1and1 has just got a new load of servers online, and they finally broke away from AMD as their only supplier of servers (Bulldozer was such a letdown, and that’s coming from me, a hardcore AMD fanboy who really wants AMD to be competitive with Intel). Anyways, they’ve got their old AMD quad core servers for $80 a month right now… I’m really tempted to upgrade my server… If I knew for sure that Google was getting that gigabit fiber line here by 2013 I wouldn’t bother… I’d just use my quad core server here. With 23 sites all running heavy DB accesses my server is starting to slow down… With a little more RAM I could get some of my busier sites to run their sessions off of the RAM and ease up on the HDD’s. Of course when Google gets here my server here has 8 GB of RAM and a 16 GB flash drive for SWAP space and it’s running 4 hdd’s in RAID 5… so… there is really no comparison once I get set up at my house there won’t be an issue. Still need a GOOD UPS before I move to the house though.

I just launched mah new site HealthyBudgetCooking.com the idea is (as you may have guessed) to teach people how to live healthier, on a budget! I’ve got my first article up detailing the savings you can have if you cut out to eat dining out of your daily ritual… especially fast food. In the coming weeks I’ve got the plans to put out some recipe’s for Guacomole, Chicken Noodle Soup, and some Chicken Tacos! Feeling pretty good about a lot of things. I think I can keep up with weekly posts on here and still get my stuff for TheBibleAnimated done… which I’m actually doing quite well on, I’m at the point where I need to get some thoughts organized though, and that is what today is dedicated to.

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?

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.

Okay, so this should be rather obvious… but 9 websites per day is a LOT to keep up with! It pretty well fries your brain by the end of the day too. This is now going on the third day of it… it’s a lot right now, but I have a feeling that after 2 or 3 weeks of this I’ll be pretty used to it and it’ll just come out habitually. I’m thinking that the results will be great, but the effort to go in is a lot for very little so far… Once I get all the sites interlinked and 3 months down the road we’ll see how this has done for us I also need to try and get some work done on other projects ya know…

Definitely gonna have to revert to CakePHP 1.3.x for TheBibleAnimated I just don’t have the time to learn the new CakePHP v2.0.x system right now. Especially now that I’m doing a 90 day blogging challenge with 9 websites! Oh, this is gonna be nuts man! The link quality, especially with tags and categories is going to be even more insane. Of course at some point I’ll have to learn it, but that time just isn’t now. If I’m going to actually get the site built, and in a decent time frame… well sticking to what I know is the only way The blogging challenge is important, especially keeping the flow of information that I’ve got going, and the momentum I’ve got with blogging… yeah, sticking with the older CakePHP is the only way I can go.

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

Well, been at this blogging for five days, gone above and beyond most days so far, and that’s good. 25 days left for my 30 day challenge, not that I’m hurting so much to get it done, or that I plan to stop at the end of the challenge… but over the last 6 months or so I’ve set myself on several of these 30 day challenges and not made it through any of them. I guess since money isn’t as much of a concern on this one it might be better than the last few times. So here is to twenty-five more days of good blogging

Okay, so I shoulda known something was up when I looked at reviews on their site… but FurHatWorld.com doesn’t post any reviews that are less than 5 stars… Yeah… it’s complete crap, so this is the review that I tried to submit for a rabbit fur ushanka Rose bought for me last winter. I should be able to get it replaced… but it is still very frustrating when a company covers up legitimate reviews of their products to deceive people about the quality of their work.

When I first received this hat I was just as fascinated with it as many of the comments on here suggest. It seemed to be the perfect hat! It was warm no matter how cold it was, soft as a kitten, light weight, and the color was beautiful! It’s much better looking than any rabbit I’ve ever bagged in the wild. After about two weeks of constant wear (it seriously just about never left my head) it developed a small tear at a seam in the back. It was then that I noticed an inherent problem with these hats, and that is the tanning process. The hat is constructed in China (nothing wrong with that) the problem is that it is also tanned in China the rabbits are killed, skinned, and eaten in North America then the skins are frozen and shipped over to China where they are tanned. Making the process very difficult and most of the skin is worn away in order to remove the blood that soaks deep in during this process. It’s really a shame, it is such a beautiful, warm hat. Sending it back and getting a new one seemed pointless, besides I figured it was probably my wearing it in the car rubbing against the headrest as I drive that caused the blowout. So I stitched up the hole myself and decided to be very, very gentle with the hat. Since then just shy of a month has passed that I’ve owned the hat. Both ear flaps have torn at the bottom by the tie straps, and another tear is developing at the base of where the ear flap attaches to the rest of the hat.

I should be able to get it replaced… I’ll update here when we go through that process and I see how easy, or difficult it is to get the thing replaced. Or if they live up to their 1 year warranty that they claim. Since their site seems to be one big scam (from what I’ve found they claim huge discounts, but it looks like the products are manufacturer direct, they don’t allow bad reviews, or even moderately satisfied reviews) so we’ll see what it is like trying to get them to back their work.