Today I got up went to check on some things here and noticed one very important item… My stat counter just clicked 10,000…

Yes, I’m kind of a stats junky, but only in the sense that it’s good to see progress. I know I’ve never had a serious message or an over all theme (apart from just trying to have fun), but I’m not to worried about it.

Just want to say thanks for the interest, you’ve made this an actual creative outlet for me…

October 24, 2007 to July 11, 2008
Here are a few un-impresive stats I’ve gathered that I thought were interesting to me…

• 391 posts
• 65 categories
• 399 tags
• 700 comments

It’s just to bad I’m not cool enough to be taken seriously by Technorati… No worries, I’m not even a year old yet.

I like this chart… It’s cool to see things grow.

Referring Sites are at the top, I guess that means this community things is working.

Apparently I’m not quite a global commodity yet, heck I’m hardly even a national treasure.

I’ve been doing a little thinking over the last few weeks about doing a little side work. I’m still not sure if I should be doing side work or not. Seeing as I might be my own competition, it might not be a good idea.

Here is what I’m thinking, and in this thought I don’t feel I would be my own competition. (but maybe I would)

My Idea…and this would only be offered to personal blogs…(real people with people thoughts)

• Offer services for basic installation of WordPress…Which would require…
  1. Your own Web Hosting package.
  2. Your own Domain Name.
  3. Basic understanding of Blogging in general. (other wise you’re wasting your money)
• Helping you find a Trusted Theme for your blog. (no I wouldn’t offer theme construction…way to much work)
• Help you find Stable Plugins so you can do what you want, and get what you need from your blog.
• SEO (Basics)
• And for the none WordPress users, maybe a little Tutor Session.

Still I’m not sure about this. Honestly, you could find all these things and do them yourself.

Thing of it is, would I be giving away Trade Secrets? Would I be my own Competition?

Trade Secrets??? (thats the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard…wordpress is anything but secret) Here is what I mean when I say “Trade Secrets”. I’m fairly positive that if the Music Industry (in general) new how to build a blog, they would. The problem with that is what will they do with it? Would a record label actually give a Musician a blog and let them have free rain to say and do what they want? (??? not sure…)

Mean while all the work that I have done so far has been for the band directly and I would like to keep it that way. For me it’s a matter of who’s really on the Soapbox, and I think we as bloggers, writers and authors can tell when a musician is speaking or it’s just their manager, label or editor…

There has to be some amount of give and take between Management and Musicians, there always has been and there always will be. One thing to keep in mind as we start to see more musicians begin to write and share is that with every post myspace is taking a blow to the gut… (thats my favorite part)

Three Cheers for Blogging!!!
Now if we could just find another word that says “Blogging” with out all the implied geekiness… although I think inside we all kinda like our geek side. I know I do!

After taking a break from the computer and the world of code and browser interaction I had an opportunity to relax.

In the last two days I’ve had a chance to talk to two different bloggers…

1. Beyond Jems… Originally she was meeting with Brody, since I was bored I hopped in the car and went for a ride. We met up at S-Buks and had a drink while talking about blogging, charity and some music.

   We talked about a great idea she has brewing about a fundraiser for charities of your choice. I’m not sure if I would be letting the cat out of the bag, so I’ll leave it at that. But go over and check out her blog. I think over the next couple of months, as she gets all the details nailed down, you’ll be interested in being involved.

2. Next was another ride along for me when as I tagged along with Brody to meet up with William Guice. He’s a great guy who seems to be on top of his stuff. I’ll admit I really haven’t read much of his stuff, but I will be. We sat around and talked about blogging and what it can do for a community. To honest I kept going off on rabbit trails of thought in my head as they were talking about musicians and thing here in TN that I don’t know anything about.

   At any rate he is really cool, with a really good attitude, and I’ll definitely be reading more of him in the future.

Well, I think I may have leaned a little something today. I don’t think it’s really anything new for me, but I had to learn it again. Things don’t always work out the way they should, and I like to freak out… There’s no need to freak out.

You ever have those moment in you life that you look back on and think, “Wow, I really over reacted.” Today was really close to being one of those day.

Take it easy everyone, you’re day will be better for it.

(after reading this post back to myself I realize this is a horribly written post, but don’t let my bad writing distract you from checking them out.)

There seems to be nothing to speak of in my brain this morning.

But if I was thinking about anything here is what it would be.

• BBQ with my cousin last night, and I burned my mouth on the corn. I always seem to do that.
• The climate here in Norther Ca is so much dryer than Portland Or that it’s making my hands all dried out and pealy. I hope Tn is more humid, I’ve heard it is.
• My dad owns a gas station and he says the reason for the gas prices are the stock traders. They buy up all the gas and hold it to create supply and demand.
• I Fly to Tn on Tuesday, I’m starting to get a little nervous because that mean I’m going to have to look for a new apartment, and spend money. (i dont like spending money)

I think I’ll leave it at that. Although I just realized that I didn’t post yesterday, I think that is the first time in about a month I didn’t do at least one post. (my parents internet went on the frits, kinda nice to have a day way)

This post is mainly for the RSS readers out there.

I made a little oopsy and did a post thinking it was monday, wow my days are all messed up. Kinda funny though. I just got done doing a post for Positive Post Tue, and then I immediately turned around and did a post about Monday night chat. ha!

I think RSS picked it up, mine did. So, if you see it than this post makes sense. If you don’t see it than this post is just a joke and you should laugh. HA HA HA

So I had an Idea this morning thanks to a chat that I was in over at arewestillcool, last monday. I went over to there site and participated in there chat, a good time was had by all. They have a little image in there sidebar advertising the next chat on May 19 at 9pm est. I liked it so much that I thought I would grab the image and put it in my sidebar to try and get more people to come join the chat.

Here is what I came up with…

I built a page where you can put in an image URL and a Link URL hit send and bam!!! you get an email with the code you need to put it in your blogs text widget. There is plenty of instruction and a few rules, but have at it.

Click Here TO Check it out

, or you can click on the little ballon with the puzzle piece.

Added Bonus!

While I was building this page I decided to ad an extra feature. There is a section in the form letting you choose to have your code posted publicly so you can share you Image Link with the rest of the world. If you choose ‘Yes’ I’ll grab your code and put it in a textarea box and post it above the form. This way anyone can grab it and put it in there sidebar.

Check it out, tell your friends, but don’t abuse it. Also if you find any glitches let me know. Have fun
randy

Brody came to Portland last night and the first thing we did was go out for some food. We went strait for Qdoba, but it shut down about 5min before we got there. !!Dang it!! So we went to the Whole Foods and got a little grub.

Today we made a point to get to Qdoba. We made it there, ate it, and liked it… It was good… But we did more than just eat some food. We met a fellow blogger who happens to live out here in the Portland area. We met up with Tyler Braun, check him out. We had food and talked about the blogging world. It was fun and we made our way back here to the church.

Things are set up and were looking good. So, take it easy and check Phil out if you get a chance.

Qdoba!!!!

I’m Just One Click Away!!!

I think I’m going to go back to the old fashioned style of Surfing the web. The RSS feeds have gotten out of control…

So here we go again. A few new things to look at and some things that are always around. I hope everyone doesn’t mind, but i like to use this place a sort of a testing ground for new ideas that i have. Design, Concepts, Form and Function.

There is a little bit of Visual Updates, I tried to keep things similar and build off what I already have. Most of the Update is in the background. I’ve been working diligently on organizing Functions and incorporating Standard Blogging Tools into my themes With out the need of Plugins.

Have fun and let me know if you find any Mistakes.

So what does this mean? This UpGrade is the content behind the scenes kind. The Visuals here may change very little, but the structure is going to be cleaned up and made ready to handle content in a different way. I have had a few comments and emails about Themes and Wordpress, so, I am developing a page to handle those topics. There are other ideas in the meat grinder about offering WP Plugins & Themes.

If you happen to see a lot of my post being updated through RSS that just means Im cleaning up the Categories and Tags.