When I first started the Citizen I had ads fairly prominently featured in the sidebar. As a young, foolish blogger I dreamed of the untold riches that would come to me thanks to Google Adsense. Sadly those riches never came, mostly due to the fact that my traffic at the time consisted of my mom (and she didn’t realize you had to actually click on an ad for me to make any scratch). With traffic considerably higher now then the old days I’ve put up some Adsense ads. I’m not looking to get rich (and won’t) but it would be nice to defray some of the hosting costs. The ads are designed so that “regular” readers (people who visit twice or more over ten days) shouldn’t see them. Let me know if you visit often and are still seeing them, they are intended for people visiting from search engines or from the occasional referring link. Peace and love.
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If you are viewing the site using Internet Explorer sorry things look screwed up, I’ve been fiddling around with the back end of the site and, as you can see, haven’t perfected what I want yet. You really should switch to FireFox though. Also, do things look messed up in IE 7?
This morning I was reading Slate’s Today’s Blogs like I always do and what do I see but me, getting quoted from this post. Here’s what they said:
Workin’ man blues: The Politico reports that Congress is fitfully adjusting to their newly instituted five-day work week, but conservative bloggers reserve little sympathy for the lawmakers’ complaints.
“When the Democrats took the majority this year, they swore to set a new tone of hard work in Congress by demanding a five-day work week while in session,” writes conservative Ed Morrissey at Captain’s Quarters. “… Nine months later, while overdue appropriation bills still have not seen the House floor and the 110th Congress acquiring a do-nothing appelation, Democrats have begun to rebel against the schedule”
Citizen Jake also takes a swipe at the supposed do-nothing Congress, noting, “You would think that politicians that are smart enough to get elected to Congress would be smart enough not to complain about having to work a 5 day work week.” Righty American Pundit is gleeful that Democrats have less time to spend in their districts: “You may remember that the Democratic House instituted 5 day workweeks when they took over Congress, apparently in an attempt to get more done (yeah, that worked). …Well, there’s apparently an ironic consequence of ‘working’ more: Representatives not having time to actually visit their constituents.”
Cool. Feel free to quote me anytime.
I’m in the middle of a fairly major/complicated redesign so apologies for the ugliness.
You may have noticed that the site’s been down for a while. Now that I’m back in America I’ve had the time to try and figure things out; I think I’ve managed an acceptable work around. Sorry about that.
You may have noticed that Citizen Jake is being redesigned a bit. Hopefully the new site will not only look nicer but also feature some cool new tricks. It's taken a significant amount of trial and error to get things working but let me tell you about some of the new features and you can tell me what you think about it.
First off major thanks to Bharath Kumarwho designed this style and basically the whole look of the place. The man did a great job. Kumar's design is, as you can see, a three column design that uses K2 as its framework. K2 is basically the sickest Wordpress theme around and makes running a blog both much easier and much cooler. I'm very glad to have it up and running here.
OK now for the new features. First to the stuff in the sidebars. In the first sidebar, the one in the middle basically, you'll notice a search box (which features live search, very cool) and a recent posts section. Nothing too new or fancy about that. Next though is a recent comments section. This is pretty cool; it will show what posts have been recently commented on and who made the comment. It makes it much easier to continue conversations and see who's talking about what. Very glad to have this implemented. Next is the Adsense block (click on it and make me some money damn it!), nothing new there.
On to the right sidebar. You've got the RSS feeds, for those of you with an RSS reader (something I highly recommend). Then the Links section featuring the other site in the Citizen Jake stable, The Sports Note (soon to be relaunced, I promise). Next is the catogories section; click on one and see all the posts I've tagged for that category. Then another Adsense block and the sitemeter reader.
Now to the coolest new thing: the Movie Ratings Page. You'll notice at the top of the blog a tab labeled "Movies". Go there and you'll see all the movies I've seen and rated, along with brief reviews. I'll be updating this frequently as I've got quite a backlog of movies to rate (luckily I've saved every ticket stub from the last ten years). Big ups to Paul Goscicki for creating the plugin.
Anyway thats pretty much it. Thoughts, comments, complaints? Leave'em in the brand new comments
alright, took a little break there for a while. Now I'm ready to get into the swing of things again. Interesting posts to follow shortly.
Today, May 22nd, 2006, Citizen Jake launchs. Who knows where we go from here. Bookmark me, forward me, whatever.