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I have a joke site that I have been playing around with on the side.  I had been pretty good at making sure that I had been updating it one way or another every single day, but lately I haven’t been doing very good.

However, it is one of the sites that I consistently make money on via Adsense.  I am starting to think that if I want to start making some more passive income I am going to have to start adding more content to the site.  Maybe ensure that I spend one hour a week and just go nuts and add any funny stuff that I see online.  I figure that if I just bookmarked all of the stuff that I see during the week and spend an hour and make a post for all of it then I am sure that I could have at least one post every day.

I have finally broken down and installed Akismet.

I have been dealing with about 200 spam a day and in the process have been deleting just about all of them. I figure I have deleted more than one legit comment in the last little while.

So Akismet should take care of everything. I hope

I have been noticing lately that my this blog is taking a VERY long time to load.  So I am going to fix that with a brand stinking new design.  And since I don’t like to do things right, I am going to do the re-design live.  So you are going to notice a few strange things going on, and the site will probably not look quite right for a week or so, but don’t fear….I know what I am doing.

The end product should look similar two what I started with, I simply want to make the site load faster, especially for the poor souls still on Dial-up.

If you have any suggestions let me know…..I will be sure to integrate them into the new design.

I have started the design modification.  Right now you probably don’t notice too much change, but that is coming.  I really do like the colours on the site so that is something that I will not be changing.  Actually the way the site “looks” now will probably stay consistent, however I am going to be taking some time to clean up the CSS and make it convertable for the other sites that I have in the bluenoser.net network, ir Webmaster Books, Bluenoser Images, etc…

I will be sure to keep everyone up-to-date, however in the next couple of weeks I will be starting a new day job that will probably take up the most of my time.  Have to be sure to give a first impression to teh new boss

I have decided that it is time to move Bluenoser.net out of the Article resource stream to my own personal soap box for the stuff I do online.  However I still like writing articles and I still read a lot of good ones.  So what I am going to do is post the articles over at The Bluenoser Forums.  This way they can be nicely organized and if you want to comment on them, or elaborate on them you can very easily.

I will also be using Bluenoser Forums as the test bed for any and all updates to phpBB, I am hoping that they come out with the first Release Canidate or better yet the final release of phpBB3.  I have seen some Beta sites and really like it.  It is going to be a huge improvement on phpBB2 however it is still worlds away from the functionality of VB.  But hey, how can you expect a free program to be as good as a paid one.

So in closing the articles aren’t leaving altogether, they are simply moving on to a better place, and Bluenoser.net is going to be turned into the place where I can talk about everything that I do, and the experiences that I have while I continue on my webmastering journey on a part-time basis……Shit that sounded sappy.