I’ve been playing around with Firefox 2 and so far I’m loving it compared to IE7. I know there’s been alot of talk on other Blogs about this issue but seeing for yourself - you start wondering what the hell some people are really talking about?
I can’t remember who it was or what Blog it was but I swear someone claimed IE7 was much better… interesting take. My take is this:
IE7 Blows.
I remember a few years ago when I was still using Dial up (AOL) Internet and I always thought to myself: “If I just had a faster connection I could get things done SOOOO much quicker!”. Ha!
So it’s several years later (3 or so) and now I find myself getting less and less done online and spending more time reading blogs, etc. I’m always browsing on Forums, Blogs, SNS’s, etc. like I have nothing to do - when in fact, I do!
Is it just me or do you have this problem too?
I found a cool new Search Engine today called: www.Surchin.com and so far it’s awesome. I like how it shows results for the searches. Give it a shot - it’s well worth the 2 minutes to do so (if that)!
Cal Evans recently interviewed George Schlossnagle and you can read the interview at Zend.com: http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/799
It’s a great read. I’m still amazed at how OmniIT has all those guys working at the same place!
I’ve just hopped on 3 new projects… I’m not sure why I’ve done this as my Health problems may slow me down later, if the doctors find anything. All three projects are pretty damn big too! One is an Automobile Website…actually a Portal full of Auto Info. Another site is for ..I can’t say….but this one will be the biggest of the three. I’m actually excited about this one as I know it will turn out pretty successful on a nationwide level. Then there’s another one that’s like an entertainment type portal. It might come out pretty successful but not huge, if you ask me. It will be kind of different from the others though. I have alot of ideas for this one to make it a little different from other sites that I’ve looked at over the past few days.
All will incorporate PHP, MySQL (I may try oracle for ONE!), AJAX and more web 2.0 designs for them.
Who owns these? Oh, that would be me. 
I’m just trying to get more sites under my belt now… right now I have about 100 Domains but only about 20 that are built out now. I may start selling some of the other domains later, I guess I’ll see what happens.
I’ve been thinking about Black Hat Hackers (crackers) and the things they’re capable of and even my own experiences with “crackers”. In California alot of cities have adopted a law called “Street Terrorism” which usually means “there may not be two or more members of a certain Gang that can walk the streets together”. This law was passed in Los Angeles and Long Beach during the 1990’s for 18th Street and seemed to work, for the most part. Atleast in those cities eyes… they ended up arresting a ton of 18th Street Members, whether they were up to no good or not.
So, why wouldn’t there be some sort of Online Terrorist law? A Law that could be enforced in any country at any time if known crackers communicate with each other? Wouldn’t this help enforce other laws a little easier? I’m sure some countries wouldn’t adopt the law but I’m sure adding to broken laws could push an “anti-crackers” movement throughout the Webmaster Community.
Sure, there’s some “good crackers” but I’m still not sure what’s good about them? I think everybody that can develop on the web has pushed the envelope at one time or another - but those who constantly push the law should get more than what they are currently getting.
Don’t get me wrong… there’s a ton of great “Hackers” out there along with great stories (Kevin Mitnick for example) but there are some who are just a little too close to the borderline of “bad”. Bad being: Those who “let you know a certain directory has its Permissions set too high” or even letting you know that “Hey, check out your site…you weren’t filtering SQL data good enough”, bad.
I think Governments should push “Online Terrorism” as a law and see how it goes. Maybe I’m missing something - maybe there already is such a law I’ve yet to hear about? Either way - they should make it more obvious if there is such a law and more Governments should enforce this law. I’m tired of seeing Companies, especially SMALL companies, invest all that time and energy into their Business only to have to worry about the “online thugs” come in and destroy their hard work.
For a while Google seemed to be at the top of the net and then came MySpace… Google even has their own Social Networking Community called Orkut.com which sucks since you have to be invited (who was the moron who came up with that?). But apparently Google has teamed up with MySpace for a Search and Ad Campaign worth … hold the phone… $900 MILLION DOLLARS!!! Yes, $900 Million Dollars. Of course that’s over 3 years but DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMNNNNNNNNN News Corp. got their moneys worth for the $549 Million they purchased MySpace for!
I could use $900 Million Dollars.
So I’ve been ripping my hair out over the past few weeks working on all my sites. My main site has been a problem since having to move back to the other server but DAMN it’s finally getting fun again!
We’ve got the NEW artist accounts coming where Artists can create albums (even enter the SKU!), upload songs to those Albums and SELL each song at a price they choose. After they recieve $25.00+ in their account - they get a check in the mail within a week! We’ll even be promoting bands in the new Music section which will be completely rebuilt.
Ahhhhhhhhhh I can’t wait! I’m sure Artists will love the end result!
So next I will have to figure out “what’s next”. I know what I want to do but will I get the time to do it? Let’s hope so!
I have a new project on the horizon too… so hopefully things go well with WUB!
It’s funny… I’ve used some of these as my own arguments, prior to even seeing this list. I love this list because it makes those close-minded people who used to talk their crap about getting a job seem so contradictive. Life isn’t about worrying about someone elses money… Steve Pavlina says it perfectly in his blog post.
You can read his post below:
Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”
She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!”
Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”
It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! Anything but that!”
It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.
Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:
1. Income for dummies.
Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.
Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?
Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?
Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?
Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.
Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.
This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me, and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.
Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.
Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.
2. Limited experience.
You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.
The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?
Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?
3. Lifelong domestication.
Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.
Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?
How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?
Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?
Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…
4. Too many mouths to feed.
Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.
Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?
You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.
What a generous person you are!
5. Way too risky.
Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.
Morons.
Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.
Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (”You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.
6. Having an evil bovine master.
When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”
Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.
So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.
Who’s your daddy?
7. Begging for money.
When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?
Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?
If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”
8. An inbred social life.
Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.
If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!
9. Loss of freedom.
It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.
As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.
God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!
Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”
10. Becoming a coward.
Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.
When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.
I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!
Still want a job?
If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.
If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.
Happily jobless
What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.
And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value. So even your mistakes can be monetized.
Here are some free resources to help you get started:
One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. Maybe being an employee and getting paid by the hour is the best you can do. Maybe you just aren’t worth that much. That line of thinking is all just part of your conditioning. It’s absolute nonsense. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.
All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of lies as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fulfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway.
The next time someone says to you, “Get a job,” I suggest you reply as Curly did: ”No, please… not that! Anything but that!” Then poke him right in the eyes.
You already know deep down that getting a job isn’t what you want. So don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise. Learn to trust your inner wisdom, even if the whole world says you’re wrong and foolish for doing so. Years from now you’ll look back and realize it was one of the best decisions you ever made.
Check out Steve Pavlina’s Blog here
So I’ve been thinking of what I want to do with one of my sites. I spent along time developing the site but lately I just find myself involved in too many other promising projects to work on this site any longer. It had a good, short, run but now it’s just become a pain in the @ss. I’m constantly fixing problems on the site and don’t even have time to ADD things to the site. I’ve recently got a few good offers on it but nothing that I would go for, to be honest. The offers are a little too low for me. 
I don’t even know what to expect out of it as far as price goes. I definately wouldn’t go less than $50k at this point as it has way too much potential, for someone who has time to further develop the site. There’s alot of money to be made with it but I just haven’t had the time to conenctrate on that matter lately.
I guess we’ll see what happens…
I’ve got the famous YouTube Clone available for $100 if anyone is interested You can contact me at mrlenard (4t) gmail.com if you’re interested! You can purchase this script for $250-$300 through ScriptLance.
You can see a demo at:
So I was reading an article right now on Sitepoint.com about how GoDaddy is supposedly taking Domain Names of “Spammers”. According to this “CheeseDude”, GoDaddy will take any domain away from the owner if they’re caught “spamming” in any way. Now of course this would be fine if Spamming was actual spam…and not emailing their Lists — but according to Cheesedude - GoDaddy is considering any email to another Domain Owner as “spam”.
Interesting read… I guess there’s links proving it but I don’t have enough time to go over it completely right now. Luckily…wait…no…UNFORTUNATELY my domains are with 1and1 and I can say that they’re the absolute worst company to deal with if you have problems! Unless, of course, you enjoy speaking to people who do not understand a word you say and vice versa?
So I was playing around on Google, Yahoo and MSN (Big three Search Engines) and I was searching for “clenard”, which is my username on so many forums such as Sitepoint.com, PHPFox.com, Dallasphp.org, phpbuilder, etc, etc. and I noticed that was actually someone’s last name. I wonder if they pronounce it the same way I do? Odd. I was baffled by how Google hates me so much! It seems every site I own gets knocked to the d@mn sandbox on Google lately. Could this be to Google switching their algorithm recently? Yahoo and MSN picks up all my sites fine, so it seems.
I was a big Google fan for a while but lately with them trying to take away my adsense account and then immediately kicking my site to the sandbox because of THEIR mistake (which they still have not fixed!!!), “kinda” pissed me off.
Oh well, Googles come and Googles go.
Those two seem to be the only things I’ve got in my life, currently. It sucks because all those years I played around and had all those friends around, chicks, etc… they’re so far gone. My life has taken a 180 degree turn and I can’t seem to add a few things from the past into my future — I believe I’m too busy to accomplish these tasks.
Lately I’ve been working on several projects, 3 of my own, and I can’t seem to stop stressing out about them. Sure, the money will be good in the long run but what about the rest of my life? I need to take a step back and start meeting new girls…lol
I just can’t believe I’ve been single for as long as I have been, it’s rediculous. The only reason I have been is because I just haven’t been interested in meeting girls. I get looks all the time… I even have girls flirting — but I never really pay attention because I feel that I let almost a year and a half go by and ended up not accomplishing even 5% of a MAJOR project that I was involved in… once again I worked day and night only to see the other “partner” F$#k around and waste my time. Not anymore though… I’ve taken it upon myself and I’ve kicked so called partners and friends to the curb for now.
I do wish I had someone who was realistic and inspirational around to help with some of these projects but I just can’t trust anyone anymore. There’s WAY too many “wishy washy” people in this world and I don’t even want to look their way, much less have to work with them.
Hopefully by this weekend I will have a TON of work done and a major load lifted off my shoulders… and hopefully a girl who can rub them for me afterwards? lol jk
All my life I’ve had p#ssies talk shit and run to friends. All my “friends” knew this too… as a matter of fact though — one of my old “friends” is doing it to me. See… I’ve put this guy on blast on one of my sites because he decided to try and screw over all of the members on there by shutting down the site because he didn’t get his way. That’s B#LLSH!T and I didn’t let it happen in the end. But now it’s amazing to see that this guy is so paranoid of me that he chooses to get some little punk twerp of a kid to talk sh!t online.
I guess what the kid doesn’t realize is: I would slap his ass all the way to L.A. County in real life if he was to come at me like that.
This guy needs to man up and stop putting innocent people in the crossfire and deal with his own problems. He’s constantly looking for ways to screw people over… such as the time he got mad at one of his friends and was going to rat out that dudes sister for growing “pot” in her house. Nobody likes a rat… and luckily he was talked out of it. That’s a disgrace though! He was cool with her but hated her brother and decided he would get at her brother by ratting his OWN FRIEND OUT!
What a deusche bag! Grow up guy!
Gregory Szorc wrote a Blog titled “5 things you probably didn’t know about PHP“. I gotta say.. at first I thought “yeah… right… just another guy trying to get his blog read by some n00bs.
Actually, my first impression was way off. I went through the blog and found out… “hey… there’s 2 things I didn’t know about PHP!”. LOL After all these years learning the language, you still learn more about the language. Then again, if you knew everything — where would the fun be???
So Gregory’s Blog came in pretty handy. The whole “require” function being faster than the “require_once’ function was impressive. I honestly did not know that! Thanks for the Blog Gregory!
Not bad I guess? I haven’t submitted this site to any Engines yet… I’ve always seen better, quicker results by not submitting to Search Engines and letting them find you, in my experience. I’ve yet to see a site get picked up so quickly though!
Technorati picked me up too… that’s odd. I never really paid much attention to that site but I guess I should see what its all about, huh?
I’ve got so much to write about each day but not much time. I gotta say though: It feels good to Blog about stuff when you feel like there’s not anybody to talk to at the time. Life has been boring and I guess writing about being bored makes it a little less boring or something? lol
