May 29, 2007

Four More Days…

rmiles7721May 29, 20074Site News

I have had to give my manage that is having a hard time some very specific instructions, and now at the end of the day he is required to bring me several pieces of paperwork that he has not been doing. Rather than going to his store to verify it, he has to bring it all to me at whatever store I happen to be in. He’s not liking it, but I didn’t design it to make him comfortable, I designed it to make him do his job properly.

My boss is off tomorrow, so even though it is the monthly closeout day for the fiscal period, I am taking it easy. I am going to try and shoot out of there by 2PM as long as everyone shows up for work when they should. I would have been home by 2:30 today, but it was after 3:30 before that guy showed up with his stuff. Serious time management issues. He’s a pretty good guy, but I am going to have to get him trained to get this stuff done in a timely manner.

More Work…

rmiles7721May 29, 2007Entertainment, Technology

I am getting ready to rebuild my entertainment computer (HTPC) pretty soon and I may need to get some el cheapo EMI shielding. One thing that I have noticed with all of the RF stuff that I have going on in the house is that I am starting to get a bit of interference, believe it or not, from my neighbors garage door opener. A bit of EMI shielding should take care of that pretty quickly. I may be able to rig something up myself, which would be the easiest and cheapest route.

I was hoping to have it done before Sunday as the last two Sopranos come on this week and next, but it doesn’t look like I am even going to get started until the next day. I will just have to set up my VCR so that I can tape it. That or look for it on bittorrent. I haven’t even run the program in months, but I am sure it will be there within 24 hours of airing.

Some Boring Stuff…

rmiles7721May 29, 20074Blogging, Site News

Although I use Sitemeter and Z-Extreme counters on my site, every once in awhile I check awstats to see how people are getting to my site as well as what the searches are. I have almost as many image search hits from google as I do keyword. That is amazing.

Here are the biggest keyword phrases that lead people here.

2900 different key phrases Search Percent
republican debate 1198 10.4 %
porn youtube 1107 9.6 %
natalie holloway 829 7.2 %
youtube porn 612 5.3 %
jennifer needs 502 4.3 %
youtube of porn 285 2.4 %
natalie holloway update 249 2.1 %
anna kournikova 144 1.2 %
republican debates 119 1 %
natalee holloway 106 0.9 %
Other phrases 6342 55.1 %

I suppose I need to find the entries that have those phrases in them and put google ads right smack in the middle of them or something. Perhaps I will have time this afternoon. It certainly wouldn’t hurt…

Here is the list of biggest referrers to my site (for the month of May) not including the search engines.

– http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php 193 193
– http://lab-wire.com/klx/tbsp2.php 161 161
– http://huffcrimeblog.com 129 134
– http://www.top-ogloszenia.com 117 117
– http://feeds.feedburner.com/Shadowscope 109 109
– http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com 85 85
– http://payday-loan.sexany.info/Patriotic-Posters.html 80 80
– http://house-boat-rentals.sexany.info/active/Patriotic-Posters.h… 80 80
– http://home.bellsouth.net/s/s.dll 47 47
– http://gutrumbles.com 44 44
– http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi 39 39
– http://technorati.com/tag/porncast 32 32
– http://digg.com/software/Beyond_TV_4_6_Review 31 31
– http://www.25peeps.com 30 30
– http://technorati.com/search/%22ron%20paul%22 29 29
– http://tnchick.com 27 27
– http://www.netvibes.com 26 26
– http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display 25 25
– http://www.sponsoredreviews.com/index.asp 23 23
– http://www.technorati.com/search/%22ron%20paul%22 22 22
– http://www.mcgehee.cc 20 20
– http://tnchick.com/archives/686 20 20
– http://www.technorati.com/search/%22ron+paul%22 18 18
– http://www.mylot.com/nr/viewframe.aspx 18 18
– http://keeskennis.blogspot.com 17 17
– Others 3747 4243

One scary thing that I noticed when I browse the full list in Awstats is that for each blog or “real” web site there are 10 spam sites. Ugly…

Anyone that doesn’t think Google rules the search world needs to look at this sometime. Google accounts for exactly 85% of the search hits that lead here. There were 8997 Google Image hits, 8835 Google hits, the next closest was Yahoo with 1375, and MSN with 690. Obviously it is all in what each search engine thinks is relevant information, but it also shows me that most people (as if we don’t know this already) use Google as their search provider.

Five More Days…

rmiles7721May 29, 2007Site News

Five more days, five more days. Just keep saying it like you mean it. I don’t need to bitch about it too much, I am the one who made out the schedules for my managers but I needed to make sure that they got their days off and that I was able to take next Sunday off. The only was I could do that was to work twelve days but I am seriously regretting it right now.

One of my managers is having issues with being able to perform his job to the point where all of of money is suffering. In a job like ours if you are losing money (profits) in one area and can’t (or refuse to) fix it, then we make it up in other areas. Thus he and I will be working doubles and cutting some hours for a couple of his cooks which means I am working a double on Friday. That’s gonna suck but it has to be done.

One of my biggest bonuses is for hitting a profit target. Unfortunately I won’t and it is all on this guys store. That’s close to a thousand dollars I won’t be seeing on my check three and a half weeks from now and I am not particularly happy about it. What gets me is the people that steadily complain about the money they are making but can’t take the time to get off their asses and actually make it. Once I have explained several times in detail exactly why and how to make the bonus and just get ignored and get asked what the problem is again and again I start to lose patience. I guess I am going to have to practice that over and over until I get it right.

Tramp Stamp Tuesday

rmiles7721May 29, 20071Uncategorized

But just to make up for it, here is one for the believers in the group…

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Tramp Stamp Tuesday

rmiles7721May 29, 2007Entertainment

Needs bigger clothes. I didn’t say ALL of them would be attractive…

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