March 2009

I am officially on vacation from my real job until next Friday and as I am taking the kids to Disney and am the sole author here at Shadowscope I won’t be posting much (if at all) here until next Thursday or Friday. Check out the crime links in my sidebar for some really cool crime sites, many of which are updated daily. We head out Friday afternoon so while I won’t promise, I may have an update or two before we leave town.

If you are one of the 12 or so people that visit my personal site I will still be posting vacation updates there and Twitter as well.

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When Twitter first started up I thought it was a pretty stupid fucking idea. I tried it out and didn’t use it very long but then for some reason I picked it back up and while not quite an addict I am ‘on’ Twitter quite often. My blog posts are broadcast on Twitter as well as other random bullshit. At worst it’s a time waster and at best I use it to chat with other folks, not quite in real time but almost.

I came across this video earlier over at PhillyD.tv and it’s fucking hilarious. Check it out…

    So Microsoft has released IE8. I ran it for a while during it's beta phase, prior to my computer biting the dust but just have not cared enough to reinstall it on my new laptop. I just don't really care. It doesn't seem to offer me anything that would get me to switch from using Flock.

I’m sure I will eventually install it, if only to test my crime site when I finish rebuilding it, but for now I’ll stick with what I have. Anyone else running it yet? Pros or cons?

Over the next couple of weeks I will be redoing the entire site. The end result will make for easier commenting, profiles, actions streams and the ability to sign up and write articles to submit should you wish to do so. There won’t be any noticeable changes until it’s complete as I am going to set up a completely new server for it. What may be noticeable is that I will probably only put a post up every couple of days until that time while I am busy setting up the new site. Once I finish I will migrate all of my posts over to the new site and just redirect the URL to it so that everything will be seamless on the front end.

We’ll still be using Movabletype, but the newest version along with user profiles and the Motion plugin. This will allow me to integrate the login process with Facebook as well as several other services. I am also considering setting up a forum as well. Any suggestions are welcome while I am working on it. Also, if you have any article suggestions you want to see written, please feel free to send ’em my way.

At one point in time I was running Amazon context links here but ditched them about a year and a half ago, mainly because most of the paid review companies don’t allow them. Since it’s been well over a year since I’ve done any paid posting here at Shadowscope I have re-implemented context links, using Kontera. For some reason they aren’t showing up on the main page, only in the entries themselves, which is fine right now. You’ll notice them by the double lines under the link, rather than the normal link with no line that I use. It all helps to pay for the hosting.

Now if I can just figured out why the heck it won’t work on the main index. Something to do with pagination I think, since that is no longer working either…

    <div class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: left; display: block; width: 97px;"><a href="http://www.daylife.com/image/03lMfuV7Iqd0o?utm_source=zemanta&amp;utm_medium=p&amp;utm_content=03lMfuV7Iqd0o&amp;utm_campaign=z1"><img src="http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03lMfuV7Iqd0o/87x150.jpg" alt="UNDATED - This handout image supplied by Veriz..." style="border: medium none ; display: block;" width="87" height="150" /></a><p class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;">Image by <a href="http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images">Getty Images</a> via <a href="http://www.daylife.com/">Daylife</a></p></div>OS 4.7.0.114 for the Blackberry Storm has been released into the wild. Before you head over looking for links to download bear in mind that this is a beta release and can hose your storm and turn it into a brick if you screw it up.

That having been said I am currently running version .103 right now, the last official Verizon release being .75. I tend to wait a while myself and let everyone else find all of the bugs before I upgrade myself simply because my phone also doubles as my home and business line and I don’t need a non-working device if the bugs are too ugly.

If you are still interested, head over to the CrackBerry forums where you can find more information.

I’ve exported around a thousand more posts that don’t have anything to do with the subjects at hand and moved them over to my personal site. Still have a long way to go. Once I get to where it’s just the crime blog entries left I will rebuild the templates, which will make it easier to comment and log in. That may take a bit being as how I only seem to have time to work on the site once or twice a month.

    It's been quite some time since I posted over here. I've been putting all of my energy into my crime blog and now it's time to rectify that. I will attempt to start posting here at least once a day. Anyone else interested in helping out is is more than welcome to shoot me an email to rm_blogger@yahoo.com as well.

Anyhow, on to the post. Once of the places I’ve been hanging out at online since picking up my Blackberry Storm back in December is CrackBerry, and one of the folks over there has released a fun ‘game’ for the Blackberry entitled Crackberry Smash. Check out the video after the break…

Head over to CrackBerry and download it now.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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