This is a short rant about things that have always pissed me off about the Internet. First I just want to say that I believe everyone should own at least one website, but it sure isn’t easy. Websites take constant attention from way too many aspects to even begin to write about right now. At this very moment I am mad about forums. If you are reading this you know what a forum is, so I will spare you the explanation. Most of the forums I visit are internet related, most dealing with buying, selling or promoting websites. Every single one of these forums is controlled by some sanctimonious holier than though jerk. These forums put rules in place that you have to be a member for x days and have made x number of posts before you can do anything on the forum worth while. If you even mention your website you are called a spammer or worse. Promoting a website is no easy task and little internet sites acting like mega corporations only make the internet a worse place to try to carve a little niche. This was a very short rant because I don’t want to get too worked up over a bunch of small people who can’t help themselves.
I am putting an end to the forum garbage, and an end to the problems faced my new webmasters with sites to promote. I have just started Masterwebtools.com with the sole intention of helping new websites get a foothold in cyberspace. Yes I do know how hard it will be to compete in that very established and seo’ed up market but I truly don’t care if it takes 1 year or 15 years to shake that industry up I am most certainly going to do it. Unlike the people who I plan to help with these websites, I have the resources to keep going for 15 years if that’s what it takes.
The first few sites are up and running so here is a short list of places to get you started if you have a website you need to promote. First I have put up 2 link directories, Reallylinked.com and Autosix.com. Of course you can place your link here in my links section and visit the forum at masterwebtools.com. Coming very soon will be the leader of the pack Netrat.com. Because I really do consider myself a net rat, I spend more time surfing the internet than a person should be allowed. Netrat.com will be the sources of all things webmaster. If you can’t find it on netrat.com you don’t need it. Be patient it will take a while to accumulate all of the information I plan to have available there.
I have spent the last three days at Sea World in San Diego, a trip I took with my family to celebrate my birthday. Yes I am very very old but I don’t want to talk about that. Sea World and San Diego are my favorite places on earth. I have a small salt water reef tank that I take care of at home, so it is a great pleasure to see my tank on a truly grand scale. The shows at Sea World are a little cheesy and really based on getting the audience wet, but to see the way the animals are trained is really incredible.
The aquariums at Sea World make me drool; I can’t imagine what it would be like to have an aquarium on that kind of scale. Sea World has a few aquariums that house small sharks, sea turtles, and worthless fish like sea bass, but they also have one really spectacular aquarium with southern Pacific reef fishes that can only be described as spectacular. In aquariums the size that they have the reef fishes grow to their full adult size, unlike in smaller home aquariums, which brings about a real appreciation of what it would be like to see one of those reefs in person. During the couple of hours that I spent looking at that aquarium I heard at least 100 people come up to the aquarium and say “look its Dory form finding Nemo”. I find it fairly sad that people can look at something that incredible and only see that one fish as something worth looking at because Disney put it in one of their movies. I am a little over idealistic because I love them so much.
Weather lets talk a little bit about the weather. San Diego was perfect 74 degrees and sunny every day, but I live just outside of hell in Mesa AZ. The weather here is also sunny and warm if you call 115 degrees warm. Living in Mesa seems like the equivalent of living in an easy bake oven, well it is a little breezy today so really today its more like living in a convection oven. Good grief the heat is really starting to get to me. I have lived here for 14 years now and its time to move, next stop will either be Durango CO or San Diego CA.
That’s all for right now but I will be detailing the San Diego trip in a later post, the trip was great and of course the city is fantastic.
It occurs to me that I may be the least productive person on the face of the earth. Every time I sit down at my desk to work I end up fiddling with my sites or surfing other peoples site for so long that I barely get any work done at all. I know it is important to make the site look the best they can and to fix all of the little bugs, but what they really need at this point is just more content. This post is an effort to fill the need of more content by actually doing some writing instead of surfing. Wow, see how quickly you can write 100 words about not writing, pretty crazy huh. I have this problem with one of the tools in Microsoft Word called word count, every time I stop for just a second I click on the word count to see how far along I’ve gotten and usually it only takes me about 100 words to get to a stopping point.
My daughter just purchased a website and started her own photo gallery. Last year after she got her first cell phone she started taking pictures like crazy and needed a place to store them all so she decided she would put them on the world wide web for everyone to look at. Her site is www.taysphotos.com and she has done a great job of putting descriptions on all of the pictures so that she will be able to find the pictures she is looking for in years to come. As a father it makes me well up with tears when I see the baby pictures, because I know that those days are over and we can never get them back. And of course when Lisa found out about Tayler’s site she had to have one of her own. Which can be see here www.hoodigans.com
Another little piece of good news I sold globosys.com for 300.00 which always makes me happy. I truly love to sell things, cars, and domain names; really it doesn’t matter, if I sell it for a profit it makes me happy. Buying things makes me happy also, but not as much as selling them. When I buy cars the best part of the transaction is when the car leaves my possession. I have to admit though the key to selling cars is all in the buying, you have to buy them right to make money, so it can be fun to barter on the purchase.
Two years ago my friend Gordon’s son called me because a lady he works with was giving away her 24’ round above ground pool. So Gordon, Kyle and I went over to her house tore the pool down and brought it to my house. My daughter Tayler and I started digging a hole to bury the pool in because even though it is an above ground pool we wanted it down to grade level. It is very hard to explain how much dirt a 24’ circle 5’ deep contains so lets just say it is a lot. Well we dug for the entire summer and got a hole 25’ round and about 3 feet deep. Really we had both had enough of digging to last us a life time, so we hired another friend to finish the hole.
That project lasted from November till May and included renting a backhoe and tearing down a wall to get it into my backyard, with only minor improvements to the hole. Then came hired workers for 2 days to finish the hole for final setup of the pool. Now 2 vacations and 6 weeks later we actually have the pool setup and filling with water. Still needed is the plumbing and electric but hopefully those items will be finished in the next couple of days. I would like to say that it is the greatest pool in the entire world but really it is just a hole filled with water and surrounded by piles of dirt. I thought that a lot more dirt was going to go back into the hole for finish work but it looks like most of the dirt is going to need to be taken away.
I hope that by the end of this summer we will have concrete poured around the pool and the yard completely back together but only time will tell, it may be 2 more years until it is actually usable at the rate we are going.
I really should have written this as one very long sentence because that is almost what this pool feels like a sentence.
I being a person, who has been around the block at least a couple of times, have never worked for a company that tracks your time as vigorously as the company I work for now. I do understand that with the sheer numbers of employees that they must control that certain expectations have to be met, but blanket policies that are strictly adhered to never work out in the long run. When you have a 40% turn over of your employees it’s hard to figure out why the company would continue to set and stand by policies that don’t really work in their favor. When you lose 1 good person and have to hire 500 more to find one just as good then it is a losing proposition for the company.
A good employee doesn’t necessarily mean one that shows up on time every day or doesn’t ever get sick; a good employee should be measured by the quality and quantity of work they perform while they are there. And a good employee would gladly work an extra few minutes to make up the time they were late. Alas when you have bean crunchers setting policies then employees just like equipment can be replaced at certain levels before it starts to affect the bottom line and things need to be changed. Never mind that employees are people with families who may be dependant on this job to stay off of the streets.
These directive are handed down from people I will never meet, and who would never take the time to want to meet someone as far down on the food chain as me. I will just do everything that I can do to make sure that I am in a position that I don’t have to rely on a company that doesn’t really care about me or anyone else who works for them.
It is not my goal to have the one giant website that appeals to everyone like a Yahoo portal. It is my goal to have many websites, each of which will cater to their own little niche of people who use them. This little empire will hopefully consist of about 50 websites by the end of 1 year. Starting the end of May 2007 the first few websites went on line, alongblog.com, masterwebtools.com, and hoodala.com started the group. It has taken a while to figure out exactly what software packages I want to use for each of them and 2 different canned sites have really stood out from the crowd as great pieces of software. Mambo and Wordpress are the best applications for what I am trying to build. Wordpress is just plain easy to use and has many options that make the site run smoothly. Mambo is a content management product that again is easy to use and powerful enough to do just about anything you want.
Now that there are almost 100 websites on line the biggest trouble is writing all of content that is necessary to fill that many sites. I still have a full time job, so just about every other waking minute is controlled by the mass of websites demanding attention. I am sure that once the sites are established and situated just the way I want them it will be much easier to concentrate on the content and it will flow much faster. What I really need though is some help.
Recruiting people to build content is not as easy as you might think. I even have to bribe my own family to write articles. I will keep everyone posted on the building of an empire and talk more specifically about each website and what has been done to and for them so far. To be continued…….
The driving force behind the eco-radicals’ fierce efforts to strangle the free market with environmental regulations is their virulent hatred for a free, prosperous economy. Yet behind this hatred is an even deeper one. To understand why they try to wreck our economy, you have to grasp the shocking fact that many eco-radicals hate the human race and Western civilization. They hate the fact that you, your family, your friends, and millions of other human beings live and prosper on this planet.
Most of us are naive about the environmental movement. We believe that when eco-radicals say we should “protect the environment,” they mean we should protect it for people. What they really mean is that we should protect the environment against people. People are the enemy. Rats, swamps, and old-growth forests must be protected against you, your family, and the rest of the human race.
To confirm this, just watch nature programs on public television. In every program I’ve seen, human beings are depicted as the enemy. These programs portray humans as vicious, violent destroyers of birds, wildlife, forests, rivers, and oceans. Nature is seen as “pure,” “fragile,” and “innocent” (including child-eating hyenas and alligators). Environmentalists or their sympathizers create these programs, so the programs reflect the environmental movement’s deepest attitudes toward the human race.
If environmental groups valued human life, they wouldn’t try to cut our oil supplies by banning drilling in arctic wastelands or off the coast of Florida and California. They wouldn’t ban the hunting of alligators that kill children. They wouldn’t file lawsuits against housing developments that give people shelter, to protect kangaroo rats. They wouldn’t have lobbied Congress to ban DDT, the pesticide that saved the lives of millions of people worldwide from malaria. They wouldn’t ban logging in northwest forests to protect spotted owls, a ban that destroyed over 30,000 logging and sawmill workers’ jobs.
Here’s what one environmentalist had to say about loggers losing their jobs: “Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after the furnaces of Dachau shut down.”
In other words, forcing owls to move to another forest because you cut down trees they nest in is just as evil as murdering six million people in gas chambers. Owls are as important as six million human lives. If loggers unintentionally kill a few owls, they’re as evil as the murderers who ran the Nazi gas chambers. Therefore, we should have no sympathy for loggers who lost their jobs. Here’s another quote:
“Somewhere along the line . . . we quit the contract and became a cancer. We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth . . . Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along [emphasis added].”
In other words, this eco-radical wishes the human race to die out–for your family, your children, your friends to die, so that the “sacred” Earth will be free of the “plague” of human beings.
These are quotes by radical environmentalists. These quotes eloquently reveal the eco-radicals’ utter hatred and contempt for the human race, and for human life and progress on this Earth. Are these the kind of sick people that we, and State and Congressional legislators should be listening to?
I knew that the environmental movement values swamps and kangaroo rats over human life, but I didn’t realize how sick this movement really is until I read a shocking article in the New York Times. It seems that in Brazil, “endangered-species” regulations forbid hunting “protected” wildlife. This ban includes the dreaded jacaré and caiman, two Brazilian alligator species.
The jacaré is a vicious, prehistoric, man and child-eating monster who inhabits the Amazon River Basin. In the high-water season, alligators infest the riverbanks near where Mrs. Ramos lives. One evening in August, an eighteen-foot jacaré emerged from the lagoon to forage for food in waters flowing around the stilts of her house. The New York Times article described what happened to Mrs. Ramos’s son: “Gilson (Mrs. Ramos’s 17-year-old son) went down to tie up his canoe,” said Sidecley Conceicão Andrade, a barefoot, 12-year-old neighbor. “In the dark, he thought he grabbed the canoe, but it was the jacaré’s tail. It took him away and ate him up.”
Can you imagine the horror of being eaten alive by an alligator? Can you imagine the nightmares and searing pain Mrs. Ramos must feel when she thinks of her son? Well, Brazil’s environmental regulations killed her son and hundreds of other innocent victims of alligator attacks.
Imagine that you lived in Florida and were the parents of a beautiful little girl. How would you feel if an alligator protected by the Endangered Species Act snatched your daughter and ate her alive? How would you like hearing your little girl crying for her mommy or daddy while the alligator ripped her to pieces? I apologize for describing such a horror in detail, but I want to bring home the real meaning of environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act. If you want to picture the essence of many eco-radicals’ contempt for human life, just remember what the jacaré did to Mrs. Ramos’s son.
Radical environmentalism and its strangling regulations threatens our health and our lives. But environmentalists can hurt us only because most of us have fallen for their propaganda. The problem is that we’re a good-natured, but sometimes naive people. We give everyone the benefit of the doubt, including environmentalists. We think eco-radicals are normal human beings like we are, and couldn’t possibly mean what they say. That’s what the world thought about Hitler–people didn’t believe what he said in his book, “Mein Kampf.”
But we can’t be naive any longer. We have to judge eco-radicals by their words, values, and actions, and recognize that the agenda of too many environmentalists is evil. The only way to stop them is to de-fang them, to take away their power, to repeal most environmental regulations and abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.
About the author:Joel Turtel is an education policy analyst and syndicated columnist. He is also the author of “Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children” and “The Welfare State: No Mercy For the Middle Class.” Contact Information: Website:
Hoodala, yea I know it’s a pretty funny name. It came from my login at work; everyone at work uses the first four letters of their last name and the first three letters of their first name. Well mine is hoodala and when some friends noticed it the all started calling me hoodala. I know who cares, well it stuck enough for me to register this domain name and start this little web site. I figured since i have some other websites for business purposes I would use this one just for me.
If you are reading this then you are one of the very few, because I don’t advertise or link to this site in any way. If you do see it please send me an email admin @ hoodala.com and tell me how you stumbled upon the site I would love to hear it. If you have a blog or a website submit it to my links section and I will gladly add your link to the list.
Alrighty then if you care to look around further I will mostly be talking about life liberty and the things that piss me off. Work related junk, and web related items will be the norm here, because that is what I like. I love the internet and couldn’t live without it, and wonder how mankind survived the first million years without internet access; god life must have sucked before the internet came along.
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