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Site Maintenance & Other News 0.0.1 + My sisters blog!

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:34:23 +0000

The upgrade is going to be a little more complicated than I thought given the hosting environment, all the content I have so far, and the plugins and other customizations I’ve made to WP. Looks like I’ll have to back up the server again and do it another night like maybe tomorrow… But for now I need to get some sleep, I have class at 8am and a lot of studying to get done now and tomorrow plus a million other projects.

In the mean time, visit my sisters blog. She has to do it for her MBA program, so leave her some nice comments and make her blog look good.

Site Maintenance & Other News

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:09:51 +0000

I’m planning on upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress and doing some other tweaks tonight, so there may be some downtime depending on how smoothly things go. A few other things planned for this week aside from posts are:

Changes in error documents
Installing new plugins
A few security tweaks here and there
Some mods to the theme and graphics in the header

There’s also some great posts coming up between this week and the next, so be sure to check back periodically. Within the next two months a friend and I are going to do an exclusive video interview with one of Chicago’s small business owners who has been in the news lately. His business isn’t a not-for-profit, but it has a great cause behind it, and we’re here to support him, so you’ll know when you see it!

Thanks for the visits and all the comments!

Who is Bill Bartmann? Besides a spammer?

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:45:29 +0000

I’d really like to know who this guy is… he keeps leaving comments on my blog and he’s managed to all but take over the internet. I bet Bill Bartmann is on every site you can possibly register for free. Anyone? I’d like to hear some input on this one… Unfortunately I can’t post any of his links because that would just be supporting him and I in no way want to do that.

My guess is that he’s someone from the United States just based on the content of his posts, the way he posts etc. The name kind of reminds me of Arnold Palmer, just way less reputable. I feel bad for anyone who’s name is Bill Bartmann because pretty soon Google is just going to block his name entirely – heck, just this post might lower my page rank!

If you know who Bill Bartmann is, what he’s all about, what he’s promoting, or even if you just want to vent, drop me a comment.

NOS Energy Drink: Crack in a Bottle

admin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:22:02 +0000

I got up this morning at around 10:30 AM after laying in bed for couple hours drifting in and out of sleep, hoping to sort of catch up on my zzz’s a little. Instead of my normal 10 or so ounces of coffee, I cracked into a cold bottle of NOS shortly after waking up…

It’s 1:53PM now, and I’m still feeling like I could launch a corporation today, or lead an army into victory, or do anything for that matter. You’d be very hard pressed to find an energy drink this strong; the makers of NOS know that we know that Caffeine is what we want, not Taurine, Ginseng or whatever else – that’s why there’s 357MG of caffeine in one 22 OZ bottle of this stuff (16.227272 repeated MG’s per OZ).

It’s unknown to me whether the Taurine or other presumably bioactive chemicals are contributing to this highly desirable stimulant effect, or if maybe the Caffeine and the Pseudoephedrine (a distant cousin and precursor to methamphetamine) from my OTC allergy medication are having a synergistic effect on each other. Who even cares?

I’ve been drinking a lot of water in hopes that this stuff gets out of my system by bed time, but I don’t think it will regardless of the half life(s) in question. I guess I’ll be sleeping in late tomorrow as well. I’ve already made headway on my management homework, done some math, and written this post. I’m planning on accomplishing some more trivial tasks like cleaning my room as well.

I don’t know what else to say, or what to do I just hope it goes away and I return to normal at some point this afternoon.