On September 13 this year, my friend Tomp posted on his blog about a little challenge. It started out as being able to do 200 push ups in an hour. Tomp tried it out and stopped after he hit 101 in 25 minutes. He challenged anyone to beat that with the reward of a free dinner.
So I decided I wanted a free dinner! I was sick at the time, so I started doing push ups 2 days later on the 15th. Well, about an hour ago I finished 265 push ups in one hour. That seals the deal. We’ve already agreed to a free lunch at Don José. So, I’m off to get some good free grub on with the biggest man boobs I’ve ever had!
Posted by Billy | Posted in Random | Posted on 29-09-2007
So a couple weeks ago I started blogging for a site called ContentQuake. They are looking for people to blog about each NFL team, so I signed up to talk about my team, the very injured, rebuilding, lost, Buffalo Bills.
If you’re curious, like I was, about what kind of situation a contract blogger (as I guess I am) has, I’ll explain. I’m required to post at least 6 times each week, spread out over at least 4 days of that week. Of course I can post more than that. The payment system works in a couple ways. First, I get my Adsense code in 40% of the page views that my blog gets, with the other 60% of the views going to ContentQuake’s Adsense code. That should work out to roughly 40% of the revenue from Google ads, but will vary depending on when the clicks come. So far, they’ve been very meager. Then they also have those automatically generated context links that show up in the content of the posts. Apparently they spread the revenue from those over the entire site amongst all the bloggers and pay them all evenly each quarter. The site is relatively young, so I doubt that will be much at all any time soon as well.
It’s been fun so far to blog about my favorite NFL team, even though there hasn’t been much interaction with anybody online yet. I seriously doubt this will turn into much money, but I’ll gladly do it, since it will only help me follow my team closer. I don’t imagine anybody is really interested, but if you are, you can check it out here.
Don’t forget tomorrow, September 19, is National Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Posted by Billy | Posted in Awesome | Posted on 18-09-2007
It’s been a while since I’ve done anything on here. I’ve really got no good excuse, but right now I’ve got a bit of a cold, so I’m mostly spacing out. Anyway, for the wordpress users out there, I ran across a splendid idea today. By default, Wordpress adds a nofollow attribute to the author’s links in the comments. This was started to discourage spammers, yeah right. Anyway, I found a little plugin to disable that, and have it active now. Just for the good feeling of friendly SEO stuff.
Link: Remove nofollow from Wordpress comments
