Archive for January, 2008

Thursday Thirteen – 13 things I could have cooked for dinner but didn’t!!

Thirteen things I could have cooked for dinner but didn’t!In no particular order… Roast Duck with a red wine sauce Shrimp Alfredo BBQ Chicken Prime Rib, Baked Potato, Green Beans and a Salad Lasagana Chicken Dumplings Chicken Pot Pie Poptarts Pancakes (or waffles) Pan seared chicken and cuscus Roasted Pepper Rotini with Chicken Ramen Noodles [...]

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ASMW Keep on Keepin on!

Amie St. Music Wednesday Ok, here’s this week’s ASMW post. Its the North Mississippi Allstars cause its been a bluesie kind of month….. Amie St. Music Wednesday Why Amie St. Wednesday? Music is in everyones lives. It surrounds us even when we don.t it. This is a way to discover new artist, and share the [...]

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Boo Got Shot

Neal Boortz, one of the local talk hosts here in the ATL played this interview a while ago on the radio. Its a good example of why they should not ever interview people…. Boo Got Shot – Animation – video powered by Metacafe  

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Pick a Niche

A week or two (maybe three?) I wrote a Thursday 13 post in which I mentioned finding a niche as a good way to helping your blog find success. I received several comments in response claiming that having fun blogging makes it hard to stay in one particular niche and even just this week, Chica [...]

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Feeling Blue

Perhaps it was the weather or maybe it was because 2008 is already so far underway. Maybe it was the fact that I spent my Monday last week as though I were an Au Pair for a pair of terrors I like to call the munchkins… either way, it appears my gloom and doom funk [...]

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You Say

I was in high school when this song came out on the radio and I absolutely fell in love with it and the songstress responsible for bringing such a wonderful sound to the airwaves. This week, Lisa Loeb released the Purple Tapes on amiestreet and fans of hers could not be happier. It comes as [...]

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Lacking Motivation

Ever have one of those weeks where everything you do seems like a chore? I happen to be stuck in the middle of one such week, and I *gasp* don’t feel like blogging. I know its terrible isn’t it? I’ve been busy converting one of my other sites (http://linuxtracker.org) to a new software backend and [...]

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Field Devided

So in yet two more primaries (well, a primary and a really messed up caucus system) the GOP has yet to deem someone worthy of being a front runner. McCain took South Carolina, while romney took Nevada and it appears Mike stayed in third place in both states…. Who’s it going to be?? Don’t expect [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-19

Its snowing in Atlanta!! # Powered by Twitter Tools.  

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Cruise Control?

Some one’s off his rocker and needs to be put away before he does the people around him (namely Katie Holmes) any harm. Well known Scientology FREAK Tom Cruise is the recent target of several videos that have been circulating around the net about his scientology views. From watching the video that Gawker has its [...]

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How about the weather??

The littlest bit of winter weather and all hell breaks loose in the state of Georgia. Its amazing really. The Metro area was slated to get a wintry mix Wednesday night/Thursday morning and we did indeed. However, the snow had stopped by the time I went to bed Wednesday night and was almost all gone [...]

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Thursday Thirteen – 13 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid

Thirteen Blogging Mistakes to AvoidIn no particular order… Using a popular theme – Yes. Its extremely easy to use a theme that is widely available and very popular. Maybe you like the colors but so do 100 other bloggers and the problem occurs that all the blogs start to look the same after a while. [...]

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Win an Apple!

No. Not the little red delicious (though i prefer the Mt. Fuji apples) kind. Nor will you be wining the new $3800 virtually flat apple laptop. What you can win though is a $25 iTunes giftcard good for downloading a variety of music, tv or movies right to whatever itunes enabled device you own. Did [...]

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Its going to be alright…

I’m usually not a big pop music fan (check out some of my past ASMW posts to figure that one out) but I cam across Marina on AmieStreet and not only is she hot (look at her photo!!) but her voice is haunting as well. Her newest release Modern Fairytale is a really cool mix [...]

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WTFBBQ??

I was stumbling around the net (as I tend to do when I’m not busy working, by which, I mean, almost constantly) and I happened across this photo. First of all, the caption is right. Be glad its leashed. It looks like the gothapotomus would rip the lid off a minicooper and devour whatever hapless [...]

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As the polls go

Next up in the race to be the next leader of the Not So Free World is Michigan. The polls opened in MI today to a somewhat limited Democratic side (the DNC is punishing MI for moving their primary by taking all of their delegates away) with only Clinton listed on the ballot there while [...]

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Your Help is Needed!!

One of my biggest pet peeves these days are poorly constructed blogs. I don’t mean theme/template wise (though thats a sore point too, there’s NO FSCKING reason to have Music autoplaying on ANY website in this day and age. We’re not back in 1996!!!), I mean content wise. Along with some other bloggers, I’m attempting [...]

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Cat and Mouse

The little G and I were watching tv recently (most likely when I should have been cleaning house…) and I stopped on a kids channel because for once, it had something I wanted to watch. Much to my amazement, Cartoon Network was showing an older Tom and Jerry “movie” and Grace was enthralled with it [...]

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You Only Thought they were yours…

Apparently, if you’re an Englishman, your internal organs are only on loan. PM Gordo Brown wants to ensure that once you kick it your organs are returned to their rightful owner, the State (by state, I mean the National Health System in GB (Great Britain, not Gordon Brown)). Thats right, Brown is backing a law [...]

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Thats so RANK!

With all the brouhaha over the google bitchslap that took place towards the end of 2007 (in case you didn’t know, google penalized sites who posted links with out nofollow for payment) something was bound to step up and take its place. The question is can a new comer survive in the shark eat shark [...]

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A winning pair!

I’ve found the pres/vp combo that I’d vote for in heartbeat if only it would happen in real life. Mike Huckabee (the GOP candidate who currently has my support) was on The Colbert Report again last night and he reaffirmed his plan to make Steven his VP if he gets the nomination. While I’m sure [...]

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Thursday Thirteen – 13 Ways to Blogging Success

Thirteen ways to blogging successIn no particular order… Find a Niche. Pick a subject (or a couple of subjects) and blog about those specifically. Don’t jump from Britney, to Politics, to Software reviews to auto racing on the same blog. Your posts would be everywhere and no one would be able to follow. If you [...]

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Five Fabulous Finds on EntreCard

When I hit 300 drops yesterday (which I repeated today!) I mentioned to gruntled that I had come across a ton of bad sites and a few good ones in my quest. He wanted to know which ones I liked, so I thought I’d let everyone know. Here are five of the better blogs I [...]

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ASMW – Nitty Gritty Dirt

Sometimes, its fun to play in the dirt. Other times, its just fun to listen. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band take the best of everything country and mash it all together in a really unique sound that will have anyone bopping their head to the music (listen to the harmonica!!). The guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica [...]

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The 300!

300 “drops” seems to be the magic number per day. I came across a post on the EntreCard forums mentioning that one of the users had hit the upper limit of 300. I was curious to know if there was in fact a limit (it seems a little silly to have a limit when you [...]

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And they’re off!!

12:01 am on January 8th, 2007, New Hampshire was the first state to hold an official Primary in the presidential season. Sure, Iowa had their caucuses last week, but come on, standing in a corner is hardly the way to pick the future president of the country is it? New Hampshire is generally the first [...]

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White and Trashy

Its official, the USA is a White Trash Nation! Thats right, that staple of early nineties TV is back on the air, proving that once again, we have a facination for watching our neighbors get the crap beat out of them. American Gladiators is back on the air, and unfortunately, it was in the works [...]

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Abandon Ship??

It appears that several of the bigger players are abandoning ship in hopes that they aren’t dragged down with it. The promises made by BlogRush head John Reese have failed to materialize as more and more bloggers pull the widget from their sites in an effort to rid the web of such bloaty scripts. I [...]

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Its War!!

One of the perks of the internet is the endless ways to kill time while putting off the things that should have already been done. If I’m not busy stumbling around the net, I’m watching youtube videos, playing desktop towerdefense or catching up on the blogs I usually read. Well, that was until I added [...]

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What a night!!

So the caucuses were good for some and not so good for others. On the side of the donkey we have two senators (dodd and biden) dropping out of the race as Obama edges past Edwards and Clinton for the Iowa delegates. Whats surprising is that Edwards beat out Hillary Clinton for second. The talking [...]

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Whats all the Caucus about?

They don’t send out kids party invitations to people in either party reminding them about the Caucuses on January 3rd, people just know about them. If you’ve turned on a radio, tv or picked up a paper today then chances are fairly good you know about them as well. The opening of the political voting [...]

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