October 15th 2007
It never ceases to amaze me that adults can still be childish morons when they’re online. In the “Wordpress community”, there are some designers that are apparently big shots, although how one of them has come to this conclusion is beyond me. These designers created a friendship and ended it rather quickly and why did such a relationship end? Because one of them is a baby.
One person posted a review of the other’s designs and the guy took it extremely personal. Now if he wasn’t trying to sell these designs, I could see where his feelings would be hurt, but since he’s selling these premium Wordpress themes at $80 a pop (to multiple people no less), criticism is exactly what he deserves. I personally like some of the designer’s work, but some of it isn’t good quality, not even close to what I’d pay $80 for. I wouldn’t pay $5 for some of those designs.
What gets me the most is that a friendship was ended over criticism. And the one who ended everything is an adult. A frickin adult. It just amazes me. This guy burnt a bridge he’ll probably need later on because he takes his work too personally. When you’re a professional, taking your work personally is just stupid. Your clients will criticize. They are going to want things to be a certain way and if you don’t like it, they’ll find someone else who does.
October 5th 2007
Don and I are both big baseball fans and although our team is the Atlanta Braves, we still love the Astros. We are from Texas after all. So last Sunday we went to see the last regular game of the season, Braves v. Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston. We bought good tickets on ebay and drove up to Houston. This game wasn’t just the last game of the season, it was Craig Biggio’s last game ever.
He was picked up by the Astros twenty years ago as a rookie and has played his entire career with them. He holds a few records, some with the Astros franchise and some with the league. He’s been an all-around amazing player and I’m sorry to see him go. He was great to the Astros and he will be missed.
The game itself started off great, Biggio scored his last double and the Astros were up 3-0 in the first inning. The rest of the game was uneventful, but the ceremony was wonderful. Craig spoke before and after the game and the owner of the Astros spoke as well. They presented him with a plaque and a case with his jersey. It’s amazing when a crowd full of men start crying because one man is retiring.
October 1st 2007
So I almost decided to delete this blog. Why? Because I haven’t updated it but once since the opening of That College Kid. I didn’t like that other layout, which partly made me not want to visit or update. But tehsheriff.org got another reprieve because I still need a personal blog from time to time and even if it doesn’t get any visitors, that’s fine with me. My boyfriend reads it at least.
Even though I’ve been blogging for five years (seriously!) and have had this one for over two years, I’ve learned so much about blogging in the past two months I’ve been working on That College Kid. I’ve learned more about Wordpress and more about SEO than I ever knew when I just had this personal blog. After two years, Tehsheriff.org has a Technorati authority of 50 and a pagerank of 4, which isn’t bad at all since it was built purely on my blogging. I did a few link exchanges and I still have a few affiliates, but for the most part, all I’ve done is blog and write a few content articles here and there.
I have such a monstrous to-do list, as usual. I’m adding this site to it, not sure where the priority goes, but this site will be fixed up at some point. Expect a new layout (or maybe just an old one with a twist) and hopefully some more content.
September 12th 2007
What I hate most about Despair is some of the sites I have to comment on. They’re covered in a hideous layout or a generic premade one. And sometimes the content is ridiculously hard to comment on. You have a thirteen year-old complaining about her poor junior high existence and I don’t know how to respond to that. “Oh, I’m sorry you think your life is over.” What the hell.
September 2nd 2007
Copper has a dogster account and they sent us a coupon to get a free photo book from Shutterfly, a $30 value. When I signed up, I also got 15 free 4×6″ prints and free shipping on orders over $15 so I took advantage of that. After my photo book, I made a magnet and a mouse pad with pictures of Copper on them, totaling $17 after tax. So I ended up getting 15 pictures, a photo book, a mouse pad and a magnet for $17.
It’s a great way to order gifts with photos on them. I love this website and definitely recommend it. You can always play around with your pictures and see how you like everything before ordering.
