• I don’t have anything against ms. Sotomayor but I think if you want to seat her you should have to replace Scalia with a Buddhist.
• There has to be a mathematical formula that can show the percentage of time a NBA star gets a call proportional to his magnitude.
• Billups is a really good player, but I just can’t imagine a stadium chanting Chauncey, Chauncey, Chauncey…
• Why are the clients that drive you crazy asking “are we there yet” the same ones that take forever 2 pay the balance when you’re finished?
• The Ed Show makes me long for “Tucker”. When Tucker Carlson is a better talk show host then you, you need to re-evaluate.
• Man, adding that 3rd color is like adding the 4th chord….
• #Netfilx – I hope u r listening – not only did u just lose a customer u lost an un-paid evangelist. netfilx + silverlight = suxor
• Olbermann is a bad ass, Hannity, errrrr, not so much: http://tinyurl.com/cmjvsn If (were_kids) then hannity = “bawk-bawk-bawk”
• I’m not gay or black but it surprises me how many African American’s think “separate but equal” is appropriate for gay rights.
• If the Republicans were really only about limited government, individual responsibility and economic freedom I would be one.
• Don’t believe that Republicans want the govt out of your life – they just want to insert govt somewhere *else* in your life.
• Once one becomes established, the biggest trick is figuring out which clients one should *not* take on.
• A client changed a 1em line-height to a .1em and then was mad because his WordPress theme was broken…
• Energy and transportation are perfectly feasible in a voluntary society. Government is force.
• For the record, vegetarian chinese and mexican is just as good as regular chinese and mexican…
• I should have a Teevee show. Joe Scarborough has one, how hard can it be?
• Next time someone says something like “I don’t know where you find the time” ask them how much teevee they watch.
• You have to love clients…. Verbatim quote from a client this morning: “It’s been great working with you. So far.
• The Obama administration is arguing that the U.S. can never be sued for spying. Take a bow for the new revolution.
• What the first lady is wearing is not news and if that is what you are reporting on you are not a journalist.
• A company to big to fail is too big period. Failure is part of the capitalist system, if you don’t allow failure you don’t have capitalism.
• My Fellow Americans: Neither you, I, or that other brother has a “right” not to be offended. Get over yourselves.
• Here you go – my new official slogan: It’s not Red vs. Blue, It’s the State vs. You.
• If you are using twitter like a mass mail app you are doing it wrong.
• #262626 is the new #000000
• 1st rule of life – the only constant is change. 2nd rule of life – don’t be a douche-bag.
• Good country is just as good as good blues which is just as good as good rock which is just as good as good funk which is..
• Every December Romo chokes like a Linda Lovelace wanna be.8:08 PM Dec 28th, 2008 from web in reply to samblak
• After thanksgiving still full, getting back to work holiday Haiku
• How could NBC’s Football night in America have possibly come up with a more annoying theme song then MNF’s Hank William Jr’s

This works fairly well, however with open systems it could work much better if more systems were opened up.

Take ebay for instance. It would be fantastic if I could integrate my ebay feedback score ( 100% with 195 transactions over the last 12 months ) with the rest of my online reputation. If there was an open system so I could ask my clients to comment and leave feedback and that feedback would go into the same system as my ebay feedback it would give a much better picture of JTk’s reputation. Combine that with my linked in testimonials, other blog posts about me, my amazon profile, other web 2.0 type sites, etc. and you get a good picture of my online reputation.

Of course ebay is a closed system ( and therefore old school interweb ) so you have to screen scrape if you wanted to do anything with it’s data and they will probably sure you if you do. But it would be excellent if people coming to my site to do business with me could see comments from my ebay feedback like:

• great service and product
• Great ebayer, great product and service.
• Great seller fast shipping works great A++++
• EXCEPTIONAL COURTEOUS PERSON. S_M-O-O-T-H TRANSACTION
• good guy

But alas I had to cut and paste these and they won’t be integrated with other sources of opinions about me, nor will they be updated. So, I am wondering if open systems such as all of the 2.0 services popping up are the future or if these old established services will continue to dominate?

I know that there are services out there that try and act as reputation services, but until the mainstream sites opt in ( or until mainstream users don’t participate in closed systems ) they aren’t very useful. I don’t think it is a technology problem ( couldn’t ebay just give me an RSS feed of my feedback ) but it is a business decision to try and lock in users. With the recent performance of ebay’s stock and the palpable anger of a large segment of ebay power sellers with the recent changes in the terms maybe the auction giant has past it’s peak.

Hey Now, I am happy to announce version 1.2 of the Blue Meanie free WordPress theme. Blue Meanie is a free theme that Conlan and I released about a year ago – and it needed some attention… It’s a variable width, liquid layout, stretchable type theme that I’ve always liked and judging by the number of support questions I get about it – it’s fairly popular.

Check it out here.

Yes, I am selling Wide World of Food on Ebay this month so that I can focus on the business at hand.

WWoF has a Google Page Rank 4 and you get the domain name, the content, the custom theme ( a $500 value ), and 6 months of free hosting! Get all the benefits of having a topical niche blog without the headache of start-up. This blog can be a great addition to a blog network, or a fantastic marketing tool if you have anything to do with the food industry. Or it can be a interesting hobby if you just love food

Check it out here.

Yes, the time has come, I am selling roxorblog as my professional life is changing and running an entertainment blog is not something that I can do at the moment and instead of letting it go I figured I would try and find a loving home for it.

Roxor Blog – http://www.roxorblog.com is for sale.
This is an established WordPress powered blog that has a Google Page Rank of 4 and a kick-butt original design. The winner of this auction will get the domain name, a second domain name with an alternative (leet) spelling, the original WordPress theme ( a $500 value ) and all the content in the blog.

You can pick up right where I have left off and run your own entertainment blog without having to start from scratch – all the hard start up work has been done for you.

One of the nice things about Roxor Blog is that you can collect a bunch of free swag from folks that want you to review their CD’s and DVD’s. View the Auction here.

So I was trying to retrieve my Microsoft Passport that I had setup some time ago as it seems that Microsoft is billing me for something and I need to find out what it is at the very least.

However, when I tried to find out what was going on I had to try and find out what my password was, tried to send myself an email with account info, etc.

The graphic above was what I ended up with…..

This new computer is a fine ( although very stripped down ) computer that would probably suffice for an average computer user – that is once you take the bloated Vista off it. Yes, since I had no choice it came loaded with Vista and since it was already on there I thought that I would fire it up and give it a chance.

Now, this is a modern computer and was sold as “Vista Ready” and had Vista loaded on it, so I am guessing that the good folks at the major computer manufacturer and at Microsoft thought that this computer could run this operating system. In reality, not even close. The operating system, a browser, and windows updates were using 100% of the CPU and the majority of the RAM, not leaving any resources for anything else.

And I haven’t even talked about how it looks! Ever since it launched all I heard about was how awesome Vista looks, that the Windows Aero was the main reason to upgrade, etc. To me it looks Clown Pants, I mean, how clean is Vista? There are allot of bells and whistles but does it look allot better then XP? Not really, it’s different, but I don’t think it’s better. Has Microsoft caught up with Apple in the look and feel department? Not so much, in fact I think that they have taken a step backwards.

Vista may appeal to folks that are used to looking at gaming interfaces but for those of us that prefer a clean, elegant look and feel that is conducive to getting things done – it’s not Vista imho.

So anyway, I formated the hard drive in this new computer, put in a dual headed video card, and installed XP.

And got back to work.

Feedback score: 100|Positive feedback: 99.0%

99 out of 100 people were satisfied with my service.

Too bad that there is no universal internet ratings system that I could plug this 99% into….

This one is a little special because it was not designed to be a freely available creative commons theme but rather it was the previous theme of imjtk.com. This theme served me well and when it was time to re-boot the site, I thought, hey, why not give away the old WordPress theme…

So here you go, feel free to download this theme and do with it what you will – but if you do please respect the creative commons attribution license and give imjtk a link somewhere or another ( that’s the attribution in the attribution license ).

Note: This theme is now hosted and updated over at Doc5.com

This was the background I used myself on my old D2 Gentoo box, and the code is from Shopping Kert. If you like it, download it and use it in good health. If you use it, how ’bout a link to imjtk.com.