You guys know that with my now 18 sites that I run (and growing at least on a monthly basis if not daily) it’s important that I have über reliable service when it comes to web hosting! Especially with recently moving to a new dual core 2.2ghz, 2 gigs RAM, 250GB raid 1 hdd I’ve spent a LOT and I mean a lot of time on web hosting review sites, and on hosting forums. Yeah, it’s important to get a good price, but that’s the least of my concerns if I can’t get reliable service, well reliable and powerful service. This silly blog gets nearly 600 people a day to it so it’s necessary that I get as much bandwidth as possible, since this site is just a personal blog, and my other sites have a much higher audience as they’re my money making sites!

I got an email earlier today… well it’s best to just show it to you, they’ve started getting really funny.

Hello!!!

My name is Alarice, I am tall, good looking, perfect body figure. I saw your mail and was delighted to contact you, I hope you will be the true honest and caring person that I have been looking 4, And I have something special to tell you about me, So please contact me directly through my email address at iamastupidspammer@yahoo.com so that I can also send my picture directly to you.

Regards
Alarice.

What they really were trying to say is:

yo

My name is joe spams a lot, I am short, fat, amazingly unattractive, with man boobs.  I bought your email address from someone who checks DNS records, and a variety of other sources that I’m too lazy to bother with myself, and was ecstatic to contact you because I feel you are just the gullible little sap to help me in spreading virus’ and malware around the interwebs.  Please contact me through iamafatbastard@yahoo.com so that I can send you the virus I created directly!

suckah!
Joe Spammer

You just can’t escape ‘em any more.  I changed the email address in both because I don’t want any silly people being added to the ultimate spam list online… I’m pretty used to it owning 17 websites the only way I could of escaped it was with private registration years ago… now it’s way too late and I really don’t care, every once in a while I actually am somewhat entertained by these spam emails.  I mean seriously… who’s going to believe an email like that?  Obviously someone did or it wouldn’t of been circulating so much.  I say the same thing about the “Want a penis so huge that no girl will ever want to have sex with you” emails as well… who responds to them?  Who buys the meds?  Are we really that sick and deprived of a world?  A lot of people complain about the spam messages, there’s really only one solution though QUIT F-ING BUYING THE PRODUCTS!!! If there was no money in it spammers wouldn’t send out their messages plain and simple.  Don’t click on the links, and don’t buy the products and the spam messages go away.  I also have my emails set up in such a way that my Paypal account is attached to an email that NO ONE will ever know… if I get an email via paypal to any other email address I know right away that it’s spam… if I do get a legit seeming email with fairly good cloaking on the URL and return email address all I do is go to paypal.com and see if anything is really up… NEVER click on links within emails unless you are positive that they are safe.

Also if you don’t have an anti-virus there is no reason for that since there are plenty of great free antivirus products out there!  I’ve used AVG’s free version for years… I’ve also paid for plenty of services both virus, spam, and malware protection.  AVG has a great root kit detector also free as well.

I’ve been noticing more and more how complex it really is to get the whole 64bit generation to launch. You’ve got programmers who code poorly and can’t compile in 64bit mode, or those that just don’t care to compile in 64bit mode because the market isn’t big enough… I really don’t see how it’s not a big enough market, I’ve got 4 gigs of RAM which is pretty much standard anymore, and yes 32bit systems can go up to 4 gigs. As I work I’ve been finding the limits of that 4 gigs more and more often. Here very soon I will be going to 8 gigs, and am glad that I’ve got a 4 gig flash drive for my ReadyBoost because I don’t know what I’d do without that extra swap space (even though I’ve got 4 gigs of swap space on my 10k HDD that get’s used too). In short I don’t know how so many people are still operating in a 32bit environment!

Then again, I do see why some people do it.  The only compatability issues as far as hardware goes that I’ve experienced with 64bit Windows Vista was with my SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum which isn’t really a problem with 64bit at all, their Vista drivers just suck anyways… I’ve had to go back to “onboard” sound because of the random popping, cracking, and fuzz noises that would occur without warning, or reason in some programs (Mostly Counter-Strike: Source or any Source engine based game such as Half-Life, but once it started it’d occur in Windows Media Player, or even with flash players online).  But that doesn’t really have anything to do with what my current troubles with the 64bit world are.

Most of my compatibility issues are with software… even though Windows can and will run 32bit programs many of them simply refuse to be installed on a 64bit operating system.  The first time I ran into this was with PCTools Spyware Doctor, I cancelled my subscription after they charged me the recurring fee *mumblemumblemumble* even though I didn’t have the program installed at the time, and didn’t want to… but figured since I got it for another year I’d reinstall it.  Only problem was that they don’t have compatibility for people who actually use their computer, which I find funny because SpywareDoctor always slowed changing screen names or logging off to a deathly crawl even on a system with 2 gigs of RAM, dual core 2.6ghz processor, and 10k RPM HDD.  I’ve also found it really hard to get good pirating software to work on 64bit systems… most pirating software is old technology that was just coded right, no frills, nothing flashy or pretty… just good code.  And I love that, but some things are going to need to update with the new generation because a lot of the good old software pieces for pirating or reading pirated software won’t work on 64bit systems.

I discovered this when I was trying to download and install a pirated copy of DreamFall: The Longest Journey.  Before you go calling me a bad person and what not I actually bought the game the day it came out, and payed my $40 for it… problem was that half-way through the game crapped out on me.  There’s this one puzzle where you have to figure out how to get through this magical door, I did everything right and it should of worked but it simply didn’t.  I finally looked things up online with an online walk-through of the game, it said to do things exactly like I did… so I tried again to no avail.  After that I tried getting a support ticket from the game manufacturers, all I wanted was a fresh copy of the game… obviously they refused.  I kind of quit caring for a while, but now Rose was wanting to get into a little bit of gaming, and she said that she liked action/adventure more story type games, and anything involving vampires.  So I was looking through my games, knowing I have BloodRayne somewhere and Oblivion feeling they’d fulfill her desires in a game I saw my DreamFall box and figured she’d love it, like I did before it quit freakin’ working *mumblemumblemumble* so then came the problem of how to get the game working without rebuying it… BUT OF COURSE!  We go back to our old ways of pirating everything!  I’ve already got the legit CD’s and game so all I need is for it to install properly to be good.  Only thing is it’s been more than a little frusterating trying to get some of my old pirate software to work the way it should.  Oh well, it’s a challenge and I like challenges.

Eddie Izzard’s perspective on the computers and the end of the world as we know it

Eddie Izzard, need I really say more? Being in the tech field I’ve so been here before… especially since it’s 2am now and guess what I’m doing, sitting on the computer coding my new site ApplyMyWay.com

Ok, this is for all you silly people who keep complaining about me buying you on MySpace with the own your friends application, get over it.  If I have owned you on the app it’s because you’re cheap, nothing more.  Yeah, there are a few of my friends that I’ll pay a lot for, other than that you’re being used to make a little money.  I don’t pay over $700 for anyone to insure that I get the most out of gifting you, because I only make $1,250 for each person I give away… so in order to keep my costs down I’ve got to find cheap people, which I do through several means.  If you are going to complain or ask why I own you at least let me respond too!  lol, I love it that all the people that have complained so far with the “who are you, why’d you buy me, and all my pets?” messages I can’t respond because only their friends can send them a message… and of course I can’t add you as a friend to send you the message because gotta know your last name and email address in order to do that… so my message to you is QUIT COMPLAINING!!! It’s just a game, you’re being used to make a little money in the game, get over it.

I really just need a graphic designer at this point!

Ok, so I’m very close to being able to release the story.  The website for it is www.A2562.com which will make more sense once I put out the first weeks entry.  I feel that in order for the site to be a success it needs all the elements of a good site, which I would like for it to have… Even though my writing style has been praised from what I’ve shown so far, and most of my friends are anxious to read a little bit I’m afraid that with how fickle people can be online without good graphics to go along with each entry or at least one good picture per post people will quickly become bored.  I know that’s one reason why this site has never really boomed even with the many visits I get few stick around to read what I have to say all the time.

I also need to get permissions figured out on my site… I can’t CHMOD 777 everything, and because I tossed it up on my new server it’s being funny.  I think I need to create some new users for the server because it’s like Root owns everything so the users who should have access to things don’t.  Many of my websites can’t even write to their own directories so gotta get that figured out, and then try and get the site together.  If I can’t find someone to illustrate my story that’s fine I’ll just go on without it, but I would prefer it to be more complete.

I’m actually out of my own free will promoting another website here! haha, I know, no one is paying me or anything. I guess you might say that I feel that I sort of owe it to Petition Online for all the valuable service they’ve provided over the years. They sort of seem like an old friend of mine, and I really hate to see them losing power! When I first started using PetitionOnline.com they were a PR7 and doing quite well! Over the years I’ve made 29 petitions myself… amazing to look back at them. Most were complete silliness in fact and I use them because you can add an option to put websites with your signatures so I use them for link quality back to my sites. In creating so many petitions I’ve also created a lot of content for them and they get money out of that so it’s really a win, win situation for us. Allowing URL’s in your signatures isn’t always a great idea, and I’ve started to advance my petition creating techniques to avoid spammers with forcing people to either agree or disagree with the petitions! It works out, and yet even with how few petitions I actually see that allow you to put links in your signatures they still get quite a few spammers, so I figure whatever I can do to get things out of the ordinary is a good thing.

Anyways, the reason I am really writing this is because Petition Online seems to of added a new feature! PetitionOnline.com is a small branch of Artifice Inc. From every aspect I look at it PetitionOnline.com has no bearings on the Artifice company, but I will give them credit for creating the site! Artifice, Inc. is an architecture company, I’ve never been exactly sure on what they do, but I believe they make CAD software, along with some other things relating to the business. So where do petitions come in? Quite simple, they give link quality! What better way of getting thousands of incoming links to your website than allowing other people to create the content for you? In the early days of Web 2.0 the concepts behind PetitionOnline.com are simply ingenious, and have even kept their strength through several evolutions of the net… but since PetitionOnline was doing it’s job, and it was not their main business it got neglected quite a bit with very few updates and slow at that. Because of this neglect the strength they once found in Petition Online has begun to dwindle a bit. The once iconic PR7 PetitionOnline.com has slipped all the way down to a PR5 even though Petition Online is stronger than they’ve ever been! The reason for this is simple, content is being spewed out on the net at an astronomical rate. Most of you don’t look at things this way but every article I publish on this site is a new page, every ten I publish is another new page, every different day I publish on is another new page, every tag I include is yet ANOTHER new page… which is partially why Petition Online did so good in the early days, they took advantage of this page creation early on. Every petition created was three new pages, every hundred signatures was another new page. This very much so helped out the spread of information for Petition Online, however others have caught on and things seem to be changing rapidly. For one I generally include a minimum of five tags per entry on this blog alone, that’s six pages created with every entry no matter what. The way that PR or Page Rank works is simple it takes the number of indexed pages that Google has online and gives you a rating based upon the number of pages that point to yours on average with the number of pages that point to other pages on the net… it also factors in the strength of those links. The people behind Petition Online finally got the drift though and have now added a feature that allows you to add tags to your petition. This feature will definitely increase the value of Petition Online again, only I fear it may be a slow process, which is why I am content with helping them out a bit with some incoming links and news articles to get people using their new feature.

I’m sure many of you have used or signed petitions on PetitionOnline.com and surely owe them a favor for hosting the site at the very least. I know with their addition of the FaceBook button a while back I’ve seen a number of petitions end up on Facebook as groups getting people to sign their petition, which is very much so a help, but it needs more. We’ve got to keep the free ideas marketplace alive!

Rose and I saw the 10,000 BC the other night, and it reminded me of a theory I’ve heard a few times, but as most people have done didn’t put much credit into it.  The theory is that when Atlantis sunk or was destroyed or whatever the inhabitants escaped, mostly to Egypt, a few to South America, and some others scattered elsewhere.  Where you really lose me on that whole theory is that most of the scholars who promote such ideals also say that the inhabitants of Atlantis were of humanoid alien decent… What I don’t find completely impossible is that the stories, and myths of Atlantis may be based on fact.  Even supported by biblical stories, which is where the tower of babel comes in on my way out there theory.

Ok, so let’s start with the story itself from chapter 11 of Genisis:

1 At this time the whole world spoke one language, and everyone used the same words.2 As people moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Let’s make bricks and bake them to make them hard.” So they used bricks instead of stones, and tar instead of mortar.4 Then they said to each other, “Let’s build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth.”

5 The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.6 The Lord said, “Now, these people are united, all speaking the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do. They will be able to do anything they want.7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.9 The place is called Babel since that is where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the Lord caused them to spread out from there over the whole world.

This doesn’t speak of exactly how advanced they had become… or what means they were using to build with but what we do see is an amazing statement from God as pointed out to me by Adam Gray “They will be able to do anything they want.“  They must of been rather advanced in what they were doing to warrant such a statement, or at least developing quickly.  Even the Romans had steam engines, it wasn’t for over a thousand years later that steam engines actually came about in real usage, but archeology has shown that the Romans were using steam engines in their time.  The technology was lost because slaves were much cheaper and more widely usable, and shortly after the Roman collapse you get the dark ages.  So why couldn’t the same of happened after the tower of babel?  Because of this it seems logical to me that much of the stories and myths behind the city of Atlantis could be true, based on the Babylonian city where the Tower of Babel was being constructed.  When it says that God confused their language it also says that he forced them to spread throughout the earth.  This kind of makes me wonder if there wasn’t a time when the earth did have one large land mass where everyone lived for a time.  Similar to what some would say Pangea was (which is also completely possible since the continents do fit together like a giant jig saw puzzle) but moved apart rapidly by God when confusing the people.  It would help to explain why we get several different buildings of Pyramids around the world about the same time.  Maybe they were trying to finish what they set out to do in the first place, building towers to the heavens… it has been said that both the Egyptian pyramids, and the Aztec pyramids were built to honor their gods… I don’t know for sure, nor do I have any real proof or scholarly writings that support my theories, they’re just random weird theories that I have.

The experiment really doesn’t have anything much at all to do with CodySortore.com however, I am going to include this site in the time as well.  With Ren. Faire on the weekends I’ve really not had much time to do anything.  I really only have three days a week to be running around mostly for faire.  Don’t get me wrong, I love faire, but it’ll be a relief when it is over!  Which is after this weekend.  I still need to be working for MTV, which is cool too because I make good money with them and it’ll allow me to launch the new site with a PRweb Press release, and some other advertising to actually maybe get a few people on the site!  That’s the goal at least.  As I’ve been writing the story for it I’ve noticed that I may not actually have the time even without faire to be updating each week, so I’d also like to delay the launch of the new story/site for that reason as well.  It gives me a little bit of time to get some extra weeks build up and already written just schedule them to post as I need them to!  Also save up some money and launch the site as it needs to be as afore mentioned.  The problem is I still don’t have the time to really update the story.  So what the goal is to have a way to get 3 months worth of content for the site while still working for MTV and after that time have it making enough money that I’ll be able to do just that full time…

That brings us to the experiment!!  I need to see how much I can get my sites up to making over the weekend!  Now this site doesn’t have any advertisements on it, so keeping it updated is the least of my worries or concerns… however it does link to all of my sites that do have ads on them.  So just to be thorough and see how much influence my sites have on one another I am updating this one once a day this whole weekend as well!  Scheduled posts of coarse, this was written Thursday but won’t be displayed on the site until Sunday (today for all of you).  My other sites are set to saturate themselves, over the course of the next 72 hours they will update themselves once every 2 hours until midnight of Sunday.  I’ve also put some extra high end incoming links to them… they won’t update like this usually it’s a self destructive routine, there’s just not that much content to put on them!  I am just doing things like this to see what they can move up to, see if they don’t burn themselves out, or if updating ridiculously affects the way they react.  I feel that things should go well, if the sites make a noticeable jump in profits over the next week I’ll keep on that routine and get things rolling, otherwise I’ll have to delay the launch of the story site a little longer… Don’t get me wrong, I really want to launch it myself, just without much time I want it to be completely ready before hand.

Wow, this is going to be the first time in a long time that my post isn’t really spiritual… which is fine.  This is just going to be me, more or less talking to me.  If you really want an update on my life here it is though!  I haven’t done one of these in a long time either… Anyways, most of it is about the new job too (well not so new since I’ve technically been working with MTV for over a year now) so if you’re not into computers and geeky stuff I suggest plugging your ears… er… well covering your eyes, because I’m about to get very geeky, very quickly

I must say I really like the new position with the job… I mean last year I was reviewing websites and keeping an eye on the 4chan guys but never got to go past that.  yeah it was good being able to be creative and outsmarting some rather tricky people, but it got boring after a while.  Now I do everything, I get documents on the operations of their sites, I get tips tricks, and techniques on how they build their sites… it’s like being paid to go to school… but even better than that because I don’t have to listen to a teacher I get to teach myself, at my own pace!  Plus I’ve got a support group of just really cool people totally willing to help along the way.  I have to say that I’ve had to learn to become very organized, really quickly though.

I’ve not talked about it to anyone else yet other than Adam but I’ve got another very good idea for a site to start up.  I would really like to bring some sort of social networking site to fruition… it’s sort of a life goal so to speak of mine.  The thing is I’ve had the idea to start up sort of a Christian Facebook.  Ok, so here’s where the concept came from… for the last three years I’ve spent a LOT of time online… Been on just about every site there is out there… it’s obvious that social networking sites are here, and here to stay.  Everything is moving in that direction, it’s what I’m primarily working on for MTV right now, it’s what everybody is getting ready for their sites right?  Well I’ve also been a forum junkie for a long time, there was a time where I was on over 150 forums, active member of them all, forums used to be the thing before the social networking scene.  There is one newer social networking site that combines the two MyYearbook.com with it’s advice sections and forum that puts top articles on the front page… Love the concept of the social network with super old school forum with a bit of a twist… hate the forums.  I can’t go a day without seeing a new message pop up “Challenge to Christians - Prove god” “I’m horny talk to me” or hundreds of other sex related topics that spew forth all day long… You can’t escape it for anything… and the owners/admins of the site don’t care, in fact the encourage it publishing even more sex stories, and drug related topics in their “magazine” part of the site… I’ve tried a number of times to get some of my stuff on there, but Christian stuff just doesn’t stand a chance… it’s buried before it ever gets off the ground, or turns into a total flame war.  So what I want to do is create a Facebook/Myspace/Myyearbook style site that networks Christians together.  On all of these social networks you can join schools, cities, etc. as part of your network to find others from those same places… but what about Churches?  I would like to create one that your primary network is the church you attend!  I think it would be amazing…

Adam and I were going over the idea and it brought up all kinds of great things, Adam’s idea is to have a global church no matter what denomination or whatever your church is make them all one!  He also said we should put some sort of map that would allow you to see networks and churches in other areas so if you were going on a trip you could find a place to attend church while out of town.  I thought that was a great idea, and would even help if someone was moving to a new town, you could look at churches and get to know members in the area you were going to be moving to ahead of time.  The possibilities are really ridiculously endless!  I’d like to incorporate some sort of “area calendar” so that lets say the Kansas City area or even smaller to like Parkville and stuff small groups, Christian Concerts, even Sunday morning services could be listed on the calendar to make it easier to find ways to connect with other Christians on your schedule…

It’s all amazing, and I’m really REALLY excited about it… already got some of the groundwork for the PHP and MySQL platform started on it.  I really don’t have much time to just sit down and hardcore code right now working with MTV unfortunately… but I can’t say that it is unfortunate either.  I would of been a duck in the water if it weren’t for this job with MTV.  Yeah, I understood the dynamics of working on the backend of a large social networking site, but until you’re behind the wheel you don’t understand.  I’m really lucky to have these people to learn from, and I feel it’s no mistake that God gave me this job with MTV right now to learn the ins and outs of the business so that I can manage His business with the greatest success.  I don’t really have a name or anything for the new site… or well much of anything for that matter, but it’s all good it’ll come eventually.  I honestly wouldn’t of been able to have even coded it without what I’ve learned in the last couple of weeks working at MTV so it is true everything has it’s time.

Romans 12:

1 So brothers and sisters, since God has shown us great mercy, I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him. Your offering must be only for God and pleasing to him, which is the spiritual way for you to worship. 2 Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect. 3 Because God has given me a special gift, I have something to say to everyone among you. Do not think you are better than you are. You must decide what you really are by the amount of faith God has given you.4 Each one of us has a body with many parts, and these parts all have different uses.5 In the same way, we are many, but in Christ we are all one body. Each one is a part of that body, and each part belongs to all the other parts.6 We all have different gifts, each of which came because of the grace God gave us. The person who has the gift of prophecy should use that gift in agreement with the faith.7 Anyone who has the gift of serving should serve. Anyone who has the gift of teaching should teach.8 Whoever has the gift of encouraging others should encourage. Whoever has the gift of giving to others should give freely. Anyone who has the gift of being a leader should try hard when he leads. Whoever has the gift of showing mercy to others should do so with joy.