So I am in the market for a new laptop and when I say “new laptop” I mean Apple laptop. I hear some new iBooks are supposed to come out soon, but I don’t like iBooks, I like Powerbooks. However, I don’t think they have been updated since January and don’t wish to purchase one if they are going to be updated until next month.
So what I am asking is does anyone have a guess as to when the new Powerbooks will come? I was thinking of maybe getting one today and it’s the only reason I ask, otherwise I would keep the lively Horizontal Dance discussion on the homepage. Oh and not owning Forever Geek anymore might also have something to do with it.
I know it’s going to be hard to beat yesterday’s post, but I will certainly try.
Whenever you enter the website game there is usually at least one person telling you that the only way you can make quick money is through gambling, prescription drugs or porn. That’s why you get so many of those nice comment spams on your sites. Quick money stopped being intriguing a long time ago because it didn’t take long for me to understand you really have to work for your money (no shit right?).
Then I came across Fleshbot (NSFW) and was intrigued to find that an owner of other blogs (Nick Denton) and respected businessman (to some and not others) would start a site about porn. In a way, Fleshbot took the high road when discussing porn by adding humor and taking away the sleazy feeling some get from it. I was intrigued.
For the longest time I told people I was going to start a porn blog (adult blog, sex blog, babe blog, whatever) and most of the time people’s responses were along the lines of wondering why I hadn’t started one already. Long story short, on June 1 I launched Horizontal Dance (NSFW) to see what I could do in the forbidden industry.
Horizontal Dance is a mix of sexlog and babelog. I didn’t want to simply go the Fleshbot route of talking about porn and whatever else, I also wanted to post pictures of women that I liked because well, I like women. No, I do not take any of the pictures, I simply link to other galleries.
So how is it going? I’m not rich, but that was never the goal. I am certainly having fun with it and that was definitely my primary goal. Could it be better? Of course it could and I am sure it will improve as time goes by and I get a better feel of how the arena where my grandmother is going to tell my mother and kick my ass works. Is it part of 9rules? Of course not and it never will be. Are any 9rules team members involved? Nope, and I would never ask them to be either.
When I wrote an entry last week on Work Boxers I talked about what I am learning from porn, but I didn’t link to the site. In the comments Mr. Anonymous (you have to love when people show the courage to use their real names…) did some research (wasn’t very hard) and found the site I was referring to. So instead of causing a lot of commotion I decided to talk about it on my most open site (hell I could’ve just deleted the comment I guess).
In any case if that’s your thing I hope you enjoy it, if it isn’t stick with the 9rules Network, much better content anyways. If you want to write for it then just let me know. Might be the first group blog in that niche (no Fleshbot doesn’t count).
For some reason this month people have been asking to see more pics of me like I am a mystery man or something. Figured I might as well give you one and I decided to pic the ugliest one I could find. Say hi to FroFro.
My nostrils are obnoxiously big and the flash makes it look like I got some Jerry Curl juice in my hair. Awesome. Let the hazing begin.
In high school I had to speak at my ex-girlfriend’s graduation party (she was my girlfriend back then though) and I rocked the house. On a couple of other occassions I have spoken in front of small audiences, but coming this August comes my largest speaking gig yet and essentially my most important.
I will be in San Francisco August 17-19 for the Blog Business Summit where I will be speaking on the topic of Building a Blog Network with Corante leader Stowe Boyd.
To say that I am nervous as hell would be laughable. I am downright paranoid. I have the personality of a child and so I always feel like the kid around the adults even though I am approaching a quarter of a century in age. I will be speaking in front of established professionals who hold a lot of weight in many different sectors. I hate boring presentations and I hate embarrassing myself so I usually add humor to when I am speaking.
On TV they tell you to picture everyone in there underwear, but if you look at the speaker’s list I have no desire to see any of these people in their underwear. So I have decided to simply stand on stage and wait till the color of my shirt changes to a darker tone due to the sweat.
I run a company and am partner of another and they both have been making huge strides this year. To take it to the next level I need to get face time with these types of people so speaking is going to be a necessity. At this moment you can see that I am practicing my rambling skills.
In any case I invite everyone to come watch me make a fool of myself.
I have a problem. I have too much stuff going on in my life that it is getting difficult to manage it all. So I figure that all of you professionals out there who have their lives in order (anyone?) could help me out some.
I own 3 desktop computers, 1 laptop, a Sidekick, a Blackberry and many other gadgets. How can I better manage my life? The technology is there, but the common sense seems to be missing or something.
Keith’s To-Done has been helping me out some, but I am looking for more and in the process of looking I am missing out on getting work done. My biggest problem is email. It was discussed in the comments of freelancing traits how important it is to respond to emails. I am horrible at this. I receive anywhere from 150-300 non-spam emails a day. Obviously I can’t respond to all of them and still get all my work done and maintain some type of social life.
So how do you manage it all?
