Darkfalz.com

I recently did a quite launch of a new site venture I've taken on. Swing over to www.CynicalSide.com for a look. Basically it's a Gaming/Movies/TV/Music/Techie-Stuff board where we (myself and a variety of different friends) can post to talk about whatever's on our minds. There's already a coupld posts up there so go and take a look. Also, it will be a Podcast series as well but it's been tough to coordinate schedules over the holiday's so we'll probably start off with the begining of the new year.

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Wow are people stupid. What I mean is I am amazed at the numbers of fake blog comments that come into my site everyday simply for the sake of advertising. Now, I'm not saying that the people that posted the ad-comments (most aren't really bots anymore but cheap labor) but rather I'm amazed that someone actually PAID them to do it. If I had a small business, which I used to so I understand, I would never give money to one of those "we can get you to the top of <insert search engine here> for only $x.xx" scams. I mean sure, they will take your money, and sure, for a very short time you may actually get raised up on the results pages but look at how they do it. They take your site and the innundate other sites, with high listings, with comments that do nothing but link out to your site. Most search engines value a link off a popular site as higher ranked so as a result you get a higher rank....but then the trouble starts. Black lists are just the begining....You can end up feeling a much larger negative impact. Your site will now forever be correlated to the SEO scams and as such will get a very low opinion. Your real links may get pulled, and of course all the fake ones will probably be pulled and you may even find that ANY link from any of your actual site members/users will end up in the delete bucket for any moderated site.

Please.....for the sanity/cleanliness of the internet, stop the crap, earn your own rankings and quit trying to "steal" your way into business.

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Finally got off my proverbial ass and started things in motion for this. After further thought I've decided to go the route of keeping the new venture on a it's own domain name and not reusing this one for the new plan. This way I'll still have my "fun & personal" site (this one) as well as my new one for the new enterprise. As I'm sure you've noticed I'm still being fairly vague but things are progressing and I'll make more announcements soon. I've purchased the new domain(s) and have started to get some of the overhead stuff taken care of. If all goes well and my availability doesn't get eaten up with day-to-day stuff I should have more for you shortly.

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I've run this site under a number of different purposes and with a number of different thoughts in mind over the years. What started out as a simple site to maintain a list of programming scripts and snippets and then morphed into a pop/tv culture "thing" for a while and even spent time as a business site has taken yet another turn. I've gone through, and am still going through, a number of significant life-changing events in the last bit of time. I've bought a new house, gotten engaged, had my mother diagnosed with breast cancer, been through her fight (and hopefully victory) over it and am about to get married (only 5 more days). With this I've decided it's time to take a look at my life, what I've held dear, what I didn't and everything in between. Time is a little cramped, to say the least, for...oh, about 5 more days, and then I've got some fairly robust changes in mind for darkfalz.com. I hope you all come back and check out the new site content when it's up and I hope you all feel a part of it.

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Title: ASP.Net 3.5 Content Management System Development
Link: Amazon, Packt, Barnes and Nobel

I'm proud to announce the release and publication of my first book. I co-authored this title and found it to be an incredible experience. One that I hope to do again sometime. It's a step-by-step walkthrough for creating your own CMS site, or rather for creating the foundations for your site. It shows you a number of different techniques and helps with the complete process. From installation and configuration to authoring content and releasing it's a complete "how-to" for your site.

I hope you find the book interesting and, as always, you can feel free to send me all the feedback you want. The book is available in physical and eBook forms.

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I've put the new SSD in the machine but due to it's 60gb limitation I need to add a second drive. I'm looking for suggestions on doing this, but the key is I need to do it AFFORDABLY....

I have an IDE to USB adapter with a 200gb drive in it. This works but it's not that fast.
My laptop only has one HD slot, it's got the SSD in it now.
My laptop does have a Express slot.
I do have an extra 250gb SATA drive (3.5")
I do have an extra 250gb SATA drive (2.5")
Bonus: Win7 compatibility.

Suggestions?

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This week I broke down and decided to replace the Hard Drive on my laptop with a new Solid State Drive (SSD). I opted for the OCZ Sata II 2.5" drive in the 60gb size. It all plugged in just fine to the laptop, which was running a Western Digital Scorpio 5400rpm SATA ATA drive (250gb). While the size difference is big I'm not too concerned yet. I'm really doing it for testing first-most. While I was at it I've also opted to install Windows 7 Beta. Thought this would be the opportune time.

So far I have to say...it's all good. Some pieces of it I'm not sure how to attribute (to Win7 or the SSD) but it's WAY faster. Basic system ops are all zippy (that'd be the Win7 improvements I'm thinking) but I've also installed some games that have large load times....and man do they fly (that'd be the SSD I think). I'll keep playing with it off and on for the next couple weeks and see what happens but so far I think I may be sold! Now I just need to find a way to add a second, internal, drive to the laptop.....I'm thinking the CD/DVD Drive is gonna have to come out :}

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