Sunday
Crystal Jigsaw
ALL THINGS CHERISHED
A HYPOCHANDRIACS TALE
Many Moons Ago...
Many moons ago I was dedicated to a project that I started in August of 2006. It morphed into a blog that reviewed and critiqued over 800 blogs. The first blog I critiqued was a blog entitled,
Haphazard Happenstances, back on August 9th 2006. Before writing this entry I clicked onto her blog and found it to be just as refreshing and inviting as it was back when I first critiqued it, even better in fact.
Over the years I've made alot of acquaintances in the blog world, many of whom I have kept in touch with as I continued to blog (www.pestcontrolinfo.blogspot.com , www.billymacattack.com ), and many whom I have fallen out of contact with. One thing that remains constant is the bloggers undying love for this media outlet. It was this reasoning that I got into blogging to begin with and it was with this reason I began critiquing. Bloggers love what they do, clear and simple. So I decided to click onto my first blog passion and sign on to tap back into my creative side again and start to critique blogs whom ask to be critiqued. The reason I stopped with this project still remains, my work has taken me in a different direction where my time is very limited, so naturally I can not dedicate the time that I used to dedicate to Critique My Blog. I can, however, critique as time allows and get back into the world of discovery that is the blogesphere.
Friday
Pastel and Paint
Sue Doe
Monday
Some Labor Day Critiques
Sunday
PENNY STOCK WATCH-HISC
- Products include the Cyber Tracker, Cyber Rad, Cyber Shield, and Act Soft Software.
- At the end of this quarter they had 25,000 dollars in cash on hand. You can check out their financial report here.
- HISC has had positive press on various TV stations including HGTV over the years.
- The cyber tracker is on the Nextel system.
HISC is one of those penny stock companies that offer a strong product line with some revenue behind them. At this time they are not setting the world on fire, but the company is in a positive spiral and there is some decent management behind it as well. I would look at the website and do your home work with this one. I can see this company doing a reverse split in the future do to its high volume of shares out there. Hopefully this won't be the case though. Possible share buybacks have been discussed in the past and hopefully this will be the path the management takes.
Friday
Duh-mension
Saturday
Making money with your blog
The quest to make money with your blog is a task that many have tried to tackle. Entire blogs are dedicated to this topic. Blogs like Problogger and John Chow are two good examples of blogs that help bloggers make money with their blogs offering advice and ideas. I tried to do the same with blogs over time. I tried using different methods like pay per post and adsense, but I found that it wasn't what tools you used, but the amount of time you have to dedicate to blogging. It takes alot of time to build a good blog and maintain it. You need to grow a reader base which takes time and you need to keep your content fresh and edgy. The point that I am trying to make is that it is not a get rich quick scheme. Blogging needs dedication, organization, and a certain amount of writing skill and creativity, at least if you want to try to make some income with your blog. There is a handful of bloggers out there who make some decent money with adsense and other forms of monetization. If you are one of them then comment and toot your own horn. How much do you make and what do you use to do it.?
Tuesday
Congrats to Skittle's PLace
I quick Congrats to Barb from Skittle's Place who celebrated her...ready....two thousandth post!!! Yes...I said 2000. Great job and keep up the fantastic work!
Catholic Computes
Monday
A miner tragedy?
By no means is there anything minor about the poor miners that have been forgotten by the very people who they were making rich in Utah! Officials say that the conditions are just too unstable and dangerous to bore down to find them or recover the bodies. Here's a question...if it is unstable and dangerous now...don't ya think that the same conditions may have applied before these poor folks went mining in this area? These companies need to be made more accountable for the tragedies that result from these horrible accidents. How can you just forget about people who are trapped. What if they all brought a big lunch with them and a few extra bottles of water. What if they had the resources to actually survive? It really bothered me to hear about this, and it makes me wonder how a country who can manufacture a living being in a pitri dish, can't rescue human beings who are trapped.
I eluded to a fact I heard on a TV show last night that in three to ten years, scientists will be able to grow a living, working being in a pitri dish! It is well beyond scary to think that we are that close to this kind of science fiction. When you think of the possibilities with military and just overall workforce development, it blows the mind. So look for the Matrix revisited in the near future.
Sunday
Fire Fighters
Keeping with the topic of "nice is good" that Barb from Skittle's Place put in my head, I was thinking about my week and some of the "nice" people I've come across. The first thing that came to my mind was how while I was riding from one of my sites to another, I came to red light and there in the street were fire fighters, boots in hand, collecting for Jerry's Kids! The Jerry Lewis Telethon is right around the corner and it warmed my heart to see these men and women who put their lives on the line day in and day out, giving more of themselves by collecting money for a fantastic cause! It's easy to see why little kids always say they want to be fire fighters when they grown up. It has to be because they are so trusted and looked up to. The same day I cam across a little traffic jam, as I passed the reason I saw a mini-van broken down in the left hand lane. In the cross street I saw a fire engine pulled over and off hopped a fireman who ran over and started to help the guy push his van off to the side. How great was that. This morning as I get ready to pour my first cup of coffee I will keep in mind all the nice things that happen in the world. Have a "nice" day!
Saturday
Thanks for the memories
I want to first off thank Barb from Skittle's Place for offering a heart warming reward for my blog. What a pleasant surprise! Barb has been a positive force in the blogging community for a long time and it's a pleasure to know her and an honor to have been mentioned in her post about nice mattering, because it does.
As for Critique My Blog...over the years I've put alot of time and passion into critiquing blogs, but recently I've been neglecting the critiques, again, and it's mostly due to my new job. I recently started in a position that pulls in in a hundred directions and at night I am with my sons at Karate or Soccer or Basketball or swimming or whatever the case might be. The actual process of critiquing a blog takes alot of time and I put alot of thought into the words I write about he blogs I read. It's a draining process that I love, but can't continue. I am going to keep this blog active, but not in the same capacity as it was in the past. I am going to keep it as a personal blog to write my own thoughts and observations...I will continue to comment on other blogs and keep in touch with the blogging community, but in a new way. I need to be able to write with ease and a personal blog is easy...I can write my thoughts and opinions and activities almost effortlessly. I will also keep my pest control blogs because they also come easy as it is the profession I was in for the past 15 or more years. I know bugs.
I hope people understand this decision and as I said I will still comment and critique from time to time, but not as I used to. I hope to continue to impact the blogging world positively and continue with the relationships I've built in the blogging community. See you all around and keep on blogging!
Wednesday
Scholars & Rogues
Sunday
What's New At Critique My Blog
I will be leaving today for a week vacation and will return on Saturday...When I return I will be revisiting some things I was contemplating for Critique My Blog along with a more regular posting regiment where I will try to post between 3 to 5 reviews a day. I have been neglecting the blog as of late with job requirements and now the starting a new job. I look forward to getting back to the regular posting. As for now...sun tan lotion in hand and a cold drink in other...Vacation here I come!
Tuesday
Families are like fudge
Days like these!
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Monday
Bending Peak
Friday
Danielle's Blog
Can You Hear Me now?!?
Ask The Admin.
Thursday
Southern Fried Fatty!
My Two Cents....
It's been a while since I had a chance to write...Hope everyone had a fantastic and relaxing 4th of July...My family and I went to see the fireworks on the 3rd and we went to see Evan Almighty on the 4th which was followed by a Bar-B-Que. I highly recommend the movie....funny as anything. I also spent alot of the day thinking about the troops and keeping all the Vets in mind with a big thank you for the chance to celebrate that day every year.
I'll be starting a new job in two weeks and it is part of the reason I've been away...hopefully things will settle down by August and I can start to send some more time here.
Saturday
THE GOAT RODEO
Tuesday
Vermont
mortgage company
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Sunday
Canada Eh
Serious Mumbo Jumbo
Wednesday
Stale Coffee
Monday
The Markmiller 5
USA Network's Burn Notice
Did you ever wonder how hard it must be to get fired from the United States CIA? Neither did Michael Weston. In fact, his day started off like most mornings, arriving at the CIA headquarters in Langley, VA, he wen through the customary 45.5 minute ritual to actually get into the guts of the organization. The eye retina scans, the hand print scans, the nose hair analysis. (Didn't know about that one did ya?) All was going just fine until the one thing that has been haunting him since childhood started to rear it's ugly head. Curiosity. He was just top damn curious for his own good and this time it got the best of him. This month...this day...this very morning was to be the last nose hair analysis Michael Weston would encounter because it was on this morning he decided he was going to look behind the forbidden door. It was a room in CIA headquarters that nobody except the director himself and the President of the United Stated was allowed to go into. That morning, instead of making a right into the coffee break room he made a left and just opened the door like it was his own office! As brazen and ballsy as that. Opened the door and walked right in! What greeted him was enough to make the most rigid of war torn Generals shake in their army boots. It was a room where former director George Bush Senior went to watch the children show the Wiggles. The room was wallpapered in rainbows and there was a cotton candy machine! It was scary to say the least and now Michael Weston was in on the secret. When Michael came to his senses he turned to run but standing there was a swat team with pointed guns. The agency had no choice but to let him go with the understanding that he could tell all the most secret of secrets that the CIA had to offer....in fact they even would sanction a tell all TV show about the CIA on the USA Network! Just so long as Michael kept his discovery to himself. Michael decided to so just that and that is how USA Network's Burn Notice came to be. It 's just as simple as that. To keep the integrity of the agency and our President's father, the agency sold out and agreed to a former agent to go on TV.