Gotta love this time of year. Thanksgiving is a time for gathering, and getting a good full meal! Rose and I have been preparing the Thanksgiving dinner for at my mothers house for tonight… last Sunday we had a dinner at my dads house, tomorrow we get one at her parents house, and then Sunday we get another one at her Grandmothers house. So we can officially say here in a couple of weeks I’ll be all turkied out! But at least I get a few good Thanksgiving dinners! It does suck that it puts me behind with work… I always get inspired to do stuff when I have no time… why is that? Oh well, I’ve got some very good things in the works for ArchmailleDesigns.com which starts with a new shopping cart. One that I can add downloadable items to. Then creating some PDF files with jewelry care tips, others with chainmail creation patterns and stuff… and I’ll take over the search engines and just charge anywhere from 0.50¢ to $5 per downloaded item depending upon what it is. That should pick up business a little bit, people will be more willing to pay a couple bucks for useful information, rather than spending the money to buy the items… then when they get frustrated at not making stuff the same as what I sell they can come back and purchase from me once again

I have recently discovered that my cat is trying to kill me… I mean, I always knew he was evil, but kill me? Naw, he just wants attention right? Maybe he’s not really trying to kill me, he just thinks that’s how he’s supposed to play? Not according to this quiz!

There is an 85% chance that my cat is plotting to kill me! Don’t be fooled hoomans take the five minutes to fill out this quiz and discover if you’re about to be murdered… I’m glad that I did now I can be prepared for when the moment strikes!

Earlier last week there were reports out of Beijing of a students hospitalization because of a Panda biting incident. Apparently the college student from Southern China just needed a hug. While visiting the zoo in Beijing the unnamed student jumped the six and a half foot tall fence surrounding the Panda habitat to hug one of the fluffy cuddly creatures only to find that they’re not so cuddly after all. The panda bit the student repeatedly on the arms and legs reports a zoo employee.

The official Xinhua News Agency reports the hospitalized student later said the panda was so cute and cuddly he never expected to be bitten. Guess he’ll think twice next time before jumping into a penned up animals home. Domesticated as they may be they’re still animals, and uh… well they still bite.

Surprisingly enough this is not the first time these Panda’s have struck fear into the hearts of the Beijing populous. Not surprising because pandas look so cute and cuddly I’d never suspect them of biting anyone. Pandas may look docile but can be vicious when they feel threatened. But surprising because this is not the second, but third time these pandas have bitten visiting tourists. The first attack was… well more of an attack from a drunken tourist who stumbled into the Pandas enclosure, after being bitten by the Panda the man reportedly bit back. The same Panda Gu Gu later in 2007 mauled a 15 year old boy who climbed the 1.4 meter (approx four and a half foot) tall fence. The fence had been raised to six and a half feet, but that still didn’t stop this college student who just wanted a hug and was viciously bitten on the arms and legs on November 22, 2008. The panda in this incident was named Yang Yang… and was not as ferocious with his attacks as Gu Gu was. I think we can all learn a lesson here though, no matter how cute, fuzzy, and warm a panda may appear to be… don’t look to them for a hug. You might pick something less vicious than a panda bear such as a Bengal Tiger… At least the death would be a quicker one than being gnawed upon by a vegetarian bear. On second thought, if you’re really that depressed go see someone for counseling, get a dog, or sign up for a dating site Wild animals don’t tend to be the best option for your affectionate needs.

I just finished an awesome session of watching Underworld! Well Underworld and Underworld Evolutions really one of the best vampire/werewolf movie series ever! The end of evolutions really makes me think that one day they’ll make a sequel. If they don’t that’s fine too, it’s still a great movie series, but I’d like to see a sequel at some point in time.

Watching it got me uber pumped about internet marketing though… is that strange? I was thinking about how linking and link quality are so very much like the bloodlines in Underworld. My first site was this one Archmaille.com, it’s been dormant, and gone under a lot of changes, but the strength of it is still unmatched. kclanparty.org is my next site, and it too even though it has been removed from Google for pagerank, it is still amazingly powerful. The combination of the two with MagpieRSS has just been amazing though! I can rank and get my pages listed with Google dang near instantly! The power flows down from one site to the next, and as they get older they just get more powerful. Taking the bloodline from one old site, and transfusing it with a newer one only makes the two sites so much more than they ever could be alone… and it is that which I am finally able to do! With the combination of CodySortore.com, Archmaille.com, kclanparty.org, ArchmailleDesigns.com, and ApplyMyWay.com by the end of next year I’ll be making at least $6k a month from simple advertisements, and another $5k a month or so from affiliate marketing and clickbank! Oh, the possibilities are growing, and the future looks beautiful.

Right now I’m stealing the blood lines of about 20 very powerful sites (or families if you will). Using places such as Squidoo, Xanga, and Digg to piece together my measly existence. That existence grows with every page I add to their networks and link back to myself. Very slowly I inch my way to the top, soon with the development of ApplyMyWay.com I’ll be able to create my own family so powerful that I’ll dominate all of my key niches. Blogging with CodySortore.com, gaming and hardware review with Archmaille.com, Technology news with KCLANParty.org, jewelry with ArchmailleDesigns.com, and social networking or quizzes with ApplyMyWay.com with the five sites, each with its own respective niche they’ll grow and thrive together pulling in a variety of visitors to cover seasonal, and non-seasonal peak times for making money online.

gah! I’m going nuts over here… I talked about my no log in admin panel, which should work out, if only I could get the URLs to work properly. What I need is for the URLs to look something like http://www.applymyway.com/applications/edit/100/secretid/ and without that secret ID in the URL nothing will happen. All of my attempts at this have failed though… either it shows the page no matter what is there for the secret ID or instead of saving an edited version of the application at hand…

So it’s gonna be back to the drawing board here soon if this doesn’t get figured out.

I got another idea earlier today about how to advertise with the launch of ApplyMyWay.com I still want to do the $200 PRWeb Press Release with a $100 upgrade to the podcast site.  Then I’ve got $100 sitting in my P3 advertising account, I’d like to bump that up by another $200 but am not exactly sure if that will happen.  Then, another idea occured to me… What if I advertised on Icanhascheezburger.com?  It’s actually WAY too much for me to advertise on there… I checked, at $950 a week for the cheap ads… I think not.  What I can do though is advertise on graphjam.com where I can get one week for $35, or two for $60.  Mix that in with the rest of the advertising campaign and I’m thinking win.  Two weeks on graphjam has an estimated ad impressions of 1.7 million so it should turn around about 1,700 clicks or so I believe, half of which will either create an application or click other ads on my site.  So I’d say 300 new apps, and 400 clicks on ads as an hypothesis.

I’d really like to advertise on ihasahotdog.com though… it’s $150  for one week… so if I can get some backing from Jordan it just MIGHT be possible to do just that.  PRweb, ihasahotdog, graphjam, and p3.

Of course I still have to finish building the site!  That is my first task… finish the site, and then go nuts on advertising it to the world.

You guys all know that I’ve reviewed a LOT of web hosting companies in my day… a lot of which can be found on my gaming blog Archmaille.com including this review because I have a tons of respect for TopWebHostingReviews.org unlike many other web host “review” sites that are simply up to push affiliate links TopWebHostingReviews.org really has experience with the companies that they review. It is honestly one of the best put together Top Web Hosting websites that I have ever seen!

I see a lot of websites that try to review hosting companies that just put the top four or five companies that it’s easy to get an affiliate link to. But they don’t actually review anything. They tell how much bandwidth you get for $4.95 a month, they list all the “specs” that you can see on the hosting sites, but they don’t actually review the experience with these companies. This is a huge deal for me since I rent a dedicated server and run 24 of my own websites. I spent a lot of time reading review sites and scrounging the internet for the information I needed, running into more phony review sites than you could care to see. You’ll get the straight answer from TopWebHostingReview.org though… and I respect that.

The owner of TopWebHostingReview.org has reviewed a lot of credible hosting companies such as HostMonster, BlueHost, and FastDomain. Not just the every day crap hosting companies that everybody and their mother reviews such as Yahoo!

I must say the discovery of CakePHP has saved my life! Seriously, I wouldn’t be able to do half the web development in the time frame that CakePHP allows me to… especially since I’ve found out how to work Bake on my server! I’ve watched the videos from a lot of different PHP framework’s and they all seem impressive, they create all your files for you and everything! But what’s the point of a blank file? CakePHP’s Bake function actually creates EVERYTHING for you. Such as I was looking at Akelos, it’s awesome that it creates the Database for you and what not… but the files are basically blank. They have the impressive video for a 20 minute blog… With CakePHP and Bake I could put up a blog with tags, and everything in less than 10 mins. So I’m not terribly impressed by anything else yet.

Cake is so close to releasing the new 1.2 also! They just pounded out 1.2’s RC3 as of the first of this month, and the final release can’t be that far off.  I’m in love with using Cake to bake up ApplyMyWay.com it’s going to be sweet!  And I owe it all to the ease and functionality of CakePHP.  Anyways, it’s back to the world of coding for me

I took a poll on whether or not people wanted a log in panel for ApplyMyWay.com and the results came up two in favor of a login system and eight in favor of no login system.  There was still a little bit of a problem though, with how large I want the site to grow I cannot administrate everything myself.  And with how little money I have I can’t pay anyone to adminstrate the site.  I really wanted people to be able to admin their own work, checking comments, and correcting mistakes they had made… but without a log in system how do you achieve this?

I’ve decided that there is another way.  All of the “edit” panels will be restricted not by force, but by secrecy.  It’s not the most safe way of doing things, but it does allow me to restrict their admin rights.  When people create applications they also put in a “secret ID” which is simply a five character little snippet letters or numbers that will be used in the URL of the edit pages.  Without that secret ID no one can edit the applications.

Gah!  I hate needing money… I mean I’m making enough to “survive” right now.  Gonna be making $700 over the next 30 days for P3 which is nice… it covers the expenses right now… but I’d so love to be making more!  There is a study at Quintiles that pays $1,300 for 5 days that I might be able to get on at… if not there are a number of studies at PRA International that I really should be able to get on for.  A couple of them are for Psoriasis… which I don’t really think I have.  I might I’ve got like every skin condition known to man.  If I don’t shave enough I get flaky crap under my beard (yeah I know weird) which looks and acts much like psoriasis so hey I can claim I’ve got it.

All I need is like $2,000 and I’d be doing awesome!  If I could get ApplyMyWay.com launched (which is going to be two weeks until the Beta, doesn’t help that I can’t work on it tonight) it would be amazing to be able to launch it with a PRWeb press release, put up two $100 opportunities, $5 a piece one for Archmaille.com to try and push it over to a PR4 and one for ApplyMyWay.com to try and make the site successful.

It sucks that tonight I can’t even work on ApplyMyWay, or Archmaille.com because in the switching over of my servers (moving to one that is more powerful but costs $100 a month less) they are the only two sites that haven’t moved with the DNS records yet… It really sucks that Archmaille.com hasn’t since there are still opportunities open on P3 and it’s the weekend!  I know once daylight hits they’ll get gobbled up… I’d like to make my $20 for today and call it good… just can’t!