Hacking Uncle Ricky » Blogging – Impressions

To click or Not to click?

Senior_Ricky — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:05:23 +0000

Still just muddling along but in my research so far I must admit that I am getting a almost paranoid feeing about opt in boxes and all those other little forms/landing pages. I have always watched software and their insidious little checked boxes to add me to their mailing list for new product offers but am now seeing how many places out there that have the little sign up boxes and are collecting email addresses just flips me out!
Hey! I don’t mind giving out my email address if I want someone to send me something but how do we tell the good lads from the bad? “You can always opt out!”, I hear them screaming in the back of my mind. Yes! There’s that but when about half of them just gets you put on some other ass holes list or just reconfirms your email address what’s a boy to do. Is it only me or is there really a bunch of people out there trying to get me? Oh well, just another fleeting thought. These too shall pass.

Money & Blogging

Senior_Ricky — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:01:43 +0000

It’s out there! We’ve all seen it and from what I can tell there are a lot of people making money off of their blogs. At least I would assume so otherwise why all the little funny {and somewhat annoying} highlighted word and adds. I have up until now imaged that If I wanted to make money with this blog that I needed some kind of product or service that I could offer.

Damn Sam! I’ve already got a couple or three full time jobs, when would I have time to put together a product and/or a service. I’m not rich {am kind of pretty but that may just be Mom’s brain washing} famous, a genus and don’t have a powerful position so whats a poor boy to do? I do have a mind just bubbling over with random crap so for now that’s what will be my forte. I’m gonna just keep bubbling over. I’m not sure that anyone cares but hell, it tickles me almost to death just to be writing this stuff down and actually seeing it on this new electronic newspaper thing-a-ma-bob.

“Look Ma, top of the world!”

It did occur to me that I could move other peoples’ stuff. That might be a alley that I could go down and creepy crawl the dumpsters. The one main problem there is I’m too damn picky about what I would tell people to check out. Nothing pisses me off worse that finding out that I’ve been chumped by some slicker! I’m just like anybody else. I don’t mind spending my money but at the end of the day I like to look back and say “I might not have needed to spend the money but in some weird way it was worth it”. Of course that just adds another layer to my already busy days. Not only do I have to find stuff but I also have to evaluate it to see if I would waste my hard earned cash on it.

First Impressions of Blogging

Senior_Ricky — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:54:15 +0000

Hummm! As I walk around in the world of blogging I see a bunch of stuff about making money with a blog. OK! Making money is always a good idea but for me, with this blog? I’d have to say that the jury is still out on that! I see a bunch of stuff about Squeeze Pages and how to pick a niche for the product or service that I want to sell. Well, what the F**k, cowboy. I don’t have anything I want to sell and my services are pretty well taken care of with my business web site. I did have a look at the Squeeze Page theme and my first impression was that it was Butt Ugly. Maybe that’s just me. I also tried to follow alone with some of their info about how, when and with which but some of their video is in a foreign format that I just barely found a program to play it with. It looks like it was made on a Mac. I don’t have one of those! It was in a weird file format, m4v and that was bounced off some file storage company. It seemed to pop up in a Adobe Flash Player. For the life of me I’ve never had much luck downloading anything that was in one of their windows. I know, you’re going to start spouting off about Video Download Helper. Been there, done that. I tried and I tried and I tried! After about 23 truncated copies on my desktop I pretty much blew that off. No big deal, I’ll keep looking. After all, it’s not like I have to do this for my living! If it was meant to work I’ll find a way. If not, I’ll just shine it on!