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Friday’s Awesome Articles

by manatee on April 4, 2008

I wonder what would happen if you wrote a blog post discussing various other blog posts you have seen throughout the day?  Would you get trackbacks and a nice boost in traffic?  This is assuming your post is somewhat relevant to what you’re talking about, right?  I dunno, but let’s see what happens.

One post that first comes to mind is a post on Abundance Highway where Suzie wonders if it is a good or bad idea to have a blog with an abundance of different topics.  Hmm… this blog is sort of like that and I’ve wondered this myself.  Problogger Darren Rowse left a massive comment on her blog and basically says that you will get plenty of search traffic, but may irritate your readers.  Personally, the search traffic is all I care about… for now… :)  Darren’s comment should make you realize that if you write a detailed and relevant comment on another blog it makes other readers happy and will probably bring you a bunch of new subscribers at the same time.

Google stock was up today, but don’t be fooled.  Countless adsense publishers are reporting drastic declines in revenue of at least 50% or more.  I predict they may have enough to show a good first quarter, but their second quarter report will not be so good.  I think they will be laying off people this summer and have a stock price of around $200 or less.  How low do you think it will go?  Meanwhile, Microsoft and Yahoo are still in talks.  Whoopdee doo.  The Internet sure is getting lame.

Yes, gas prices are still high.  Good thing I didn’t buy an SUV last year!  :)

Well, not much else going on and this is getting pretty boring.  Time to get to some “real blogging”… I’ll post again here in a few months.  haha

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O.J. Simpson Robbery Audio

by manatee on September 17, 2007

Well, well well, it looks like O.J. Simpson is at again, this time O.J. allegedly attempted to recover stolen football memorabilia at gunpoint with some of his fellow thugs.  O.J. Simpson was arrested on two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, mark up two more for assault with a deadly weapon and put some icing on the cake with a count of burglary with a firearm.  If convicted, poor old O.J. could go to jail for 30 years!  Wooo Hooo!  That’s what you call karma, baby!

Here is the audio of the O.J. Simpson Robbery that occurred in Las Vegas:

The most shocking thing about this whole story for me is the realization that O.J. Simpson is 60 years old!  WTF?!

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Apple Ships Directly from China?

by manatee on September 5, 2007

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I recently ordered an Apple iMac and finally got a FedEx tracking number today.  I logged on to check the shipment status and my jaw dropped when I saw the shipping origin.  Shanghai, China?!  WTF?!  With the bad rap China has been given over the last few months regarding exploding laptop and cell phone batteries, lead in Dora the Explorer toys and even chemical burns on feet I think maybe Apple should think different about this.

rickshaw.jpgYeah, we all know their products probably come from China, but we don’t want to think about it or be reminded of it.  Sorry, but I had a fantasy of my iMac coming from near the coveted headquarters on 1 Infinite Loop, or at least somewhere near there in California.

We pay a premium for these awesome computers…so Apple, please don’t ruin our fantasies by shipping from China.  Kthxbye.

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