It’s getting to be too long between posts. That’s because I’m working two jobs and don’t have the time to sit and write like I want to. When I do write, I’m writing about the things that interest me and affect my life. I love writing my blog and maintaining all of my websites but it all seems one sided.
Many of you have sent me emails and called me to ask how you can leave a comment on my site. I guess I haven’t explained it right because I haven’t seen a comment for some time. I’d love to hear what you have to say, good or bad. I don’t want to continue to write if no one is interested in what I’m saying. If you leave a comment I’ll know where I stand and others will be able to read your comments and voice their opinion as well. I only ask that you keep any discussions at an adult level with no name calling , cussing or any of those other high school antics. Everyone, including you, is entitled to their opinion and like it or not this is America and you should respect an individuals right to free speech.
I have the option of disapproving comments and keeping them off of my site. However, if I deem a comment unsuitable for my blog, I will clean it up and let you all know what has been said.
So, to leave a comment you simply look to the right of the title of my post. There you will see what looks like a small piece of paper with a stick pin holding it. On the piece of paper there will be a number indicating how many comments have been left for that post. It will start at “0″ and go up as comments are added.
If you are getting notifications of new posts via email, you cannot leave a comment until you go to my site at www.TellMeAboutThat.com. If you’d like to be notified of new posts by email, you have to sign up for notifications on the right side of my blog page under “Subscribe to my Blog”. You may have to scroll down to see it.
You can also go back and comment of previous postings by looking under “Post Categories”, also on the right. If you click on a category you will see all of the previous posts pertaining to that subject. You can then select the one(s) you want to read and then post a comment if you desire.
So, I’m waiting to hear from you. Tell me what you like or don’t like or give me ideas about what you would like to see. Just remember there is only one of me and I can’t keep everybody happy.
I am such a slacker!! A couple of posts back, I explained about the surgery and why I couldn’t sit here long enough to write the posts. I also said that I would do better from here on out. Well it’s actually been 10 days since I last posted.
Now, it’s not entirely my fault. As I started to make some updates to my pages and scripts, for security purposes, I noticed that there was a script error on one of my 94 web pages. With fear in my heart I started looking at other pages and, sure enough, 85 of the 94 pages had the same error.
You’ve probably noticed that I have Google ads as well as eBay and Amazon offers on most of my pages. Well that’s so I can make a few bucks to help with the cost of keeping things going. If you buy something from eBay or Amazon through my site, I make a little extra change. The same happens when you click on a Google ad and spend a few seconds reading it.
Anyway, apparently, Amazon changed something in their system which caused a bad link in the script I was using. That in turn caused an error on all 85 pages using that particular script. I contacted the guy who wrote the original script and he said it wasn’t his problem. I wrote to Amazon to try to figure out what happened and never received a response to either of my emails. I posted the problem to several forums I regularly visit, that deal with these types of problems, and heard from no one. Now I was getting worried and I started looking through the scripts trying to figure it all out.
Well, if you’ve read previous posts then you might remember that I won all my sites in an auction. They were ready made and all I had to do was enter my affiliate codes for Google, Amazon and eBay. The reason I bought them that way was because, I don’t know anything about building a web page, writing script or doing any kind of programing. So here I was thinking about just shutting it all down and forgetting about it, seriously.
Then one day while sitting here playing Half-Life, it suddenly came to me. If Amazon was like eBay then they probably had a system where an affiliate could build an ad using some kind of online wizard. In fact they did, but it was called a widget. Now when you use the widget and build the ad it automatically generates the “HTML” code for the ad. Then you copy it and paste it where you want it in the web page.
In the case of my 85 web pages, the author was thoughtful enough to put the appropriate code in a file called Amazon.php. So I start thinking that if I can replace that code with the widget generated code, everything would work fine. Well I was right and it did. However, I decided to rename the page to something besides Amazon and that meant I had to change the link in the script as well, so I did, 85 times.
Now everything is ready for you to go to each of the 85 pages and make sure they are all working correctly. You can do that by going to the right side of the page and clicking on the links under “Links”. While you are on the page, go ahead and click on some Google ads and buy some stuff from Amazon and eBay, just to make sure they are working too.
I’ll be back soon, really!!
Posted by Tom S on Sep 4, 2009 in
Health,
Home & Family,
Tell Me About That Mom arrived safe and sound and we had a very busy weekend. Mom brought a bunch of stuff with her that will take some time to sort out. With my impending surgery, I didn’t feel much like getting out so we sat around the house the entire weekend. Naturally, we got to catch up on all the family trials and tribulations as well as the good stuff. On Monday the 17th my sister, Jean and brother-in-law, Paul returned to Philadelphia, leaving us with the twins, Ashley and Brooke, for a couple of weeks. It was quite an experience having two eight year old girls around.
On Wednesday morning, I went in for the hip replacement. I don’t remember anything until I arrived in my room. The pain wasn’t as bad as I expected and before long they were getting me out of bed and walking down the hall. I was hoping to go home on Saturday but the doctor decided on Sunday instead.
It was a wild week for my wife. One day, Mom had a reaction to her medication and felt weak and sick to the stomach. She vomited most of the day. My grandson, Rylan was particularly fussy and the twins were full of energy. At one point my wife was feeding Rylan, Mom began vomiting and Ashley ran into the house yelling that Brooke feel off her bike and was gushing blood. Delia, handed the baby to me, slid a bucket to Mom and went out to investigate, all without missing a beat. She took it all in stride and within twenty minutes everyone was settled down. As it turned out Brooke had scratched both hands but the “gushing” blood was a slight exaggeration.
On Monday my Physical Therapist, Lee, arrived to begin the torture. I was also assigned a nurse, Staci, to check on the incision and my general health. On Friday Jean and Paul came back to pick up the twins and go on their “real” vacation in Maryland.
Both Lee and Staci said I am doing great. I used a walker for a week and then went to a cane. Two weeks after the surgery the doctor said I could shower on my own and removed all the staples. Next Wednesday I can drive and the following Monday I can return to work.
So that brings us up to date. I feel good and the old pain from the bad hip is gone. I still have some discomfort from the surgery, but all in all I’m getting around good. Mom is doing great and her own health is improving since she doesn’t have all those steps to deal with.
In the next several days I’ll get back on track and get back to posting all the other stuff I’ve been waiting to rant about. It’s great to be able to sit at the computer again. Thanks for waiting for me.
