This is hilarious.
News for January 2008
Knocked Up
My favorite grape juice…
2007 Tax Rebate…
What rebate?
The Beard Man
About a month ago was the last time I shaved… I normally shave once a week because of the peach fuzz that grows on my face. So everyday at work I will get the latest and greatest comment from the men who can’t grow a mustache, women that don’t like men with beards, or a smart ass comment from someone who has never seen me with facial hair… Needless to say, I just shaved.
Resolution to our hosting issues…
It seems like the $1 ad space was the answer to my dilemma for the hosting costs. Thanks to those that actually placed an ad for this month! Our bill has been paid! 
Social Network for Remolacheros
So what does this mean? In my opinion, I think… Remolacha.net will gain more members from word of mouth and Remolacheros emailing friends to join the group. At the same time, it’ll gain more readers for it’s already popular Dominican news blog… the content of the social group will need stay catchy so that the readers and it’s members maintain a live forum.
It appears to be that Ning has found a nitch for creating social networks. As it says in the Wikipedia…
Ning hopes to compete with large social sites like MySpace and Facebook, by appealing to users who want to create networks around specific interests or have limited technical skills
My question is, will this platform for creating social networks that are based on specific interests lead the young Dominican population that are members of Hi5, Myspace, and Facebook to pertain to 1 particular social network?
With the number of social sites now a days I’ve lost count how many there are. We have Hi5, Myspace, Facebook and now Ning. How in the world are you supposed to decide which one you want to pertain to? It seems like programmers and developers are all competing with each other on who can create the most popular, useful, non-developer customizable interface logic there could possibly exist.
You can also customize Ning networks to manage ads, add more storage and bandwidth and use your own domain (I’d suggest Remo to include this one).
Remolacha.net is by far the best blog within the Dominican blogosphere. I don’t know of any other Dominican blog with the content or the readers that it has. I think that the latest attraction of its social network will make the few bloggers that want to imitate it’s existence will have a hard time, especially now since it has it’s own Hi5/Myspace/Facebook.
Is it Rocket Science?
From Blog Rating to Chronicles… oh yeah… another idea that went down the drain was the Chronicles… I don’t think that ever took off because I don’t think anyone is really into this blogging thing like we once were. It’s ok to have a Hi5 page and a MySpace because you simply don’t have to update it on a regular basis in order for you to get a comment or a new friend… after all it’s only a blog directory.
I’ll be downgrading our hosting service from a semi-dedicated server to a $7.95 hosting service as I was once told to do. Perhaps later on in life if my aspiring ventures take off we’ll be able to afford the fast wonderful server we have today.
Not too many new friends in this world… just real good old friends and weird acquaintances…
Creating a Form and Passing the Information Pt II
Below is the sample code you can use and modify to fit your needs. It contains all f the information you need before the advertiser goes to Pay Pal or any other method of payment you may have. I have eliminated the quotes from the code in order to display it.
<form method=post action=adboxes.php >
<h1>Publicidad para tu cajitas</h1>
<p>
<label>Nombre:</label>
<br/>
<input tabindex=1type=text name=nombre value= size=41 maxlength=75 />
</p>
<p>
<label>Correo:</label>
<br/>
<input tabindex=2 type=text name=email value= size=41 maxlength=75 />
</p>
<p>
<label>Nombre de Página Web:</label>
<br/>
<input tabindex=3 type=text name=url value= size=41 maxlength=75 />
</p>
<p>
<label>URL de Página Web:</label>
<br/>
<input tabindex=4 type=text name=url value= size=41 maxlength=75 />
</p>
<p>
<label>Descripcion:</label>
<br/>
<textarea tabindex=5 name=mensaje cols=41 rows=4></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<input type=hidden name=id value=<? echo $_GET[id] ?> size=1 maxlength=4 />
<input tabindex=6 type=submit class=button value=Enviar name=submit />
<input tabindex=7 type=reset class=button value=Borrar name=reset />
</p>
<p></p>
</form>
Here, is the adbox.php file you will need to create the email with the information provided and redirect the advertiser to PayPal or any other method of payment you may have. I have eliminated the double quotes from places you’ll see an *.
<?php
$email = 'your@email.com';
$emailfrom = $_POST['email'];
$from = *Mensaje de* . $_POST['nombre'];
$msg = $_POST['email'] . * - * . $_POST['url'] . *\n\nAdspace en caja #*. $_POST['id'] .* \n\n *. $_POST['mensaje'];
$msg = $msg .* \n\n\n *.* Message you want included in the email.*;
mail(*$email*, *$from*, *$msg*, *From: $emailfrom*);
$goto = *http://redirect.the.user.com*;
header(Location: *$goto*);
exit();
?>
I hope you find this helpful in creating your own. Cheers! 
Ad Boxes Created with CSS
Since I published the ad space boxes on the pages of Blogs Dominicanos, I’ve received a couple of emails asking how it was created. The ad boxes is created through a list and the list is then modified using CSS code. Below is the coding for the style sheet I have on this blog. You can use it and modify the code to make it the size you want and with as many boxes you want. You’ll also need to create a form that will take the id number from the box the advertiser wants and insert into the email you will receive.
First things first, you need to create an DIV id for the ad boxes. This way you can make changes to the ul and li without affecting any other ul’s and li’s on the page. For all intensive purposes I’ve set my width to 800, you can set it to any width you want. Margin-left is for ie6 and ie7. Without the margin-left setting, you’ll have the ad boxes displayed with no indentation in FireFox and with indentation in ie7.
div#addbox {
width: 800px;
margin-left:0;
float:left;
padding-left: 0;
}
The ul (unoredered list) properties. Padding:0 removes the indentation in FireFox.
div#addbox ul {
padding:0px;
background-image:none;
margin-top: 5px;
float:left;
margin-left:0;
}
The following code sets the list style properties.
div#addbox li {
background-image:none;
display: block;
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
float: left;
margin: 0 2px 2px 0;
}
The following code sets the list style properties of the background for the boxes with a hyper link. You can display them inline, list-item, compact, or in this case block style.I’ve also set the hieght and width for the boxes as well as the color.
div#addbox li a {
display: block;
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
background: #7B97CB;
}
Hovering over the boxes changes the color. This is done with the following code.
div#addbox li a:hover{
background: #3E5793;
}
Once you have an advertiser and depending on whether or not you want to display the image with a border, you may want to change the following size of the border and perhaps add other styling such as border color etc…
div#addbox img {
border: 0;
}
The html code for the boxes is the same as any item list for an unordered list. I’ve removed the quotes so you’ll have to insert the quotes when you copy/paste into your files…
<div id=addbox>
<ul id=addbox>
<li><a href=http:// id=1><img src=http://image1.location.jpg/></a></li>
<li><a href=http:// id=2><img src=http://image2.location.jpg/></a></li>
<li><a href=http:// id=3><img src=http://image3.location.jpg/></a></li>
<li><a href=http:// id=4><img src=http://image4.location.jpg/></a></li>
<li><a href=http:// id=5></a></li>
<li><a href=http:// id=6></a></li>
<li><a href=http:// id=7></a></li>
<li><a href=http:// id=8></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
And this is what the boxes will look like…
- A 23 yo.
- programming skills since 6th grade
- Dropped out of Harvard
- Caused a big stir up amoungst users with a program called Beacon
- Has over 60 million users
- Has a lawsuit from former classmates that claim it was thier idea
- Dismissed a Cash offer from Google
- and needs to find a way to make money off of it…
hmm… thats almost as bad as having Blogs Dominicanos…
Analizando la blogosfera Dominicana Pt II
Aqui esta la primera publicación de los detalles sobre nuestra encuesta de la blogosfera Dominicana.
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Musica Vieja
Volviendo al tema de la música antigua que le gusta a mi papa… I find it funny becuase my mom was over last night with my little sister, my aunt and two cousins… I thought they would leave right away since all I have to offer are movies, soda, beer, chips, ice cream and old music.
Boy was I wrong… haha… I’m actually listening to old music as I write. Perico Rripiao del General Larguito, Eladio Romero Santos, Danny Rivera, King de la Rosa and a few others… I wish I could turn them into MP3’s without have to go out and purchase equiptment… Mind you, these are LP’s…
I’m going to see if I can do it with my Laptop and hook it up to the mixer… I should be able to do it like that…
Va’Seguir!?! Pt. II
Raphael el Cantante
So I now know who one of my fathers favorite singers is… Raphael. The others that follow are from the same genre but for the most part he likes to listen to easy going lovy-duby type of music other then Zacarias and El Torito in Bachata. He never has been a fan of too much salsa or merengues but he does like a few of them.
