outsourced and homeless

Excerpts from the writings of Richard Francis Burton taken from the biography by Edward Rice

outsourcedandhomeless — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:24:47 +0000

Richard Francis Burton Thoughts

Richard Francis Burton Pheluli and Hyderabad

Richard Francis Burton - The unripe grape, the ripe, and the dried

Homeless Advocate Website features article on me!

outsourcedandhomeless — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:01:16 +0000

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

outsourcedandhomeless — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:01:54 +0000

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

outsourcedandhomeless — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:59:29 +0000

I guess this is pretty obvious considering how different it looks.

Summer of ‘42 clip

outsourcedandhomeless — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:38:34 +0000

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.

“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”.

Moving this thing to Wordpress

outsourcedandhomeless — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:37:00 +0000

I am going to make a few posts about some things which Google might not like too much. Some crazy software which can be used to drive traffic. Not that I have really driven any substantial traffic with it, nor am I trying to get traffic to this blog but, nonetheless, I would rather this not reside on G’s servers anymore. It’s going to look different aesthetically…probably not as good.
Might take me awhile. Might not post for awhile but check back if you feel like it. I guess there have a few interesting developments in my life which I would ordinarily put on this blog but have been too lazy or distracted to do it. I would definitely like to resume posting more often. Not sure I can hold anyone’s attention anymore but this is still cathartic.

How Many Times?

outsourcedandhomeless — Sun, 02 May 2010 01:07:00 +0000

Another pin pushed into the already well-perforated cushion I call my “love life.”

I run into her at the bottom of the stairs of my condo. She’s walking her little Yorkie puppy. Attractive, dirty blonde, nice body, a nice age for me, kids grown and gone, seems interested.

Things seem to progress nicely. I pick up the little dog (ignoring the urine which I at once feel on my left hand) and the conversation flows naturally. I then ask her into my condo because she expresses in interest in doing so.
Little Yorkie follows us in and everything is good. After awhile she asks if I would like to see her condo which is actually right around the corner – the exact same building in fact. Anyway, things going well and she is offering me coffee or water etc…
The conversation turns to dating, and how hard it is to meet someone. She makes references to creeps on the online dating sites. She then asks whether I am married or have children and I tell her no and no.
She began to talk about her car and how she didn’t like it. She always liked sports cars. So, I mentioned that she would really have liked my old car – a Mazda RX-8. At this, she spilled her coffee all over the kitchen. Unbelievably, she went on to tell me that HER LAST car was a Mazda RX-8. Now, in all the years since that model came out, I have only ONCE seen a woman driving one. Not only did she have one, she had a green one like mine, same year, sport package with spoiler, same interior. The odds of this might be 1/1,000,000. Something about a woman driving a car like that is very sexy to me. The thought that she had the exact same car was surreal and, I suspected she felt the same way.
A pleasant hour of conversation passes and she volunteers to help me put stuff into my car. (I have sold the Kia and purchased a new sports car – more on this in a different post). I thought this to be a nice gesture but was quite blown away when she then volunteered to take a couple of the larger items and put them in her car and take them down to my new apartment. This is at least 1 hour out of her way – a 2 hour round trip from either home or work.
Things wrapped up with my getting her phone number and telling her I would call.

A couple of days later I called her and got one of the coldest, most unmistakable blow offs in my life.

How can one ever make sense of a thing when there are no consistent behaviors or results? It’s like trying to exist in a world where the laws of nature are constantly changing.

I deleted her from the cell phone and hope to avoid running into her again before I move…lest I loose my tongue.

Moving Again

outsourcedandhomeless — Sun, 02 May 2010 00:51:00 +0000

I am busy getting ready to move again. I went and retrieved some of my old belongings which I had stored in my friend’s basement a year ago. I brought all of the stuff up to the condo in Vernon but now I need to move all of it again since I am moving into another apartment down in Montclair, NJ. The new place is very nice and spacious; rent is about the same as here in Vernon but it’s not so far removed from everything. I will make a video of the place after I am moved in. I am still day trading and building some other blogs. These blogs are mostly related to my stock market research and application development. A couple of other ones are just for fun or to try and make some money on advertising. Much of the content is “auto generated” using some Wordpress Plugins. I will give myself a few backlinks now:

Stock Market and Forex Trading with Harmonic Patterns and Fibonacci Ratios.

Tailgating Beer, Tailgating Ale, Tailgating Accessories

World Cup 2010, Top 100 Futbol players of all time, Top 10 Futbol players of all time, Top 100 Soccer players of all time, Top 10 Soccer players of all time, Top 10 current Futbol players.

Stock Market and Forex Trading using OLAP Cubes.

Very Nice Wordpress Adsense Plugin

outsourcedandhomeless — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:13:00 +0000

For anyone who needs to insert some Adsense into their Wordpress Blog, this is by far the best plugin that I have found. Although my blog is a Blogger blog, I am starting to build Wordpress Blogs; very much preferred now that I start to dig into it. Problem is, I cannot just convert this Blogger Blog into a Wordpress Blog. I would lose a ton of stuff. I hate being a slave to “G” however, so, I might do it at some point. All it takes in one politically incorrect thing and one person to flag the blog (perhaps)
I am giving the author of the Wordpress Adsense plugin an endorsement with the icon below.

TechMilieu.com

Telechart

outsourcedandhomeless — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:02:00 +0000

A shameless plug for the most powerful stock software I have ever used. Yes, I signed up as an affiliate. I am still doing well. I got a new Droid phone which takes good video, and I have taken a few which I wanted to put on the blog but for the life of me, I can’t convert the file format. I think the file extension is like .3gp or something. Only opens with Quicktime. It’s not like these are earth shatteringly interesting videos so, no great loss. I can always use my old one if I have something interesting to record. It’s a beautiful spring here in Northwest NJ. Because of the severe winter and all of the precipitation, it seems as if everything is revitalized and clean. Lots of flowing rivers and streams and oxygenated lakes.