Tuesday, October 06, 2009
"Considerate"
¶ 11:53 PM Today I think I was slightly more productive than normal. I went for the long walk again. It was a "warmish" 70 degress or so at 11:30am so that is what I did. I walked. I don't know how long, probably between 2 and 3 miles. Lots of hills and on pavement. I'm sure it's killing my knees but whatever.
Then I came home and spent some time on the answer site. Then I went to lunch to have the "lunch buffet" at round table where I studied the PHP/MySQL book. After that I went to a coffee shop and studied it some more.
Then I finally came home and found yet another question/answer site called FixYa. This one makes you earn the ability to apply for the paid answering unlike the one I'm currently trying to do. I'm still not sure if you JUST answer the minimum of 30 or if you answer them and actually have to get positive feedback on what you answer. In any case I've "answered" five questions so far today and did a "claification request" on a bunch more.
Some how it's just easier to type in a quick answer for a question when I'm doing it for free and I know I'm doing it free. Or maybe that's just me.
One thing I don't like about FixYa is the annoying ads all over the place and the constant popping up in a new window (or tab in my case). And my current Q/A site has a very nice "AJAX-ee" auto-updating list of questions in the computers category. While my Q/A site has too few categories FixYa has way too many. Some how Toshiba is a category under OS and Microsoft is a laptop brand on FixYa. It's like it just inserts categories as the users ask questions or something, doesn't even matter if it works or not.
I still haven't even started on that Mechanical Turk thing for Amazon for reallly signed up for that "LivePerson" site. Though I did look closer at the LivePerson and I don't know how I'm going to compete with all those 1,000+ five star rated people with BA degress and whatever.
I do have a PC to deliver (still, ya the same one) and I was going to prep my little AcerOne Netbook for my mom so she can use it as a media player on her trip to Hawaii. I figured I would outfit it with XP MCE, set the MCE shell to open by default and then transfer as many movies and shows over as will fit on the drive. Well I'll leave four or five gigs free but whatever. Step one would probably be re-installing it with MCE. And I haven't done it yet. I'll just have to do outside my norm and not spend so much time on Q/A sites tomorrow and instead get all these computers out of here.
Course for all this time spent on the Q/A sites I have actually attempted to resolve relatively few questions. I mean granted not that many questions really come up that come even close to what I can answer (MagicJack? really?!?) but still I have some kind of stage fright or something. I guess it's that people have already plunked down money for the answer and I don't want to disapoint them. So I don't respond unless I'm much more confident I can actually solve the issue. Considering the number of customers that don't bother responding, letting the question expire, I should probably get over it. I am supposed to be earning money after all. Right?
Speaking of which I have been checking Craig's List for new jobs. I found this one nearby with this long laundry list of requirements. I mean there's management experience and MCSE preferred and all kinds of digital phone repair/maintanance and on and on and on. Then you get to the end and...$15 an HOUR!?!!?!?! What a fucking joke. Oh and Indian heritage preference in hiring. I don't know what kind of prospects they're really going to get from this ad. I mean damn...may as well make it TWO DOLLARS. I mean sure we're in a "deep recession" and all but this is just cruel and unusual. You can't have THOSE requirements and pay THAT LITTLE. What jerks. The ad will expire (page won't exist) in a couple weeks from the time I write this but here's the link.
The last note I'll make is about my server, aptly named Caprica (ships revolve around planets, comptuers revolve around servers...my two PCs are Caprica and Pegasus...made sense at the time...). I took it up to my mom's house to use her air compresser to blow the dust out of it. Which I did. I have to say this case/fan/PC component combination has held up incredibly well. Anyway I was so fed up with so much dust accumulating ever three months I bought some kind of air filter in some kind of sheet form and have literally wrapped the front of the Caprica with this air filter. It's covering the whole intake, the "backplane" with the hard drives, all of it. I also put some on the back although I doubt that will do too much since those fans are actually blow out out. So it's kind of humorous just looking at it. I won't find out until January or so if this little scheme as actually done anything or made no difference.
Since it's coming up on 1am I think I'll stop now...Wow I was trying to select all with ctrl+a blindly so I could copy this to avoid losing it and I some how lost the whole tab. Luckily blogger is idiot proof and had saved a copy for me. Guess I won't need to try and copy it then.
Then I came home and spent some time on the answer site. Then I went to lunch to have the "lunch buffet" at round table where I studied the PHP/MySQL book. After that I went to a coffee shop and studied it some more.
Then I finally came home and found yet another question/answer site called FixYa. This one makes you earn the ability to apply for the paid answering unlike the one I'm currently trying to do. I'm still not sure if you JUST answer the minimum of 30 or if you answer them and actually have to get positive feedback on what you answer. In any case I've "answered" five questions so far today and did a "claification request" on a bunch more.
Some how it's just easier to type in a quick answer for a question when I'm doing it for free and I know I'm doing it free. Or maybe that's just me.
One thing I don't like about FixYa is the annoying ads all over the place and the constant popping up in a new window (or tab in my case). And my current Q/A site has a very nice "AJAX-ee" auto-updating list of questions in the computers category. While my Q/A site has too few categories FixYa has way too many. Some how Toshiba is a category under OS and Microsoft is a laptop brand on FixYa. It's like it just inserts categories as the users ask questions or something, doesn't even matter if it works or not.
I still haven't even started on that Mechanical Turk thing for Amazon for reallly signed up for that "LivePerson" site. Though I did look closer at the LivePerson and I don't know how I'm going to compete with all those 1,000+ five star rated people with BA degress and whatever.
I do have a PC to deliver (still, ya the same one) and I was going to prep my little AcerOne Netbook for my mom so she can use it as a media player on her trip to Hawaii. I figured I would outfit it with XP MCE, set the MCE shell to open by default and then transfer as many movies and shows over as will fit on the drive. Well I'll leave four or five gigs free but whatever. Step one would probably be re-installing it with MCE. And I haven't done it yet. I'll just have to do outside my norm and not spend so much time on Q/A sites tomorrow and instead get all these computers out of here.
Course for all this time spent on the Q/A sites I have actually attempted to resolve relatively few questions. I mean granted not that many questions really come up that come even close to what I can answer (MagicJack? really?!?) but still I have some kind of stage fright or something. I guess it's that people have already plunked down money for the answer and I don't want to disapoint them. So I don't respond unless I'm much more confident I can actually solve the issue. Considering the number of customers that don't bother responding, letting the question expire, I should probably get over it. I am supposed to be earning money after all. Right?
Speaking of which I have been checking Craig's List for new jobs. I found this one nearby with this long laundry list of requirements. I mean there's management experience and MCSE preferred and all kinds of digital phone repair/maintanance and on and on and on. Then you get to the end and...$15 an HOUR!?!!?!?! What a fucking joke. Oh and Indian heritage preference in hiring. I don't know what kind of prospects they're really going to get from this ad. I mean damn...may as well make it TWO DOLLARS. I mean sure we're in a "deep recession" and all but this is just cruel and unusual. You can't have THOSE requirements and pay THAT LITTLE. What jerks. The ad will expire (page won't exist) in a couple weeks from the time I write this but here's the link.
The last note I'll make is about my server, aptly named Caprica (ships revolve around planets, comptuers revolve around servers...my two PCs are Caprica and Pegasus...made sense at the time...). I took it up to my mom's house to use her air compresser to blow the dust out of it. Which I did. I have to say this case/fan/PC component combination has held up incredibly well. Anyway I was so fed up with so much dust accumulating ever three months I bought some kind of air filter in some kind of sheet form and have literally wrapped the front of the Caprica with this air filter. It's covering the whole intake, the "backplane" with the hard drives, all of it. I also put some on the back although I doubt that will do too much since those fans are actually blow out out. So it's kind of humorous just looking at it. I won't find out until January or so if this little scheme as actually done anything or made no difference.
Since it's coming up on 1am I think I'll stop now...Wow I was trying to select all with ctrl+a blindly so I could copy this to avoid losing it and I some how lost the whole tab. Luckily blogger is idiot proof and had saved a copy for me. Guess I won't need to try and copy it then.
