasons which include the fact it still (and still will) host the video files, it hosts all of the image files for the old posts which haven’t been transfered over (the images themselves, nor will they be), it has the comments which didn’t transfer over either, I have loads of links there as it was my blog for over a year and it also has Deni’s posts on there which I’m not transfering obviously because this is my personal blog.
So yeah hopefully I should be blogging more now. This is now my “official” blog as it were and will be filled with far more crap than Nerd Fed probably :P. I’ll be posting tommorow for sure.