STOP GET BACK TO WORK. Apparently that’s what this company is trying to do. Fire the employee and then sue him for lost profits. Let’s get real people. Seriously. Well a company fired this guy and now is demanding his $90,000 salary back, and $210,000 in LOST profits. Did I mention he was using his iPod at work? I think comes again under the whole f#$% Apple thing. This didn’t happen in the 90’s with workings playing solitaire, why is it happening now?!

Speaking of solitaire I was at the Mercedes Benz dealer in Fife, WA a few weeks back and two salesmen had solitaire open on their computers. Don’t they know that is so 90’s. Let’s get unto date with some blog site or something.

Read the source of this rant here.

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I will go down on u and make u extremely happy.

But only long enough til u think its gonna get better,

then i’ll come back up and f*** u.

sincerely, gas prices.

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People are retarded. “I love my iPod”… One little thing happens and then they are like “FUCK Apple. These suck.” When the problems they’ve had with any other brand motherboard have been 10x worse they get pissed at Apple for one little thing. Grr… Ok I’m done ranting.

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Nothing makes my day more than having a class cancelled. But I go strait to work after class. Hmm I guess I do enjoy my job.

..and UPS is here.

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After reading Reality Check 2.0 a few weeks back. The article got me thinking hard about Web 2.0 and why Web 1.0 sites are still on top. Well here is my theory.

On Alexa traffic graphics when a site launches you see a huge spike in traffic that dies off for the most part. Well after doing some checking I think that the big spike is either the Digg or Slashdot Effect.

If you look at the two traffic graphs below from Alexa you can see the top on is my site and the bottom on is BASEMENT.ORG (The writers of Reality Check 2.0). In analyzing the two graphs, mine shows when I got Slashdotted during the first week of April, I got the huge traffic spike and now it’s died down. Sure I get a ton more traffic than I used to get but the pattern is like many other hyped Web 2.0 sites. Look at the BASEMENT.ORG graph and you see the same thing happened to them from getting Dugg on March 29 for RC2.0.

I don’t feel that Web 2.0 is having a rocky time. Sure there is way too much hype about Ajax and such, but I think the main problem with Web 2.0 related sites is they get created. Then they get posted on Digg and then get dugg. After a week or two the traffic dies down and everyone goes on to the next nifty creation. It appears that not many people outside of the Slashdot/Digg geeks get exposed to these sites. Recently I’ve been working on my S14 Silvia Drift car and I’ve been all over the countryside picking up parts and such. I was shocked with the amount of people that use Google Maps. None! Everyone says “MapQuest.” Look at Flickr…do you hear people talking about that site outside of the Digg/Slashdot/Web2.0/Blog Community? I don’t. Everyone uses photobucket.

Now of course there are sites that do well. Look at Alex King’s FeedLounge. That site has done great! But in looking at the Alexa graph above for 30 Boxes you can tell when they opened (and got dugg), and what happened in the following weeks.

I guess what I am saying in a huge roundabout way is that Web 2.0 doesn’t have a problem. There are some quality applications that aren’t just full of fluff, but the true problem is exposure. How to get the sites out to the everyday user, not just the power g33k that opened up Digg on Monday morning to see the latest and greatest.

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Many startup companies fail. Ever wondered why? Read this. There are a few links inside that article are must reads.

And another awesome read.

If the sky is falling, you need to understand What To Do When You’re Screwed.

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Well today was a car hunting expedition with my father. He currently has a 2004 Volvo XC-90 SUV and is looking to get something else. We started off the day at the BMW dealer. What assholes. They didn’t even come outside. When they let us take the X5 on a test drive they wouldn’t let us take it on a couple roads we know to see how it compares to the Volvo. I was not impressed. Next we turned to the Mercedes dealer right next door. Talk about a class act. They impressed the hell out of me, but so did the Mercedes McLaren SLR they had in the show room, nothing like looking at about a $450,000 car. Mercedes has a brand new SUV that they are coming out with, the GL-450, that car impressed the shit out of me. It takes a lot to impress me with a car but this one sure did it. The salesman took us on some awesome roads to test drive the car. Up and down the freeway and was extremely helpful. Just go to the site to read up on it, in fact it’s so new they didn’t even have information on the car they just had one car there as a demo. I don’t even want to go into how great it was because I can’t think of a way to describe it right now. Just go read up on it and it will impress you. Another thing that impressed me at the Mercedes dealership was how friendly and helpful they were. BMW can shove it. Well once we got the stuff for my dad taken car of, we needed to go look at a Porsche 911 for me. Well not really but I have always loved Porsche’s so I had to go look at one. So we decided to test drive a soft top and then a hard top 911. Now that was fun. They got right up to 100 and back in no time. It was great fun. We found a nice “S” curve that we played in for a bet then decided we should go somewhere else before the cops show up. After driving the 911 now I really want to get my car done so I can go play. Even though the 911 has 325hp, it was damn near as fun as the Ford Mustang Cobra I rode in Friday night that has 450whp. Nothing really compares to burning through 3 gears, rolling burn offs at 70+ mph, taking it up to 130 to pass some cars. I guess I get involved in a lot of stupid shit on the weekends, but that’s life, life goes on. Well that’s the weekend, so far.

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Can someone invent this so I never have to sleep? Then I could get caught up without totally biffing my sleeping pattern?

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Well the mighty Firefox Guide has been updated.

Here is a list of the changes for today (April 19th):
Added: Tab Mix Plus ResizeSearchBox, SearchPluginHacks, LinkChecker, and FoxyTunes.
Removed: Tabbrowser Preferences , and Duplicate Tab. Added Search Engines Category.
Updated: Keyboard Shortcuts.

Go check it out!!

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I just have to say whoever thought of the idea that Jack in the Box would stay open all night, I thank you!

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Well I’ve been home from Chicago sense last Wednesday. I have to say I do miss that town. People in Chicago were so friendly, it was quite nice. The Museaum of Science and Industry I thought was good, but in all honestly I was disappointed in some areas. As a kid I did model trains, and I have always loved everything about trains. When I saw they had a train exhibit I was all pumped, The Great Train Story, it was not what I was hoping for. It was a huge model train layout showing trains going for Chicago to Seattle. That was cool, but I was hoping for more. The Coal Mine was also very disappointing. Maybe I just have high standards or my childhood was more hands on than many kids. Now the Toy Maker 3000, that impressed me. It might be the fact that machines have always amazed me, and that my father had a machine shop when I was little, and my brother is going to school to become a mechanical engineer. Basically the core of the exhibit is an assembly line that makes toy tops. For five dollars you can have a top custom made for you in front of you very eyes, I got one for my brother because he enjoys cool things like that. It was very cool watching the machines make all the small motions very accurately and quickly, and an exhibit that I could watch for hours.

I never did get a chance to go up to the observatory on the Hancock Tower or the Sears Tower. Hopefully in October if I do go downtown I will be able to do that. But I did get a few pictures of the town off the might camera phone.

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I’m home from Chicago. Long day, very tired. Going to sleep. Lots of updates and info this week, so stay tuned.

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I’ve been to quite a few towns the past couple of years, and I have to say after being in downtown Chicago for a few days it’s quite pleasant. Last few years I’ve been to San Francisco, Orlando, New Orleans, and San Diego, and something about downtown Chicago just goes with me. Walking to Michigan Avenue, or under the L it just so nice. People here are also extremely nice, if you are having a problem finding someplace asking people on the street is not an issue at all like many big cities.

Well I am here till Wednesday morning. Today was full of business meetings that were very productive. The next few months at work will be very exiting. Tomorrow we are going to the Museum of Science and Industry, and then I have no clue what else we are going to do. I never got a chance to go up in the Hancock Tower, or the Sears Tower, part of me is sad but then again I’ll be back here in October so hopefully I’ll get time then, if I don’t venture out this way before.

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Well Sunday morning at about 11 we got Slashdotted. After taking the server to a crawl most of the day the server finally had enough. I rebooted the server this morning and later on this afternoon traffic subsided to a level the server could keep up with. I want to thank everyone for their great comments on my Firefox Guide. And I hope everyone had a great weekend!

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