Dear Customer Love at Social Spark,

As of now, you should be reviewing my blog for the nth time, and you will keep reviewing it unless you can give me a damn good reason explaining why my blog was rejected. To tell me that it was because my blog exists solely for payment or to post referral links is complete bullshit, and I will not accept that as an answer. One, I have a total of 9 paid posts in my entire blog. 9 out of 85 posts. How can you say my blog exists solely for payment when I don’t even get a PENNY for more than 8/9 of my posts?

I also took off my Google adsense ads, not to convince you. but because Google is an ass much like you are and I’ve made a total of $0.00 in the last couple months. So much for having a blog solely for payment purposes you twat. So really, I am baffled at how you came up with the idea that my blog was solely for payment purposes. It amazes me how an idiot’s brain works at times, and it’d be fascinating if I could find out what your logic was, if you had any.

Now onto the second part of your argument, about the referral links. I admit, I have some in the money making section. But I didn’t know that was illegal. Even a huge stick in the ass like Google is fine with that, so why shouldn’t you? The links are there, but it’s not like I’m forcing or tricking anyone into clicking them. Oh wait, unless the said person was someone from the customer love of social spark, then just maybe they might be dumb enough to somehow click on those links unknowingly and then cry saying that referral links are bad. But even that doesn’t make sense. See, I’m trying so hard to think like an idiot, but it’s just not working.

So if you’re going to be an ass like Google, at least be a logical and rational ass. As much as I don’t like Google, I can understand where they are coming from and why they do what they do. But you? You’re just being an all-around twat. So either give me a damn good reason why my blog isn’t approved, or better yet, approve it. The last thing Izea needs is another person up their ass. Isn’t Google and their annoying pagerank slapping doing a good job at that already?

No love,

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Though I still have one more exam to go on Wednesday (at 8am), I decided to check out of my dorm room today. Why?

1. The door is filthy. My roommate has broke my vacuum cleaner, so we pretty much haven’t vacuumed the place since last semester. On top of that, she has a carpet installed in the room. Dust bunnies and carpets get along just a bit too well for my liking.
2. The room is a mess. Roomie’s clothes are strewn all over the floor and she has food, or what is left of the food, lying around in random places. Her desk is a mess, her bed is a mess, and her hair is a mess. On the other hand, my side of the room actually looks organized, which is saying something since I’m usually the messy one.
3. The last one to check out has to make sure the room is clean. Since my last exam is on the last possible day for exams, I probably should’ve been the one checking out last and making sure the room is in top condition. That means vacuuming, dusting, mopping, and fabreezing the place a couple times before I can get my butt out of that sorry room.

Hence there was no way I was going to stick around. And even if I did, my dad wouldn’t be able to pick me up on Wednesday with his SUV, and there was no way all my belongings would fit in my tiny Corolla. Surprisingly enough, my boyfriend managed to fit it in his beaten down and worn out 96 Camry AND he managed to drive us all back in one piece. As a matter of fact, he was the one who insisted that I check out today. I felt bad, but at the same time, it did feel kind of good to know that I was able to give my “wonderful” roomie one last slap in the face by making her deal with the rest. I know it sounds mean, but she deserves it.

1. She does NOT keep the room clean or organized.
2. She broke my vacuum cleaner.
3. She leaves expired food in my fridge. The food then somehow leaks and my fridge starts growing mold babies.
4. Of course, she doesn’t do rats about it and I had to borrow Lysol wipes from friends to clean the fridge up.
5. Her friends are loud and annoying and they insist on staying till 2 in the morning while I’m trying to sleep.
6. She hogs up all usable space and gets the better side of the room and closet. I’ll give in on the first part just because she’s out of state, but still.
7. She slams the door all the time.

Even though I was able to checkout today and complete my move out process in one step, it was still VERY hectic. So for anyone who’s going off to college to next year and living on campus, here are a few tips when it comes to moving out. Since I attend my state university, some of my tips primarily apply to those who go to an in-state school.

1. Start taking your things back bit by bit. I wished I had started taking my things back starting the week after I went back for my spring semester. Take back some things you don’t need (things you rarely used the last semester) each week (or as often as possible). It will make your move out day a LOT easier.
2. Organize your belongings. This makes the packing process a lot easier. That way when you unpack, you will know where everything is.
3. Have duffel bags and suitcases ready. Actually, just have anything that will make carrying things easier for you. This could mean keeping the boxes and bags some of your things came in. I wasn’t prepared on this one and had put some of my things in a makeshift sack made from my blanket. I guess you can always use this as a last resort.
4. Take advantage of your school’s move out supplies. My school provided free boxes, but being lazy and overconfident, I only took 2. It was totally not enough, which explains the makeshift blanket sack.
5. Clean your room regularly. This is just to make your checkout process easier so you don’t need to clean up like crazy. It makes living in the room a lot more tolerable and enjoyable too. Don’t use carpets because those things make the room harder to clean.
6. Don’t rely on your roommate. Unless you’re friends with your roomie, I wouldn’t rely on them to help your clean or keep on top of things. Maybe it was just my bad luck, but my roomie was nowhere to be seen during the exam days. Hence we were unable to communicate on how we should plan the move out process.

Luckily for me, it’s all over now. I’m so glad I’m living in a single next year.

In order to refer more people to sign up for Revolution Money Exchange and get s free $25, I posted the offer at the Smorty Forum. Since referral links weren’t allowed, I told the members to leave me their emails so I could send them the invitation link. I could’ve just left the url to the site, but why not make some extra cash while I’m at it. I’m so greedy, but with $10 for every person you refer, I wasn’t about to pass it up.

Now most people got the message and left their emails, but there just seems to be idiots everywhere, especially when it comes to making quick cash. I’m not saying there’s necessarily something wrong with their IQ, but they are either illiterate or lacking common sense:

• They ask me to PM them. What for? Just so I can ask you again to leave your email? I thought I made that clear already I’d need it, but it doesn’t hurt to explain it again.
• They still ask me to PM them. This is when I’m starting to wonder if they are truly stupid or if they just don’t bother reading. I’m now annoyed and can’t believe that I’m repeating myself again.
• Even when I make a post saying that the $25 promotion has ended,some fools still post their emails, and one fool even asks me to pm them.
• Some people don’t even bother posting a reply. They just pm me and asks me to pm them the details. The only thing I pm-ed was pms. Those lazy fools.
• This idiot doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. I highly suspect he’s talking just for the sake of talking. Or he had an idea but then it ran away while laughing at his lack of intelligence.
• Some dimwit even had the nerve to tell me to leave her a message on his site. Har har, nice try. I was tempted to say something mean, but it turned out to be some 13 year-old girl. Which brings me to my next point…

I have nothing against elementary and middle school kids blogging and doing whatever they may be doing on the internet. I’ve been there, done that, looked like an idiot, but I’ve learned a lot and come a long way. But as much as an fool I’ve been, at least I refrained my stupidity to just on my blog and other silly 13-year old online friends. If I was posting in a forum with older people, at least I knew to control my giggling and other childish behaviors.

I could go on about this all day, but the point I’m trying to get across is that as free and uncensored as the internet is, please put away your childishness when you’re in a forum consisting of members from all age ranges. Do not assume that everyone will appreciate your “OMGZKAWAII” and think “OMGZ she’s so KAWAII”, do not pass go, and do not collect $200. I actually had to purge a former message board of mine because members were butchering the Japanese language in the most distasteful way and adding “NYA” or “KYA” to the end of every sentence while screaming things like “SUGOI DESU!”. People should be jailed for this, seriously.

On a lighter note, I’m still looking for affiliates and link exchanges Please contact me if interested! Thanks.

Giving visitors link juice

written on May 16, 2008 in Blogging, Tips & Tricks

Just last week I wrote a post on adding nofollow to all outgoing links, or at the very least, paid links. However, I’ve been thinking about it and I don’t find it fair to people who comment on my site. Hence I’ve added a plugin that removes nofollow from people who’ve commented more than 5 times, as WordPress annoyingly incorporates nofollow in all comment links. It’s supposed to prevent spammers and sploggers, but in all honesty, Akismet does more than a good job doing that for me.

So what is nofollow? This is your regular link in html:
<a href="http://www.riyuu.org">Ever After</a>
Now if you added nofollow, the link will now look like this:
<a href="http://www.riyuu.org" rel="nofollow">Ever After</a>

By adding nofollow to your links, you’re telling the search engine spiders not to index the pages you linked to, hence the pagerank of the sites you linked to don’t increase. The name nofollow is misleading because the search engine spiders do follow/crawl the said link, it just doesn’t index them. Wikipedia has a nice chart showing how each search engine interprets nofollow. Dofollow, on the other hand, isn’t an attribute. Rather, it’s simply the absence of the nofollow attribute. Those “normal” links will be crawled and indexed by the search engines and affect one’s pagerank.

Speaking of pagerank, the pagerank for this site is now back to its original PR2, while Riyuu.org went from PR2 to PR3. I found the latter to be surprising because I haven’t updated the site in the longest time. Must be the fanlistings bringing in links

Like I mentioned earlier, WordPress will automatically insert a nofollow attribute to all links in the comments of your blogs. As a matter of fact, it’s been doing so since version 1.5. So if you want to reward those commenting on your blogs loyally, there are many WordPress plugins that will remove nofollow from links. Give your visitors some link juice and remove nofollow

I don’t know when it became a habit for me, but I like to make sure my xhtml and css are valid at all times. You can often find Valid XHTML and Valid CSS links across my newer designs (ex: Pieces of Love), and of course, here at this site. As I was validating my site today (instead of studying), I noticed two things that were giving my site errors, and I’ve found ways to correct both of them, so I thought I’d share with you here.

Entrecard is the image link you see on the side bar (conveniently under the heading “entrecard”). The code I used to generate the image was provided by another site, but after checking my site for valid XHTML, I realized that there was a problem with the code. This is the original code: <script src="http://entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com/widget.js?user_id=12580&type=standard_127" type="text/javascript" id="ecard_widget"></script>
The problem likes with the & symbol. Instead, replace that with &, so you get the following code instead:
<script src="http://entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com/widget.js?user_id=12580&amp;type=standard_127" type="text/javascript" id="ecard_widget"></script>

The second thing that was causing trouble was the Sociable (a WordPress plugin) CSS. The opacity elements were generating errors when I tried to validate my css because they were either browser specific (-moz-opacity) or haven’t been approved as standard css yet. There is a way to use javascript to get around it, but it doesn’t solve the issue of changing opacity on hover. So my solution? Remove the opacity elements altogether, hence why the sociable icons are not semi-transparent.

But is it really necessary to always have valid XHTML and CSS? Some argue yes, some argue no. Read more here:
Valid HTML/XHTML Trend
Validation Alone Isn’t Enough