by Jonny | Sep 24, 2012 | Updates
I’ve been reading about how people who follow Islam have taken insult to a whole new level by protesting on a world wide basis. Most countries that I can actually name, well, Muslims have been protesting in them. Now, I don’t mind them protesting, it’s something that is allowed and allowed for a good reason. (Freedom to protest & freedom of speech comes to mind) But what these Muslims are protesting against is for Google to remove videos, for the US government to track down who made this video and to take them to court.
They are using the very means of expression to subdue another persons freedom of expression.
What’s stopping other religions/people from protesting at the fact Muslims are protesting against governments which are not involved in the making of these videos. I’ll give you the answer, everyone else is sane. I don’t want to call these people protesting mentally ill, but really, they are. If enough people read this, I’ll probably have some minister place a $100,000 bounty on my head. It’s out of control and ridiculous.
Talk about setting an example for their own religion rather than acting like a bunch of wild animals.
/rant
by Jonny | Sep 21, 2012 | Updates
Mahh doggy v2
I haven’t been doing much recently. I’ve mainly been focusing on promoting a few of my old websites and keeping traffic up on those. For the moment I’m just chillin’! I should be heading off to South Korea soon! Awesome pictures will ensue!
New York Bagel Cup.
This is a somewhat popular place to eat breakfast, lunch or dinner. The food is delicious. This is New York Food. This particular dish is called the Benedict Salmon something, it tastes really good! The two white things in the picture eggs and I love the way they cook it!
Just testing out my phone’s camera setting.
Delicious dessert @ NY Bagel!
My doggy!
Mahh doggy
by Jonny | Sep 20, 2012 | Updates
Friend: Your Chinese is getting better and better! Keep going!
Me: Thank you! You are great!
So, I can read that bit of text and it’s no problem for me, even though it is in Chinese, I can actually read over 200 characters, but I still have a long way to go. According to sources that I’ve read, you need to know at least 1,000 characters to read newspapers here in Taiwan.
However, the issue here is with ‘Bing’s’ translation service, that is being used on Facebook. It sucks, period. For some reason it mistook “中文” for “英文”, which is quite a bad translation as it just mixed up two totally different languages. At least with Google translate that service is somewhat accurate, especially when it comes to regular verbs and nouns. But Bing fails altogether and I’ve been using it for a while, just for fun on Facebook to see what mistakes it makes. – It sure makes a lot of mistakes, which is essentially why Bing is a failure.
by Jonny | Sep 17, 2012 | Updates
I have a gripe with journalists who do not know their military terminologies yet who write articles as if they are some sort of professional on the subject or who sensationalize articles by using more tabloid-type terminologies for the average viewer. These people in combination with their degrees that I assumed they earned in journalism also get their articles checked by others who also supposedly don’t know military terminologies.
So, you are asking yourself which article, from which journalist do I have a gripe with about. Well, it’s this article, here.
Firstly, it is the term “battleship” that bothers me the most. Battleships were invented a long time ago, they were called battleships considering they had very large guns on them, thus large and were equipped to take on most combat situations. They were soon phased out during WW2 as they were considered obsolete at the arrival of the aircraft carrier.
However, in this article, the author mentions battleship twice. I can assure you that no navy in the world now operates battleships, the US Navy was the last to use battleships in a combat role. That has now ceased.
What the author of this article wrongly labels as “battleships” are mere destroyers, missile cruisers, mine sweepers, aircraft carriers etc, which he does mention and I’ll give him credit on that. But this sensationalist type of journalism where they mention the word “battleship”, let’s just say it makes the article seem more prominent and seems as if something is going to happen. The key word “battle” is that sensationalist word. It makes his article seem so ridiculous when he mentions the word, and to someone who enjoys the history of the military it just seems stupid that he would be using that terminology altogether.
There has even been the same reaction on Reddit by some users who also believe this is sensationalist writing on the authors part. But, perhaps it’s due to the authors ineptitude.
And perhaps I’m overreacting, but these people are supposed to be professionals.
EDIT:
It seems that the Telegraph has changed the title of their article. It no longer features “battleship”.
by Jonny | Sep 13, 2012 | Updates
I’ve totally stopped using Infolinks, I don’t think the return is worth it, especially for websites which don’t receive as many visitors that I’d like, thus equaling not so much profit. I think it might also make my sites a little off-putting and without any big results, it has become more or less a waste of time. Perhaps in the future I will use them again, however I’ve taken a screenshot of my entire earnings since last year.
Full earning report
As you can see, earnings are negligible, which is why I have decided to drop Infolinks altogether. However, that’s just for now. As for AdSense, I’m making a bit of money, unfortunately for Infolinks, not so much money. The results and testing that I’ve done with Infolinks over a 9 month period has been a huge failure. I remember blogging before saying that Infolinks can be an extra source of revenue, however perhaps you should really have a large website to get any real gains out of it.
by Jonny | Sep 10, 2012 | Updates
I’m quite impressed how I have managed to increase the traffic on my political site I now have up and running. I’ve been running this blog for a couple years now. However, this new site has only been running since July of this year. (2012)
The site I’m taking about is a little hard to maintain as I’m personally writing all the new articles. Before, the site was using an autoblogging script, which sucked ass. So I disabled it and then started writing my own articles as I’m quite interested in US politics.
I managed to get it un-banned from the search engines, most notably Google and now there are SERP results for particular keywords coming in. I also created the logo, which I’m pretty happy about. 🙂
