I’m Back

To Everyone still reading this blog: Thanks, I know there are still some rss readers out there that have not yet taken me off of their reading list and for that you will be rewarded with some great posts in the next 5-7 days.

Most of my excuses are lame though.  Also if anyone has had experince with fixing the image bug in wp please leave a comment, I can’t automatically add images to posts for some reason i have to upload and the add the html as wp wont let me just add the image directly to the blog post.

Where the hell have I been?  Lots of things:

1) Health: I was extremely overweight, the tipping point came when I no longer wanted to associate with friends or buy new clothes to the fact that I thought I was just too fat to look good in anything, and this leads to a downwad spiral of depression and increased eating for some reason.  I had let myself go for about 3 years and it was showing.  Around the time my last post on this blog was published I decided to change all that.  I joined a gym and changed my diet immediatly.  It has been about 3 months now, and after spending 6 days a week in the gym, I can finally say I starting to feel better and more positive about myself.  I have lost over 45 pounds and gained some muscle, this was not easy and I chalk it up to one of the harder things I have done, but it needed to be done.  So between the gym and other off-line commitments you can see why it would be hard to update my blog and keep my other on-line properties running.

2) Facebook: I have actually devoloped/bought two facebook apps just to see if I can make anything viral out of them.  It aint as easy as it looks.  Another thing whilst I have dealt with so many people online almost all my experiences have been great, I am an idiot when it comes to html/php/css and all that other garbage but I have found when buying or selling a site/theme/code the devoloper or buyer is usually willing to hold my hand and walk me through everything one step at a time repeating things if neccessary.  Hell if you go to "Nickycakes " blog and a question in one of his posts he is more than happy to answer it and other questions and he is "supposed" to be mean and arrogant, but he’s not.  But facebook app devolopers?  I have never met a more ruder non-responsive bunch of assholes in my whole life, no wonder they are flogging their wares to anyone and everyone, they haven’t heard the term customer service used in a context that does not involve one of their cousins working in a call centre.  Needless to say if something is wrong with their code you can expect to fix it yourself.

3) Recession: The word sucks, but its happening.  I personally think that we are at the bottom of the barrel right now, and there is no where to go but up from here.  Because of that i have taken all the cash I had invested in sites and projects and invested it in the stock market.  I can understand your thinking right now.  But I implore you, go take a look at the FTSE 100 or the DJI in March, and look at it now.  Imagine if you had invested say $1000 in Citigroup, Bank of America, Barclays or RBS at that point in time and calculate where your money would be today.  With Citi you are looking at a 400% ROI and this was a stock trading at above $50 at one time!  Don’t read this post and go out buying stocks now without your due diligence, this is at the end of the day just a blog on the internet and all investment choices should be made wisely.

4) Splogs/Flogs: If you know what these words mean that means you probably made a nice chunk of change in the past few months.  This happened with my by accident, I have a number of autoblogs and I wanted to test out a campaign so instead of registering a new domain I just added a landing page to a current blog, good conversions rate ensued.  It ended up with me learning alot and making some nice change as well.  gold rush = over.

5) Affiliate Marketing: It is the futre, I have seen Atlantis and her bosom is plentiful.  If you are still trying to make a living off of adsense I suggest you stop now and read everything you can on affiliate marketing, because I have spending endless nights trying to learn everything I possibly can about it.

No more excuses, I’m back and I am going to try to make this a resourceful site once again.

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