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If you sleep the 8 hours per night that many experts suggest you are wasting about 1/3 of the year sleeping.  However, if you sleep more just imagine all the valuable time you are wasting.   You can also catching a few extra Z’s by using REM movements to substitute for an hour or two of sleep.  Just close your eyes, for a few minutes, then move your eyes back and forth but rapidly.  This will make you feel better with higher energy and a better attitude!

The staple of middle class living is doing some home repairs yourself.  Recently, I have noticed that Nick at night has been airing Home Improvement, which is really cool, mostly because it is based in Michigan.  However, the story also is similar to that of my own life where I try to do a few things around the house so that I can avoid having to pay someone to do it.  I don’t buy resale homes or anything like that.

 Knowledge is Power!  I have tried laying wood floor before, let me tell you just doing it with instructions on a piece of paper is not fun!  I wish I would of had something more useful, like a DVD.  Do It Yourself DVD’s help you figure out what you have to fix in a project, or what steps you need to take if you forgot how to lay wood floor for example.  I wish I would have bought a Do It Yourself DVD, next time I do a home improvement project, I will try to buy one for sure!  Who knows what my next home improvement project will be though, I am still waiting for the Amish to make the furniture for that room that I got someone else to lay the floor in.  I’ll be sure to take a picture of it when I am done with it!

Have you heard of the genetics division of Google, while it may be rather small it does exist according to several sources.   Google seems to want to really get into each and every one of us.  They want to know what makes us tick, and they must think that genetics has something to do with that.  Imagine a day in the future when genetics will screen what kind of ads you view.

However, this brings up the issue of privacy vs. knowledge.  Knowledge is power and will always help us decipher complicated things in the world, but people like to be left to themselves sometime and value their privacy highly.  As a huge company I think Google should be able to draw the line of what is right and wrong…at least I hope!

I have to keep this in the air for the next little while.  I rather concentrate on blogging and giving you guys some awesome bits of my mind than have technical things.  Besides, with this install, it is very similar to 2.3.  I just upgraded Ryan444123.com and trust me, your not missing ALL that much, although it does have some interesting admin tools but I digress.  It is now 1:23 A.M!

Not to rag on Wordpress and the whole development crew over there, but wasn’t the 2.3 release supposed to drop today.  I guess it could still happen but I usually think they would do it earlier in the day.  Oh well, I will just have to wait until tomorrow to try it out for myself.  I won’t bother upgrading to the beta as they should be releasing it very soon, at least I hope so!

Bloggerwave is one of the many contenders in the heavily heated paid blogging community.  However, they have a different approach then most.  They only allow 5 of your blogs, and they approve your blog by using a small image which I will be required to post below.  They are similar to PayPerPost in the signup form and also in the marketplace format, but they don’t ever seem to have many opps.  This is my 4th one I have taken with them, and have to say like them a lot and so far have been paid on time.  Three cheers to bloggerwave!

Two of the top five ideas are implemented in this release: Plugin Update Notification  and Tags!  The screen shot and actually functionality for this look amazing!  The default blog roll has finally changed, thank goodness.  I actually think this will only benefit bloggers as no one likes linking out to blogs they have never read/heard of even if they did benefit wordpress substantially.  

Here is my favorite feature in 2.3: Drafts and scheduled posts.  As I have never told anyone, scheduled posts are a crucial tool to any blogger.  Going out for the day?  Blog up the day before hand!  Want contest results to go live at 12:01 A.M.?  Or in Blog About Your Blog’s case is comment Friday, which goes live automatically if you’ve never seen!

There will also be a pending review function, which is good for group blogs.  I think the advance editor looks pretty nifty as well.  It allows you to change up your text some more than the current Wordpress will.

Ahh, 2.3  Remember to get yourself upgraded ASAP everyone!

Yahoo has been plugged with service shutdowns, search engine inadequacies and numerous other problems.  Yahoo is still 2nd rank, behind Google.  Yahoo and MSN have tried to penetrate the ad market, but the real reason why they have not been successful is because they lack a traffic metric.  They do not have their own system of ranking traffic, for search engine purposes, or for site ranking purposes.

Yahoo ads have been an issue from the beginning.  They do not have as much prestige or power as Google.  MSN might as well shut their online advertising division down because they have not made much of a impact on the web.  It is going to take a miracle for any company to get over Google.  However, if they are innovative or creative enough and have some great management I think it is possible to overthrow Google.  Apple seems like a good contender for this position but I doubt they are interested.

Google is beginning to become stale.  Their creative process does not seem as fast paced as it has in the previous years.  They still rank very high and have some very unique new projects in the pipeline, but it just seems like they are lackluster.  They need some new creativity!

With the markets being very unpredictable these days you must truly be careful of what you invest in.  That is not to say that silver is not a great buy.  The U.S. government used to be a rather large silver coin dealer.  However, the government dropped all of its product into the market and now they are coin buyers!  Silver demand is exceeding supply, and has for the past 17 years.  It’s a great time to be buying gold as well.  Gold has and looks to be climbing in value.  It is even more expensive than silver, by quite a long ways but still Monex can help you with investing your money in precious gold or silver.  Why not give Monex a call today to see if they can help you?

With the page rank update going well past normal intervals, you have to wonder where Google is.  They have not announced a page rank update time line, nor have they announced a system to replace it.   With the page rank being updated so sparcely now, you have to wonder how long it will be before it is eliminated.  I believe that Google might be in the process of doing that now.

5 months in real time is equivalent to 2.5 years in Web 2.0 time.  Everything is fast, better, and more flexible.  Will Google’s next ranking system involve links, traffic, or something else.  As far as today it is anyone’s guess and only time may truly tell.