Going to give vBlogetin another try

I had vBlogetin installed on one of my forums for a long time. I bought a license when it first came out and then got very disenfranchised with it since there seemed to be 0 development for the longest time.

Then the guys/gals at vBulletin came out with their own, official product. And then started to get really freaked….

Anyway it seems that the team at vBlogetin smartened up and have started development and they are finially in RC1.

So anyway, I am in the process of redeveloping the site and going to re-install the product. Maybe I can get some new members since they will have their own blog.

I know I just said that I was going to stop developing new stuff, but I consider this maintenance. I make some nice money from the site as it is right now, but I think that it would be great if I could create a community that people would simply want to visit. I am working on some apps that can be used on Facebook, and then I hope to get as many people as I can to use it. Maybe I can get some indirect traffic from it.

Poker or Investing

It is looking like the stretches of free time I have are going to be getting shorter and shorter till mid-winter. So I am thinking that I am going to be spending my little amount of time that I have. Developing new web-properties take a lot of time, so I am going to be simply maintaining and then spending my little time doing one of the activities in title.

So which one am I going to do?

Well I think that it is going to come down to what one will be the better investment. There are a lot of fish out there even now, so poker would be a great time investment and has a lot of potential.

That said I have money that I am investing in RRSP from my day job and have been thinking about transferring them to stocks and doing more of the management myself. This would take a minimum of 5 hours a week to do it right.

So which one is the better to do? I already play poker for fun and have some books that I have read and could read them again, and “study” them to gain a better insight into the game. With online poker you can play at any time and it really doesn’t matter if I miss some time.

So I think that poker it is. I am going to invest a $100 buyin on pokerstars and go from there. I will post my stats as I go along.

Poker Site

I am thinking about starting a poker blog. I play a lot of poker and read a lot about poker so it seems like a great idea. On the surface….

I am not sure if I want to start a brand new site using an existing domain, or new domain, or just starting posting about poker on one of the sites that I currently run. I am thinking that the third option is the one that I am going to go with. Not sure what site, or what is the best way to do this, but I am going to start thinking about it for the next little while.

Maybe I will spend some time and start writing articles about poker and see how long it takes for me to get bored of it. Not sure if I would want to write 100 articles and then get VERY bored with it all.

Not really much going on in the webmaster world with me. I am currently developing one of my sites themes. I have a bunch of content written, the first few pages are indexed and getting minimal traffic from Google, but I think that the look of the site is not quite ready yet. This is something that I am going to work on for the next month or so, while adding content.

When this site is rolling, I have an application that I am working on that needs to be developed. This is the app that I am going to use CakePHP with. Not sure if I am going to build the entire thing myself, or have someone else do it for me.