Wednesday, November 30, 2005

360 Etiquette

I have been cleaning off my buddy lists and friend lists all over the place. To make it real simple for everyone, if we don't talk and/or you have no intention of doing so, you shouldn't be on my lists.

Kokobuttakisses has put out a nice list of for all of us Yahoo! 360 "friends." The 10 rules can apparently be applied to other social connection services, such as Blackplanet, Hi5, and MiGente, among others. I have chosen my 5 favorites.

Yahoo! 360° - Kokobuttakisses's Blog - 10 UNWRITTEN RULES OF 360.....:

1. To the people who have like 25,098 friend's, are you serious? Nobody in this universe has that many friends...you're stupid. Go kill yourself....

3. Don't ever post fake PICTURES!

4. Nobody cares about threats over the internet. Don't try to act hard with the keyboard...that's so sad.

6. Who really gives a rats ass if I don't accept you as a friend...MOVE ON. Don't send me another request or message asking "what's up?" I don't want you as a friend, that's what's up!

8. No one is really going to die in 6 days or have bad relationships for 5 years if they don't this in ppls mailbox on. So stop saying that! [sic]

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Love Defined

Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary:

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevailent [sic] only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

Perhaps a bit cynical, I've been in love once and I almost had a second bout with the afore mentioned "disease." Through the grace of the powers that be I have been saved from the accursed affliction, at least for the time being.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

How did you come to my blog?

Some people were referred to my blog by a porn site.

Looking for a Job

My job search hasn't been going well, not all the conventional stuff anyway. I have posted to a good portion of the Career/Search sites, including Monster, Career Builder, Flip Dog and Hot Jobs. I have done the whole cold calling thing as often as I could. Filled out applications more places than I can count. I have decided to think a little out of the box. I might as well attempt a few new things.

I have begun to ask "friends," close or otherwise — I don't have many close friends, for help. I have posted to a Yahoo! Group to which I belong that I am looking for a job and that I would appreciate some help. Any leads or advice welcome. I have also posted a message to that effect on my "Blast" at Yahoo! 360. I don't blog there but I have my this blog's feed there. So most people who visit my 360 profile will see this post. That's right my blog and this post is a part of that strategy.

I figure why not use my blog. Last week I started tracking the traffic to and around my blog and a good number of people come here. I just figure every little bit could help. Question is: How can I get some more people here?

Well, I know a little more about tagging my posts. As you can see, below I have some of my Technorati tags duplicated. Not exactly, made sense to have variations of the tags I used. In fact if I think of anymore, I will update the list of tags. The point is to cover the widest audience possible, right? Next steps are to post it to my Blast, the groups, posting to my del.icio.us account and find out which of my friends will help me get this post around.

I have also created a Backpack Page of my resume. The list is a "Table of Contents". Click a link and it takes you to that section in the résumé. The last two links in the TOC are where you can download my résumé in MS Word (.doc) or PDF format. I might either convert the MSW document into a RTF or upload a third RTF file, which all of you WordPerfect users should be able to open with no problem. I have stripped away my personal information, like my address and phone number for internet safety reasons. I can be reached via the email at: reign4aday@yahoo.com. I will be adding anything I can find to re–piece together a portfolio or just something to show what I do, what I've done and what I know.

Again that link to my Backpack page is http://ddesir.backpackit.com/pub/337365 and my email address is reign4aday@yahoo.com. I appreciate all your time and help in advance, thank you.

Monday, November 21, 2005

Rejected Because I'm Too Young

Me, originally uploaded by Dramatic. This was taken in Florida back in August. One of my more recent pictures since I broke my camera.

Today, M!ck3y decided she wanted to hook me up with one of the hottest females I have seen this year, as a joke. She wanted to get a reaction. She walked up to her in McDonald's taps her on the arm and tells her that I was "interested." She replied "Wha, wha, what?" M!ck3y repeated, to which the pretty lady replied "Well tell your friend I am very older than him."

I was rejected. Not because I don't have a job, not because I approached her wrong or someone else did it for me. I was rejected because I was too young. How old do I look?

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Workforce 1

When I woke up this morning, I really didn't want to do anything. I am just at the point where I feel "What's the point?" I mean I have been looking. Problem is I have been getting nowhere. I have actually become scared. I am afraid of rejection.

Upon my arrival, the environment at first seems quite relaxed. It's fresh, clean, open office space. The security guard was standing behind his chair behind his portion of the reception desk. The think I first noticed about that area was his display, a silver flat panel, approximately 30 inches. Apparently, for him to monitor activities around the office.

I stood on a line of about 5 or 6 people for about 5 minutes. I guess the line was moving slowly, for them anyway, because the lady behind the second reception desk came to help it move along. I got here too early so I'm waiting, not so patiently, until 12:30. I feel I'm not being patent because I had to find something to occupy my time, i.e. this post.

I ran into my cousin, Latoya. Didn't even see her because I was checking out her friend. 12:30 came pretty quickly. Had orientation, which was pretty rushed. Gwen took us on a tour of the facility which was just as nice as the front. Anyway, I have to make an appointment for my next step.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Ecto

How to Leave a Voice Mail Message from the album "43 Folders" by 43 Folders

This is sort of a test. You might notice that some of my formating is different. I am testing Ecto, a desktop blogging client.

I intend to be out as often as possible for at least the next few weeks and I needed a way to blog more efficiently. I just needed a way to manage my posts. The whole email and HTML thing can get messy, as I have previously found out.

Anyway, I'm going to play with it in my spare time until I get things just the way I like it. You will know when it has my feel.

Friday, November 11, 2005

Quote of the Day

"Three minutes? It takes me twenty five minutes to get you draws off." — Michael Kyle, My Wife & Kids

Boobie Monroe

Does anyone know who she is and/or where I can get more information about her. I saw her in Maverick Entertainment Group's My Big Phat Hip Hop Family.

Monday, November 07, 2005

Quote of the Day

"I am afraid if they take away my heart I will not be able to love you the same" — Adam (Christian Slater – Untamed Heart, 1993)

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Presume To Know Me

I have a new friend, Natalie. I met her on Monday. She is really sweet. I like her.

I have one problem, after three days, I feel like she thinks she knows me. Granted, we've spent quite a bit of time on the phone — probably more time than I've spent with any single person on the phone since high school.

Our latest conversation left me feeling I need to make something clear. I did not let anything get where it is, it got away from me. How could I let myself be unhappy. How could I let myself feel helpless? Most of all, I want to know, how I can make it better?

Natalie is trying to help me find a job, already. I think she will make a wonderful friend. I respect her directness, her honesty, and openness. She doesn't pull any punches and there are so few people like her in this world, more importantly, in my sphere.

Although her initial deductions about me were wrong, she opened her mouth, she said what was on her mind and there is no confusion between us about who she thinks I am and she still wants to get to know me. I have so few true friends, I hope this one is a keeper.

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Uncreation

undecided. I just have too much on my mind.

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♫ Staind
Fray
14 Shades of Grey

I know that it never goes away
All I feel, everything I'm not today
So I try and I try to make everything right
I don't feel like I'm doing it, it affects me

Ok I have been thinking alot today, being sick gave me a chance to get some of my thoughts straight. I have been putting my efforts into the wrong things and M!ckey has been helping me a almost breaking herself. That girl loves me to death and I don't know why.

I mean all of this is coming up only because I missed an opportunity to do one of those things. I don't know if I did it on purpose or if it was just meant to happen like that. I do have some added freedom and flexibily now, which of course is good, very good.

I mean, you might not understand what I'm getting at, so I will clarify a bit. I was too bound to the material portion of my life. A lot of the time I don't even have the doe to do the things I need to do, like eat, clothe myself and get out to take care of business.

See for me a missed opportunity is not merely that, it is usually an opening to something else. I have been talking about starting over for some time now, materialistically. It's hard because I put a lot of effort into getting where I was. It was even harder falling to the depts to which I've fallen.

I had to remind myself that the first time I completely turned my life around I let go of everything. I made the fundamental choice between necessity and everything else. I have never been one to readily accept things for what they are, not negative things anyway. If I didn't like what was going on the only day to deal with it was to change it or purge it, either way it was on my terms. That is very important to me, doing things my way, on my own terms.

So since I really don't know what's going wrong in my life right now, aside from feeling down all the time, I realize I have to break my bigger issues down to their most basic layers. I have to uncreate my life.

I mean uncreate in the sense that I need to undo everything from this point backwards so that I can figure it all out.

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

The Web Standards Project

The Web Standards Project

I am proud to say my browser of choice is the only browser that pass the Acid 2 test.