Mar
31
2008
Are you an aspiring writer, blogger, photographer? If the answer is yes then Blurb.com will probably come in handy for you. Blurb.com is a website that allows you to make your own books from just about anything. Whether it’s a blog, a photoblog, a bunch of short stories, poems or a bunch of photos you’ve taken that’s just sitting on your hard drive collecting dust. Blurb.com will print these items and give it that “published look” for a very affordable price. The price for a book up to 40 pages is just $12.95. The turnaround rate isn’t that bad either, the time it will take from sending in your info and having the book at your door step is currently between 10-14 days.
Here’s their current rate for a square 7×7 book:
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Page Count |
Softcover Price |
Hardcover Price |
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41-80 |
$16.95 |
$25.95 |
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121-160 |
$25.95 |
$33.95 |
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201-240 |
$34.95 |
$42.95 |
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281-320 |
$44.95 |
$54.95 |
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361-400 |
$54.95 |
$64.95 |
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They also offer different sizes such as Standard Portrait, Standard Lanscape or even Large Format Landscape. Of course the price will vary and the bigger books will cost a little bit more.
Another great option is to actually “SELL” your books. If you order a specific quantity they will give you a discount and you can sell your books at 100% profit. Ordering over 10 books will generate a 10% discount, and if you order 400+ books give them a call and they will give you a custom quote.
So given what I’ve seen, I might actually order a book and see how it pans out. It’s just a cool thing to have “my book” on the coffee table when visitors come over and say yea.. I wrote that.
Homepage: http://www.blurb.com
Mar
30
2008
The Mercedes SL 550 & SL600 Roadsters are rides I wouldn’t mind rolling around Charleston with. I’d take a Convertable, Silver one with all the trimmings. Of course the price tag on this baby would set me back around 30 years since my house is worth about the same as this but whatever. The SL550 starts at around $96K and the SL600 is around $136K. The price has increased around 2% from the 2008 models but that’s just inflation I guess. In my opinion, if you could afford the 2008 model.. you can afford the 2009 model.
Power is something you will not run short of with either of these babies. The SL550 wil take you from 0-60 in 4.9 seconds an impressive number to say the least. But even more impressive is the SL600 which will shove your head back and take you from 0-60 in 3.6 seconds. The SL600 boasts a V12 510-HP motor soo sooo sick.
Car and Driver did a first look review on these two beauties and you can check it out here
Mar
30
2008
Kevin Love is the starting UCLA Power Forward/Center. He is the son of Stan Love who was an NBA player in the 70s. I don’t follow College Hoops as much as I do the NBA but after watching UCLA destroy Xavier yesterday, I feel that I should. Watching Kevin Love play the type of ball he did makes me appreciate the future of basketball even more. Kevin Love played a great overall game and just dominated the center position. He played with intensity, motivation, purpose and most of all he played the game with his head. He played the game with such great basketball IQ that you would never think that this guy is still a freshman, which he is. Being a son of a past NBA player probably had alot to do with his early upbringing regarding the game but it was just amazing to watch. I feel bad that I have missed the season because we don’t get the UCLA games here in the South. But from this day forward I will make a conscious effort in following this man’s career as I have become a fan.
So with UCLA win against Xavier they are now on their way to San Antonio and have reached the Final Four for 3 straight seasons. They lost to Florida the past two years they reached the Final Four hopefully the 3rd time is a charm. The only team left in the Tourney that will cause UCLA problems is North Carolina. But I think the way the Bruins are playing right now they can overcome that obstacle.
So it will be possible for both the Bruins and the Lakers to win the Championship in the same year. Ahh that would be nice.
Mar
29
2008
Doh!! My vacation is over and headed back to work on Monday. Overall our vacation was fun and relaxing alot of traveling but a nice change of pace.
Ahh so what’s been going on this week? Well in Sports, UCLA is playing in a couple of hours as they have made it to the elite eight. A win today and they’re on their way to the Final Four. The Lakers have lost 2 in a row to two of the worst teams in the NBA and Kobe is only one technical away from a mandatory one game suspension.
As for us, we got back on Friday then headed over to Downtown Charleston walked around, had some sushi and then some ice cream. We’re just going to stay in the rest of the weekend. Probably do some cleaning, finish the laundry and watch some hoops on the TV.
Other things are brewing but I’m not gonna mention these things until they are confirmed.
Mar
29
2008
A game in the Tokyo Dome between the A’s vs Red Sox shows fans doing anything and everything in their power to get their autographs. The Japanese sure knows how to improvise. I gotta give it up to them though, they get an A for both effort and creativity.
(Image: ESPN.COM)
Mar
27
2008
Yesterday was a great day for the Lakers. First they blew a game at home against the Charlotte Bobcats who had a record of 25 wins and 45 loses prior to the game. Then Kobe gets thrown out of the game late in the 4th quarter when the game was already out of reach. Also with the loss the Lakers fell from being tied for the number one seed down to number three. Awesome right? Well to make things worse.. With Kobe’s 2 technicals yesterday he now stands at 15, one more and he’s automatically suspended for one game.
This really hurts the Lakers specially in this juncture of the season and with all the injuries that they already have. I’ve mentioned in post earlier that Kobe needs to just play his game and just let the game develop. But I think now that Kobe is only 1 technical away from suspension, he should just get it over with. I know that we need each and every game and that we cannot do it without Kobe specially with all the injuries we have. But if he’s gonna get the suspension do it now and get it over with. Start fresh and that cloud won’t be on his head as we end the season with a back to back game against San Antonio. And come playoff time he’ll be prime and ready for blood.
I also think that if they actually suspend him for “one” game he’ll come back with a vengeance that only Kobe is capable of displaying and that’s good news for Laker fans.
So, Kobe just get it over with but make the “last technical” count in other words get your money’s worth. Then come back and destroy the league, get the regular season MVP, the RING and Finals MVP. Then pop your jersey and say STFU MOFOS.
(Image: ESPN.COM)
Mar
26
2008
Mad Money is a comedy staring Diane Keton, Queen Latifah and Katie Homes released earlier this year.
Its a story about 3 regular working women joining teams to do what no ordrinary women have done before, rob a Federal Bank
The story starts out with Diane Keaton whose a suburbian stay at home wife/mom with financial trouble. She gets a job as a “janitor” at a Federal Bank to try and make “ends meet”, come on now, a Janitor? They have scenes throughout the film that showed the home and trust me a “janitor’s” salary won’t pay for that home. Anyways. the story goes on and she comes up with this bright idea to rob the place she’s working on. She jut has to find a couple of partners which ultimately became Queen Latifah and Katie Homes.
The movie has it’s funny points.. made me chuckle a couple of times but often times I was trying to figure out what what’s going on? Is this a drama? action? comedy? just weirded me out a little bit
Overall if you got nothing better to do, bored or just want to watch something without getting too much into it give this movie a try.
I’ll give it 3 out of 5
Mar
25
2008
Entrecard is a free online service that will help in generating free traffic to your website. I found this site while browsing another blog an I’m glad I did. In the 3 days I’ve had the service, it has consistently generated traffic to my site on a daily basis. In case you haven’t tried it out I suggest you do. It’s an excellent way for a new or established blog to get new traffic.
The first thing to do is go to their website and sign up (http://www.entrecard.com). Then your account will be activated instantly you don’t have to validate through email etc…
You will need to create your “entrecard” which is a small graphic 125×125 pixels.
They do have default entrecards but I suggest you create your own as this is your “face” on the internet. Sort of like a internet business card.
The website works like this, you drop your card on another blog on the network and you get one credit. What I mean by drop your card is that you will need to go to their actual blog, find the entrecard box and click on drop See screenshot here:
Then after you drop, your card will be shown on that blog owner’s, entrecard inbox. Then if they choose (often times they do) they can click on your card, visit your site and drop their own card. If they do this you will receive a credit as well.
So for each drop, the dropper and the receiver both get 1 credit. The difference is that the receiver’s credit is worth a little bit more because this is how entrecard.com calculates how much it will cost for advertisers to advertise on your site.
Now that you have earned credits from dropping and receiving drops you can now use these credits to advertise your blog on other sites. You do this by going to “campaign” and find the blogs you want to advertise in. The price to advertise is based on a formula in which they take the average of “receiver” drops that blog receives in the last 5 days and multiplies by 2.
A word of caution though, just because a blog is one of the top and most expensive, it does not mean it’s the “best” blog to advertise in. Some blogs are just drop crazy and their price escalates because of this. A good way to tell if a blog is one of these is to go to that blog’s campaign and check the “drop rank” and if it has these ranks:
Takes dropping Very Very Seriously
Deeply committed – Deadly serious. A drop master
Or something that says “addiction”
You should use caution before advertising on these.
Overall entrecard is a great service and it’s free so go check it out.
Mar
23
2008
Today was a fun day… we started the day early and watched the first Matinee showing of Horton Hears A Who at 11:30 a.m. in Summerville. Jojo thought the film was awesome and she actually stayed in her seat the entire movie which is a good thing. In the past, she usually gets bored with the movie and wants to wander around. The movie ended at around 1:00 p.m. and we headed over to have lunch at the Crab Shack. Lunch was good, I had the shrimp, June had the catfish and Jojo had her usual Corndog, fries and hush puppies. After lunch, we headed home to rest a little bit. By the way, the weather today in Charleston was just awesome.. high 70s with no cloud in the sky, almost made me think I was back in LA for a minute =/. We stayed home for a couple of hours then headed out again to get some ice cream. But we saw a little mini carnival in Goose Creek and we had decided Jojo decided that we should go there first. So we got the family ticket pass for $20.00 bucks and we went on several rides. Jojo actually got to ride “The Wipe Out” even though she wasn’t tall enough. The guy at the gate gave her an OK, even though she was about 3 inches shorter than the required minimum height. I thought she would be scared of the ride, but she loved it.. In fact, I think my wife was more scared than Jojo.. Heh…
So after the carnival and 20 bucks poorer later we went to coldstones for some ice cream… and now were wiped out and ready to call it a day.
Mar
23
2008
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