Upgraded WordPress, but for a reason!
So I wanted to upgrade WordPress so I could mess with rel=”author” stuff here as well as toss up the social button widget I built to see how it works for third-party sites. Seems to be working, so yeah… word.
Oh, if you want to try the social button widget thing out on your own site, feel free. They are super lightweight, and injected straight into the DOM so you can do things like control the look/feel with CSS/JavaScript.
I know Alexa data isn’t terribly accurate, but for sites under an Alexa rating of 500 *and* within the same market, it’s pretty accurate as far as relative traffic to sites you are comparing. That being said, how long do you think before they sell it or shut it down?
Their traffic is almost cut in half from a year ago (and still dropping)…
Hey look, my sister had a baby… I’m an uncle. 🙂
So I found myself wanting to override a few items in a sitewide CSS file, but only for a single page… Rather than make entire new CSS elements, I figured there had to be a way to override the CSS file with a <style> clause within the page itself…
Sure enough, I finally figured it out… !important…
[code=css]
[/code]
!important can go at the end of any style attribute and it will override anything that isn’t “important”.
/sbin/reboot -q
This is what happens when you piss off a customer who happens to be an engineer. 🙂
A random email I just got… 🙂
Oh my god!!! Someone’s wife found him looking at my blog. That marriage is over I guess. Sad… so sad.
Now I’m MySpace, Google *and* Visa…
Send me your gift card… I will buy stuff with it until I can’t buy anymore. I will then let you know how much I charged. That should be a pretty close number for you.
You know what’s kind of annoying? 10,000 drunk people in one place. 🙂
Going through emails today…
People think I’m Google *and* MySpace now. 🙂 Here’s a link for you… //www.myspace.com/… is that helpful?
Another email (in it’s entirety) I received today…
Well that’s neat. I am a person.
Another random email I just received…
I’m not Google dude. I didn’t take any money out of your credit card you opened your AdWords account with. Did you try contacting someone at Google by chance? If so, did they tell you to contact me for some reason? 🙂
So I called Cingular to double-check when my contract was up so I could switch my cell phone service to another carrier, and I spent about 30 minutes on the phone with this lady who couldn’t tell me anything about my account…
{trying random passwords until my account is locked and call customer service back and get a different guy}
Me: Hey man, I need to get my account unlocked because I’m trying to hack my account since I don’t know what the password is and I failed too many times.
Him: {looking at my account} Your password is the last 4 digits of your social security number. Probably someone entering your account into our system added it by accident. I’ll just take the password off your account.
Me: Sweet thanks. By the way, when does my contract expire?
Him: The 20th of this month.
Me: Thanks, bye.
The first person I talked to was funny to talk to, but could have saved a lot of time if I got the other guy first. 🙂
I received my first Christmas card this year… and it was from Google. It’s a digital photo frame… pretty cool if you ask me.
Comes with a mini USB cable, power cord, batteries, and an international power adapter. The international power adapter will really come in handy for some other stuff. 🙂
According to the instructions, it’s a 960×240 screen and supports JPG images, MP3, WMA or WAV audio files and AVI movies. It also has a SD card reader for extra memory.
Uhm, this is rather ballsy I must say…
Another random email I just received…
No idea who this guy is, but hoooorrraaayyyy!!!! Happy days are finally here!!!!
Hahaha… this is so funny… 🙂
Another random email I got…
That’s cool you are a sculptor… unfortunately you haven’t found fob, just fab. 🙂
I know this is just one of those stupid examples where a company (eBay in this case) buys every keyword in Google Adwords that they can come up with, but it’s still kind of funny… 🙂
You know how people reference decades? Like, “I like 80’s music.” or “The 60’s was great.”, etc… I’ve been wondering how people are going to reference this decade in the future… “That’s so 0’s.”??
I think it’s going to be naughts. Although now I’m wondering what the next decade is going to be, the teens?
This would be good for anyone that ever forgot their anniversary… 🙂
//www.alaskajewelry.com/remember-rings-never-forget-anniversary-p-2040.html
Here’s a marketing tip for everyone trying to sell something… be likable. I just had to buy a vacuum, and I ended up spending $500 (I can only assume it’s over-priced) on a new Dyson vacuum for the sole reason is that Dyson guy on the commercials seems like a nice guy. 🙂
Hopefully it works well too.
Today is a glorious event… It is the anniversary of the day that I was brought forth into this world to entertain you with my random musings.
September 1st, 1975 is when I was born. That means my parents were doing the naughty deed on New Years Eve.
More importantly, I have 2 friends in real life and both of them are too cheap to buy me a card (it’s really a sad life I lead to be honest). So what I want for my birthday is for people reading my blog to write “Happy Birthday Shawn” on something and take a picture of it with themselves and post it. Bonuses will be awarded if it’s a tattoo, if you are a hot girl or if you are a big fat dude.
Also, I will commit seppuku if I get none.
Okay not really, but I did get out of my home for the first time since Thursday today (because of my surgery). It was also the first day I was able to shave and take a shower.
It still hurts to do much beyond laying in bed/on couch though.
Don’t know what else to say about it… that’s it.
I forgot that my mom mentioned a few weeks ago that I have a Wikipedia entry (you know how parents are, always searching for this kids or something).
Obviously it was spawned from the Wired Magazine article, but it still would be interesting to know who started it.
This was the first time I ever went to a SES show and it was quite a bit bigger than I thought they were. Attendance was probably ~5,000 people or so. The really interesting thing though is all the parties… enough parties that you end up missing half the show because you are sleeping until noon every day. hah
The first day I was there (Monday), I attended 5 (yep, 5) “gatherings” (the Yahoo party -> Pepperjam party/sushi -> Ask.com party -> some bar after Ask.com’s party shut down -> Joe’s suite after the bars were shut down). Tuesday was the Google Dance (a pretty amazing event in itself) at the Googleplex.
I mostly just went to SES to meet people in person, and I did just that (the only industry person I’d ever met before this was Shoemoney). Anyway, I ended up meeting up with Jenstar, Barry Schwartz, Danny Sullivan, Shoemoney (again), Dax, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Ben Pfeiffer, Dave, Brett Tabke, Dave Naylor, Christoph, Alessandra, Pepperjam guys, Martin, Marcus (his metal business card ended up getting me searched at the airport), as well as lots of Google employees (Matt Cutts, Vanessa Fox, Adam Lasnik, etc.) Also, sorry for everyone I didn’t mention… there were just too many to mention everyone, I still love you though! 🙂 (one of the people I met in that list is a lie of course)
I was so tired after SES, that I got on the plane home and fell asleep before they even pushed off the gate, and didn’t wake up even for take off. I fell asleep when we were on the ground, and woke up about 2 minutes before landing. For some idiotic reason I’m still awake right now though.
I actually was born on an Indian reservation (which is true BTW), but that’s not the kind of Indian I’m talking about. Today I decided to try out being something other than an American. Today, I’m an Indian. I don’t speak Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati or any of the other dialects over in India, but whatever… I’ll dress like an Indian (it’s a start).
Okay, in truth there was a webmaster meet for Digital Point users in New Delhi, India on June 17th, 2006, and they sent me some traditional Indian pajamas. 🙂 So check it out, I’m an Indian now (at least I can sleep like one).
Here’s an email I just got…
I don’t even know what to comment about that, other than, “Bahahahaha!”
Living in San Diego has me completely spoiled as far as weather/temperature goes… It’s always like 65-80° any day of the year.
Except for today… it’s f’ing hot outside right now (see graphic on the right).
I checked the temp where my mom lives, and it’s 112° there. Yikes!
There’s some poor sucker outside on the street in pants and a black shirt twirling a sign on the corner all day. What a sucky job that has to be right now. 🙂
What happened to Michael Knight? David Hasslehoff was much cooler back in the day I think. 🙂
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Now:
Here’s an email I just received (in it’s entirety)…
I am the great and all knowing Shawn… unfortunately my crystal ball is in the shop right now, and I can’t give you the answer. Nor do I know who you are.
The chair that I broke was finally replaced today (had to have it shipped). I ended up getting the *exact* same chair because it’s really comfortable. I guess $69.99 for a chair you use for 12 years isn’t *too* bad. 🙂
I (almost) fell out of my chair yesterday because I’m such a fat ass that my chair broke. It didn’t just “break” either. The four welds held just fine, just the steel itself wasn’t strong enough to hold me, so the steel was ripped out where the welds were holding it together.
Oh well, it was 11 years old, but I loved that chair. It’s much harder to sit in it now because you have to keep your balance. Maybe I should get a new one…
Another random email…
One thing that is really nice about this email (and the last one), is that people have started to say “please” (partially anyway) when asking me to do their bidding of odd tasks. Unfortunately I don’t own Google (not even any stock), I don’t work at Google and I don’t even know anyone that works at Google. So I can’t get you an Orkut account. I hear Orkut is kind of lame anyway, and is mostly just Brazilian users conversing on Portuguese anyway (really).