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Friday, December 21st, 2007 | Site Updates

Tim D: “When are you going to write more blog posts? There haven’t been any at all for December.”
James: “When I feel like it / get around to it.”

Yes, I know. In ‘05 if I hadn’t written a post in 3 days I would go back and write posts for previous days. I wrote some pure gold towards the end of that year. Well ya know what? There is just not enough time in the day anymore. For 3 weeks straight I was actually exercising every night for an hour or more! Yes, I have pretty much dropped that like a bad habit (even though it was a good habit) but my point is it took time. Then it takes time to update the movies on the site everyday. Some days I only spend a few minutes on it but often it takes me over an hour because I have so many links I have to check to see if they are broken and then maybe I find a ton of good ones to put up in their place.

I rather enjoy writing tutorials for A Smartass Education however I so rarely ever do it anymore. Ask-a-Smartass is way behind and I’m sure with all the worthless questions there were still a couple good ones to answer. You can’t really see them because whenever somebody tries to submit a script to it the “unanswered feed” gets fucked up and doesn’t show the questions because it can’t validate the feed anymore, so you probably can’t see how many zillion of those questions there are.

So here’s the thing. Despite me enjoying working on my own site and making new shit, there are too many projects on the site for me to choose which ones to do anymore. Unless I become self employed again, I just can’t get caught up on everything. So I am going to create a page called ‘Help The Smartass’ which is going to do several things all of which will help me get shit done.

1) It will have a donation button, however below it there will be a “to do list”. This list will cover all the things I want to do for the site but haven’t been able to choose or get done. Everything from making new WTF pages, to adding more full anime series to the site. Writing tutorials (feel free to request one upon donation) and answering questions. Automating my theater, rewriting my links page, making a massive page of every helpful form on the net, making a broken link reporter for games and movies etc.. etc…

Yes, I will eventually do the things on the list without a donation, however the list will always be expanding so the things that you want done quicker can get done quicker because you will be able to help me shift my focus.

2) I will not put banners on my main pages, nobody likes banners and it takes away from the design and if you are like me at this point you use firefox and have adblock turned on so you don’t seven see banners anymore. However I am not opposed to having affiliate links. So there will be links to Amazon | Newegg | etc… so the places that you ALREADY shop at you can simply click the links b4 purchasing stuff and I will get credit… There will also be links to products that I personally recommend and own like Absinthe / Swords etc..

I figure it’s not advertising at you, it’s just helping me if you choose to buy from there. ..

3) The merchandise store “good stuff” will be moved in there… they don’t sell much, but I see no reason to totally remove them.

Yes, this is the master plan. See if it’s possible that the site can make money purely on people wanting the site to continually expand. If the site can make money I will want to work on it more and this will also help to give me direction. So look for this new section soon and help out The Smartass.