Thursday July 31, 2003
So when you go and get your oil changed and also ask them to rotate your tires you expect the tires to be rotated right? My good friend Wendy just had her oil changed and her tires rotated by Abdel from Precision Auto Tune in Bloomington, MN. The sad part?
Wendy has a new tire on her car. The tire did not move. They claimed they rotated the tires. She said, "Uh no you didn't. That is a new tire on that wheel and it didn't move!"
So we thank you Wendy for your submission and guess what Abdel from Precision Auto Tune, you are officially a Moron!
Tuesday July 29, 2003
Yay. We have our first moron. While I encountered two different people worthy of the award today, only one may get it. And today's winner...
The guy who owns the Subway by my house. But wait, its just an employee. How can he be a moron?
Today's purchase:
1 6inch sub - Free with stamp card.
1 Medium Soda - Required purchase with stamp card
2 Cookies.
Medium Soda costs 1.09 and cookies cost .39 each or 3 for 1.00.
So by simple math we have
1.09
+.78
_____
1.87
x1.06 (tax)
______
1.98 - Should be total purchase
But since you can substitute 2 cookies for 1 bag of chips with a meal you get this.
1.09
+.89 - chips
_____
1.98
x1.06
______
2.09
And what did I get charged? You guessed it. The second one. I asked for a reciept and told him he over charged me. He said it was only 2 cents, and I argued that it was 11 cents. While nothing major I have to wonder how many times he does this. Its like the person in the drive through window who over charges you by 10 cents, only to pocket that money later on. So thus he deserves the Moron Award. Way to go Subway Owner. You are now a Moron.
Monday July 28, 2003
I have decided that there are a lot of morons out there on the web. All to often I read something or someone tells me something on aim and all I have to say is moron. So with that, I have created the Moron Awards. These are very special awards, only given out to those who truely deserve to be called a moron. Little things like spelling errors will not give you this honor. Big things like the story posted below will. Please do not point at the morons and laugh. This will only anger them. Instead visit their site and tell them how "special" they really are. So when I find a moron, I will let you know. Oh yeah, if you happen to be the moron I select, you may proudly add the following image to your site to let other people know that you are a moron.
Its no secret that I run a review site. I actually enjoy running it and lately I have enjoyed reviewing sites again. Even though like 4 out of my list 6 sites were nothing to shout home about, I still enjoyed doing the review.
I love the reaction to the reviews themselves. People ask for an impartial review of their site and then get really mad when we don't praise it. Huh? Over the three years that I have done this, I realized that to have a good quality review is much better than having a good review. You get better feedback from a quality review which is what is really important.
I always love it when I go check on a site after it has been reviewed to see what they say about it. Some people just praise the review, others will tear it apart, and others simply do not say anything.
But what I find even more interesting are the comments people leave on the weblogs about the review itself. You have the ass kissers who say that TWR is so wrong about their review, and then the others who agree. My favorite comments are from those who say, "I would never want my site reviewed, I write for me and only me."
Those are my favorite. Why? Cause then I go visit their weblog to see if it really is just for them. I have yet to find a site like that. The latest site I found in this manner had pictures of concerts and people. As well as having comments open on their site.
Wait, what? They only write for themselves, but they do so in a public matter, display pictures, ask for comments to be left, and oh yeah, have like 20 different links to sites they read. That makes a lot of sense.
Blogs are not just for the author. A Diary is just for the author. A Blog is for an audience.
Monday July 21, 2003
Just the title of this post alone is enough to send more traffic to this site. I could add a naked picture in this post and that would do even more wonders. I briefly mentioned that porn was an easy way to get traffic to your blog quickly.
But now I want to tackle porn blogs specifically. What is it about them that drives us (read men) to porn blogs? For one they are free. And for the most part guys like free porn. Considering that the internet is made up of mostly porn, the more free the better.
But having a porn blog costs somewhat. Sure you might get free hosting, but of course your bandwidth will kill the site quickly. Ok, so maybe you only link to outside images to save on your bandwidth. Again, only a matter of time before they shut down those links. So you fork out your money for a nice server and a lot of bandwidth.
Well of course you want to make up for your financial loss. Obviously you don't want to be paying $100 a month and not get much in return (well other than looking for the porn). So then you throw up advertising. You jump on every latest bandwagon on how to make money with adult websites and there you go.
But then you start to loose interest in running the site. It gets boring, day in and day out looking at porn. You almost get nullified to porn. God not that! What is a blogger to do?
Outside sources. That is the key, at least I think. Let other people send you the porn. That way you don't have to search for it every day. And then of course you could give credit to those that have helped you on your way.
Thursday July 17, 2003
I just got done doing a review over at The Weblog Review. For those of you unaware, TWR was down for roughly 15 days and this was the first review I did in about a month. I have had the pleasure of reviewing almost 200 blogs in my 3 years of running the site and reading all 1200+ reviews of blogs. To say what is a good blog and what is a bad blog is a hard thing to do. Mainly because it is just a matter of opinion.
But I believe there are a lot of basics that one needs to have in order to have a good blog. I may not be the best person to write this list out, but I know I am not the worst.
A good blog obviously must have good content. And the content needs to be original. All of those "What ____ are you?" and "Friday Five" type posts need to go. They are good every now and then, but filling a blog with these is a bad idea.
Talk about real things. Express your feelings, be it happy, sad, angry, excited, pissed, hurt... Let people know your feelings and thoughts.
Ask yourself if you would read your blog. I know this is a hard one to accept. You are your biggest critic. Would you read your own blog? Very rarely do we go over our own archives because we know what is there. Do you enjoy what you have written and where you are going?
Design. While this is really just a small part of a weblog, a good design can make a weblog go from good to great, a bad design can make a weblog go from good to poor. Get rid of all those stupid javascript tricks and flashing animated gifs. People are reading your blog for the words you write, not because you have a cool animated gif.
These are just the basics. I know there are other things that help a weblog out, but these are the basics. Please leave your thoughts on this.
Well today marks the first day back to this weblog. Sorry it took a lot longer to get back to it than expected. I know all 12 of you that were reading this are really happy that I brought it back now.
Anyways, I just spent the last hour reading over the blogs listed to the right there. Man that is a lot of time just reading. Now I didn't go back and "catch up" on what I had been missing. I did however do a minor update to that list over there.
I added a new blog, Halley's Comment. Why? Cause I saw that a lot of people linked her most recent article on Girlism. Now normally I would post my own reply to this, but since it has been done by the likes of 3 others in the list, I will not be writing a responce that has already been done.