Stark Museum of Art
May 17, 2008 Basement 3 Comments
The Stark Museum of Art, unlike most art galleries or museums, focus on art pieces and artifacts of Western America. For someone like me who has only been on the east coast, this museum will give a lot of insight on how the west coast was like in the past 2 centuries. From playing Oregon Trail, I know that way back then, the west was still a place yet to be explored and cultivated. It was full of adventures and journeys. The museum features a collection of art portraying just that. They also have a collection focusing on the art of Native Americans and displays their clothings, beadwork, ornaments, and much more. Last but not least, the Stark Museum of Art features collections of decorative arts and rare books. This unique attraction is like a museum and art gallery combined. I’ve personally always found art galleries to be a tad boring, but I love looking at artifacts, so by having a museum that focuses primarily on the arts, you get the best of both worlds. This museum also supports the Stark Foundation, whose mission is to improve the quality of life in Southeastern Texas by promoting health care, education, and other services. By visiting the museum and participating in its programs, you can help contribute to the foundation! So if you ever get a chance to visit Orange, Texas, don’t forget to stop by at the Stark Museum of Art!
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200
May 17, 2008 Rants, Stupid People, WWW Leave a comment
In order to refer more people to sign up for Revolution Money Exchange and get s free $25, I posted the offer at the Smorty Forum. Since referral links weren’t allowed, I told the members to leave me their emails so I could send them the invitation link. I could’ve just left the url to the site, but why not make some extra cash while I’m at it. I’m so greedy, but with $10 for every person you refer, I wasn’t about to pass it up.
Now most people got the message and left their emails, but there just seems to be idiots everywhere, especially when it comes to making quick cash. I’m not saying there’s necessarily something wrong with their IQ, but they are either illiterate or lacking common sense:
- They ask me to PM them. What for? Just so I can ask you again to leave your email? I thought I made that clear already I’d need it, but it doesn’t hurt to explain it again.
- They still ask me to PM them. This is when I’m starting to wonder if they are truly stupid or if they just don’t bother reading. I’m now annoyed and can’t believe that I’m repeating myself again.
- Even when I make a post saying that the $25 promotion has ended,some fools still post their emails, and one fool even asks me to pm them.
- Some people don’t even bother posting a reply. They just pm me and asks me to pm them the details. The only thing I pm-ed was pms. Those lazy fools.
- This idiot doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. I highly suspect he’s talking just for the sake of talking. Or he had an idea but then it ran away while laughing at his lack of intelligence.
- Some dimwit even had the nerve to tell me to leave her a message on his site. Har har, nice try. I was tempted to say something mean, but it turned out to be some 13 year-old girl. Which brings me to my next point…
I have nothing against elementary and middle school kids blogging and doing whatever they may be doing on the internet. I’ve been there, done that, looked like an idiot, but I’ve learned a lot and come a long way. But as much as an fool I’ve been, at least I refrained my stupidity to just on my blog and other silly 13-year old online friends. If I was posting in a forum with older people, at least I knew to control my giggling and other childish behaviors.
I could go on about this all day, but the point I’m trying to get across is that as free and uncensored as the internet is, please put away your childishness when you’re in a forum consisting of members from all age ranges. Do not assume that everyone will appreciate your “OMGZKAWAII” and think “OMGZ she’s so KAWAII”, do not pass go, and do not collect $200. I actually had to purge a former message board of mine because members were butchering the Japanese language in the most distasteful way and adding “NYA” or “KYA” to the end of every sentence while screaming things like “SUGOI DESU!”. People should be jailed for this, seriously.
On a lighter note, I’m still looking for affiliates and link exchanges Please contact me if interested! Thanks.
Giving Your Visitors Link Juice - Remove Nofollow
May 16, 2008 Blogging, Tips & Tricks 7 Comments
Just last week I wrote a post on adding nofollow to all outgoing links, or at the very least, paid links. However, I’ve been thinking about it and I don’t find it fair to people who comment on my site. Hence I’ve added a plugin that removes nofollow from people who’ve commented more than 5 times, as Wordpress annoyingly incorporates nofollow in all comment links. It’s supposed to prevent spammers and sploggers, but in all honesty, Akismet does more than a good job doing that for me.
So what is nofollow? This is your regular link in html:<a href="http://www.ever-after.org">Ever After</a>
Now if you added nofollow, the link will now look like this:<a href="http://www.ever-after.org" rel="nofollow">Ever After</a>
By adding nofollow to your links, you’re telling the search engine spiders not to index the pages you linked to, hence the pagerank of the sites you linked to don’t increase. The name nofollow is misleading because the search engine spiders do follow/crawl the said link, it just doesn’t index them. Wikipedia has a nice chart showing how each search engine interprets nofollow. Dofollow, on the other hand, isn’t an attribute. Rather, it’s simply the absence of the nofollow attribute. Those “normal” links will be crawled and indexed by the search engines and affect one’s pagerank.
Speaking of pagerank, the pagerank for this site is now back to its original PR2, while Riyuu.org went from PR2 to PR3. I found the latter to be surprising because I haven’t updated the site in the longest time. Must be the fanlistings bringing in links :P
Like I mentioned earlier, Wordpress will automatically insert a nofollow attribute to all links in the comments of your blogs. As a matter of fact, it’s been doing so since version 1.5. So if you want to reward those commenting on your blogs loyally, there are many Wordpress plugins that will remove nofollow from links. Give your visitors some link juice and remove nofollow :D
Look of The Year
May 15, 2008 Blogging, Make Money, Stardom 6 Comments
In 2006, I attended IPOP New York and got discovered by my agency. It was a fun experience and living at the Marriot Marquis in Manhattan for free was absolute luxury. There is a similar event going on called Look of the Year. It’s a bit different from IPOP in that it focuses purely on modeling as opposed to acting/modeling/singing/dancing. So yes, it’s kind of like a beauty contest. All you need to do is submit your photos and you might get a chance to win $10,000 or land a contract with an agency. Are the chances big? I don’t know, but if you’ve always wanted to model, agencies are always looking for beautiful young girls to be a part of their roster. For more information, check out http://www.lookoftheyear.com
I signed up because I was curious and bored. Please vote for me! Thank you
A quick update on the site. I’ve added a Making Money Online section, which is just my old making money blog transfered over. I decided I didn’t like the idea of having an extra blog when I wasn’t even going to post that often. Speaking of which, I got paid a second time from Smorty, and from some private advertisers I wrote reviews for. If my calculations are correct, I will make $100+ by the end of this month simply by blogging. Will update with a more in depth entry soon.
P.S. My philosophy 140 exam was ass. This is the 4th time I’ve had to talk about euthanasia. Please don’t bring up the subject, because I might have to kill someone if I heard the topic again.
Make Entrecard and Sociable Valid
May 14, 2008 Tutorials, WWW Leave a comment
I don’t know when it became a habit for me, but I like to make sure my xhtml and css are valid at all times. You can often find Valid XHTML and Valid CSS links across my newer designs (ex: Pieces of Love), and of course, here at this site. As I was validating my site today (instead of studying), I noticed two things that were giving my site errors, and I’ve found ways to correct both of them, so I thought I’d share with you here.
Entrecard is the image link you see on the side bar (conveniently under the heading “entrecard”). The code I used to generate the image was provided by another site, but after checking my site for valid XHTML, I realized that there was a problem with the code. This is the original code: <script src="http://entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com/widget.js?user_id=12580&type=standard_127" type="text/javascript" id="ecard_widget"></script>
The problem likes with the & symbol. Instead, replace that with &, so you get the following code instead:<script src="http://entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com/widget.js?user_id=12580&type=standard_127" type="text/javascript" id="ecard_widget"></script>
The second thing that was causing trouble was the Sociable (a Wordpress plugin) CSS. The opacity elements were generating errors when I tried to validate my css because they were either browser specific (-moz-opacity) or haven’t been approved as standard css yet. There is a way to use javascript to get around it, but it doesn’t solve the issue of changing opacity on hover. So my solution? Remove the opacity elements altogether, hence why the sociable icons are not semi-transparent.
But is it really necessary to always have valid XHTML and CSS? Some argue yes, some argue no. Read more here:
Valid HTML/XHTML Trend
Validation Alone Isn’t Enough
Tags: entrecard, sociable plugin, valid css, valid xhtml
