Greg Hartnett

It’s less than 10 degrees outside right now, and we have some serious weather coming in. Current reports showing up to 15″. Sweet. I see some boarding in my near future.

Absolutely fantastic day on the professional side today. Saw the fruition of two major deals on two separate initiatives. Our internet directory saw the addition af three new editors - with directory experience from DMOZ and Looksmart. This really sets us up for a quality build out for 2005.

Craigslist may have my vote as the most useful site online. Every experience I have with them is superb.

Time to hit the sack, and save my energy for shoveling.

Looks like we a re finally going to get some snow on the east coast. New York got approximately 1″ tonight, and according to the reports, we are going to get pounded this weekend. Finally!! What an awful year for east coast snowboarding. I am planning on taking my family up to the mountain early next week though. I have to get my daughter on a board ASAP - when I told her I was going to let her miss a day of school next week to go boarding, she asked “Why not skiing Daddy?” - ugghhhh. It will be nice in a couple of years to have both kids ripping it up with Dad. I am sure it won’t be too long before Dad is doing his best to keep up.

It is encouraging to see that not all of the Democratic party is falling in line. Senator Ted Kennedy, stands as the lone Democrat voicing opposition to President Bush’s nomination of Alberto Gonzazlez for attorney general. Though many Democratic senators have been slamming Gonzalez for his role in aggressive administration policies for the detention of suspected terrorists, most said they would vote to confirm him anyway. Hello!! Why?? Politics as usual - I guess Kennedy is the only one who fears he has nothing to lose - I can hear the right wing talking heads now with their drunken-Kennedy quips.

I salute you, Ted. Have a drink on me
Full story at the Washington Post

I have been a slave to M$ since my first exposure to a computer. When I first became interested in computing, it was mostly for gaming purposes, and the availabiity of games for PCs was just far greater than for an Apple. So I went with the PC, and all these years later, I find myself still relying on Microsoft products for far too many of my computing applications.

About 5 months ago, I finally reached wits end with the popups and spyware I got from surfing using IE. I switched to Firefox, and shortly thereafter tarnsitioned my email functionality from Outlook to Thunderbird. Not only do I find each product more user friendly, but I also dig the fact that most people are not using them. I have found these steps to be liberating, and may even be ready to take the plunge.

I read yesterday that Apple introduced their Mac mini and iPod Shuffle at the Macworld Expo. Priced to reach the masses, I am definitely not wiling to sacrifice on computing power to save a few bucks. I have never been one to scrimp on my technology buys, and I am not going to let my introduction to Apple computers be on a low(er) end system. However, the Power Mac and PowerBook grow ever more tempting…

I paused for a moment in my adult site bonanza to finish up some work on the blogging section of the directory today. Since I have taken such a recent shine to blogging, I thought that I would add some of my most read blogs, and add some new categories as well. Bookmark it if you like, as it contains listings for some very good sites - the blog portion, or for SEO purposes, Blog Directory

Now back off to add more adult sites…

I spent the latter part of last week editing in the Adult branch - though fun for a little while, it gets pretty old. There really is just so much po rn that one relatively normal adult male can look at. I thought that I was a pretty kinky guy, but there truly are some freaks out there…

This morning, while surfing some SEO stuf, I read that “thong” is a pretty popular query. After doing a bit of investigation, I hereby conclude that there are definitely not enough sites that focus on the beauty that is the thong.

I did find one worth bookmarking (don’t click this one at work) BIG Steve’s

Have fun

Though the world around me is less than perfect, that internet directory I have been working on for years now, is finally starting to pay some real dividends. We had a record day in submissions, traffic, and affiliate sign-ups today. As long as we maintain our current strategy, and execute properly on the 2005 gameplan, there should be more banner days ahead.

As I was once fond of saying “Nothing but North from here”

Well, the number of soldiers reported injured topped the 10,000 mark, according to Pentagon officials.

To further muddy the situation, it would appear that some murder charges are being dealt in the death of an “injured insurgent” in Falluja. The tragedies continue to unfold - while over 100,000 die from natural causes at the dawn of the new year, we continue to find ways to kill one another en masse.

I have always loved music. I have friends, family, and colleagues who like music. I really love it. Though not musically inclined (a voice in my head whispers “there is still time”) music has always played a big part in my life. Two music related events in 2004 I am pleased about - my iPod (40 gig model - oh yeah), and the spread of satellite radio.

iPod’s are the proverbial BOMB. Truly. I can take my 4,000 songs with me wherever I go (and I still have room for an additional 5000+). I took it snowboarding with me at Killington last week and it rocked. Once I got past the snafus with the remote in my sleeve, it was smooth sailing. Set up a few mountain playlists, strapped the board on, and ripped it up all day. Now if we could just get some of that West Coast weather…

So with my iPod on the go, and Sisius streaming through the computer at the office, it’s all music, all day. Awesome. Sirius definitely needs to strike a deal with Apple to downoad music directly into iTunes from their online interface. A few times a day, I hear something on Sirius, hit the iTunes store, and purchase music. As I am also a shareholder, it is nice to read at Forbes that Sirius Sees Subscriber Boost From Ford Deal. As a user, I don’t care. I don’t see myself in a Ford any time soon. I do care that I will get 5 more years of Howard. Bring it.

Some quick thoughts on things I plans on accomplishing / woking towards in 2005:

• Quit smoking cigarettes
• Practice more personal discipline
• Leave the office at the office
• Talk less, work more
• Watch less TV, read more books

The holidays were crazy, and blogging here did ot take much of a priority the last few weeks. Now that the damn holidays are behind us, I plan on getting into my tyical groove, and posting both here, and elsewhere in more regular fashion.

2005 is going to kick ass… I know these things.