By request of one of my greatest friends and long time associate, Heidi, here is a new post.
I love you Heidi.
Peace out, WWW!

Read and laugh your head off:

Hey sup, How are you doing today and how is your atmospheric condition, i was just checking on through this site and i found out this lovely item and i will love to get it for my fiancee, so what i just want from you is totally price of the item and your method of payment and lastly i wouldn’t want you to be to borther your self of the shipping cost i will inform the couriere service to do the pick up ok. Nice to read from you asap. Thanks. Fredecia.

Do you people really think you are going to con somebody with an opening statement like that? Good Moses!

Thank you for submitting your *** admissions application.
Within the next several days, you will receive either an acceptance letter or notification of missing admission requirements.
If you have any admissions questions, please email: *******@****.*** or call (***) ***-****.

As a reminder: if you did not submit your payment online, Please submit your $** application fee to the admissions office by mail or in person.

So which part is funny? Check out the bold part of the text.
I just finished my web application - applying for a college that I’m going to go to and at the end I got this message. What a joke! “you will receive either an acceptance letter or notification of missing admission requirements”. So what? Is there no dreaded “denial” letter that I have to worry about? I sure hope not. Quite frankly, I’m shaking in my boots. Please accept me…what will I ever do if you don’t?

p.s. the “****” parts are **** out for my own protection. Wait, maybe I do want a stalker. Maybe he can get to my acceptance letter before I do and steal it from me….and go to school under my name. Sounds kinda neat eh? “Get a life” *I say to myself as I nearly nod off to sleep*

- Peace out non-existent audience that reads my blog. I love you, always have and always will.

My experience with the Magento E-Commerce Software (thus far):
I don’t even remember how I ran across Magento, but I think it was somewhere between Tripping over CRE Loaded oscommerce but after falling into the Hell of Zen Cart. I had just about called it quits with open source shopping cart software. The typical, cookie-cutter shopping cart solutions: Zen Cart, CRE-Loaded (and many more) are all based on the ancient oscommerce framework, and hardly any of them offer anything new, or stable for that matter.

And then I…. tripped into the pearly white gates of Magento E - Commerce. What a beautiful open source software. This software is different though. It has an actual company backing and supporting the it. I thought I had totally hit a gold mine and after reading up on the software, I knew I did!

….don’t count your chickens before they hatch. It doesn’t matter how aesthetically appealing a website is to the eye, if it isn’t functional (fast, I should say, because Magento is a billion times more functional than its predecessors) then it isn’t worth crap. I installed this sweet new software onto a shared dreamhost server and boy was I un-impressed. I don’t even know what to compare the speed to. I guess you could say it was as slow as I was jumping off the diving board for the first time when I was a wee lad of 13 (I kid). A more accurate comparison would be like watching ants in an ant farm build their tunnels. Enough of my lame analogy’s for now. But it is slow!!!

What a let down…
Reluctant to give up on the software though, I just paid $100 bucks (per year) for simplehelix.com web hosting. They brag about being able to host Magento. I haven’t had time to experiment with the actual speeds, but I sure do hope it goes quick. Magento is awesome! ……awesome if it will go fast of course.

Importing Products
Throughout my time watching the ants build their tunnels, I think I discovered how to mass import products into the new store. The site went so slow that I couldn’t ever confirm or deny that my testing was right.

Later… I’ll update my findings as well as any tips or tricks associated with the perils of setting up this beautifully wicked software.

Doba, doba, doba, doba. Of course it sounds amazing! No inventory to handle, no big investments, just pay 49.95 /month for the starter package and your ready to make your million! I’m afraid that the only person making a million with this scheme is the CEO and Head Honcho of the whole deal, Jeremy Hanks. There are tons of other drop shipping websites out there that offer basically the same service, the only draw back: none of them work. Intrigued at first, I signed up. Just about half way through the conversion process I realized that this will never make me a penny. Ok, maybe a penny, but hardly worth my time signing up for the stupid thing. Just about the point where I had to enter my credit card number to complete my “Free 7 Day Trial” was when my heart and mind were on the same page. If this was such a golden money making idea then why hadn’t everyone done it I asked myself? Possible reason: The people just haven’t quite heard about it? I doubt it. Read the rest of this entry »

Ever since I can remember I have wanted to own and operate my own successful company. The only problem in my quest to gain wealth and respect was within what I wanted my business to be. What I wanted to sell. What service I wanted to provide. These are among the most basic questions that any entrepreneur should, and does ask himself. I’ve done many things in life that have sparked the interest of entrepreneurship. Things as simple as trying to sell cotton candy (that melted in the sun) at a friends garage sale to my most recent venture and failure. Read the rest of this entry »