Been breaking from Blogging...

I haven't been blogging too much lately, due to the holidays and not much going on that has been blog-worthy to me. Here's an update on what's going on in my world:

MC Trin's wedding is this weekend so this should be a good weekend of seeing some old friends and watching our buddy get married.

Haze's blog hosting company went out of business, so he's moved his url to www.rantinghaze.com. I feel for him... After working in technology for a while (almost 6 years now) it would suck to lose a whole website and not be able to recover it. As soon as I post the new look to this blog I'll update the link to his site.

My buddy Matt is giving me his pool and foosball tables for the house tonight so I'm looking forward to having some people over soon and playing some games. (If my house wasn't a bachelor pad before, now the whole house might as well be a clubhouse).

Deloney (Mr. Meaner) just turned 29 so he's officially an old man!!

That's about it for me, I'll be posting again soon.

My Favorite Sports Site

I love sport's pickle. Here is a one of their articles from this week (prior to the Ram's Game):

Mike Martz set to coach season finale with a tinfoil hat.

St. Louis Rams coach Mike Martz continued his erratic behavior today, vowing he will wear a tinfoil hat during this Sunday’s game versus the Jets.
“I think the Jets will have a spy plane fly high over the stadium and read my thoughts with invisible laser beams,” said Martz. “But my tinfoil hat will deflect the beams and allow my cranial database to remain uncompromised.”
Martz said he created the hat out of a roll of tinfoil that was manufactured before the Cold War began. “All tinfoil and aluminum foil made after then has little microchips implanted in it to allow the communists to read your thoughts,” said Martz. “But I only use pre-Cold War tinfoil in my hats.”
“I think Mike has pretty much lost his mind,” said running back Marshall Faulk. “I honestly hope we miss the playoffs so he can go get some psychiatric help.”
“They’re all out to get me – the media, Chris Mortensen, Kyle Turley. They want to shut me up before I tell the world what I know,” said Martz. “But I won’t let them. I will be victorious””

And another funny article: "Todd Pinkston breaking barriers as NFL’s first woman"

Random Stuff

Annoying
Tick... Tick... Tick... is the sound that one of our universal power supplies (backup power doohickey) is making at the office. It is really annoying! Thank goodness it will be going away in the next couple of minutes. There is nothing more grating than a bad sound. I fell like there is a heart beating under the floorboards. Ummh yeah, nevermind, enough about that.
DJ'ing
Also, I finally found the old DJ software I used to use, MJ Studio. The site isn't even maintained anymore, and compared to the new stuff it does absolutely nothing, but still I know how to use it and it does the basics very well... I might revert back to it for basic stuff.
Blogging
I'll probably take Haze's advise and keep Felone as the name of the new blog. Although, I'm might use graphics for both Kinetic and Felone...
Annoying (Part Deux)
By the way, the last site proof was a picture (pretty big one). By default, IE (or the worst browser in the world) resizes pictures that are big and you have to hover over them and then a expand icon will appear in the bottom right corner for showing them at full size. This is a pain in the hizzaz...
Paintballin'
This coming weekend we are going paint ballin' for mc trin's bachelor party. I'm looking forward to nailing some people. Haze's invite email was already calling people out, and since today we've had pretty funny stuff passing around...

New Blog Update

Ok, so I haven't done a thing on the new blog engine or researching community server.net... but I have started working on the new site look. Here is a picture of what I have so far. So two things to note: I'm probably ditching the felone blog name and going w/ DJ Kinetic, and I haven't designed a site entirely by myself in a while, so feedback is greatly appreciated.

Origin of Kinetic and Felone:
Although both of these names are very toungue in cheek, felone is my "rap" name (from the rap group criminal chargez). This one goes back probably 14 years ago. DJ Kinetic is the DJ name I blatanly stole from my old college roommate Gucci when we both use to mix and create music on computers.

Now that I am mixing music again and may eventually dj live (at church for youth service), I think I am go back to the "more likely to be used name at a live show": DJ Kinetic. This way when I start creating music and making it available for download the site name will make sense...

Oh well, let me know what you think of the site design... It's a work in progress.

Interesting Cross-Promotion

For those of you do not know me... A part of my day-to-day duties consists of executing and providing expertise on opt-in email marketing. Not to pat myself on the back about anything but I think I know the in's and outs of email marketing...

I just received an email from McAfee trying to sell me something I'm not interested in. I don't remember opting-in to McAfee, but I'm sure I could have at some point. Since I receive a couple of hundred emails a day, I normally opt out of the offer emails. So I go to opt-out of McAfee's email and here is the promotion they are running on the unsubscribe page:

NEW VERSION! McAfee SpamKiller: The automatic junk email blocker service Tired of spam? The best reply is McAfee SpamKiller with tate-of-the-art spam-busting technology. Scam filters, One-Click Block, Dictionary Attack filtering and regular spam filter updates help keep inboxes free of unwanted email, including virus hoaxes, offensive content and identity theft scams. Ideal for MS Outlook/Express!

I think this is really funny... Promoting spam-blocking software to people who are unsubscribing from your email. I wonder if their filter blocks their own emails. Do you think this was down toungue in cheek?
If not, is this message you want to send to your unsubscribers: "hey, since you don't like our spam, you think you may want to block it and others?"