I’ve been getting a lot of comment spam lately. Over 200 today! Luckily, Akismet has caught all of it so far. But it’s still annoying. I have to go through and check for valid comments, since Akismet sometimes marks good comments as spam. Bleh.
Stupid spammers. Nobody wants what you’re selling. G’way. Get off my blog!
As you can see in my previous post, I was trying out the Performancing plugin for FireFox. I’d been told that it’s very good. Since PayPerPost just acquired Performancing.com (but not the actual editor), I was on the site poking around anyway and decided to try it. One word: Ick.
Performancing.com itself is very confusing. Since PPP bought neither the editor for blogs nor the ad network, I’m not sure what they did get. It’s hard to tell. I see the editor, statistics and the ad network. Did PPP get the statistics? Or is that part of the editor? It’s hard to tell.
I signed up at Performancing.com, to take a look at the statistics. There’s only one problem, I can’t tell how to get them to work! The instructions are very bad and the site, once logged in, is no more informative nor intuitive than before logging in. Actually, it is even less informative.
So I poked around for a bit, but I’m still confused. When logged in, you cannot get to the statistic activation page by any means that I can see. You have to actually go back to the instruction page. This is very stupid. All in all, it’s very hard to navigate around the site.
I tried, I’ll go back to using other things instead. I can’t see how Performancing got as popular as it is. 
Well, not really. They’re just too addictive.
See, the problem is that when I’ve finished a story book (which doesn’t take too long, unfortunately), I want to read more. This makes reading an expensive prospect.
If I could, I would probably end up spending most, if not all, of any money I get on books. Alas, such is not possible.
I just finished reading the books I got from Amazon for my birthday and now I want more. Sigh.
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This is what PayPerPost is giving away to 5 lucky people. 6 megapixe HPl camera. Not bad – mine is only 5 MP (I thought it was 4, but I looked since my last camera related post).
I’m guessing it’s the same camera package given away for the postie patrol, with camera, printer, paper and memory. If so, the memory’s not much (only 128MB), but that’s solved easily enough.
So why would I want a HP camera when I’ve already got a camera?
Well, I’d use the new camera regularly. Take all sorts of digital photos and stuffs. But my old camera, I might turn into a doggie cam. Strap it to my big dog. She’s BIG. Her neck is bigger around than any human’s neck. She’s also really heavy. I’m not sure how much she weighs, but it’s got to be somewhere around 80-100lbs. I think. She wouldn’t notice a regular camera strapped to her.
Anyway, with a doggie cam, we’d get a dog eye view of her playing with her toys. Her squeaky alligator, her squeaky ice cream cone, her squeaky hamburger or… her favorite toy… empty 2 liter bottles of soda.
Then again, she might decide that the camera is a squeaky toy, too, and would try to chew it up! So maybe that’s not such a good idea. I’ll have to come up with some other use for my old camera…
As you might already have noticed, I’ve switched back to my regularly scheduled theme. I think I may be messing with it in the next couple of days, however, as it seems a bit… narrow for me now.
Then again, maybe I’ll leave it the way it is.
Either way, I sort of miss the holiday theme. But it will be back next year! And, perhaps, another. If WordPress finally gets more than 6 Christmas themes.
I don’t know how it can only have 6. You’d think that more people would want to make a Christmas theme.
That’s not what I have, nor is it a site you can go somewhere to get, it’s what the woman doing the last ‘Postie Patrol’ for PayPerPost got. I know I’ve talked about PPP and Postie Patrols before – they come to your house or your area and make you do things to get some sort of a prize. Well, this time it was $1,000 + HP camera stuff.
Watching it, I can’t help but think that this Postie Patrol was a bit much. A multi-media treasure hunt… But it seemed like that poor woman had too many things to find. Without incredibly good luck, she would have lost.
But, she did win. And she did get the $1,000 and the camera stuff. There’s something I thought was sort of funny… before they gave her the money, they were telling her what all the HP stuff was: a camera, a printer thing, paper… and a 128MB memory thing for the camera. 128MB, these days, is nothing for pictures. I think it’s about 50 really good quality pics on my 4 mega pixel camera (if that), which isn’t much, when a roll of film holds 24 exposures. They’ve just finished handing over $1000 and a $300-$500 camera package (not sure exactly, I might check HP’s digital photography review page later) and they have to scrimp on the camera memory? Why not at least 256MB? 512? Heck, why not a whole gigabyte? Since HP was sponsoring the whole thing, I think they can get the memory a lot cheaper than the $50 or so it costs regular consumers.
Oh well.
By the way, HP sponsored this post.
Lately, I haven’t felt much like blogging. It feels like I’m running out of things to say. I know I’ve said nowhere near everything, but I still feel like I’ve got almost nothing left to say. I’m going to have to make myself start blogging again, because otherwise I’m not sure I’ll ever start again.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to find more things to say. Or else I’ll just start typing gibberish. 
