Wham, Bam, Thank You Roseanne

Hola peoplez. As you can probably see, we’ve redesigned. We needed it. The bad part is that I haven’t slept in 24 hours, because I stayed up making this theme. I hope you enjoy it, I aimed for a semi-professional / Web 2.0 thing.

A couple days ago I watched one of the best 9/11 documentary’s ever made. It’s called 9/11: Press For Truth. Basically, the Bush administration let 9/11 happen. They received way more than enough warnings about what was to come. It’s horrible. I can’t believe that Bush and Cheney haven’t been impeached yet. The fact that the government spent $100 Million on Bill Clinton’s sex scandal and only $14 Million on 9/11. I don’t want to be too political in this blog, but I just had too get that out. Make sure you sign the petition to call for impeachment hearings for Cheney and the petition to get Condoleezza Rice to resign (I can’t stand Condoleezza).

As you may or may not know, I am an avid reader of TechCrunch. I found a little tool that can help out bloggers (web publisers, etc.) tremendously. The little tool is called Skitch. Skitch is a webservice that works hand in hand with our application Skitch to give you 1-click uploading of images for fast and fun image sharing. You can also put text on a image, draw, resize, etc. The main reason I love it is because sometimes I don’t feel like whipping out Photoshop CS3 Extended, because all I want to do is add some text to a picture. Click here for a screenshot. The plus side is, Skitch is completely free. It’s really helped me out with my Philadelphia, PA blog.

One final thing before I head off, remember how I was complaining about how much spam we’ve been getting lately, well we’ve received over 7,369 spam complaints just this week. If they were actual comments I don’t think I’d be able to catch up. To people who were like, “Why’d you uninstall the Akismet plugin when you downloaded Wordpress!”, I don’t know why I did. I thought we wouldn’t ever be receiving this much spam. To make it worse it’s all sporn. Sporn = porn spam.

Wait, I lied, that’s not the last thing I have to say. If you read my last blog you know Lindsay and I are going to New York City on May 18th. Which is in like eight days. Make sure you’re following us on Twitter, because we’re bound to have some incredibly awkward moments. They happen all the time. Lindsays at Twitter.com/lindsayomigod and I’m at Twitter.com/kyledylanconner. My father’s sitting outside our front door with my cat, and he’s “meowing” at it. See! Awkward. Already.

That’s all, enjoy yourselves.

Can’t Make Up My Mind

Well, it’s now May. Lindsay and I leave for New York City to see Spring Awakening on May 18th and my birthday is on May 29th(z), I’ll be 17, if you’re wondering. I’d love to tweet while we’re in New York City, but Twitter seems to be hating on my Sprint cell for some reason. If you’re able to help me, please?

I’ve received a couple questions asking me about my 451 Press experience. So far every thing’s been great, besides the fact that we all have to us the older version of WordPress, meaning WP 2.3. I’ve gotten so used to using 2.5 (I’m not frickin’ upgrading to 2.5.1 that’s ridiculous) that I kind of don’t like using 2.3 anymore. Between the benefits, other bloggers, etc. every thing is great. I’m actually trying to take the time to read some of the other 451 Press blogs. I found a great one on gaming called 1P Start. There are three bloggers who handle that blog so it always seems updated. I’m not really big on gaming, but from time to time I get a sudden urge to play my GameCube or PS2. I kinda’ want a Wii.

On a dissimilar subject, Lindsay and I went to IKEA yesterday. I didn’t plan to, I was going to stay home and do math work, but they brought me a long because they needed someone to help lift things. I’ve been planning on getting a new desk for my room, so I went. The car ride there and back were really interesting. I’m not going to go into detail because Lindsay may get tumultuous. I am glad I went though, because I did find the desk that I wanted. Click here to check it out. I chose the color black and I also got the glass top for it. I was planning on buying a desk chair while I was there, but the chair I wanted was around $137.00 USD and I didn’t want to spend that much on a chair. So that’s what I’m searching for now. 

Oh yesh, if you are planning on purchasing something for me for my birthday (please?), I’d love a Digg zip-up hoodie. Or you can drop some cash through PayPal *cough*.

Before I head off, I need some help figuring out who’s going to be mah next hosting company. I’m leaving Magicomm (thank you for being there for two plus years). I’m caught between (mt) Media Temple and Laughing Squid. So who should I switch to? Pollz it. Wait, also, sorry that this blog wasn’t incredibly long and opinionated. There wasn’t really anything in the news, etc. that really grabbed my attention this week.

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Kittens and Raul Esparza

Some may say I sold my life to the devil or that I’m a sell out. Some may say great job or I’m sure it’s going to be a great experience (?). I have started writing for 451 Press, one of the largest blog networks that you will find. I write for their Philadelphia, PA blog. Yes, I only write about Philadelphia, PA (whoopie!?). It’s only been two or three days, but so far my experience has been fine. The network is full of great bloggers and some great blogs, and I really appreciate them inviting me. After I’ve actually had some experience with them and if they turn out to be great, than I’ll probably encourage you to apply to write for them. There are a lot of extra’s you receive writing for them, like, full access to wireimage.com, a press badge (a frickin’ press badge! What the heck am I gonna’ do with a press badge?! Who cares?! Press badges are awesome.), you get paid (it’s not like I joined to get paid…), they’ll host your websites (I’m not sure how much bandwidth you get, so I’m sticking with my hosting company, even though they kinda’ suck.), and more. 

After I joined I kept thinking about what’s going to happen if I start to prioritize my 451 Press blog and leave omigod.net behind. Well, that’s never going to happen. The number one thing I love about this blog is that I can talk about kittens, cucumbers, H20, how much I hate it when the cheese on the pizza like falls off, and the way that I can post a picture of Raul Esparza without anyone complaining that I have. Because it’s my site and I can do what I want. I could re-direct you all to the Regal Cinema movie site so that you’d be forced to look at movie times!(?). I will never re-direct you to the Regal Cinema movie site so that you are forced to look at movie times, just so you know. 

On a different subject, one of the biggest hackers has been released from jail. If your a tech geek (like me) you know who he is. His name is Jérôme Kerviel. According to Wikipedia he is a French trader who has been charged in the January 2008 Société Générale trading loss incident, resulting in losses valued at approximately €4.9 billion. Société Générale characterises Kerviel as a rogue trader and claims Kerviel worked these trades alone, and without its authorization. Kerviel, in turn, told investigators that such practices are widespread and that getting a profit makes the hierarchy turn a blind eye. The current investigation involves what is reported to be the largest fraud in banking history. 

After he was released from prison he landed a job at an IT firm.

On another subject, the nominee process is almost up for the Candy Teen Blog Awards. As I speak type we have 456 votes with a rating of 4.96 out of 5, which is not bad. I don’t really care if we win an award or not though, hah. It would be awesome if we did though. While I’m talking about this blog (I guess I am) we have added a little feature. It’s the bookmarks for Facebook, Digg, and del.icio.us next to our “Filed Under” section. Use them at your own will. I love bookmarks, because I post to Digg and Facebook constantly. If there’s a book marking website that’s not there that you use, than please let me know. Also, We’ve been getting spam like crazy lately. I actually had to download the Akismet plugin.

Because this blog is so random, I’d thought I’d finish up by posting a song. Have fun children. (Or old people.) (It’s a great song.)

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In the upcoming month it may be possible that we will be switching hosting companies to (mt) Media Temple. So if we are down at anytime that will be the reason. 

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on

I was supposed to blog forever ago, but Kyle always blogs before I get a chance to or I have absolutely nothing to blog about. Actually, I still don’t have much to blog about. I only have causes in which I support, and I wanted to let you guys all in.

Firstly, Day of Silence is held on April 25th, 2008, this year and I plan on being a part of it. Last year, many of the students at my school participated and it was very successful. “The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. This year’s event will be held in memory of Lawrence King, a California 8th-grader who was shot and killed Feb. 12 by a classmate because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. Hundreds of thousands of students will come together on April 25 to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior.” - Day of Silence’s Website. 

A few weeks ago, Kyle had posted a blog containing a war documentary. He promised me that I could post Earthlings, “a documentary film about humankind’s complete economic dependence on animals raised for pets, food, clothing, entertainment and scientific research.” it’s a very insightful and it is not related to PETA what-so-ever. I would NEVER post a PETA related video on here. PETA is a ridiculous corporation. Anyways, the documentary is narrated by Academy Award Nominee Joaquin Phoenix and it contains music by Moby. I’ve already watched it twice, and I’m on on my third round as I am writing this blog. I need to become vegan, and I will become vegan. You can click here to watch an online stream of it, or go to Isawearthlings.com to purchase a copy. Trust me, it’s a very eye-opening.

Other than that, I’ve been completely torn with what I want to do with my life. I’m so lazy, I don’t even think I can last two more years in high school. I’ve never had a concrete idea on what I wanted to do, and I still don’t. Actually, I wanted to be a crossing guard. It was my dream to wave cars go, and to wave for children to cross the street. Then, my mom finally broke the news to me when I was about six that I couldn’t be a crossing guard because they don’t get paid well. My next dream was to be a mail-(wo)men, she then stated that I wouldn’t want to do that because I would have to wear shorts in the winter time. Finally, decided that I wanted to be an actress or a model (I used to be a cute kid, not so much anymore), but then I came to the startling realization that I wasn’t 1) a good actor, 2) tall and skinny, and 3) I have terrible stage fright. My dad always wanted me to be a lawyer, which I wouldn’t quite mind. On the other hand, my mom believes that I could never pass my bar exams and that I should just become a paralegal. Alright, then I’ll be a psychiatrist/cologist, but the reply is usually, “You don’t want to go through all that schooling, I know you, you wouldn’t make it.” What are my options? My mom is pushing me to be a x-ray technician or to be web designer or graphic designer. Fuck that, I’d rather slit my wrists than work in a hospital or doctor’s office. Anybody can be a web designer, and I’m not taking all these art classes to be a graphic designer.