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Always Be Positive

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I cannot stress how important this is… Do you realize how much better your life would be if you were always positive. Now don’t lie, even the best of you do not always retain this quality.

You miss a lot of opportunities when you’re not positive. For instance, say that you are trying to get a job. The manager meets with you and listens to what you have to say. If you say it negatively, chances are that the manager is not going to hire you. Ask yourself this question, “Who would want to work with a negative person?” In fact, who would want to even be friends with a negative person? See how this can affect you? See how important it is not to be negative?

People live their lives, and as they do so they want to be happy. It’s plain and simple, negative people do not make you happy. It’s not like you would want to go out and have lunch with someone who is going to be frowning while the food comes, at least I know I wouldn’t want to.

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WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peak

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peak

For all of you bloggers out there, you will be happy to find out the fully redesigned WordPress 2.5 is almost here. We’ll have a full review with images and explanations when it comes out, but let’s just bask in the glory of this thing for now. Here are just some of the new features:

“…customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, faster load times…”

It turns out that this has been in the works for the last few months, and they have been working with Happy Cog to get there.

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Happy Pi Day! Celebrate it Well!

Friday, March 14th, 2008

As some of you may know, March 14th (3/14) is internationally recognized Pi Day. π is the sixteenth letter in the Greek alphabet, but the reason most of us know it is because of it’s incredible mathematical significance. I don’t really want to inform you of the history of π as a mathematical constant, but ANCIENT mathematicians discovered that there is always a relationship between the diameter of a circle and its circumference, and it always comes out to be around 3. Today, we know pi to more than 1 trillion decimal places, and calculations are still going on every day using supercomputers, as are attempts to discover a more complex formula.Anyways, tomorrow is 3/14, the first 3, most commonly recognized digits of π. Buy yourself a pie, bring it into school, tell your friends, celebrate pi day however you want! A simple google search will provide you with all the “pi day” resources you could ever want!

P.S…if you want to be super, super precise, celebrate it at 1:59:27, but that’s optional. Just acknowledge Pi Day!!

ShoeMone.com is Mine!

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

I would just like to let our readers know that I took some action after Matthew wrote Should I Buy Typo Domains. The action I took was to actually buy one, wouldn’t I be a hypocrite if I didn’t? Now I spent about an hour looking for good ones. I obviously started with Google, went down to Facebook, over to Myspace, past Digg, through JohnChow, and eventually landed on ShoeMoney. I was being creative here, first thinking about whether users would be experimenting with his domain and possibly typing in something like ShoeCash instead of ShoeMoney (yes, ShoeCash is available if you want it). But then I went back to the basics, and when I do this I always delete the last letter. Why, you ask? Because that is the most common mistake made by people typing into their browsers. Therefore, I landed on the domain ShoeMone.com which I just bought today. Now the reason why I bought this domain was because ShoeMoney.com is actually a well visited site with over 17,000 RSS subscribers, pretty impressive I know. I don’t exactly expect millions of people to be forwarded to my site right away, but I expect to get a few here and there over time. Hopefully, I will be able to eventually sell this to some typosquatting buyer for around $200-$500, depending on its success. The key to being successful here is patience. This decision that I made right on the spot might have been a stupid, but the that I only spent $8.41 and I did for a great reason.

Side Notes

ShoeMone.com is currently being used a redirector to this blog. If anyone is interested in buying this domain, I will at the moment let it go very cheaply, due to the fact that I have no idea as to how effective it will be.

Recently Acquired Domains

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Hello! I’ve recently acquired to relatively valuable domain names.

I am pretty happy about my decisions and although I am not aware of how much I will be able to sell these for at Sedo.com, I am very optimistic.

The following are the two domains that I have recently purchased, and what I am going to try to sell them for:

Rater.tv - $1,250

WorldFunction.com - $3,000

If you would like to know some of my prior domain purchases, they are listed below:

SadTube.com (similiar to YouTube, I’m thinking of letting this go cheaply)

******.us (WhoIs Guard does not work for .US domains, and I would like to leave my location private)

ShiftCredit.com (It was purchased by David, and was his first domaining experiment)

CodersGrail.com (I saw something similar to this sell for $500, so I thought I would give it a try)

Advice

I would suggest experimenting with buying different domain names. It is like an investment, but a very cheap one that can offer and incredibly high return. A domain usually costs around $9 depending on the registrar, even a 12 year old can get into it.

Longevity Research Opens My Eyes

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

When will I die? This is the question that has been riding on everyones mind since the beginning of time. According to to the National Center for Health Statistics, the average life expectancy in the US is 78 years old. Now don’t get me wrong, that is a huge improvement from the 1800 - 1900’s when it was much lower, but can’t we do better? The answer is yes, I mean we got this far. Want to know how we did it? The answer is simple, technology and medical advancements.

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