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Well Back Kind of. Upgraded to New Wordpress
2008-04-19 10:44:49
Well I’m back from my trip to Japan, a little early might I add.  So I’m taking some time to update some of the things that need to be updated like all the plugins, and wordpress versions etc etc.  Anyways its already almost 11 so I’ll be back tomorrow with updates. ...

Adsense ToS - How to Make a Privacy Policy
2008-03-18 02:17:34
So apparently a few days ago Google changed its Terms of Service for people who have use Google Adsense on their pages. All pages with Adsense on it are now required to have a Privacy Policy.  While I was able to add a Privacy Policy page for Money News here. If you still [...] ...

Where O Where Have I Been
2008-03-17 23:19:15
I realize I haven’t posted a new blog for quite some time, and I do apologize.  Real life has become fairly hectic lately with my current IRL job.  I also have a trip coming up to Japan in about two weeks that I’m scrambling to prepare for as well.  In the middle of this all [...] ...

Dota, Addiction, and and Old Dota Song
2008-02-21 22:03:16
Either I’m just depressed or out of blogging ideas, but the first thing I do when I get home from work is hop on Ventrilo, and fire up Warcraft III to go play Dota. (Defense of the Ancients custom map). What sound like the Basshunter video that makes fun of the game? [...] ...

So Google Hijacks Your 404 Pages - Time to Download Yahoo Toolbar Now?
2008-02-13 21:10:34
Its now confirmed that the new Google Toolbar Beta officially hijacks your web browser when you go to a page that no longer exists, and has a 404 page showing. The once innocent seeming company is starting to resemble Microsoft, and their monopolistic do it our way or the highway methods. Matt Cutts [...] ...
Download  Google  Time  Toolbar  Yahoo 

World of Warcraft Meets Tiffany’s - WoW Valentines Commercial
2008-02-13 02:43:32
Here I thought i was going to escape this year’s Valentines day rush in my video game world. However it looks like Blizzard is planning on dragging everyone into it in full force this year. What am I babbling about this time you say? Here’s a link to the most recent World [...] ...
Commercial  Warcraft  Wow 

WTS: In Real Life Mana Potions for $7
2008-02-12 18:45:20
The fine line between virtual goods, and real property gets fuzzy quite often of late. Sales of virtual money sell for real world money, or virtual goods can have real world values. Now to add more confusion to this mix up try this on for size. Yes, that’s exactly what it looks like. [...] ...
Life  Real Life 

Good News, Good News, and Bad News Warhammer Online
2008-02-11 18:16:35
I mentioned the other day that my video card died, and I needed to pick up a new one. Well it looks like I ordered it just in time, because the beta over at Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning just added a bunch of new players, myself included. If you haven’t tried to [...] ...
Good News  News 

Video Card Down, New One Enroute
2008-02-08 18:41:21
Well another quick note over here just to keep you guys updated with whats going on.  My video card decided to get overheated, and burnt out so I’m in the middle of upgrading that piece of hardware.  The card I had was the ATI 1900xtx, and is pretty notorious about running at high temperatures.  I’ve [...] ...
Video 

Howto: Get Banned From World of Warcraft Selling Gold
2008-02-01 22:47:55
No I didn’t get banned from World of Warcraft for selling WoW gold. My gold is still stuck at around 14k since the beginning of the month due to me not being able to log in due to a corrupted patch. I need to do a full reinstall since the repair didn’t seem [...] ...
Gold  Howto  Warcraft 

Contact Form is Back
2008-01-31 21:44:48
Just wanting to let you guys know that my contact form is working properly now. Sorry for the e-mails that I may have missed due to the other form being down. Thanks Kiwipulse for recommending Cforms to me. ...
Form 

China Invades Iraq via World of Warcraft
2008-01-30 21:32:43
In other news today, Iraq has now been assimilated by World of Warcraft. According to the Chinese news sources CCTV, which is a military channel, on January 2nd they talked about recent military movements in the Middle East. Take a look at the image from the newscast showing the map of Turkey, Iraq, [...] ...
China  Iraq  Warcraft 

Its Snowing in Maui, Hawaii Today!
2008-01-30 04:14:59
If you guys didn’t know this already I live here on the island of Maui, Hawaii. When you think of Hawaii usually what comes to mind? Beaches, waves, surf, luaus, fire dancers, Hawaii Five-0, and maybe even Lilo & Stitch. The last thing that comes to mind is winter weather, and people [...] ...
Hawaii  Maui  Snowing 

Sign Up Sundays - UVME Game Network
2008-01-29 22:37:46
  My apologies, I thought I had posted this on Sunday, but it looks like I only hit save so the post was stuck in my drafts until someone brought it up to me. I usually don’t look at my blog, unless its at a comment or I’m altering the template so sometimes I forget [...] ...
Game  Network 

Hopping on The Project Wonderful Bandwagon - Quick Analysis
2008-01-25 22:53:03
I first saw this ad widget called Project Wonderful in the Entrecard forums a little while back, and it seems to be taking off in there. Selling ad space is always a tedious thing. You have to keep track of it monthly, when the time is almost up you have to check in [...] ...
Analysis  Project 

I’ve Been Getting Around - Getting Reviewed That is
2008-01-25 01:05:52
  The free blog review list seems to be getting some nice hits now, and I just added another blog to the list. One of the nice things about the list is that it even lets me get my blog reviewed as well =). In the past week I have gotten 4 reviews, [...] ...

My Contact Form is Broken I think…
2008-01-23 01:17:26
I’m going to need to find a new contact form plugin for wordpress.  When I first installed the plugin the test e-mail I tried worked fine.  However I’m noticing on my visitor logs that people are going to the contact page, but I’m not getting any e-mails.  So just to test it out I tried [...] ...
Form 

Squidoo Error Says I Made $600!
2008-01-22 23:03:02
So I log into my Squidoo account today, and I see this big blue message across the screen saying Congratulations, your one of the top earners for 2007 with over $600. I kid you not, I thought I had some sort of windfall traffic that came to me or something. Except the [...] ...
Squidoo 

Sign Up Sundays - Pepperjam Network
2008-01-21 00:46:19
For the first Sign Up Sunday this week I’ll be joining the Pepperjam Network under Jason from Bloggin4Cash. He was the only one to respond to the post so he was the winner by default. If you have a affiliate or referral program that you would like me to look into joining under [...] ...
Network 

214k World of Warcraft Gold Limit
2008-01-19 17:42:19
Here my jaw still stuck in the jaw dropped position of someone being able to afford the Ashes of Alar mount for 190k gold. You can only image my surprise now to find out that World of Warcraft does indeed have a limit. Apparently that amount is 214,748 gold, 36 silver, 48 copper. After you [...] ...
Gold  Warcraft 

Digg Autobury, Is TechCrunch on The List Now?
2008-01-18 21:55:03
I doubt it especially since the last front page article that Techcrunch had was submitted by none other than Kevin Rose himself 11 days ago. By the way I’m not sure if anyone notices this, but Kevin has a 100% made popular rating out of the 329 Digg stories he’s submitted. But I think Digg [...] ...

Page Rank Updated For Free Blog Review Sites List
2008-01-16 21:16:34
Short post, but just FYI for those of you who haven’t signed up for some free reviews from my list of free blog reviews. I recently updated each site with their new Page ranks as of the January 2008 update. Its funny that the page ranks came out so fast this quarter, but [...] ...
Blog  Page Rank  Review 

Who Wants a Referral - Sign Me Up Sundays
2008-01-15 23:35:47
I’m going to start up a weekly segment called ‘Sign me up Sundays’. So listen up all you online money makers. If your trying to get a referral from a program now is your chance to do so. That’s right, you get to sign me up under you. Now [...] ...

81 Reasons You Know You Entrecard Too Much When:
2008-01-14 21:01:42
I started up a thread in the Entrecard forum with this topic, and it took off quite a bit. The thread can be found here. I know some people don’t frequent the forums there too much so I’m reposting what the people’s responses were in there. So here we go the you know you [...] ...

I Have Writers Block - Addicted to Call of Duty 4
2008-01-14 18:53:54
I got hit with a really bad case of writers block last week, and when I finally started getting over it I get sick so the posts I had in my draft box never got finished up. On top of that I didn’t have a notepad handy so while I was lying on my bed [...] ...
Block  Writers 

8 Free Tools to Help a WoW Gatherer Make Gold
2008-01-07 22:47:57
Farming gold in World of Warcraft is something I hate doing. I prefer making gold via Auction House as it takes less time. However some people who are in a rush to get their epic flying mounts, and will do both methods to speed things up a bit. I used to raid quite [...] ...
Gold  Help  Tools  Wow 

Would You Buy a $900 Mount For World of Warcraft?
2008-01-03 23:26:01
My answer would be a quick ‘HELL NO’, but some people are willing to dish out that much or more. The above picture is the Ashes of Alar mount, which is an extremely rare drop. Teza from World of Raids reported that this mount went for an astonishing 190,000 gold on a Chinese [...] ...
Warcraft 

December Totals, Forgot November Too
2008-01-03 07:38:24
Another month has passed, and its already time to bring up earnings. Funny thing about having posts sitting in drafts, and forgetting about them. I found that I’ve had like 5 posts carried over from my Blogger blog, that made it into this Wordpress one in draft form. Among them the November [...] ...

World of Warcraft and Politics Dont Mix
2008-01-02 23:34:35
The current buzz in the World of Warcraft world is the Ron Paul campaign march from Ironforge to Stormrage. Game politics had a interesting write up about the whole ordeal, and it looks like there was quite a showing. I’m glad that I don’t play on that server normally due to the [...] ...
Politics  Warcraft 

Entrecard Meme - Top 10 Droppers Link Love
2008-01-01 23:23:01
Looks like I’ve already been tagged with a meme for the New Years already. This one called the Top 10 Droppers Entrecard meme made by Tim over at Yimto Affiliate Marketing Blog. Colin from CK Marketing decided to tag me with this one, as well as reward his top card droppers with a [...] ...
Link  Love