Category: Geek Love

The worst part about not blogging as often as I used to is that sometimes I think about something I want to post about – but by the time I have a chance to focus and write, I forget what I was going to say. That doesn’t mean the topic was trivial – not at all. It means that somewhere along the way I was sidetracked and just didn’t write about it.

Monday night, Elaine informed me that I have been nominated for a 2004 Bloggie! Tuesday morning when I checked my e-mail, there was the official notification, along with an e-mail from Jenn, pointing out that I was nominated in the “Best Programming of a Blog” category – up against ScriptyGoddess! I really don’t feel worthy in Scripty’s company, especially since most of the tweaks on my site are either things found on Scripty or code that Jenn wrote and implemented for me! (With the exception of my recent commenter code that Ste wrote for me.) There are a lot of things that I have done myself, but still – you have to admit that it’s ironic. I am thrilled and honored to be nominated though – what a treat! Wheee! Thank you, thank you to everyone that nominated me!

Now the freak spammers are not only using blahblahblog.com to send out spam, but they have started using the Picture Yourself domain too. I’ve got hundreds of over FOUR THOUSAND bounce messages, which just started 3 days ago, in the inbox there. (Yes, I moved them *all* into one folder so I could “count” them.)

I think I’m going to cry.

Mike was shopping for gadget goodies this weekend. Here are two of the mp3 players he was looking at – anyone have any feedback on either player that they want to share? I guess I should note that he is actually looking at buying both (for different purposes) – not trying to decide between the two of them.

 

If you’re using the default skin on my blog and you look at the very bottom of the sidebar on the left, you will see two text links. You may have seen them on the sites of other bloggers too. What are they? Links that I’ve been paid to post. No special requirements or anything, just post the links and be paid well. Want in? Let me know and I will pass your information on to the appropriate people and you can sign up too. Yeah, I probably get a referral fee for sending you – and you will get money too.

So you may say I’m selling out, but really it’s a win-win situation for all of us! Let me know if you’re interested!

I had a lovely little post to write up and share, and then some nice little punk kid decided to launch a DOS Attack, taking down Blogomania and more. It seems like over half the sites I wanted to surf were down right along with mine too. *sigh* Fortunately, everything has been restored now and is back up and running, nice and stable like always.

Amusing posts to come tomorrow – for tonight, I have to get to bed!