ODP Editor: shadow575

Personal Views and Opinions of a DMOZ Volunteer and BOTW Editor

3 months??

Posted by shadow575 on August 25, 2009

Sheesh, I have been neglecting this blog.  It’s been over 3 months since I posted and that post was a ‘filler’.  Still don’t have anything important to report, I have edited sporadically here and there and logged in for a whole 3 minutes today to catch up on a few things of interest.  Other than that I have just simply not been around much to be tremendously active.

Summer is now winding down though, school is back in for the kids and it should help open things back up.  I look forward to getting back in the swing of things.

Regards.

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Ahh the French

Posted by shadow575 on May 7, 2009

Well I’ll be damned if the French haven’t stumbled on the best sporting event on water.  Set your well armed military vessles out and let the idiot pirates come and try to board you.  Good for them!
Really, I still don’t understand why we don’t just have dummy ships floating around out there anyway.  What could be more fun than than a boat full of US Navy Seals sitting on a dummy cargo ship waiting for a couple of motor launches to pull along side and come on board?  Heck these geniuses were duped by a French Frigate that wasn’t even trying to disguise itself.  Plant a few cargo ships around with a few Commando’s on it and after a few more of these goons get nabbed attacking a fully armed military unit and they might just think twice about going after that next juicey cargo ship.

Just my two pennies for the day.    <cmic you know I love ya!>

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URL Updates and Public Suggestions.

Posted by shadow575 on April 24, 2009

Tonight I stepped out of character and worked on public suggestions and URL updates.  Just to make it more interesting, I focused in the Adult section.  Hey someone has to do it.  ;-)

Just a few observations I made today:

  1. Is it really so hard to get somewhat close to the right category?  I a mean come on, I had to move a Spanish Mobile Homes site out of Adult and over to Regional.  <rolls eyes>
  2. Why is that 90% of the update requests I looked at today were just poor attempts to keyword stuff their descriptions?  Oh I re-wrote a few of them that needed it, but only one update request was pretty close to being ok.  I almost sent the submitter an email encouraging them to apply.
  3. Adult Oriented sites are an interesting breed…… :-P

There are a ton of update requests needing processed.  I don’t know why I stumbled into the ones in Adult but that is where my edits lead me tonight, so thats where I went.  I also managed a few minutes over at Resource Zone.  Funny Spam everywhere there too.

Hey did I mention yet that I fell into the world of Twitter?  Well I did, not sure why though.  I seem to be more of a blogger than a tweeter.  I have a couple of  opinions on social networking sites.  My Space appears to be the best tool the FBI every came up with, Facebook is for those of us old guys trying to relieve some of the glory days  and Twitter seems to be a good place for what I imagine to be a lot of lonely people who love to hear themselves talk.  :-)

Yikes, I can see the letters coming in now.  :-) It should be noted however that I am on all three of these occasionally and as I have no followers at all, yet 11 updates in only a couple days being on Twitter I certainly fall under the category of “Must like hearing my self talk”.  The good news is I am following one of those good “Tweeters” so I feel better about having the account.

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