Archive for June, 2010
Homeless Advocate Website features article on me!
Someone forwarded me this link the other day. I have to say it really took me by surprise. I had completely forgotten about this news reporter. It seems like a lifetime ago that I met him and his photographer down in E. Orange, NJ. Things were extremely bleak at the time. As I recall, when he left he said something to the effect of “make sure to check our site for an article about you.” I also recall that I DID check the site a few times after that but, not seeing any article about me, naturally I forgot about it. I like the way he puts a positive spin on things at the end by using my story as an inspirational one. It seems like his photographer screwed up something. The photos of me are only thumbnails. Actually, I prefer this. Never really wanted to show my face in any photos or video anyway. The graphic below is NOT a link to the site. Click the following if you want to read the article ———————->HERE<———————
The Homeless Advocate
HRefer and XRumer
I was planning on writing up some articles on 2 pieces of software – HRefer and XRumer.
They are fairly complex and there is not a whole lot of good documentation (in English) about them. They are used for blog spamming. Basically, if you can spam a blog, forum, guestbook and successfully “drop” a link to your own site, this should – in theory, enhance the value of your site. Hence, your site will start to rank higher in the search results (SERPS) for the particular keywords (anchor text) associated with the links you dropped. This is absolutely rampant on the internet however, most of the spammers don’t really know how to use it. They effectively sabotage their own efforts by not targeting their destinations very well. If Google sees a link back to your site and it resides on some Chinese website which is loaded with spam links advertising all sorts of junk – Cialis, Viagra etc…, they will devalue your site. Anyway, I was messing around with it in an attempt to drop some links to some of my legitimate sites (the ones with the financial information and sql databases). Basically, I could justify it by virtue of the quality of the sites I was going to link to (my financial websites for example).
I have discovered that HRefer is total junk, so, I won’t be writing up anything about it. The other product –XRumer MAY yet have some value. When I have some time, I may go into this more. In theory, it is possible to throw up a website one day and drive lots of traffic to it within a week or so. Very good thing if you are an affiliate marketer and have some sort of niche product that you want to sell.
Successfully ported blog to Wordpress
I guess this is pretty obvious considering how different it looks.
Summer of ‘42 clip
Sorry about the Spanish subtitles. I have tried to capture the most profound parts of the movie. There are a lot of subtle undertones here. This movie may mean more to a man than a woman. It brings us back to such a formative time in a boy’s life. I think Jennifer O’Neill also does a decent job of portraying a devastated wife upon hearing of her husband’s untimely death in WW2. The Proust quote below the movie, while not a perfect analogue, I think conveys a powerful sense of loss. This is why I included it.
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“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection”.
