I want to apologize to anyone who’s commented in the last few weeks. I know I haven’t returned the favor and that’s mainly because of how busy I’ve been. It’s my goal to get around to doing that this weekend, I have it written on my to-do list. I have about six pages to go through so I’ll be sure to get that taken care of as soon as possible.

I’m also behind on approving members for fanlistings/hatelistings PLUS there are over 200 pending sites for AGn Listings, I’ve also got that marked down on my list as well. I have some other more important things to take care of before I start approving members, this is why it’s fairly low on the weekend list. The commenters, however, are in the #2 spot so expect to hear something from me soon. Again, very sorry about it!

This has only come up because of a recent, rather nasty, email from someone who commented on my site a few times in the last week and went on to mention that I’m a ‘jack ass’ for not even bothering to go to hers. So, by default she won’t be visited but everyone else will. 🙂

I’m not sure where exactly it’s coming from but I’m fully aware of the pop up that’s showing up whenever my site is loaded. I’m going through all of my source code for any kind of external link that could be causing this. Part of me believes it’s Adbrite but I won’t know that for certain until I start moving things around. I’m also finding it a bit strange that the pop up is showing up in MSIE when I’m loading everything in Firefox, it’s a bit confusing. I’ll continue working on getting this issue resolved.

I’m just surprised that I’ve gotten emails about this and it’s only shown up recently. While I do appreciate the emails notifying me of this issue – I do not appreciate the one claiming that I’m a ‘sell out with banner ads’, stupidity amuses me – remember?

In any event, I’ll continue getting this worked out and then move on from there.

I knew I was a little tired before but for some reason, after being on the desktop all damn day, my eyes are officially beginning to give up on me. What sucks about this is the fact that I have some serious work to get done before I can even think of falling asleep. I also have to start returning some comments because I know there’s about 30 sites for me to get to tonight. I’m way behind on them, and I sincerely apologize about it if someone’s checking back to see what’s going on.

I guess I should get my ass in gear on…ANYTHING…before my head smacks into the desk.

I don’t typically like launching themes early but I’m going to be extremely busy tonight so I don’t really have the ability to do this later. I know this theme, by no means, trumps the April theme but I like it – so that’s that. Based on my inbox I have a shit load of posts to catch up on. I wasn’t expecting them all to show up in one day. I don’t think this post will be topped for very much longer. So yea, new layout, pimp my site if you wish.

I’m not sure what I’m doing differently but my ranks on Alexa and Technorati seem to be dropping quite a bit. About a month ago I was in the 3 million range on Alexa, now I’m in the 200,000 range. I was up in the 300,000 range on Technorati and now I’m down under 70k. I doubt it has to do with my posting more, I’m sure it’s based on the fact that hits seem to steadily be on the rise. I should probably comment back more on sites than I do. I do return the comment when I get the chance, I’m just going to keep on top of it more from now on.

Thanks for doing whatever you are if you’ve had any help in my ranks dropping, now if only Google would update their damn page ranks (they’re about 3 months overdue) I know my site will be in the PR6 or maybe even PR7 range on the next update…can’t wait for that, I can do higher paying posts – heh.

It took me a little longer than anticipated but I was finally able to get all of the category templates to work properly on both the index and numbered category templates. A big thank you to the members on the WordPress Support forums for their help in pointing me in the right direction. I couldn’t find the proper plugins anywhere, I’m happy I asked. Usually I like to do things myself without asking for help, I tend to pick up on things quickly so I figured I’d be able to handle it. Since that obviously wasn’t the case I took a different route and I’m glad I did. That rare rewarding feeling showed up, all so I could post – go figure.

Anyway, after a quick dinner I got some more work done. I’m taking a quick break now before I get back to it (hence the Category pages being setup. I just have a lot more template files to update for the May theme than originally planned. I think I’m going to wind up working on that a lot harder this weekend than I’d originally thought…heh.