Back from haitus, SEGAchannel

Took a few days off from blogging and then hit some real life stuff so I really couldn't post. Anyways, here I go again!

You've got mail! - Viagra for 43 percent off! "WTF!"

I'm sure that most of my viewers have at least one email account, so you're probably familiar with viagra or (insert meds) for "growing your member" or just plain weird stuff that comes in your Inbox during the day. For the most part now, email services have advanced to the point of sending all that fun stuff to your junk folder, but I still remember when that garbage was hitting hard and there wasn't much that could be done about it. I still remember when I had to manually turn on the spam filter for my yahoo account, it was back when one only had around 25MB of space or so for your inbox. Anyone else remember those days?

I eventually got an invite to Gmail back in late 2004, and absolutely loved it. It automatically filtered out the crappy spam emails!  It was a nice change of pace using that since I've been using yahoo mail 3 years prior to that coming out. Looking back, I don't know how I could have gone without those ever-so-useful spamfilters that both email services use now.

New stuff? BLARG!

So after ragequitting a match in Modern Warfare 2, I need to relax a bit. Namely by not playing Hardcore Headquarters matches, as they can be a major pain in the ass, especially on Scrapyard. I was at 8 an 48 for my kills to deaths ratio and the match wasn't even half way through. Yeah, I'm pretty mad.

How to boost traffic to your blog (aka how to write a better blog)

Sources of traffic and how to write blog that boost traffic?

Where does the traffic come from? Where my readers come from?

It's essential to know the sources of traffic. Then, you know where your effort should go to boost traffic to your blog.

The sources of traffic:

• Your blog itself
• Major search engines and Directory: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL,...
• External links

Mobile Phones!

Something a tad different from what I'm posting (oh wait I post different stuff all the time..), here's a short one on phones.

Now I'm sure that most of who's reading this has one, but what kind of phone do you have and how do you have yours setup?

Right now, I've got a Palm Pre Plus through Verizon, using their unlimited data/email plan and with the expensive $6 or so monthly charge for insurance. It's handy if the phone has any major issues aside from water damage. Back when I got it, there was a special going on for a free 5GB mobile hotspot for the term of the contract, so that's what kinda got me wanting to buy it. The $50 price point helped quite a bit too. It's a nice phone running webOS, but I've had a few small issues before.  Namely, the sound and vibration completely died one day. Dunno what caused it, but I had to have a replacement sent in for it. Since when does the insurance doesn't come in handy!

Right now, I've been using my phone for calls, email, web surfing, downloading, games, and (of course) irc. The whole unlimited data with the phone helps with my limited bandwidth for my regular internet connection. Since the webOS is relatively easy to unlock, it wasn't much of an issue installing terminal and other stuff so I can shell into the phone and wget from fileservers. I feel like such a nerd :3

Grey area blogging?

So I've been thinking of starting up a separate blog that covers some of the more 'grey area' stuff, so I'll have to do some self-hosted thing should I go forward with it. I already have several domains that I could use for it, so getting that taken care of is not a problem. My only real issue would be what content management system I should use for it. I know there's wordpress, but what else might be out there for me to use?

Every post is a repost of a repost.

Would you not agree that this is true most of the time anymore with most sites? (aside from news sites)
Most of it is unoriginal, rehashed material with some of it having a slightly different spin. I'm sure my post has been posted dozens of times over, some agreeing with it, others disagreeing with it. Hell, there might be someone that posted this with an entirely different opinion! People like normalcy and fear change, and I don't think it'll change anytime soon.