To all you lying racist bastards
25 Nov 2007 3 Comments
in Politics
Yep, little ol’ G-rated me just called you bastards. You’ve made up something that you call, “African American Incidental UV Transference” and try to use it to cloak your bigotry and racism. I wrote about this term you call AAIT a few months ago, and since then, a few of you have stopped by and left derogatory comments. It would be in your best interest to stop deluding yourself into believing that I care about your opinion. As a matter of fact, what my cat leaves in the litter box is more socially relevant than anything you’ve got to say.
For everyone else, there is no such thing as AAIT. It is scientifically impossible for one person to store UV rays and then transmit them to another. Anyone with a brain stem would know that. But maybe that explains the jerks that think their comments matter to me, because if they are capable of reading anything beyond third grade science, they would know that they are wrong.
Somehow, I don’t think science matters to them. I don’t think anything matters to them except their hatred. I could go on and on about how sickening these kind of people are, but I can sum them up in just one word:
Bastards
My new disclosure policy
17 Nov 2007 Leave a Comment
in General
I have updated my disclosure policy and plan on adding more content as time allows. Sorry that I haven’t written any posts lately, but I’m hoping to make up for it very soon.
I could get used to this very easily
16 Nov 2007 Leave a Comment
in Commerce
A few months ago, I did a paid review for a company. Apparently they changed their mind because they requested that all posts be removed by all the bloggers that had written about them. They even offered a financial incentive to take the post(s) down.
I removed my posts per their email and received a notification of payment from PayPal. Frankly, I didn’t think they were going to pay, but they did and even included a short thank you with the payment. I feel like I should show them some linky love in return, but wouldn’t that start the whole ball rolling again?
On the horns of a dilemma
13 Nov 2007 2 Comments
in Commerce
Some background info: I’ve done paid posting for about a year, and am waiting for the last few payments to trickle in before I post my official “goodbye”. In the meantime, my partners and I have been working 29 hours a day on a few of my own projects that I believe will provide me (and a few others) with a viable income. I truly believe that what we have coming up has never been done before, and no one even has an inkling of what we’re about to unveil. (How’s that for drama, haha?)
In the meantime, I have found that there are tasks I’ve been doing that I could delegate to outside contract workers via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. It seems that for some jobs, the workers at “turk” are willing to work for mere pennies, and therein lies my dilemma:
I have always been a proponent of paying quality bloggers for quality work, and have sneered at most low-paying blogging offers. For the most part, I’ve felt that offering the bottom price insults the writing skills of anyone that is able to communicate via written word in a coherent and understandable manner. But now that I am considering doing the hiring, am I being a hypocrite if I try to hire the best workers for the lowest possible price? If I offer someone a buck to find some information online, am I using good business sense, or taking advantage of someone that may be facing a dire financial situation?
Oh, and a dollar seems to be high wages for turk. I’ve seen quite a few offers where the payment is one cent. I couldn’t sleep at night if I did that. Now, I just have to decide whether I will use the turk system, and if so, how much should I offer?
What others are saying about LogoCare aka Logo Care
02 Nov 2007 Leave a Comment
in Commerce
I thought I’d do an online search to see what others thought about LogoCare, or if they had experiences similar to mine. While I didn’t find anyone in my particular situation, I did find one site, TheLogoFactory.com, that says the Logo Care site “seems to be a blatant, ahm, ‘homage’ to the Logoworks web site”.
Personally, I don’t know any of these companies, I’m just a person that wants a logo for their site. Now, I suppose I could try to make my own, but the reason I started looking at professional logo companies is that I want a logo that doesn’t look like amateurish. However, my recent unpleasant experiences has made me skittish about dealing with a pro.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind when others make mistakes, because I make plenty of them myself. But I have a deadline to meet and I don’t have the time to start over with another company, working with them in order to get the logo the way it needs to be done.
Sigh. Could someone point the way to the latest version of PrintMaster?
Doesn’t LogoCare Care?
02 Nov 2007 2 Comments
in Commerce
Recently LogoCare made promises they didn’t keep. Now, there may be legit reasons for a company to break their word in a business deal. But how could anyone know the reasoning behind the actions when emails are unanswered?
Personally, I don’t like badmouthing anyone online, but then again, I feel that its important to shed light on situations so people don’t fall into the same mistakes I’ve made.
I wish this post was all about the great work LogoCare does, but I don’t have any first hand knowledge of their competency level, and I doubt I ever will.
I also doubt that this will be my last post about this company.
