Errors

I have a lot of new features, but with these some problems. I have been getting a message that says that there were errors in posting all of my posts. I think that this is because I have so many new features. I am excited about the new features, but I want all of my posts online. I have also had an increase in visitors. I am excited about that as well. later. view the archives! well the ones that are published :-)

Marketing UP-TO-DATE

We are doing lots of fun things in Marketing with Mr. Cayo. When I first came to freshman orientation, I learned that the juniors and the seniors seemed to like business classes. I truly wasn't sure what to expect, but I was impressed with Marketing. I have learned a lot of fun new material, and I am going on a trip with DECA which is a business challenge. You first go to districts, then states, then the international competition. I hope that I will get to the international, but I don't think that I wil be able to. The international competition is in Dallas, Texas this year.

Civics UP-TO-DATE

Nothing new is really going on in Civics, so I'll just give you some things that we do in there. I know that Mr. Provenzano does not like our class, but I think that he might not like me in particular. I'm not sure why though, because I try my hardest. He tries really hard to prove my point wrong, but he doesn't do that to the other kids. I can't really figure this out though. Read the archives and make comments!

Science UP-TO-DATE

We are doing a lot of unusual things in Science this week. Instead of normal classes, we are moved to the Auditorium and we are bunched with the other classes. We are watching this video on the rainforest, and I am not very interested, but I still do the worksheet. I'm not sur where the normal teachers are, because we are all with subs. I know that this has something to do with the new S-Building, because all of the classes that are there, would normally be in the new part of the building. I am curious to see when we will move into the new building.

Math UP-TO-DATE

We have not been doing much new stuff in Math this year. It may be new to the other students though, because I have taken Algebra One already. I did not, however, do well. I hope that you read the other UP-TO-DATE posts for more information on my other subjects. READ THE ARCHIVES AND MAKE COMMENTS

PE UP-TO-DATE

This post was called PE UP-TO-DATE because I will talk about PE. (I wanted to explain this because I know that the name is quite odd. Anyway, I have some news. We are doing a swimming unit in PE, and I am not too excited about it because we are going to have to swim in a pool that looks very unsanitary. I'm not trying to complain or tattlew-tale, or anything, but the pool has these wierd blobs of liquid that is defiately not water, sitting at the bottom of the pool. I didn't swim today, because I had forgotten my swim suit, but the people that did swim said that the pool was very gross. One girl said that there were hairs and phlem in the pool. I find that simple revolting, but I'll do my best to keep a positive attitude towards this unit.

Our PE teacher, Mr. Pillars, doesn't seem to care about this though. I don't think that I should
be too worried about this, though.

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ADS ON THIS SITE

The ads on this site are not currently active, so I cannot generate any revenue from them at this time. I am trying them out, but I do hope that they will get activated very soon.

Low Readership on Feedburner

I have recently noticed that I have very low readership on my feedburner rss feed. I would like to let everyone know that you can get my feed if you have a Windows PC. All you have to do is download Mozilla Firefox from Mozilla. Hope that you all visit there.

My new Podcast

Well, I have put 29 of my archived posts on my podcast. You can view it here. If you have any comments on this podcast, you can email me here. Enjoy!

LATER:

LATER:I am currently working with Odeo to get my podcast updated. I might need to extend the release date from this weekend to next weekend, because I have over one hundred posts on the website. That's a lot!!! I want to get the Odeo Syncer, but right now I am using the basic online tools to get the recording done. I'll have to check and see if the Odeo Syncer works for the Macintosh.

My New Podcast

Hey all. Me again. I have sucessfully set up a new Podcast!!! I call it: Bill's Online Journal(Podcast Edition). I plan to begin recording immeadiately. I will first start off by reading the first post. That will be one file on the podcast. Then I will read the second post. Then the third, and so on and so forth. I hope to have a lot of my posts on the podcast this weekend, but don't hold me to it. This will be a big step for Bill's Online Journal. Now, I will have pictures, sound files(NEW), normal text, and two RSS feeds!! Now there will be four ways that you can get to Bill's Online Journal. You can view one of two RSS feeds(the feedburner feed required the atom feed, so to get the good one, I needed to get two), I will have a Podcast, and of course, I have my website. More later...

This week

This has been a very long week, even though I have had Tuesday off. I have read two books within this week. I've had four tests and quizes. I've just been really busy. Hopefully the work load will boil down later. But this week I have just been busy, busy, busy! I am making some time this weekend, so hopefully I will be able to read at least half of my archived posts. I also have stuff to do with the laptop that doesn't involve this blog. I have to re-download all of my programs and applications that I had on my old Mac, which is going to take some time. I am hoping to print out all of my posts, and begin to read the text as an audio recording, but as of now, I don't have any plans to start creating things on the audio blog, because I want to type the posts first. Later.

My Hit Count

The last time that I checked my hit count, I was at eight, but I am hoping that maybe the numbers may go up in the near future. As I have stated in previous posts, I have mixed opinions on this subject. On one hand, I could benefit from big numbers, but on the other hand, I would get pressure to spend a lot more time on the blog, which could cut into my extra free time. I am writing this post into my new place to officially write my posts offline. I call it: Bill's Blogger Book. It allows me to write posts anywhere, not just in front of the computer. In the recent days, the hit count for my site has increased substantially! I plan to get a lot more posts done, with my new Blogger book. Hopefully, my new laptop will aid in the typing of my future posts on this blog. I know that the term "Blog" means "web log", but let's just say thta I'm straining the definition. Later!

My New Life Update

For the last few years, I have been working on a book entitled "My New Life". Once in a blue moon I will write a post on the progress of my novel, and this time, is no exception. I have some new news that I wanted to say here before telling people. Just as an incentive to visit the site. I plan to add some new characters to the MNL cast. More info at a later time. Bye for now.

LANGUAGE

Did you know that 9 precent of the people who view this site view it in Chinease!!!!

More hit count stuff

I have been talking about the hit count of this site. Here is a graph showing the hits so far this week. I got the counter on Tuesday, so that is why there isn't anything bfeore that.
You'll notice the spike that is coming today. I expect that it will go down. I am not quite sure why there is a lot of people here today, but it is good news for me.

6 visitors

I am happy to announce that since yesterday, I have had 6 visitors!!!! I know that the numbers are extremely small, but I am excited, because the numbers are up from yesterday!

My grades

My grades are coming on Monday, and they are looking good. I have spoken to all of my teachers about my grades, and they are impressed. I hope that this next quarter will bring more great results.

Years past and thoughts of moving

I can't believe that I have been on Blogger for over two years!!!! I was just looking through the archives! This is amazing!! I think that I have really grown up since then!! I was what? Twelve!!! OMG!!!!!! That is SO FUNNY. Notice that usually during the school year, I am unable to write. Not this year. I have been getting the best grades that I have ever gotten, AND I have lots of free time. Thank the lord(ignore that statement if you are not christian) I hope that everybody reads my archives!!! I have been fighting to keep them up. It is taking some mental strength because every time that I put up a new post, Blogger gets a little slower. And when I took off some posts that I moved to my multimedia blog, Blogger went a little faster. I have so many posts on my blog, that when I tried to republish my blog so that my hit counter appeared, the server at Blogger crashed. I was surprised, because the kind of servers that Blogger uses cost at least $20000! I have been thinking about moving this blog, and putting a new blog at this address. I was thinking about putting another Bill's Online Journal here, so that the blog could be very fast when I want to publish new posts, but I don't think that I want to give this address up, so don't email me asking why I want to move, because I really don't want to move. Don't worry, I won't let two years and two months at this address go just to get faster blogging. This blog is for your enjoyment, and my enjoyment. If you can't find the blog, where is your enjoyment??? I can't seem to find where it would be if you can't find my blog.

LOW READERSHIP!!! (CONTINUED)

I think that low readership is OK, but higher numbers would not be a bad thing... until they get too high. I guess that low numbers are, in a sense, safer for a blogger, then higer numbers. Unless that blogger wants to be able to call himself a powerblogger. A PowerBlogger is someone who has an extremely popular blog. They often make hundreds of dollars from the advertising that gets placed on their sites. I have not seen one penny from this blog. That STINKS FROM A FINANCIAL STANDPOINT, but then again, I DON'T HAVE ANY ADS ON MY SITE!!! (Hint: this is the part where you laugh, and tell your friends about how great this site is! LOL! Well anywho... This is a really interesting subject to talk about. It is for me at least. If you are getting bored, feel free to hit Ctrl + D (Windows users) or Command(the Apple key) + D(Mac users) to bookmark this site, then leave. But remember to come back later, because there might just be some cool stuff that you like later on. Ok... well if anybody is still reading, I just wanted to get the people who weren't interested off my back. Not literally of course! BACK TO LOW READERSHIP: I don't have any ads on the site, but I think that if I put some ads on the site, I might not have as many readers, because they will not only see a boring site, but they will see a boring site WITH ADS. L O L!!!!!!!! That was good. Ithankyou. If I had all of these ads, I would not be able to see the content. I have been thinking about how I could use some of the funds generated by possible ads, to do advertising for the site. That would be cool. That would increase my ad money(hypothetically), and then I would invest back into the site, which would make even more money, and the cycle goes on and on.... THAT WOULD BE GREAT!!! But, eventually Blogger would tell me that my site was getting too expensive for them to host, and they would ask me to pay for my own hosting, which, with all of the hypothetical readers, would be next to impossible. I am getting ahead of myself here. That was a great dream that lasted a record-breaking thirty seconds! Later.

-Bill

LOW READERSHIP!!!

I am not surprised that there is very low readership! Since you are reading this, good job! Either my hit count is extremely bad, or there has been no visitors today. I actually find that amusing. It's silly. LOL! :) I think that some new readers would be benificial to the site, so I have put the site URL in my email signature. Anyway, I hope that you all enjoy this site, and tell your friends, even though all that I do is write about my life. It's kind of boring right? I will even admit that reading this must be boring. I laugh when I think about this. But I really like to use this blog as a journal readers, or no readers. Anyway, I have low readership. Part of me wants to get featured in the blogs of note on the blogger website, but another part of me wants to keep this blog secret. I was reading one blog that was on the featured list. Because it was featured, the person had so many visitors that he had to get another site to host his pictures, because Blogger wasn't powerful enough!!! I could barely believe that!!! That is a lot of hits!!!! Then he goes on the most popular list, and since people generally read the most popular blogs, he will have to keep paying for his image hosting!!! There is a definate downside to that kind of thing. Blogger itself is a free service. I have no idea how they make their money, because they have no ads anywhere, they don't sell anything except for some T-shirts with the Blogger logo on them. That could not be nearly enough to make a profit. I know that they are for profit, because they are owned by Google. Here is the Blogger logo.

Server Problems

There must be some server problems at Blogger, because my blog has been having difficulty publishing. It looks like the server at Blogger is down. There must be a lot of people who are trying to edit thier blogs right now.

library presentation

I am very excited to announce that I will be able to put some newer updates here. I want to mention that I have found a lot of cool stuff to add to the site. You should visit this site regularly, because I frequently update this web site. Right now, I am watching a presentation on some library junk. It's really boring. We are in the computer lab, but we really aren't learning anything.

Hey all

I just wanted to say that I have gotten my new computer. I got it yesterday! I am so excited about it. I have already set it up in my room. I have a monitor(even though it is a laptop), a mouse, and my three printers(two of which were free). This is going to be so much fun, and I will love being able to keep everybody updated.

-Bill

Archives

Have you looked at the archives???? I would highly recommend that you look through the archives because I have really enjoyed making this site from day one. I have worked har for a very long time, and I would like to mention that I really enjoy going through the archives, just to see what I have said years ago, so I thought that you all might like to go through the archives to see what I have said in years past. I think that I am going to do a post on some of the features that I have worked hard to customize and develope to meet the needs of my readers.

My New Blogging Manual

I truly wish that I could be able to be called a PowerBlogger because a PowerBlogger is someone who is an expert on Blogging, and they have amazing blogs too. I have created a new Blogger Manual which outlines a lot of the stuff that I have learned over the course of having this blog. I just love Blogging. It is very theraputic. I really want this blog to be the best that it can be, so I have created a set of rules and suggestions for myself to follow. I have used some of the experience that I got in my ninth grade Information Processing class at South. I have outlined some cool features that you can put into a blog, some awsome ways to use a blog, some reasons why you should get a blog of your own, and if you do you should hold onto it really tightly. I really enjoy my blog, as you can tell by the ninety some posts that I have made since 2003. Actually the majority of the posts that I have made have been since I got my Macintosh. I am going to use my Blogging Manual from now on to try to make my posts better in any way that I can. I really love the whole idea of being able to get your work published, no matter how many readers you have. In the last few months I have become a big fan of Blogger, and I hope to use Blogger to the biggest advantage that I possibly can. I really enjoy writing these posts. "More to come!" "Happy Reading!" "Read the Archives!" have all been some of my closing remarks for the majority of my posts, so I think that I will end the post with all three of the remarks: More to come! Happy Reading! Read The Archives!

-Bill

An update on the situation with my new computer

I am slightly upset about the fact that my new computer hasn't come! I figured out that FedEx shipped the package on Friday, but my mom wasn't there to sign for it, because she was in Chicago, so my new computer got sent back to the FedEx location. I want to mention that they WILL make two more attempts to deliver the package, as they should, but I am still upset at FedEx for not leaving it in the garage. UPS was willing to do that with my old computer. I-yai-yai-yai-yai. Anyway... I should get my computer on Monday!!! I am so excited about the new computer because it will be 42 percent faster than my old one, it will have a DVD/CD BURNER not just a CD player. I am very excited about this because I will be able to make DVDs outof the Home videos that we make from the Digital video Camera that my dad is planning to get (possibly at Christmas?). I will just love this new one. You don't want to know what happened to my old one, and I really don't want to tell you. Sorry. Anyway, the point is that I am getting a new one. Happy Reading! Read the Archives!

An update on the situation with my new computer

I am slightly upset about the fact that my new computer hasn't come! I figured out that FedEx shipped the package on Friday, but my mom wasn't there to sign for it, because she was in Chicago, so my new computer got sent back to the FedEx location. I want to mention that they WILL make two more attempts to deliver the package, as they should, but I am still upset at FedEx for not leaving it in the garage. UPS was willing to do that with my old computer. I-yai-yai-yai-yai. Anyway... I should get my computer on Monday!!! I am so excited about the new computer because it will be 42 percent faster than my old one, it will have a DVD/CD BURNER not just a CD player. I am very excited about this because I will be able to make DVDs outof the Home videos that we make from the Digital video Camera that my dad is planning to get (possibly at Christmas?). I will just love this new one. You don't want to know what happened to my old one, and I really don't want to tell you. Sorry. Anyway, the point is that I am getting a new one. Happy Reading! Read the Archives!

Make comments

I would like to encourage my readers to make comments if you are reading this. I would just like to hear from you all, and I think that the comments section is a great place to get feedback from readers. If you do have a comment, you can put it on the site by clicking on a comments link that is at the bottom of all most every post. I can disable comments, but I usually don't do that. I did that with my older posts, but with the new ones, I am not doing that, because I want to get create a comforatable, community feeling here at Bill's Online Journal.

allrecipes.com

Have you ever been to the website Allrecipes.com ? I have been checking it out for a while now, and have found a lot of cool recipes.

click this link

http://www.savefile.com/index.php?aff=60321

My New Computer

My new computer is coming today!!! I am so excited!!! I have things to do on it before I can play, though. I need to download the programs that I had on the old computer off of the Internet, so I plan on going to Panera. I also have work to do when it comes to setting up the computer. I am going to have to work on getting all of the settings that I had on the old one put on the new one. I probably have a weekend full of work that I have to get done on the computer, but it will take more then this weekend, because I must account for possible homework, and probable studing. I might be able to get a few updates to the site, or I might not, but one thing is for sure: I'M GOING TO BE VERY BUSY!!!

'watching with Mrs. Robinson'

This weekend, my parents are going to Chicago with some other members of the DYC. It will be fun for them, I'm sure, but for us... I'm not so sure. Every year, usually around the fall, we get 'watched' by a family friend by the name of Mrs. Robinson. This year, I really think that it is not necissary, because I am in high school. I think that I can take care of myself for a weekend. But that's not what my parents think, because they have sent Mrs. Robinson over to watch us. My new computer is going to be coming soon, so that will be the subject of my next post. Back to Mrs. Robinson... I have known Mrs., Mr., and Freddie Robinson for a very long time. Every year we get watched by Mrs. Robinson, and every year, we have to tag along with her, doing whatever she is doing. Every year I get promised that we will do something fun, and every year that doesn't happen. This year might be different though, because Mrs. Robinson said that we can just stay home this weekend. I am excited about this, so I like the idea. I do want to go to Panera, though because my new computer won't have all of the programs that I had on my old one. Actually, the Robinsons have a DSL line, so I could simply hook my computer up to the DSL there, and go online. That will be my back-up plan, in case we have to go to Mrs. Robinson's house.

a new idea...

I think that I have an idea for a new novel. If you didn't know, I have written 224 pages of a book called My New Life. The name seems odd to everyone but me, because the novel is not written in first person(using I, me, etc.). The book is written in third person. ANYWAY... I wanted to put this post up, because I want to remember how this idea started: I was walking out of PE, and I thought about the book, the prince and the pauper. I thought that it would be cool to remake the book with some twists. The idea of two worlds colliding is truly classic. But I have an idea that would add a modern twist to this classic idea. The book would take place in 3000 AD. There would be a boy who is extremely wealthy and powerful. He has it all because his father invented the XL5000(X-treme Learner 5000) which eliminates the idea of school. Instead, all of the knowledge that the world contains is be copied into your brain in a matter of seconds. This boy's mother mysteriously died, but no one can figure out why. There is another boy. He is working class. His dad works for the rich kid's dad. At a comany picnic, the two boys meet and become friends. When Mike's dad has John's dad over for dinner, the two men recognize eachother, and leave. They scold their sons for talking with 'scum', so the kids decide to switch places. This is going to be a great book! I just have to make time for it. As usual, with big projects of any kind, I will work on this over the weekend. I think that it is a good idea, but I'm not sure that I have the time to make it a reality. It's lucky that i have had enough time to type this post.

TEST

This post is solely for the purpose of testing my new "footer" which will go at the end of every one of my new posts.

Pictures

I have recently decided to move of the desktops that I was offering up for download on this site. I have moved them to their own blog. If you would like to view the new blog click here. I think that this will make the site better because it will contain more writing.

"Post Halloweeen" Post

Hey. I hope that everyone reading this blog had a safe and fun Halloween! I did. My sister brought me some candy, because she still goes trick-or-treating. That was good. I have ordered my new computer(I did that yesterday.), so I will again be able to constantly update this blog. Though, right now I can only update the blog during lunch hour(after I have eaten, of course). So that will be good. If you have any comments, you can always put them in the comments area. Blogger does make sure that they are appropriate, though I trust that no one will misuse the comments area. Anyway, back to Halloween... This year we didn't really decorate the house. Every year we have slowed down our Halloween celebration. I learned that Halloween is derived from All Hollow's Eve, though I don't know the meaning. If you do, feel free to comment on it. Did you konw that Halloween spending has passed Easter, and is now rivaling Christmas? I can barely believe it myself. Americans are spending some $12-20 billion on Halloween stuff. Wow! That is A LOT OF CA$H!!!