The Past Few Weeks
The past few weeks have been hectic for me. I had some personal issues come up that I had to deal with, so its been quite the emotional roller coaster. It will always kill me how one minute things are fine, and the next is gone.
I am not sure why I am being vague. Basically I met somebody who I thought I connected with really well. Or so I thought. I went from getting a reply to a text or instant message almost instantly, to going an hour without a reply or acknowledgment. While this happened she claimed it did not, however I could see quite clearly something was going on. After about a week of this I had enough, and called her out. I was hoping for a civil conversation, but it ended up being her yelling at me.
In other news, school is going not to well. My financial aide has not kicked in and paid. That means that the lovely housing department has cut off my meal card, and I cannot eat. Fortunately, I knew that they were going to do that and I bought a good amount of food prior to that. However, that doesn’t get around the real issue of why my aide has not paid yet. They have not called nor e-mailed me back yet telling me what’s up, yet the last time we spoke it was going to be done in the next couple days.
Having no money myself, I cannot really pay all of it, and I am considering a loan, which I am dreading. People have been like well that is just a part of college deal with it. So, like I said the past few weeks have been hell…
Word to the Wise
I just logged in here not too long ago, and saw that I had new spam comments. Usually I just hit delete all, and go on my way. But I decided to take a quick look to see what lovely things I got spammed with. I saw that the name was the same as mine so a thought that our friendly spammers were just getting smart. I looked again and saw that the comment was actually a comment which I had posted a while ago. I scrolled down some more, and found that a number of previously legit comments were marked as spam.
Yesterday I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1, as well as upgraded the Askimet plugin. So, just do a quick look before you hit delete all.
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SocialSpark
I was just given a beta invite to Socialspark, which I am not sure why/how I got an invite. After a bit of looking around, it turns out that Socialspark is just a spin-off of PayPerPost. In fact, Socialspark is made by PayPerPost’s parent company, IZEA.
It is supposed to provide a social atmosphere that connects advertisers to the people who blog/talk about their brands the most. Mike Arrington did a review over at TechCrunch, he said this is just something that pollutes the blogosphere because instead of bloggers doing open-minded reviews of sites, they are paid to do it. Which I never liked the PayPerPost idea. A person I know, has half their content with PayPerPost sponsored posts.
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First Black President
I have written before about my thoughts about Obama running for President of the United States, and what kind of changes could happen. Many others done this as well, and went on to speculate that if Obama was elected it would mark the end of racism in the United States.
I found an article in the New York Times that digs up a 1920’s biography about Warren G. Harding by historian William Estabrook Chancellor. Chancellor wrote the piece to try to mess up Harding’s campaign. The article mainly discusses how African Americans who believed that Harding was in their family by blood had to keep hush hush about it. We still don’t know if Harding did have African American blood in him, and we may never know.
What is interesting that as we inch closer to election day, stories start to pop up. I mean William Chancellor’s racist biography has been around since 1920, while it was removed from the public for the most part, it is interesting that it is now being brought back up that Obama may not be the first black president.
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