I think TV’s in the back seats of cars will be the end of our society… And I’m only half joking when I say that. My generation grew up with walkmans and gameboys that parents would throw in the back seat to shut their kids up while driving. This has created a nation addicted to texting while driving, and all of them believe it’s perfectly acceptable, because they grew up with it (I was fortunate enough to be too poor for any of those things). Now we’ve got kids watching movies while they drive, and playing their PSP’s at the same time… How are kids going to learn to drive if they NEVER see their parents drive? I’m serious, A) good driving habits start early and B) ask any great race driver (Tanner Foust says it all the time, though his “greatness” might be in question, he’s also a rally car driver which is arguably the toughest form of racing because of the variance in locations and weather conditions) they will say that their passion for driving started as a toddler in the back seat of their moms mini-van (or whatever you drive).

This comes from the fact that Connor has been asking lately to watch Veggie Tales every time we get in the car to take mommy to work… Rose and I were seriously considering getting him a DVD player so he could watch ‘em to keep entertained… when I thought about it I thought back to an interview with Tanner Foust where a mom was asking how early should she get her child into racing and he said that it starts as a toddler in the back seat watching your parents drive. Then I thought about that big grin I see in the rear view mirror when I hit the round abouts by Zona Rosa at 45mph, tires squalling, and the giggle that comes when we straighten the car out.

Okay, so I understand that this is my random life updates blog, but I’m running a short little experiment that may last for a couple days on vacuum cleaner reviews. So the question is does this place fair better, or rather does my vacuum cleaner reviews sites fair better when I write about vacuum cleaner reviews, or reviews in general? Or should I just stick on my random life updates topic and leave it at that? Does mingling random life updates and vacuum cleaners reviews screw with my ratings, or is it helpful, or does it do nothing? Eh, only time shall tell right? Generally speaking, whether you are talking about vacuum cleaners or random life updates the main thing that matters is the amount of work that you put into it. So after a 30 day blogging challenge where I reviewed hundreds of items, and did a lot of work getting the templates for my random life updates blog here ready for a long haul run… then never went the long haul… well it only makes sense to pop in occasionally with some random life updates news from time to time ya know? But that’s not really what today is about, for the most part today is about my vacuum cleaner comparison site that does decently well, but not as well as last year… so the goal is to regain the supremacy that I had on the vacuum cleaner rankings stuff again. So how does one do that? Well that is the question of the hour is it not? In general being so lack luster and spreading the same message over a wide birth of topics is not a great thing… but I am hoping that I can make this vacuum cleaner reviews topic long enough to make up for the indiscretions that may present themselves at times. I think that what I am missing may be much worse than just a few vacuum cleaner reviews, but rather a vacuum cleaner content lack… so we shall see. Onward and upward though, that is the random life updates way right? Or is that just the best vacuum cleaner ratings talking to me?

This is my place to put all my random reviews! With a 2 year old in the house it’s likely that I will get many years of experience in many different age groups of random! I’ve got some other big projects in the works right now, so the progress of additional random reviews will undoubtedly be quite slow for a while. Anyways, just popping in here to make sure that this random reviews blog ain’t forgotten yet! Maybe one day it will live out its life as I originally intended, but until then we’re gonna be random reviewers Besides don’t really have the time to code a new site, so random reviews it is.

Okay, so I went my full 30 days, and even a little more. By the end of it I was updating 9 blogs a day too! Pretty crazy… but I gotta end the blogging experiment here… It’s taking way too much of my time, and I really need to get the Bible animated site working. This is officially saying good bye to the blogging challenge… for now. Next year I’d like to do a 90 day blogging challenge for the last quarter of the year where I do keep up to date with all 9 of the blogs I was rolling with this time! The amount of linking that would happen might just blow even my mind The results of this 30 day challenge were nice, but nothing mind blowing. I made a few hundred dollars, and that’s good for now, it’ll get me where I need to be.

Well it’s 4am and I’m still awake… you really think I’m gonna want to get through 9 posts tomorrow? Highly doubtful… so here’s an awesome video!

Okay, got a LOT done today! But when it comes to blogging… yeah, don’t plan to get a whole lot done in that arena So I did get all the blogrolls updated! That’s always good And we did get Connor to the play place for a little over an hour of playing, running, sliding, and social interaction with other small chillens… For blogging though… wow I really don’t want to write 9 posts today! Didn’t get anything done last night, so I’ve got all 9 for today. Does seem more than a little bit excessive at the moment, but I think I can get through it! I do not plan on putting amazon links in every post, that will speed up my writing, and the ones that I get stuck on I will find some amazon products to sell that will help me keep the creative juices flowing

ALLLRRIGHTY… So… I downloaded a few WP Themes… I added a whole lotta links to all of my WP blogs w/ PR. Sort of a massive interlinking campaign… or test… Problem is I was using the default template on most of the sites, so just adding them to the blogroll meant they only showed up on the home page… I also want to keep going on PPP and advertisers are less likely to pay someone 10 times over… so I wanted unique templates!!!

Okay… so WordPress themes site is freakin’ dead… or just slow as crap… it was annoying me, and you sort through a whole crap load of VERY bad templates… many that don’t help and give you links all over the blog…

Finally found a site that does provide great templates for free! Ok, so they’ve got some levitrol and other crap links that you DO NOT want on your site in the footer… no problem right?

JS encrypted?

Worse…
See JS encrypted you could just delete it!

modern WP templates require just before the tag or wp won’t load

They figured out a way to get wp_footer() to echo out their links!!!

Worse yet… they quadruple encrypted the information mangled with required files between 3 template files… Got one template fixed and uploaded to a site… only 5 more to go

Oh, and it gets even more fun! Or rather engenius, didn’t make it any harder to decode… but they were drawing the link information from their site, so they could change the links on literally hundreds of sites all at once! I imagine that the links are sponsored links helping them pay for their coding.

OH SHIT!!!!!!! Just found some more encrypted information… They’ve got a tracking image, and a kill switch for your blog!!! If you install the template, they can check out your site, after checking out your site if you’ve figured out how to remove the links, but don’t remove the encoded kill switch they can click a button on their sites that shuts down yours!!!
These guys are maniacle genius bastards!!!

Actually kinda glad I didn’t use the WP theme depository (heck coulda run into the same thing anyways)

Lol.. well, I didn’t quite get the stuff coded that I wanted to… which ironically also made me miss out on posting today. I gave myself yesterday, and didn’t get much done. Taking Rose to work really cuts a LOT out of my day. I gave myself a day, and missed blogging… eh… oh well, it’s still technically “today” so blogging now isn’t so bad… but with the screwed up time on my server this would post as tomorrow, except I’ve changed that because cheating is okay some times Gonna have to actually do my blogging tomorrow… my brain is so fried right now… I tried updating to CakePHP v2.0.3 for my coding project, but that turned out pretty disastrous! Okay, so I wasn’t far along, basically just had a few things baked right? So it was the perfect time to upgrade… or so I thought… Baking with CakePHP v2.0.3 is a pain! I am not able to do anything! I open up bake, and all it does is give me errors, errors about not having a database file (which I do have) then I put in all the information and it gives me errors saying that the database template file something or other is missing… I tried searching for answers but found no one with the same problems I’m having… I might give it another go tomorrow… but I might just let it go and go back to CakePHP v1.3.12 at least I’ve got a working site… and it might make more sense as there isn’t as much documentation for v2.x.x yet… I will probably just go back to v1.3.12 or whatever the latest 1.3.x is

Okay… as I have stated before I’m not getting as much done on TheBibleAnimated as I need to… Granny made that MUCH worse today… I was actually way ahead on the blogging, and starting work on TBA when she showed up to use the computer… She had a couple things to do, but as Grannies often do… her hunt and peck typing kept her occupying my seat for nearly 2 hours… When she finally got done, Connor wanted to go to the park that I had promised him… and the last thing I want to do is go back on promises I’ve made to Connor just so I can get work done. Work comes after family in that God > Wife > Child/Children > Extended Family > Friends > Self > Work > Play spectrum… It was getting close to taking Rose to work time, so the park wasn’t an option, but we did go outside and ride the bike for a little while. Needless to say, now the driving Rose to work is in the way of getting any real work done… So I think I’m gonna have to take a little bit of a different approach to the whole blogging and start using scheduled tasks! This post for instance… written on the 13th, scheduled to display on my blog on the 14th… plan on getting all of my blogging for the 14th done today on the 13th and maybe even the 15th’s blogging… then I can focus purely on coding TheBibleAnimated stuff for two solid days really getting my bearings as to where that project needs to be developed more. So here’s to a successful run of blogging, while not interfering with my coding project! Or hopefully not interfering with it

At some point in time… probably after this blogging challenge is over… I am going to get to work on the vacuum cleaners site again adding new vacuums. That time is not right now… I’ve got 96 pages saved of vacuums to review, but realistically I just don’t have the time or brain power for it! I’ve got to get working on TheBibleAnimated and get that thing set up… no more distractions necessary! I’ve got a good start on the blogging challenge… only 7 days officially left here, and been doin’ well with many of my other sites. At the end of the 7 days here I may just do the 90 days of ESSM and throw in the occasional update here and other places.