As befits somebody of my status (don’t laugh) I was off jet setting around the world once again last month. OK, maybe I lied a bit, but we did take a weeks break in Benidorm Spain. On top of that I came home to the best weather we’ve had all summer so it was time for some serious boat fishing action, all in all it’s been a very “busy” couple of weeks. I’m glad I don’t have a normal job slaving away for the man.
I noticed that a reader of John Chow reported getting a virus alert for Kanius.net a couple of days ago, funny that I didn’t see anything wrong when I checked.
Then today I’ve been using the family PC, surfed to JohnChow.com and got the same alert:-
A search on Google for “kanius.net malware” reveals a Warrior Forum message that has been deleted.
Is anybody else getting an alert from John Chow’s site? Something doesn’t seem quite right with this?
I like to give myself at least one really good challenge each year. Last year it was to cover over 310km on various pieces of gym equipment in 1 month. This year I wanted to walk to Peel in the Parish walk. Right now as I type this I’m sat at home whilst the other 1700 or so people are out pounding pavements. I’m gutted, I have never failed on one of my personal challenges but this just wasn’t to be.
I have a real post in the offing (honestly) but I want to get this of my chest.
What the hell is it about bloggers that makes them think they know everything about everything? There is definitely a relationship between blogging, making money online and a persons inability to take advice.
I have a friend that uses WordPress as a CMS for their property business. The site is all up an drunning fine but they want some changes to the listing page template, normally I’d try and help but I’m so flat out with other stuff at the moment that I really don’t have the time.
Would anybody like to recommend somebody to me to do the work for them? It really is quite basic stuff, I’d imagine only simple changes to the WordPress template and perhaps some basic database changes.
If you’ve got anybody you’ve used and would recommend then please get in touch.
It’s going to be very quite around here for a while, my 2010 just gets better and better. Here’s the short version of the latest episode.
1. Bought a boat
2. Boat snapped mooring* and hit other boat during change of ownership process
3. Massive financial shit storm
*I’m still not 100% happy about how this is supposed to have happened.
I’m going through one of those times where everything I touch turns to shit at the moment. When you work for somebody else you can “manage” it. When you work for yourself it’s not quite so easy, the more time I spend sorting stuff out the less time I’m earning money to pay to have stuff sorted out. Catch 22, I’ll be signing out for the time being.
Normal sporadic blogging will resume ASAP.
Every single time you post something online you are opening yourself up for criticism, it’s the nature of the beast. Sometimes people visit blogs that they see as not being “big” and feel that it gives them a free reign to comment whatever they like. It will slip under the radar and they feel better for just getting a random rant of their chest.
The trouble with doing that is just occasionally the obscure backwater blog you are writing on has been setup correctly. Your comment could be included on a page that has been indexed within minutes and has found itself spread far and wide across the internet being picked up for all sorts of search phrases. Just as a matter of fact this could in turn result in the post coming to the attention of the person/product/service that the blogger was writing about via any number of channels.
The end result of this if you’re not careful is a Grade A shit storm to deal with.
Just saying like….
I’ve been trying to use Google Docs for the last couple of weeks, I’m finding myself writing articles on all sorts of devices and instead of using the network I liked the idea of having a “go anywhere” article store. The first few 300-400 word pieces I did were fine. Since then it has just gotten slower and slower. How slow is Google Docs, you ask? Well whilst I’m typing away the cursor is running at least a minute behind what I type. Not only that but if you open your resource monitor you’ll notice a massive resource usage. Firefox + Google Docs consumes a HUGE 360 megabytes of memory and consumes over 50% of the processor, even when sat idle. That’s enough memory and processor usage to have every application of MS Office open at once!