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Belated. . .

kayakermanmike — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:49:51 +0000

I’d make a horrible Dad. I know it. Know why? Got any clues? Well, in 2006 on 10-25 at 9:57 P.M. I posted my first article here on Brickblog. Why, I remember when this blog was still in diapers, I was excited to get 1 visit after posting oh so many articles. To date, I’m up to 4,694 visits since I installed Google Analytics (November 9, 2006) to track such things. Truly amazing. What’s even scarrier is when I analyze what kinds of articles bring people to my site, I see when you search for d40 vs d70 my site comes up #1 in google.

So lets think back to what brought this blog to life. . .

Oh thats right, those damn raccoons. They’re still around, in fact I had great fun, ehr, I mean I was left no other option, then to shoot one a couple weeks ago with my paintball gun while I had the electric fence repurposed on the garden for the summer.

But of course, I wouldn’t be here with such an audience if it wasn’t for my peeps. Those folks that both read my insane ramblings, and those that link to my blog. So since I can’t thank every single one of you by name, I’ll be certain to report out what Wordpress tells me are the good folks linking to my site.

Thanks!

Be a consumer whore, the easy way!

kayakermanmike — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:25:55 +0000

As anyone can tell, I have an Amazon Associates store that I have connected to my blog. That way when I review something, and you, the reader, are sooo compelled that you must buy it RIGHT NOW, you can. So when I saw that Amazon was offering context ads, I thought I would give it a try.

You need to have an Amazon Associates store to begin with. If you have one, go to your familiar “Build Links” section and choose “Context Links (Beta).” You’ll be given a little javascript to add to the footer of your site. It will then spider your content and turn phrases into links all on it’s own. Pretty sweet if you want to be a lazy salesperson.

Lets give it a try. . .
Hormel Chili makes me gassy but tastes good, I guess. I’ve never really had it. I like to use Adobe Bridge on my work Mac Book Pro, I wish I could get a Mac Pro for home, part of the reason I have ads, to generate money for toys. I like Lego, right now I’m into the Lego Castle theme, I just bought a few Lego 7090 sets so I could get extra knights and skeletons. I love my Nikon D40, theres a D40x but even though it offers more mega pixels, it lacks some crucial features.

O.K. that was almost as bad as an episode of The Price is Right. I feel dirty.

Hold off on CS3 Master Collection folks!

kayakermanmike — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:24:23 +0000

After getting a little bit of a run around today, myself and another coworker got to the real issue we’ve been having with Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 Master collection.

According to Adobe tech support, the media is hosed.

It seems with a volume license key, you are prompted to activate. Upon attempting to activate, “This key has been activated too many times” is your reward message.

What makes this even better? As purchasers of VLK, we should not even need to activate the software. The key, is supposed to be recognized as such and no phone home should be required. In our case, at least on the PC side of things, this is not the case. On my Macbook Pro, I’ve already started editing some photos with no problem.

Right now, tech support has no idea when this will be fixed. “hopefully by the end of next week” is the target date and they have no idea how the fix may be done. Maybe a patch, maybe a reissue of the media. We’ll wait and see.