So, I caught this post by msdanielle and found another site – Geeks are Sexy . net with a post about 12 reasons why a geek is going to steal your girl. Both posts were great reads, and reminded me of some other cool shirts I’ve seen over time. I love the website thinkgeek.com. They have some pretty awesome shirts.
I know geeks and nerds are different, but “geek” doesn’t fit the joke for the shirt on the right.
I also remembered that show: Beat the Geeks.
Lose 33 lbsI currently weight 213 lbs, and I would like to slim that down to a cool 180. I have a treadmill and a rowing machine, so it should be pretty easy to exercise. I will post my workout strategy in another post sometime.
This goal may actually change, depending on what my financial adviser says about contributions to my IRA. Essentially I would like to put the maximum legal amount into my IRA that I can.
I’d like to make what I put into my IRA from affiliate marketing. ’nuff said. I think I can do it if I really put my mind to it. I’m going to Affiliate Summit right at the beginning of the year, so there is no excuse for not reaching the goal right?
I think this would be great. Shoemoney will have a booth at Affiliate Summit, so this should be easy. He’s somewhat of a role model for where I’d like to go in the industry. I’ll see you soon Shoe.
I’d like to make this blog something people look forward to looking at each day. I need to drive traffic here to create a more interactive, richer environment. I think 1,000 uniques a day is very feasible.
My basement has a whole mess of concrete issues that I need to clear up. This is a big project, but it needs to get done in order for me to set up an office down there. I hope to get it done by mid-august. We’ll see how it goes.
This is easy. I’m headed there for Affiliate Summit West next week. I’ve never been to Vegas or a conference before, so this should be fun.
250 posts is about 2 every 3 days. That kind of number will keep me honest. I plan to put a counter somewhere…
The trip to Vegas does not count for this one. My wife and I are planning a trip to Mexico sometime near the end of the year. This one may happen early January 2010 if scheduling doesn’t permit during 2009. We’ll see what happens!
Hands down, the most popular post I made was How to Make Fire in Photoshop.
In March, I made a controversial post about Macs, PCs, and Linux. I should probably do a follow up on this.
I found a solution to my Outlook / Google Calendar synchronization issues. Actually Google found a solution. Thanks Google.
I listed my top ten free applications. I plan to do another version of this post in 2009.
I made a few submissions to shirt.woot derbies, but never won. I have no problem admitting that the competition over there is pretty stiff, and the technical ability of some of the artists surpasses my own by quite a bit.
In December, I started doing contests for shirt.woot shirts. I’ll probably change this up in the future to offer other things. This just seemed like a great place to start.
By far the biggest thing I regret doing in 2008 was taking a break from blogging from May to September. I think that really hurt my readership, and I’m going to try and refrain from doing that at all this year. My blog also lacked focus. I’m still having trouble breaking my topics apart. Right now I think my lack of focus leaves readers wondering what I’m talking about half the time. I’m really passionate about Woot, but a lot of internet marketers probably don’t care, and when I’m talking about internet marketing and programming, Wooters probably get bored. Interesting perplexity. I will try to address this in 2009 as well.
I have some pretty exciting plans for 2009 that I will follow up on later.
I first heard about the new Google AJAX Libraries API from Jeremy Schoemaker’s blog. He mentions using it to reduce WordPress bandwidth, but really it can be used to reduce bandwidth in most AJAX based web development environments.
I persoanlly use prototype the most, and I’m extremely excited that I can use their libraries instead of uploading my own for each site. I’m especially excited that calling specific version numbers is possible. This makes upgrading a code set extremely simple, especially if you call the code version as a variable at the beginning of your code.
Realistically your javascript code is probably one of the lightest weight parts of your code, but every little bit helps, especially if you’re serving a large amount of users every month.
I think one of the greatest optional settings for all of the scripts you can load is compression. It’s not available for all of the APIs, but it is for most. What it does is remove all of the whitespace from the API to reduce file size for the end user – increasing speed. If you mix that with something like the javascript compiling on Google Chrome and you’ll have lightning fast AJAX applications.
You can optionally remove the CSS from the scripts you’re remotly loading, which allows you to do one of three things: load the default CSS, load your own CSS, or not load the CSS at all.
WordPress.org: Google AJAX Libraries API Plugin – This plugin uses the GALA whereever possible in your WordPress installation.
Google AJAX APIs Blog – This is a great place to go if this really iterests you and you’ll be using this code regularly. They’re always adding new scripts to the API, so if you don’t see the one you want yet, keep an eye on their blog.
I just picked up some passes for Affiliate Summit West 2009 in Las Vegas courtesy of Shoemoney. Thanks Shoe, I appreciate it. I hope to see you there. I’ll buy you a drink or two if I see you.
Affiliate Summit is a great affordable conference for people just coming into affiliate marketing, because there is such a low barrier to entry (cost). Overall the conference gets pretty good reviews, although I hear that after a while, you get used to – or tired of – listening to the same sessions all the time. I’m looking at the session schedule and couldn’t imagine being able to visit the entire show floor as well as every session in just one visit. I’ll try though. It looks like there will be upwards of 3,000 people attending and a ton of exhibitors.
I think there are three major things I’m going for:
This is my first big conference, so I’m pretty excited. I booked my flight and room and the Rio for just over $1200 with my travel agent. I’ll be there from the 9th until the 13th. If I didn’t win them, conference passes would have cost $700 more than that. I would imagine that I will spend at least $1000 additional to that while I’m there. On top of all of that, I will be missing 4 work days, with reduced productivity at best, reducing my normal income.
All in all, adjusted for R&R, I think I need to probably get a return of about $3,000 to break even, and we all know business isn’t about breaking even. I think I can do it pretty easily.
I plan to cover the event and give updates every night (or maybe the morning after). I’ll see you there!
I just upgraded this blog to WP 2.7. I’ve done about three other implementations of 2.7 before I got to this one. This was actually the first upgrade (the others were just straight installs). Everything with the upgrade went smoothly.
I really like the new layout of the admin control panel. Having everything down the left side creates a lot more room for the editing pane. The dynamic layout also flows quite well when the browser window is resized. I immediately knew I had 4 comments in moderation that I needed to deal with, and it was easy to see. One of the only things I dislike is there is a big red 3 next to my plugins menu. I’m not sure what that’s all about, but it makes me feel incomplete. It’s like that error message you can’t get rid of…
EDIT: I figured out what the error messages for plugins were. I had 3 plugins that needed to be updated.