Here's my new web 2.0 logo:

Notice the toaster in the corner. There's this awesome list of little icons that you can use in your logo. A little "beta" flag, a ribbon, some money, a toaster. I love toast so I had to go with the toaster.

We got Harper his first fish yesterday. We went and picked out a small 2 gallon tank and got a small green spotted puffer fish. Mom named her Lucy. Harper calls her Doodee or Doocee. He's fascinated for whole minutes a time.



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Mom's out of the house. So Harper and I getting prepared for a big day of football watching. Well, that and making a mess. We're going to see if we can pull out every toy we own and place it somewhere within the living room. Ok - Harper's going to take care of that part himself.

In the meantime - as we wait for kickoff, here's some stuff I've been reading this morning.

Day Job Nuker - A new to me "Make Money Online" site, came across this one the other day as I surfed some blogs and am interested to see how this guy does in his 3 year plan to nuke the day job.

Of the big 'make money online' sites - Kumiko of CashQuests is the new kid on the block. But with over 700 loyal subscribers and readers, she's quickly establishing herself as an authority in this crowded niche. Interesting and smart posts keep me coming back as she always has something interesting to say.

If you want a listing and reviews of the newest and coolest web tools and apps then head to Mashable. Chances are that you already do as this is one of the more popular sites/blogs about web 2.0. I always come across something cool every time I check it out.

I've always loved reading John Cow - well, at least as long as they've been around. But with a new,cool blog redesign (seems to be happening a lot lately) the cows have stepped out from the shadow of their evil mentor and have really started to make a name for themselves and their milk.

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I love to plan things. I like to make spreadsheets, outlines, mindmaps. I love research. I love knowing what I have to do to get something done. I like learning new things.

This is my biggest problem.

At some point, you have to take action. It's great to learn new stuff - but if you don't actually set up an auto-responder after researching it, what good is that?

Working on your own - or for yourself can be difficult. You have to find ways to motivate yourself and keep moving forward.

Some days I find myself paralyzed by all of the information that I have taken in. I've made plans for great things - only to never start them because they seem so big.

I've realized that sometimes you can have too much knowledge. At least for me, that's the case. Sometimes it paralyzes me. The things I know best, I learned by doing. I set up my first blog 2 years ago just by jumping in and doing it. I built my first niche site by just getting an idea and setting it up. I built a CafePress shop by just diving in. I came across CafePress - and had my first shop set up about 3 hours later, just because it seemed like a cool idea. I didn't spend a lot of time researching it - just did it.

That also means I've got a lot of projects that didn't pan out. Some flops, some successes.

I've been trying to find a balance between research and learning - and doing.

I know that I work best when I create a list of things to do. For some reason - lists drive me crazy. I can't stand a half-finished list. They motivate me to complete all the tasks on the list.

I've begun writing a list every night before bed. It's my to-do list for the next day. I put 10 things on the list that I would like to get accomplished. They can be writing an article for a certain niche to finding a new niche to begin. It might include 30 minutes of reading material in a forum on list building - or submitting some sites to 10 new directories.


By making a list everyday - I've broken up my large, long term goals into small, manageable daily tasks that will get me there. When I finish a daily list - I feel like I really accomplished something that day. If I do that everyday - it won't take me long to actually realize the grand goals I've set for myself.

Not only that - but by making the list, it lets me manage my time better, so Harper and I can go to the park because I know exactly how much time I'm going to need later to move forward that day.

Have you found yourself unsure of the next step? Make a to do list. Don't be unrealistic about the things you put on it. I try to put things on the list that will take about 30 minutes to accomplish. Obviously some will be bigger projects, and some will be quicker - but I use that as a general guide. Try it out. Do it for a week - you'll be amazed at how much you'll get done.

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I'd like to thank Amy of My Debt Free Goal for finding this program. I had a few domains that I had purchased to build some affiliate sites on. But, since it takes a day to build a site, and then a few days writing articles and trying to drive traffic to the site - I always have some domains that are unused and waiting in line.

What I've always done in the past is to place a page holder, under construction, maybe a google ad on the page until I could get to it. But now, with WhyPark, it's a lot easier to monetize those pages that you haven't gotten to yet. And you can do it in a way that the page holder is going to be content rich.

WhyPark lets you host up to 100 domains. WhyPark then lets you decide which keywords you want to use, and it fills the page with articles related to your keywords. The articles are continuously updated, so that when the search engines come around, they'll always find new content. You can use your AdSense account to place ads on the site - and you don't have to split any revenue - you keep 100 percent of the revenue.

It literally took me 10 minutes to put up my first site today. I was able to control and choose the template, insert my adsense code, and place a few affiliate links on the page. There is a one time fee of $99.95 to open an account. But for that hundred bucks you can host 100 sites - easy math - buck a site.

There are no recurring fees and no monthly fees. Here's an example WhyPark site: PC viruses.

So what I'll be doing with WhyPark is building sites for my domains that are empty still. Then I'll be able to focus on one site at a time while those domains hopefully start earning a little for me. The nice thing is that I'll also be able to see which domains might perform well by using WhyPark as a sort of test before investing too much time in building a complete site.

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We took Harper to the fabulously sad Palace Station today to eat at the buffet. Didn't see O.J. running around as I guess he was actually arrested for his shenanigans earlier this week. I think it's hilarious that all of this took place at the Palace Station. I mean, it's not like O.J. is at the Wynn or Caesars, no, he's at Palace Station.


Harper's going to be a good buffet eater. At one point he had a piece of turkey, two chunks of banana, and a piece of cantaloupe all stuffed in his mouth, at the same time. He eats like our 8 year old Labrador - as though at any moment, somebody might rush in and take his bowl away.

There's a lot of talk about BlogRush today. I haven't installed it - as I'm interested in what others are going to say about it. Plus - I was reading a post today that was talking about how it might violate the Adsense TOS, which would cause your Adsense account to get suspended. I don't make much from Adsense, but who knows, maybe I'll figure it out and make some in the future - and I don't want to lose my account. I'm not saying that's what will happen, but about a month ago I got an email from them giving me a warning because they saw I was using a link exchange. I was trying out linkrefferal.com, where you surf other sites, and then so many are sent to your site everyday. Anyways, until there's some determination if it will violate it - I probably won't be using it.

It's easy for some of the big blogs to use it - as a lot of them are no longer monetized with Adsense. How cool is that, you're making so much money from your blog that it's actually more profitable for you to remove Adsense?


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