Most Popular Posts as of 5/3/09

Are you bewildered by the sheer amount of stuff on this blog? Unsure of where to go first?

To set you on the right direction, here are inarguably the most popular posts on my blog.


UFO's Allegedly Caught on Tape
Clocking in at about 2946 pageviews, this has been by far the most popular page on my blog yet. However, perhaps even more alluring than the mention of UFO's are the comments by "timothy." Complete rambling nonsense, or a future Nostradamus? Only time will tell.


Skepticism Motivational Poster
Coming in at 2562 pageviews, this is a close favorite and the former champion. This is a rather simple post; the image is just about all there is. Despite its simplicity, it's still drawn more than its fair share of traffic my way.



The Blog Index
While it may seem silly, this page still has a respectable 1081 views. Assuming you didn't enter through the index, you definitely want to check it out.


How can you tell if someone's communist?
A while back, I started asking crazy questions on Yahoo Answers. Then I got crazy answers. With 1059 pageviews, this is by far the most popular of the bunch.

Well, those are the most popular posts. But by no means should those be the only posts you check out; there are plenty more posts, with more coming occasionally.

Connor's Thoughts Blog to go Ad Free

Well, I finally decided to eliminate ads from my website. Why? See below.

Google Adsense Ads
Cons;
-Distracting from overall purpose of the blog (still unclear as to what that purpose is)
-Fears of commercializing free images used on blog

Pros;
-While I'm specifically prevented from giving out earnings data, the earnings were "not satisfactory."

Well, that's enough blowing up a relatively minor change.

It's Over For a While

I'm taking a break.

I'll be back later.

Gone to Chicago

Back in 2 weeks.

May post in the meantime.

Blog Color Scheme Change

It's official; I changed the colors of my blog. No longer will it look like everyone else's who chose this layout. Now it will look the same but with different colors.

I kinda like it more, how about you?

My Personal Digg Button

This is my new Digg button.




Clicking on all of them except this one will post things to Digg.

Or add ratings to things that have been posted to Digg.

It's cool, okay?

Join my Facebook Ninja Army

I'm giving you the exclusive chance to join my Facebook Ninja army.

http://apps.facebook.com/piratesninjas/?i=661417328

I do not recommend ever taking the space bar off of your laptop keyboard.

So it would seem that my website's maximum storage is being increased to something like 1 gb.

Seeing as how it's prior max was 25mb, I'm impressed.

If there ever was an incentive for me to use my website, that would be it.

Announcement of Current Events Days

So I will be adding a new feature to my blog.

For one of my classes, possibly social studies related, I will have to submit a current event.

Yes, this does sound like just my normal news. However, it is not.

For you see, the style I do my version of the news in is very vague, conversationalist, and mostly opinion based. But for the current events, I have to follow a style. More on that later. But the upshot is, I'm going to do the news in a more professional style.

That style is, First paragraph; who, what, when, where, why, and how
Second paragraph; two sides to the story and or the significance of it.
Third paragraph; this is where my opinions will be.

So every once in a while a "current event day" will be declared. On that day, I will make multiple reports, based off of that style of writing. I'll choose the best on and turn that in to my class, while the others and the chosen one will stay on the blog forever, waiting to be read.

However, do not think that this will replace my normal news covering. Those will return after the current event day. In fact, because the current event forces me to open up my news aggregator, it might even result in more news in my "signature" style.

Also, a little side note, the labels for the current event days will be a little funky; they will all start with "z." This is so I can keep them separated from all my other, more important labels.

Not About AOL Layoffs

So apparently my blog is receiving a surge of people searching for, "AOL Layoffs."

I come here to tell you all that this blog is not about AOL Layoffs. Not at all. We just mentioned it one time as a pseudo-news story.

This blog is mostly news oriented, although there are occasionally a few wacky other things that pop up every once in a while.

And how do I know all about who comes to my site? If you're asking that question you probably are new to being a webmaster. But still, it's a valid question. I use Google Analytics, for both this site and my website.

Well, that concludes that.

Reader Mail Accepted

Oh, did I ever mention that I'm open to receiving e-mail? So, if you have something to say and want me to say something back, then my inbox is the place to go.

If you just want to tell me something with little or no chance of my responding, the comments are there for you.

So, that e-mail address is cyoshio @ comcast . net .

It's been spaced out to reduce spam, but it still works.

School Starts Tomorrow

School for Westview starts tomorrow. Here's hoping I'll have a good Junior year.

And now I'm back.

I am now leaving for a new vacation. I shall be gone until further notice.

And in the event that I do post here while I'm on vacation, it shall be terse.

P.S.

I'm back.

Connor is now on vacation. Real vacation.

I'll let you know when I'm back.

Schools' almost out for summer! Just one more day!

But, since we're a high school that does half day finals, it's like a half day. But since I get out of one of my classes early, it's like a quarter day!

Just a warning; there's a Friday the thirteenth coming up next week.